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[GodziIIa]

UPDATE:
Not saying that this is everyone's problem, But it may help some. What happened was my internet switch was going out and would randomly reset itself causing me to momentarily lose internet, After I bought a new one I have yet to experience this issue again. ( or PGI fixed this in a patch, but I am not sure)


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I did not really know what to search for when seeking to fix this problem so sorry if there is another post with this issue already discussed. I have recently been experiencing a very annoying lag that basically screws me during a match. What happens is my mech will keep walking and I can move and look around, but all the other mechs freeze. Then I randomly teleport back to my old position and everyone starts moving again. This problem has just started to occur more recently and I dont know what or why this is happening. My fps is 50-60 constantly and my ping is always about 20-40 so I dont really know what type of lag I am experiencing(it almost feels like I temporarily lose my connection). any information or help on this would be great thanks!

Edited by GodziIIa, 29 May 2013 - 07:36 AM.

[MacSquizzy]

I've been getting this myself. I've also been getting frequent "Session Lost" notices followed by protracted periods of being unable to log in or reach the website. I'm assuming that somewhere in the route from me to MWO is a weak link - haven't run tracert yet, though.

I'm in the DC Metro area, if that helps anyone else.

[Dannywhac]

I had a similar freeze just once yesterday. All the other mechs froze (asked in chat afterwards and all of them had frozen) but I could still move round. Also during this I could still fire my lasers, but not missiles (also couldn't target enemy mechs). After about 10 seconds game went back to normal, although it didn't tele me back to my position before the freeze, just carried on.

[Anony Mouse]

I've been getting this too, where I appear to be moving and in control while everyone else either freezes, or appears to be sleepwalking (deadlocked on whatever heading they were at when it goes wonky, no twisting, no turning, no firing, just shuffling on to infinitum) however if I fire any weapons while its like this, I hear the weapon firing but nothing actually happens, after 5-10 seconds I will suddenly teleport to another location and heading, any weapons I had attempted will suddenly occur all at once, often overheating me, occasionally hitting a friendly, and screwing me over in general. I too run a steady 50-60 fps on max settings and a reliable 50-90 ping, I've tried lowering settings on the premise it would be less burdensome on my machine, but this has had no positive effects on the lag issue. If anyone finds a solution, or at least a cause, let us know.

[PurpleNinja]

Happening to me too, lag spikes and lots os sessions lost.
IMHO lots of old players got back to try the new stuff and the servers got overloaded.

[Anony Mouse]

PurpleNinja, on 20 March 2013 - 03:26 AM, said:

Happening to me too, lag spikes and lots os sessions lost.
IMHO lots of old players got back to try the new stuff and the servers got overloaded.

No this has been been since the march 5th patch, for me atleast.

Edited by Anony Mouse, 20 March 2013 - 05:30 AM.

[PurpleNinja]

Anony Mouse, on 20 March 2013 - 05:29 AM, said:

No this has been been since the march 5th patch, for me atleast.

Yep, but last night it was happening like crazy.
Played on the new map about a dozen times and could finish just one match. Session lost or game freeze (another issue) on all the others rounds.

[Sigmund Floyd]

FYI to everyone that posted about this topic.

I have been experiencing this since the march 5th patch as well. I tried re-installing as per Urdson's email from tech support, but no joy. I ran a speed test on my internet service provider, discovering that my normal 50 Mb/s download speed was averaging only 10 Mb/s.

I reset my modem (unplug with 30 s delay for all capacitors to discharge), and ran speed test again. Result was now 50 Mb/s, and MWO ran fine.

Yesterday, I noticed jerkiness again, and speed test was only 30 Mb/s.

My conclusion is that the march 5th patch that keeps track of server/client position differential requires more bandwidth than previously.

check your network speed, and definitely get rid of a wireless connection to your modem. It's nominally the same speed (it will say in the control panel 50Mb/s), but the actual speed will be a fraction of the nominal.

[GodziIIa]

Interesting to see it wasnt only me, and yes like all of you ever since the march patch it all started, and thanks for the advice about the router sigmund i will have to try that.

[Anony Mouse]

http://mwomercs.com/...ch/page__st__20

Anony Mouse, on 03 April 2013 - 05:30 AM, said:

I only one issue but its game breaking. Each patch has for the last three patches has seen an increased amount of lag. Now its gotten to the point where the entire match is riddled with these teleportation effects. As an example I just played in frozen city, as soon as the match starts I turn towards the tunnel entrance and go full throttle, I make it about ten steps when suddenly i'm dry humping a building that wasn't there, according to my position on the minimap I had gone full throttle but never changed course running headlong into the first obstacle on the map. I finally make it into the tunnel and the whole trip in there (AS7 so it takes awhile) is laggy where I'll suddenly "rewind" a few seconds and than be okay a few seconds than I'll suddenly surge forward as if I had never reqound in the first place and god knows where I'll end up than. I get out of the tunnel and run up behind a CN9, hes poking his head over the crest to the immediate left of the crashed ship (cowards ridge) he doesn't know I'm there and I unload into his back, except that as soon I try to fire I'm somewhere else, off to the CN9s right, with the ridge behind me and two highlanders in front of me and ofcourse I immediately die. I've made posts elsewhere about the increasing lag issues, I'm not one to rant unceasingly about balance issues and so on, it is what it is, which is mostly PGI's call. But if I can't even get through a match without the game going full ******, what did I spend all that money on?

[Ridir Semii]

I wish those teleport effects were all that I have experienced, since the 4/2 patch I have had the game lock up twice and had to control/alt/del to open task mgr and close it down, when I go back into game, I earned no cbills or xp...

The last time was 5 minutes ago and our team won, isn't going into battle the way we earn xp and cbills? wtf? Why should we keep paying money to play a game you can't progress in?

Before anyone says wahh its a free game, yes, it is, but even if I had not spent money on it, I still do not want to play a game that doesn't reward my work and efforts


Added to this that my ability to give them money has been spotty at best and over double xp weekend they lost money because of it... I go to add MC and it welcomes my wife by name back (her card, not mine) and declines the valid card, time for a new 3rd party money laundering service PGI, your current one doesnt want you to make money....


Doesnt make for a fun experience and really makes me want to stop playing (not that Ima stop)