How is the latency?

For me last time WoW rampage server is 600ms, now Diablo 3 is 350ms.

Since GW2 is a PvP-oriented game, if the latency is 400 and above it will be a horrible disadvantage.

interested to know also

now playing aion with ~250ms

i think ping averages from 300ms to 500ms

using resource monitor (windows start button > accessories) shows a few pings for gw2.exe ranging from 300ms to 500ms

decide to play this game instead of secret war.

anybody play this game using laptop?

looking for low heat laptop.

currently using dell inspiron n1150. very very hot.

at first i wanted to play but then i was late for payment for the first batch of gw2.

steam also hilang d, dun feel like playing anymore or maybe im actually getting older that's why..

my laptop sure pretty hot playing aion for more than 1 hour (dafuq )

i think the heat issues will be the same

Lots of lag for me, I'm seeing 400-600 ms using resource monitor.

I dare not try PvP at all. I'm having trouble even with monster, by the time my attack start, people already kill them, lol.

my lag pretty bad as well...first 2 min after logging in is tolerable...otherwise lag is worse than gw1...XD...only noticeable in battles though

PVP is pretty good for me with no different than PVE. havent try WvW yet as yesterday is freaking full and need to queue to enter

hola, pvp is so fun, but need teamwork instead of run n gun.

have no problem with latency

yup... Arena Net is good at handling latencies....

Only noticeable in battles? is that line or fps? back when it was bwe3, i had fps problems too. updated driver and they fix it for release.

more like graphic lag rather than network lag to me....

my noob pc also still can handle wor. dont put everything medium lo. put mostly low some medium. still look nice =x

i'm on 1280x800 screen, using lousy HD5570 , i put one high medium setup, still get 45+ fps in not so heavily crowded area....

i use the latest 12.8 driver for radeon

so far ok, no noticable lag....

playing thief, theres noticeable lag when rolling and using skill that backstep like bow 3rd skill.... etc

what u guys use to check latency?

Resource Monitor

Open Task Manager > Performance Tab > Resource Monitor > Network Tab > Under TCP Connection > search GW2.exe

If possible, can you guys share what latency number you are getting?

Especially those who got no lag. This can help others know what possible latency we can get, and try to get it. Thanks

One thing I notice for me is during 2-3 am, my latency reduce to 3++, and until morning. By noon now, my latency have gone up to 4++. Seems like 4++ is not the limit, but somehow Streamyx is affecting it.

mostly after work I play got around 280~350ms.... played at night... using Ping/Latency reducer (similiar to VPN but works on games .exe, does not changer your IP - paid) got around 200~230ms

i'm also playing with laptop for now.

asus n53sv. runs the game fine on medium settings.

saving for a new desktop now though.

as for latency there are no noticeable lag at all. lag spikes do happen, very very rarely.

First time I heard of this. Sounds really interesting since it works for game only.

Is it a service like VPN? May I know which thread or website you buy from?

Thanks.

5xx ms...VPN will solve this problem ?

anyone can suggest a reliable and legit tunneling/VPN service?

very desperate to get below 200 ping or around 200 also can

may i ask why? 200ms or below ms has very little difference only. (i tried i know)

But if you must. Pay for some proxy.

no lag at all i encounter yet...

GW2 datacenters are located in Dallas, Texas I believe. Lowest ping possible should be about 230?

i tried WTFast and smoothping but no effect at all on latency. So if anyone can suggest any other tunneling/proxy service that actually work, I am truly grateful.

the difference is when I activate a skill in sPvP, I want it to go off instantly - waiting ~1 second for it to go off makes the combat extremely frustrating and sluggish. Turns me off completely.

Depends really, sometimes it's pretty bad. Freezes up, no movement from character for a few seconds. Happened maybe 5 times to me last night.

tried any paying proxy or trial version proxy? Because i tried one and it has a very big difference during BWE3 but not anymore in launch.

i believe that it will be more smooth later...because them will fix it...
200ms-500ms i cant feel the difference

1 second delay means 1000ms ping oooo.

