Latest lag issues

[Fearlessone]

Well,as most of u know, 1.11 cleared up most of those dreadful 10-20 sec lag spikes, where u would just have to exit. It seems as if the very hour the patch was made, that form of lag went mostly away. And with mh at least temporarily banished, it seems that we would have alot less bots bogging down the realms.

So how come today and the past 3 days peeps been reporting such awful lag. Tonite when I got on, every time I hit a key to see the list of games or even join another channel: a requisite 20 sec lag, cant move cursor. I'm not noticing this moving around this forum, so dont think its my computer. I have to admit my ping is swinging from low, around 30, to high, over 300 and its been making it difficult to even teleport. I have noticed when playing wiht other peeps that monsters are moving around but my spells are having no effect, then suddenly we are all dead: <ESC>

It becoming unplayable... :confused:

[magnet]

i've been noticing similar things myself, especially when entering games. like, if i enter a game and immediately exit town and begin to teleport, i see teleport character animation, but i go nowhere. then i couple seconds later things catch up and im half way across the map.

i've also noticed recently, that more often than usual a game me or a friend creates will be cursed with a 10 second delay right from the start. if you try to click on something, 10 seconds before you see that you've actually picked it up, another 10 to place it back in inventory. same for trying to talk, a long wait for words to appear on screen [though the /f m messeges arent affected, coming or going]. these games don't seem to recover if they start off like this, and when i've tried to wait them out, the whole thing goes down and everyone gets disconnected.

i've also noticed alot more instances where i get caught on things in town. it will appear on my screen that i'm at the waypoint, or at my stash, or just outside of time--but i can't activate wp, open stash or use skills--because i'm actually hung up on a corner clear across town...
this used to happen once in a great while, now its a dozen times a day...


perhaps this is just me?


i drop a potion from my belt when it happens, to see exactly where it is i've gotten snagged, heh its kinda funny to drop a pot and see it magically appear out of thin air clear across town.... funny if it wasnt so annoying..

and to others, it must look like im just standing there, confused and defeated by these easily avoided obstructions...lol.



but hey, at least maphack and bots, etc.. are nowhere to be seen [as far as i can tell]. i'm actually able to snag drops in cs from time to time. people have to ask if they want to see an item im wearing. NvN is more fun without joe somebody's little brother scroll locking me from clear across the vastness of space..

[Still-Xey-Lover]

It's happening all over East, i don't know about other realms though. It starts around 6-7. I think it's because of the bot detection/hacks detection etc. and more people are playing around that time. As in, there's a huge increase of players around there which sounds reasonable to me. So i don't player any later than 8 usually, too laggy and im on HC so i don't wanna do something stupid.

[Fearlessone]

Well, lol, one problem was easily explained. My diablo disk was out of the computer. This could cause problems! So no more bizarre 20 sec delays from the game&chat screen. Now if Blizzard could discover the problems on their side of things and fix them. Actually alot of this is supposed to be our isp's. Thats possible in my case, just got a new one 2 weeks ago.

Magnet, yeah, same sort of stuff happening to me in town, out of town, hard to click on vendors, waypts. I play usually during afternoon, eve, and nite. Back around the time LoD was released, u really wanted to avoid the 7-10pm time slot and late afternoons on Fri/Sat. That jam has disappeared, although one response here and some comments online, alot of peeps still avoid the dreaded evening slots for playing.

Possibly because of the lag, Blizzard origin or our isp's, we are picking up more penalties and unable to enter games, even login.

If you have 2 computers, u can sometimes see the ridiculousness of lag issues and how they interact with the game. Once I had 2 players attacking diablo in hell cs run. My zealot couldnt swing at diablo even tho he seemed right there. When i glanced at the other screen, where my barb was, my zealot was trapped in a bone prison, and until he broke out of it, he was unable to actually attack diablo. The bone prison was never revealed on my pally's screen, it all looked ridiculous.

We just have to exit the games more frequently to avoid becoming impoverished.

[Zodijackyl]

I never had this awful lag in any patch but 1.11, and it really annoys me. The constant ping of 3k+ and the inability to play the game. It was awful for about a week, got better, and has been coming back periodically.

[Still-Xey-Lover]

Always at 8 o clock, and when imr unning durance with my 5x pally (noot too strong) for 5 mins still havent found durance. Then all of a sudden im getting all these random hits and its like im teleported backwards and im in a pack of maulers etc. So basically its like i was actually in place laggging, but it looked as if i got to move on. Almost died, just pisses me off...

