Lag spikes making my game play useless.

[CrutchEnvader]

Hi,

I have been suffering from the same lag spike issues, but my ms can vary from 161 which is normal upto what i have screenshot with my mobile which happened only a few moments ago. It got to about 536,516ms before i finally traveled to my Sky Palace from Rishi without a disconnection. Now if it disconnected me then i know it is my end and that is a rare occurrence.

I have noticed these huge lag spikes have only started recently since the last launcher update. It would be great if this were fixed pronto.

One thing is when the lag spikes happen the only things to lag when i go to google to search for a issue is anything related to swtor.com or EA's site. So it is clearly not my end here.

Any help or ideas would be great but i think it is all server side to be honest.

[proxos666]

@CrutchEnvader

What AV ?, Maybe remove and re-add exceptions for launcher.exe and swtor.exe to the AV and firewall

swtor.com is hosted on Akamai servers so nothing to do with the game servers

eg I am In Australia (see spoiler)

Spoiler

C:\WINDOWS\system32>tracert www.swtor.com

Tracing route to a1158.g.akamai.net [59.167.145.18]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  router.asus.com [192.168.1.1]
  2     3 ms     3 ms     1 ms  lo0.bng1.bne7.on.ii.net [150.101.32.93]
  3     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  ae3.cr1.bne7.on.ii.net [150.101.34.30]
  4     2 ms     1 ms     2 ms  eth59-167-145-18.static.internode.on.net [59.167.145.18]

Trace complete.

[CrutchEnvader]

I use free Avast as my AV. Sorry for the slow reply. I am also an aussie east coast. I only ever have lag issues in swtor not any other game.

[proxos666]

@CrutchEnvader

Grab www.pingplotter.com and run this to the servers when playing

see what it graphs , this graph can be saved as a jpg and uploaded here or imgur and linked.

• If you play on an East Coast server: 159.153.92.28
• If you play on a West Coast server: 159.153.68.252
• If you play on a European server: 159.153.72.252

[ragnarok013]

I experienced this sporadically since Galactic Strongholds launched, specifically on Harbinger while other servers were fine. When I get the sky high ping (which is rare luckily nowadays) simply logging out and logging back into my toon (I don''t have to log out of the game) usually brings my normal ping back without lag.

[CrutchEnvader]

Ok. Since i last posted it was running fine since pingplotter was installed. But it has spiked twice today possibly three times

Screenshot as follows. As you can clearly see it is "NOT" my end as i have told you a few times.

[proxos666]

@CrutchEnvader

If you use the free trial of www.wtfast.com does it stabilize ?

The Consistent Jitter is interesting in that it is consistent once you cross the international route, worth keeping eye on.

Whilst it doesn't appear to be affected too badly the consistent pattern is a classic sign

See - http://www.pingplotter.com/commonnetworkproblems/

 ( scroll down to bandwidth Saturation - sawtooth pattern ) and compare to your plot.

Will mention the packet loss to @EA_Nils seen at the final destination in case it is an issue, I am not seeing it to that IP but I have a different route

[CrutchEnvader]

This just happened and i will look into the other program suggest plus the trouble shooting.

[proxos666]

@CrutchEnvader

That one also points to an issue with the international link between Sydney and San Jose

Edit Closest to that is the farend bandwidth congestion listed here just yours isn't far end its more near end