300 - 500ms ping would means 0.3 to 0.5 seconds delay.

yeah its is actually a VPN but more application specific (some called it proxy tunneling)

you can try GW2 supported service like LaglessProxy (Malaysia based proxy), WTFast, Fixmylag, etc


Can you try look at the latency in Resource Monitor without those program and with those program.. Its pretty impossible that you didnt feel the effect at all since both site you mentioned is pretty reputable and I tried both and works with Aion before getting into GW2, theres bunch of servers you can choose which server is better for you.. AFAIK, Smoothping isnt officially support Guild Wars 2.... thats why it got no effect..

Since these Ping/Latency reducer works differently than VPN.. it is VPN but its application based.. but it does not mask/change your IP and it detects supported games that you launch

which vpn u guys using ?

hmm playing thief everything second is critical, I think I need sosme tunneling/vpn soon

Still waiting for more latency reports, high latency turned me down in many games. =(
Anyone tried lagless proxy? Care to share experience?

Thanks for your reply

That means if for example I use lagless proxy, it will only affect Guild Wars 2, but other stuff like browser and MSN won't go through the proxy right?

Yeah, It let you choose which application should use the Proxy/VPN instead of everything


Btw, I'm going to try LaglessProxy tonight and see if it can pull my ping to 200ms

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Added on August 28, 2012, 5:07 pmYeah, It let you choose which application should use the Proxy/VPN instead of everything


Btw, I'm going to try LaglessProxy tonight and see if it can pull my ping to 200ms

This post has been edited by chiangeg: Aug 28 2012, 05:07 PM

Thanks
Do share with us your result

Theres free trial

the services that I mentioned before all got free trial.. you can try first and decided which is good for you ^^

Just wondering,

Has anyone with 1mb streamyx played WvWvW? Is it lagging badly?

200+ here, normal delay

you using tunnel?

nope, i am on time fibre. PJ area

Tonight I tried several IP address, the best I can get is 175.138 range. But this is only just a little bit better than other range like 175.137, 175.40, 118.

Lowest I can get is around 300 ms. Still hoping no need to spend extra on proxy, but....

will it affect my latency if i play on diff home world like either NA or EUROPE? btw what home world you guys on with 200-300ms?

Yes, Europe is worst. Normally I get 400-500ms using ip 115.133.x
I'm going to setup vpn on my vps, hopefuly it will lower the latency.

Is there a trial version for the game so that i can test out the latency before purchasing the retail version?

for now... sadly no...try on ur frens acc

Too bad! None of my friend is interested with GW2 at the moment. Guess I will just have to wait till a trial version is available.

i got around 400-600ms, playing on 3bars of signal of yes4g. very much playable. but during boss battle, will be a bit frustrating haha looking to subscribe to unifi

i got 350-400 ping playing on sea of sorrow. Looking to use VPN to get 200-ish ping

using unifi ?

with that figures, looks kinda laggy

Is it that bad? I don't feel lag at all on my unifi, 300ms~ is ok for one u know? < 200 is just not necessary

How come they never put a latency meter in the game?

You will know once you become very active in GvG or structured PvP.

ya lorr... 300ms here.. no lag at all....

350-400ms is still playable, 500ms+ unplayable, constant mob freeze etc.

The problem is the quality either internet or server, u can say lag spike, I mean averagely 0.3 second response is barely noticeable ..I think la, yes I do PvP & I'm ok with that unless UNIFI song song give u a lag spike shoot all the way up to 1 second.. probably I'm not so hardcore

gonna try lagless proxy tonite when I get home.

Hi can I ask how long dose it take to download the client and the patch? I'm using unifi 5mbps

yeah unifi 5mb. you may not see the lag with 300ms+ it's because the server handles latency well. lol but there will still be an disadvantage when PvP, fight bosses

total size = 15GB

if use 10Mbps = half night

using 5Mbps perhaps less than half a day....