[Palm]

Theres a dupe method out that envolves creating massive amounts of lag that is presumed to be the cause of this. I'd post a link to an article explaining it but I think its against forum rules.

[Zodijackyl]

Theres a dupe method out that envolves creating massive amounts of lag that is presumed to be the cause of this. I'd post a link to an article explaining it but I think its against forum rules.

There's no dupe method that works by lagging 1.1 D2. The one rumour is when a game crashes, if someone had given another person an item, then the person who recieved the items leaves the game, while the person who originally held the item waited until the game forced them out, only one character would have saved, but in reality by the time either of them joins a new game both characters have reverted to where they were before the game. Everything, items, XP, quests (so a whole a1-4 rush can be lost, which is a pain in the ***).

I would assume the lag is due to:
1) MH/general hack scanning
2) slow servers in general
3) alot more people playing than before with the new patch + ladder reset

~Steve

[eggo]

I've only noticed the lag today, and it is really unbearable, I'm WW'ing, and I die..why? Cus of lag..not IM :P

[Fearlessone]

I've only noticed the lag today, and it is really unbearable, I'm WW'ing, and I die..why? Cus of lag..not IM :P
There were ways earlier to tell if u are lagging badly: the monsters arent attacking u, u move into next screen and they just stand there. A potion or an attack seems to not be affecting your/monsters life. A tp doesnt cast. And running back a screen or two isnt helping.

Lately, I see the monsters still moving around(This is very deceptive, lulls u into thinking all is OK), but the potions/attacks dont seem to be working. I try a quick tp, and nothing happens. Best at that point to exit, cuz in a few more seconds u will see multiple players die, including urself. When u re-enter game, u see the casualty list. :cheesy:

Well, we do have a new isp here, and that could be part of the problem. I dont want to blame it all on Blizzard, or on hackers, BUT since the infamous lag spikes largely disappeared the day of the 1.11 patch, there are things out of our control that can be fixed.

[Palm]

There's no dupe method that works by lagging 1.1 D2. The one rumour is when a game crashes, if someone had given another person an item, then the person who recieved the items leaves the game, while the person who originally held the item waited until the game forced them out, only one character would have saved, but in reality by the time either of them joins a new game both characters have reverted to where they were before the game. Everything, items, XP, quests (so a whole a1-4 rush can be lost, which is a pain in the ***).

I would assume the lag is due to:
1) MH/general hack scanning
2) slow servers in general
3) alot more people playing than before with the new patch + ladder reset

~SteveWell I haven't actually tried it or seen it done but I seen pretty convincing *evidence* that said lag-dupe method works. And no what I heard about has nothing to do with what you mentioned. It's alot more complex and requires several ppl working together...

[Dacar92]

Are the Classic servers connected to the LOD servers? If so, it could be torch charm lag. There are many people complaining about the lag the torch creates on the servers, especially when several go off at the same time.

[superdave]

Are the Classic servers connected to the LOD servers? If so, it could be torch charm lag. There are many people complaining about the lag the torch creates on the servers, especially when several go off at the same time.
another theory is that it is server side lag caused by "warden" scanning for cheaters

[Kevin William Cox]

I've heard talk of a new MH out. Harder to detect. Don't know if it's true. But those who said they were useing it, were also complaining of heavy lag. I left game so not quite sure.


Edit: Misspelled word

[Fearlessone]

I would assume the lag is due to:
3) alot more people playing than before with the new patch + ladder reset
~Steve
That runs counter to what most peeps are saying here. At least in classic there seem to be awfully fewer games on the list. It looks more like diablo1 now around here. :cheesy: Still, full games dont show up on the list, nor do secret passworded games, where all those lvl 93's seem to be privy to... :spy:

I would guess that the new ladder brought some peeps out of the woodwork. But CLEARLY, the mh ban, cdkey bannings shooed tons of cheaters away. Also, their friends went with them. :creep:

So, there should be less lag by that reasoning. Now what about LoD? I notice over there that it's easier to find people I know just looking at the list, and that was VERY HARD TO DO say a year ago or more. Any of u LoD peeps have any comments about this?

FearlessOnes Latest Lag Theory: so that brings us up to the latest lag. It could very well be all those 30,000 peeps, many of whom didnt have a backup cdkey, THEY'RE BACK after the one month ban, have been testing new cheats, been on the hotline with cheater friends.