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Lunarin
07-11-2008, 02:47 AM
I'm playing eq2 on a 3 year old computer roughly.  I've made some upgrades, and changed location.  I'm experiencing choppiness, lag etc.  Even when i'm playing on the LOWEST performance settings.My system is: DFI LANPARTY nF4 Ultra- motherboardAMD Athlon 64 2.2 GHz processsorNvidia 7800 GT video card2 Gb of Kingston DDR2 RAMWestern Digital Raptor 36Gb SATA 1.5Gb/s HDrive19" LCD monitor running at 1280x1024Road Runner High Speed Online(9800kb/s download, and 380 kb/s upload)Windows XPAfter inspecting EQ2's website for recommended system req's i realized that i surpassed the minimum AND the recommended.So I decided to inspect my network.  I saw that my ping is consistently close to 800 and my Fps is closer to 10, or even 6 when i'm running around in zone.  I have NO OTHER programs running in the background.  After noticing this trouble I ran a Trace test to the Befallen server from 2 different locations the first was My EQ computer and it read out as follows:Tracing route to ableq2-01-01.everquest2.com [199.108.202.33]over a maximum of 30 hops:  1     7 ms     8 ms     7 ms  10.108.48.1  2     8 ms    11 ms     8 ms  pos0-0.rochnystf-rtr01.nyroc.rr.com [24.93.2.81]  3    11 ms    11 ms     7 ms  srp2-0.rochnybtn-rtr01.nyroc.rr.com [24.93.3.120]  4   284 ms   294 ms   285 ms  ge-6-0-0.albynywav-rtr03.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.224.122]  5   279 ms   284 ms   316 ms  ae-5-0.cr0.nyc30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.74]  6   303 ms   302 ms   311 ms  ae-1-0.pr0.nyc20.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.163]  7   305 ms   312 ms   293 ms  tge5-3.fr4.lga.llnw.net [69.28.152.241]  8   300 ms   307 ms   317 ms  tge2-3.fr4.iad.llnw.net [69.28.171.153]  9    37 ms    34 ms    36 ms  sony.ge4-12.fr4.iad.llnw.net [69.28.156.214] 10   318 ms   306 ms   312 ms  vl47.ashaens-2.sonyonline.net [64.37.144.181] 11   306 ms   306 ms   303 ms  ableq2-01-01.everquest2.com [199.108.202.33]Trace complete.After running more traces... i got a pretty consistent 300ms outcome.Wondering If someone can explain the trouble i seem to be having here??  Why the jump and delay?

TSR-TrevorG
07-11-2008, 10:13 PM
What type of settings are you running the game in? Are you maxing out the graphics, lighting, shadows and water?If so, maybe drop it down and see how things improve.

vertaunt
07-12-2008, 02:17 PM
<p>None of your graphic settings or in game settings are going to effect your latency to the EQ server. I would focus on your NIC, update the drivers, or even swap it out. Inexpensive and NIC's have known to go bad.</p><p>Vert</p>

Cassea
07-13-2008, 01:15 PM
Your system should be fine. That latency is terrible. That 4th hop is a killer and appears to be your ISP... looks like Roadrunner?I'd call your ISP and read out that printout.-JB