Unfortunate Case of Diablo II LAG

[pxlxyxr]

ok so I normally play on USWest and the lag is absolutely crazy now. Im getting pings of 300+ with fps 200+. Anyone have any explanations other than there are excessive dupers now?

When I play on USEast, everything runs smoothly and ping is in the 70s. Also, I am on a T3 connection and it definitely isnt my computer.

WHENS THE LADDER RESET COMING?

[Gorny]

WHENS THE LADDER RESET COMING?

WHENEVER BLIZZARD DECIDES.

Which means anywhere between tomorrow and never.

[buttershug]

ok so I normally play on USWest and the lag is absolutely crazy now. Im getting pings of 300+ with fps 200+. Anyone have any explanations other than there are excessive dupers now?

When I play on USEast, everything runs smoothly and ping is in the 70s. Also, I am on a T3 connection and it definitely isnt my computer.

WHENS THE LADDER RESET COMING?

Why do you want the lag to get worse?
There will be more people playing at the start of the new ladder.

[pxlxyxr]

im sure if ladder resets, it will take some time for ppl to build up their chars to dupe again.

moreover, someone answer my question!! whats wrong in my situation??

[rykuss]

im sure if ladder resets, it will take some time for ppl to build up their chars to dupe again.

In denial much? :rolleyes: Seriously, you think it's bad now? Let a reset happen.

[Jackson]

Why do you think that the lag will get any less with a ladder reset?

[buttershug]

im sure if ladder resets, it will take some time for ppl to build up their chars to dupe again.

moreover, someone answer my question!! whats wrong in my situation??


I don't know how the duping is done but there would be stuff to dupe within a couple days. Skillers at the very least.
And I'm sure rune busses would start up pretty quick, so runes would be available within a week or so.

[pxlxyxr]

the point is, why am i lagging?? i cant find any concrete reason. i threw out the reason of duping and ladder reset and it has become the sole topic of this thread.

[Jackson]

It's not just *YOU*.

Everybody else on Uswest (and probably other forums) are lagging too. Plus, if you have a game that lags, go join another one. Not *all* the games are laggy.

[Yossarian]

Dupers cause lag. If they are duping a lot on your server, you lag. Go to a different game with less lag.

[templeofnogwa]

Today was actually a good day for me in regards to lag.

[Jackson]

Dupers getting fat and lazy then.

Anyways, if you run into a laggy game, just make another one. I doubt all ~100 servers are doomed..

[th5418]

Lol, a new ladder reset would make more lag. People would dupe like.. El runes to cube up.

[Dondrei]

Are we going to have a thread saying "OMG Bliz gib Ladder Reset plz" every ten minutes for the next bazillion years?

[Jackson]

Imagine what the Bnet forums must be like at this time. :shocked:

[krischan]

Blizzard has to find a fix for the current duping loophole before resetting the ladder. Then they should make a record of all dupers for a few days, apply the patch, ban those who got caught duping, run a ruststorm and then reset the ladder.

[LorveN]

I am amazed you got an fps of 200+ though. Anything over 85 is a waste. :azn:

[Dennis_KoreanGuy]

I am amazed you got an fps of 200+ though. Anything over 85 is a waste. :azn:
People with a decent modern computer.

D2 is such a low requirement game.. :tongue:

I doubt they will do a reset before making some counter-dupe patch, which might take them awhile.

[LorveN]

I thought even d2 had a capped upper fps. Anyway, from what I've read, the human eye has its own "update frequency" at about 85 frames/sec, so even turning your screen from 85Hz to 100Hz shouldn't make any difference.

[jakotaco]

Blizzard has to find a fix for the current duping loophole before resetting the ladder. Then they should make a record of all dupers for a few days, apply the patch, ban those who got caught duping, run a ruststorm and then reset the ladder.

I'm not a programmer but as I get it, the duping is based on rollbacks, allowing for two copies of an item, so guess it would be fixed if the autosaving code were updated, ie. saving whenever a player quits a game, identifies an item or anything else that could be abused in combination with rollbacks.

Other than that, ban ban ban... and maybe repair some server? :undecided:

[BloZ]

It's not just West; East was horrible for me yesterday. I made a game and started the mini-ubers, then the lag spikes start and I C/I while fighting Lilith. Bye bye key set. Then I C/I and get lag spikes while trading. Pretty annoying.