Omg so long

Thanks anyways

I think PvE should be very fine. PvP ayam scared

Last time I arena in WoW up to 2k, 400ms really is a nasty disadvantage. Skills don't come out in time, as melee you will be kited to death, etc.

Yeah, true, it seems to be changing a lot

Last night as I was testing how the delay feel by just pressing the attack key and see how long it takes, ~300ms is not too bad, but the problem is we don't constantly get that delay, sometimes it longer, sometimes much longer... seems unstable.

lol better exit it & play PS .. stressful to play in lagging

I'm getting 280-310ms with 4mb Streamyx. Used Win7 Resource Monitor to check.

Compared to many of you guys, I can consider my connection very good already



Btw,I tried WTFast ..LaglessProxy and other Proxy/VPN ... ALL no difference at all ... But I think LaglessProxy MY server reduce slightly like 50ms max..lol. So, I don't need any Proxy or VPN, as they don't really help.. and some of them make it even worst to 400-500ms.


So guys, if you experience bad connection then I highly recommend LaglessProxy and connect to MY server.



Also, when you guys said NO LAG at all is a very FALSE statement, because even at 200-300ms you still experience delay when using skill...don't believe? Try pressing skill 1 button and release the button, only after a while the skill ACTIVATE. For those people live in US area I believe they don't have lag at all 30-80ms, their skills are snappy fast and instantaneous..they press skill 1 and it activate right away.

I doubt that snappy instant attack bcos mmo were design to "cast" skill so u'll never instant skill example when cast fireball, animate 0.1s the staff fire up -> 0.1s fireball travel to mob -> 0.1s later mob will get hit, everything need a delay so that balance out all players around the world which mean US player will not attack faster than any1 else.. pls correct me if I am wrong

No, I'm talking about normal attack which is skill 1, there's slight delay after you click the button before the attack begin. I am 100% sure it is affected by connection. When I got bad connection, there's huge delay like 1.0 sec after clicking the skill before my character swing the sword, and its significantly faster when I got better connection.

So for people living near the server DOES have a better advantage when attacking or using skills because of snappy response.

For your information, I'm talking about delay/response time after clicking the skill, not the casting time required for spellcasters, there's many skills and attack doesn't require cast time at all such as Thief.

Also, I know connection speed doesn't affect casting time at all ...lol ...... else people with good connection can cast a spell in 2sec that required 3sec ?.

This post has been edited by chiangeg: Aug 29 2012, 02:08 PM

ya when lagging u'll b getting late feedback from the server which is bad but I think only apply to those > 500ms latency

As far as I know the skill almost activated instantly after pressing the button for people with 30-80ms connection. Where my skill only activated a while after I pressed the button with constant 280-310ms connection.

US people > Click > Delay...> HIT > RUNNN ! (30ms+)
Oceanic people > Click > Delay............. > HIT > RUNNN ! (250+ms)

This post has been edited by chiangeg: Aug 29 2012, 02:20 PM

the cast bar fills up then only cast. first skill is unresponsive? the only thing to test it out is with proxy and feel the difference. Latency lag is like sometimes the animation is weird (symbol come out before my char bury her GS on the ground) or really slow casting like once press 3. the icon start blinking but no skills till about 0.5secs later. I admit pvp and wvw this latency is something. Worse case scenario, subscribe proxy.


To everyone else in this thread that feels unfair when playing with PvP. Go subscribe proxy. The Philippines (some of my friends) struggle with worse ms (around 500ms) yet playing better than us. I am a PvE guy so latency is nothing to me (latency, not request timed outs). Although with that said, I'm sharing line with 3 others currently and have not felt 300-400ms kind of latency before. I don't see why others are worse than me. Maybe people are exaggerating is all. No offence really. I understand that latency is after all important in an online game. So if it bothers you so much, what to do, until they finally decide to put a server here, you have to buy proxy to PvP if you want instant skills. Live's never fair. If not, train with latency, then when the latency is smooth, we pro. =x

as for me, i tried with and without proxy. feels really slight difference. my skills are all mostly instant cast. Note that the Proxy i used made my connection to Gw2 30ms-40ms.

