New Lag in Draekkon Event

[Enrikk]

Hail All!

I'm starting to see some extreme lag while killing Draekkon, with the last 5 runs taking 10 minutes longer to finish on some screens than others.

I've been farming him long enough to have looted 5 Draekkon pets and 4 hoh portals, and plan to keep farming him for some time. Early on it was a straight on fight, without much lag.

Lately, however, my main will be fighting him for longer and longer, even when some, especially those that die during the fight and are rezzed, can see that he's dead. I can see during the fight that his XP goes down, and then spikes back up. It starts low, say 2pct difference, but then gets larger with the more damage he takes. Usually, at the time of his death, I'll see him at 0 pct, and then it spikes up to 30-40pct, and then he dies. But, because my client was sitting at 30-40pct, it doesn't show him as dead, and I must fight "him" down to 0 on that client, and any other affected client. On those that are in zone when he dies, but were rezzed, he seems to die well, and on time.

I think for the next fight I'll camp my main just before I initiate the fight, and let my warrior start it, then bring in my main to take over, and see what that does.

[Denizen]

10 min desynch is extreme but I've been there. Turning off buffers in your network adapter

viewtopic.php?f=126&t=13972&p=82066&hilit=buffer#p82066

and using a modem specifically tailored to decrease network buffering has helped me alot.

viewtopic.php?f=30&t=13586&p=80252&hilit=buffer#p80252


Some events do seem to have more lag than others and Draekon is a pretty complex event. But buffer bloat in your ISP can vary by time of day and by various high internet use days...big game days or holiday peak internet use hours etc.

I do wonder at times if there would be some way for an internet guru on the server side to make it so that all characters with the same IP would be synchronized to the slowest character.

Some characters of mine always seem to lag more. The bard seems the worst closely followed by my rogue.

[Enrikk]

I'm not all that tech-literate, but thank you, I will research what makes the most sense for me. It has gotten better, overall, so maybe it's something Vaion fixed already.

Thanks again!

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[Denizen]

well start with your NICs.... that's easy, takes about 5 minutes, and provides good results.