Laggy Games Last Night?

Last night, a majority of my games had crippling slideshow lag. No one seemed to be at fault. All pings fine and sim speeds.

Split had it right, it was like a turn based stratagy game. It was so bad, I could play 4 clicks and wait about a minute and they would slowly go through.

Did anyone else have HORRIBLE lag last night?

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Reply #1 Top

The lowest sim speed was 2, and it was constantly 2, it never dipped to 0 or below, so the game should have played at normal speed. All the pings were under 200 as well, no spiking, yet it still lagged like a bitch.

Reply #2 Top

one game my teammates sim speed was -1.

Reply #3 Top

But low sim speed doesnt produce the lag we saw.

Reply #4 Top

So long as sim speed > 0, the game should be able to run at normal speed, so that was not the problem.

Reply #5 Top

Even when its below 0, its smooth just slow. The lag last night was just...cryable. Yes. Cryable.

Reply #6 Top

Quoting Teseer, reply 5
Even when its below 0, its smooth just slow. The lag last night was just...cryable. Yes. Cryable.
End of Teseer's quote

ROFL :rofl:

New word: Cryable B)

Reply #7 Top

It is a word in Spanish.

Reply #8 Top

someone had insufficient upload speed to run the game.
this cannot be detected by sim speed or ping values.

Reply #9 Top

But it was never the same person. I mean, I'd go with that if it was a game or two but it was like 5-7 games with different people.

Only had two work fine.

Reply #10 Top

Oh man, there was so much lag last night. All the sim speeds were good but lag was terrible.

Reply #11 Top

We need to get a good game going. We havnt had an epic game for a while.

Reply #12 Top

Quoting [ShakeNBake,
" reply="8" id="2536960"]someone had insufficient upload speed to run the game.
this cannot be detected by sim speed or ping values.
End of [ShakeNBake's quote

 

This is not true, insufficiant upload speeds will cause massive ping spikes that are visible in the TAB screen.

Reply #13 Top

The same trouble happened to me last night. All had a simspeed > 5 and pings <150. And the game was laggy as hell.

Reply #14 Top

You should have seen the game I had with Cow on the night of the 12th. I led a pretty brutal team let down.

1st I got UI lag with Oak and ended up taking soul power at level 2 instead of divine justice, after specing for assassin.
So I respec to minions... and 1/2 the time they are just floating around ignoring attack orders.
Then the orders lag was so bad I couldn't for the life of me interrupt the UBs spits with pent or pull back without walking into tower fire.

At one point the game cleared up and I was interrupting the UB with ease and harassing like crazy with spirits, but it was way too late by then, and the orders lag started up again a few minutes later.

Regardless... I died 4 times, which does not happen! (because in turn it means my teammates start to die because the other side has been fed to much).

I dunno... lately it's not that the game isn't smooth, but orders and UI interaction take forever to register. You also need to be damn careful when pressing the N and M keys to move minions around, because if you do it too fast the orders are ignored and it's easy to get stuck moving your DG the wrong way.

I have a crazy conspiracy speculation that all the various UI mods are causing this problem...