Lag on only one character?

[Freakinred]

Hey there,

Is anyone experiencing anything similar? I play 4 characters, all with identical add-ons, and will get random lag spikes/DCs at odd times of the day (mornings, for example) but only on one of my 4 characters. And it's not always the same one. Additionally, there isn't a set time of day where this appears to be happening. It's just that sometimes I lag terribly and then DC. I get that char logged back in, and another one DCs.

I don't remember any similar issues from when I boxed previously (shortly before LK came out).

I'm keeping all applications to a minimum while playing, with special regards to anything that would use the internet.

[Gares]

My best guess is the same reason I lose /follow on some of my chars at random times as well.

You might be losing data packets being sent from your connection. Its not alot but even missing just one will cause the lag you speak of.

I still have times where one of my boxes ( I run 5 from one comp) will be Red Lat and the rest are Green and are <40ms.

[Lightsout]

...used to get DCd all the time and then went windowed-mode (running all five clients on one pc). I have my main fill the screen in windowed-mode and the others "hidden" behind at 800x600 (windowed-mode). Try it. See if it helps.

[ss2]

I've had 1 character (usually my tank) lag out while the other 4 clients work just fine (including showing my lagging character running in place). I have no idea what causes it or how to fix it, but um... you're not alone.

[Kaynin]

Is it connection/server lag or localized?

Sounds like you might need to tune down settings maybe, or assign cores properly. If only one lags it is probably your own pc that lags. Should be able to test it by setting all video settings to minimum and lower maxfps (20) and maxfpsbk (10) for all wow's.

If the lag persists even then, then I don't know. :p

[Freakinred]

I've got 4 clients running independently on 4 different cores. My main window runs everything a little higher, but my 3 slave clients are all about as low as they can go.

The thing is, I've upgraded my pc significantly since I quit wow before LK came out and didnt' experience this then. I think it may be increased server lag, especially since a friend of mine also suffers from random DCs and I see people in trade complaining about lag, but of course Blizzard isn't admitting to anything, so it's hard to tell.

I'll see if I can lower things further, but I'm at a loss as to what it could be. It's just very bizarre that it's only ever one client at a time that DCs, and it varies as to which one it is.

[Kaynin]

Hmm, I once did a 25 sartharion run and had like 120 or so disconnects during the process, randomly on any of my chars. Eventually just leaving three logged off and continueing with one.

Afterwards I realised windows was downloading updates. :P


This might not be the same you're experiencing though. Probably not, but maybe worth checking if you don't ave any programs downloading updates or maybe even a trojan stealing your bandwidths. :P


...Just throwing in some ideas as I'm also quite at a loss as to what your problem maybe. Hope you track it down anyhow.

[Catamer]

i've seen this as well.
if you are using Jamba, make sure you have disabled all comments from being broadcast . ( only notify you if someone isn't following )
In my chat log ( not sure whether combat log or what ) was being filled up with comments sent by Jamba for 5 minutes after each fight. ( like spell isn't ready, so & so isn't targeting , etc )

this seemed to help quite a bit, however it didn't eliminate all lag.

[Taliesin]

I play 5 accounts on one machine and have also seen this. It's very rare though, and hasn't happened in a while now. It appears that a window (I always run in windowed mode) just freezes up for a minute or two but would come back afterwards just fine. Sometimes it gets disconnected, but more often it recovers. All the other windows are just fine while this happens.

I haven't really determined what causes it, but it doesn't appear to be the PC directly. I suspect it is tied to something more like packets being lost, as already mentioned above. I'm using a cable modem which is sufficient for bandwidth on 5 simultaneous accounts. Watching the system performance doesn't raise any eyebrows, but I'll have to check the application error log to see if maybe something was caught behind the scenes.

Edit: In response to Catamer... In my case, it occurred before I even starting using Jamba, and haven't noticed a difference with Jamba. I do have all the message forwarding disabled because I just don't need it all sent to my tank, though I do leave /whisper forwarding enabled, because most people tend to talk to one of my alts.

[Freakinred]

Does Jamba default to sending all messages?