This post has been edited by HeartRoxas: Aug 29 2012, 02:21 PM

I'm surprised they didn't opt putting a server in Oceanic region, that'll give us huge performance boost. Oceanic + Asia have a huge player base, what a disappointment.

Yes I'm talking about the response time, not casting time.


US > Press Skill > Delay 30ms (Snappy) > Casting > Animation > HIT
Asia> Press Skill > Delay 300ms (Delay) > Casting > Animation > HIT

But also, when connection is BAD ... there will have SPIKE .. you see the skill HIT.. but no damage. (But not confirm this yet, but other MMO have this problem when lag)


Also proxy made your connection to GW2 to only 30ms-40ms ? Its impossible, because even the best connection and shortest route/hops to GW2 also need to be around 200ms.

nope. im old and still playing. buy online la. cheaper. use debit card.

I don't think we are enough to fill up multiple servers for WvW. Would be boring if just 2 or 4 servers. We'll keep fighting the same server over and over.

But anyway, maybe a gateway is all we need. Path of Exile servers are in US, but they have a gateway in SG, and that was a really huge help. Too bad I don't really like the game. :

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Added on August 29, 2012, 2:32 pmWhat proxy service are you using?

This post has been edited by Hornet: Aug 29 2012, 02:32 PM

They still can do WvWvW internationally like they're doing now, crossing the server now, I don't think its impossible, but who knows.
I'm pretty sure the servers all physically located in the same node and place, so there's no differences between servers, or not, I hope someone can link me an info about their physical location of the servers.

someone here actually understand my concern. thank you for posting this.

everybody else saying no lag/delay are just oblivious to the major shortcoming of the game to oceanic players and are just mesmerized by the novelty of the game.

I just wish they handle latency differently. Like maybe in Diablo 3, although I get 250+ms, but most of skills are very snappy and instantaneous.

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Added on August 29, 2012, 2:44 pmhuh? 30ms? what you smoking bro

This post has been edited by ckorweng: Aug 29 2012, 02:44 PM

They did not expect maybe. But reddit Aus and sea players asks for it. They did not give a direct response but something like "we'll consider it."

I take that as a no since its already went official, so we'll have to stick to these servers.

sorry to ask again but NA/EU home world doesn't affect the latency? some say it does some say it doesnt...

perhaps, but we wont know.

It does, EU servers are located in Germany, US is in US.

oh okay thanks for the quick reply!

Celcom Broadband RM68 user here.

here some of my 'review':-

During BWE/Stress Test, there is fewer lag in sPvP but during lunch till now.. Its very laggy/delay in sPvP which i dunno why.

So i decided to google the ways to reduced the delay/lag, and i found this

General Vista/Windows 7 Gaming/Network Improvement Tweaks

after i tried some of the network tweak, i notice that i can do well in sPvP now as the delay is reduced.

I'm gonna try this when I go home

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=16336

This thing works for other games, especially WoW .. it reduces the ping significantly.

share if it really works or not k bro

This post has been edited by Alcon: Aug 29 2012, 05:05 PM

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This post has been edited by nagflar: Aug 29 2012, 06:59 PM

Just heads up, I used ultima proxy and my latency went down around 250-270ms from 350-400, a minor improvement but it certainly feels snappier if you know what I mean. It's 220ms+- to proxy and another 30ms to GW2 servers.

This post has been edited by nymerine: Aug 30 2012, 08:31 AM

if u guys r serious pvper then 300-500 ping is matter of life or death!

depends on ur connection. no definite ans atm. some using unifi does not feel any major latency. n some other do. it varies.

ultima so bad? 220ms is still bad for a proxy service.

That's considered good since it's US server, that's the lowest you can get IINM. Maybe differ with unifi thought, they can get 180-190ms due to no high latency to local gateway.

really? maybe i should test my other proxy to know. Cause i definitely felt like being in 60ms. lol