If that's the case, I haven't disabled it and that may be part of the issue. I'll try that next time I log on.



I went to Dalaran for the first time this morning. On one of my characters the walls and floors dissapeared. In fact, everything disapeared except for anything that can be interacted with (objects, people, portals, etc) and I could see everything in the town at once. On that characters screen, I was stick running in place and couldn't move. On th other screens the character was just standing there. No disconnect though, and I couldn't log off. I had to just exit the app and reopen it.

[Catamer]

where do I begin.
I had a series of problems....

1. jamba was sending messages and it wasn't that easy to get all 5 accounts to turn off all of the error messages. ( operator error I'm sure ) :wacko:
2. bittorrent... I was trying to upgrade my bios and in the process I had downloaded bittorrent to get a copy linux going. little did I know that the bittorrent never dies even after reboot. I was serving up the linux disk for over a week eating up my bandwidth to the internet :cursing: . I have since removed bittorrent.
3. BIOS upgrade on the DQ45CB Intel motherboard was a total BEOCH. It wouldn't flash from Vista like my other intel board, it would just die. It wouldn't flash from the SATA CDROM drive using the ISO image from Intel because it wouldn't detect the drive after boot. I had to borrow someones USB CDROM drive to get it to flash. The BIOS upgrade has been a HUGE system performance improvement except now the CPU fan doesn't run at a constant speed, it slows down and speeds up enough for me to hear it .... damn Intel. X(

my system seems to be running much better now.
I had 5 copies of wow running with 3 of them and 30FPS and two an 15FPS ( maximizer limited ) with no problems whatever last night.
I didn't run thru Dalaran or anything like that but it did seem to be running much smoother.

[Ken]

I occasionally have the same problem:
5 WoWs on 1 computer divided over 4 CPU cores. One would start lagging(network only, performance itself is superb) until relogged. After relogging that 1 client, everything is fine.

[Hachoo]

For awhile I had a similar issue. Unrelated to my PC hardware. I had lag on only 1 client, it would stay at 1000ms or so, when the rest of my clients were at <150. The client that had the lag changed constantly, and that client would always lose follow.

Turned out to be a bad cable modem which I discovered via other network testing (speedtests etc). Got a new cable modem and haven't had the issue since.

[Selz]

I had the same problem also, i took a speed test of my internet connection and realised it could only give half the speed i payed for, then i changed my Modem and router after that the internet was fine, i think it has something to do with the packets you modem is sending, and if it cant handle them correctly it has to effect you somehow. It had nothing to do with Jamba in my case.

[Mooni]

I'm glad this thread resurfaced; I couldn't find it yesterday.
So I'm fighting Svala on heroic yesterday and IT happens. The main screen just shows the shamans all standing mid-cast, the sword is hanging about 10 feet over my head, but the other screens are fine.
I end up biting it and really can't recover. Svala wipes my group with 2424 health of her own left. This really belongs in my multiFAIL thread.
I have no idea what caused one window (all 5 on same computer) to have intermittent packet loss for about 10 seconds (right as my tank was being sac'd too). It sucked because even with killing all the adds the sword still got her because I couldn't move.
No matter how many times I hit the "OMG RUN" button.

[Multibocks]

I got this one time on my healer when I almost got the 3rd boss in Halls of Lightning down. It would have taken another 10secs for boss to die and instead my healer stands there doing nothing and my tank dies. Wonderful.

[Yamio]

I have one toon which lags occasionally as well. It took me a long time to figure out that it was tied to my internet connection. The single toon lag-a-thon is mainly at night, after 9 AM or so, and usually lasts until 3-5 AM. I live in a small town and the internet is more of a "new fangled thing" so there are probably no more than 4 or 5 people in the area who know anything about packets and latency. The internet company will work with you a bit, but asking about slowness in the middle of the night would be useless. So I put up with the one toon that lags, and I've grown accustomed to closely watching for it.

Dismounting high up on a mountain side and afterwords noticing that one toon has suddenly fell to their death, has taught me to watch for it, especially when flying.