Huh that's weird, didn't think this would work. I turned off agents from overview on all characters and my lag instantly went, and i remained stable at 50ms.

That should help you guys narrow down what is causing such huge data transfer. Maybe the updating of agent distance.

Would hate to think how bad it will be for people at the next 100+ man fight, gonna be even worse than last time (can it get worse?) Updating the distances for 100+ people... if several clients can bog down a connection with 15 guys on overview.... well 1 client is gonna kill the connection with 100 plus.

Theres no way you're eating up an 8mb connection, dude.

If you want to see exactly how much the clients are using, just search for the Resource Monitor in the start menu and look at the Network tab.

Even if you dont show them on the overview, you're obviously still receiving the same information.  THe only thing you're improving is any graphic power needed to render those names on your UI, which is pretty much nothing.

Away from the Terminal on alpha I'm seeing about 40Kb (5KB) and when near the terminal I'm seeing about 90-100Kb (12KB).  This is no where CLOSE to maxing out your connection unless you're gonna be using dial up.

Once and a while you'll spike download about 2MB when moving into new areas of the map and download the height map (for use when we have terraforming and need to update the terrain levels on the fly).

Its possible that your favorite farming spot is right by a zone line, and when you're running around you're crossing it over and over and over causing your connection to download WAY more than is needed.  I remember 1 such spot on Daoden that had a noob spawn right on one of these lines, and if I wasnt careful I'd get tons of lag spikes when crossing it.

EDIT: To put things into perspective, your 8mb connection is about 1,000,000 B/sec, which is how your resource monitor is displaying it.  With your current use from your screen, you're not even using 1% of your connection speed.

I'm just hauling ore, and a paticular area always lags me out to death each time i pass by.

Repasting my edit in case you didnt notice it:

EDIT: To put things into perspective, your 8mb connection is about 1,000,000 B/sec, which is how your resource monitor is displaying it.  With your current use from your screen, you're not even using 1% of your connection speed.

That usage when you're lagged is NOTHING compared to your supposed connection speed.   But it is possible that the zone changes are clogging your connection when it downloads the height map on every one of your clients at the same time.  Simple answer is to not train that many clients right next to eachother on a connection that cant handle that load.

Yeah i'm sure the asian governments have any care atall in the world about UK players multiboxing in random online games.

Actually it looks like neoxx might be onto something. The lag always happens in the same area, right in the centre of the map on new virginia, heading from TMA to fort donnert II teleporter. Based on the fact that it's right in the centre of the map i'm wondering if the zone is split up into 4 or more zones at this point and maybe this exact location has me changing zones several times, assuming that it's kind of like a crossroads where 4 zones meet.

Anywhere else is fine.#

Took a screenshot of the place it happens at http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/9041/perpetulag.jpg

hehehe 4 accounts on the same comp and he thinks the game is the problem.....bet its not so much game lag but sucky cpu and not enough ram.

Try running task manager minimized while running 1 account then add accounts till you are maxed and see if your problem isn't the game but your comp running out of resources.

I have 4 gigs of ram and a 2.7 gig duel core cpu on win 7. TS and vent minimized

one account runs at 60% cpu and 2gig of ram. second account runs 95+ cpu and 3 gigs ram

good thing my MB can support a quad core processor(already ordered from newegg)

ram will not fix everything. you still have the limitations of the OS and throughput of your MB to transport data to the cpu

Until some one develops a truly multi threaded OS there will always be a data path bottleneck the can not be broken

I don't think its the game so much as you pushing the limits of your hardware. Maybe if you had a server system to play on you might get better performance.

You seriously have no idea wtf you're talking about Cen-dur. My fps is amazing, I could load 20 browser windows near instant while the lag spike is happening, there's nothing wrong with my CPU. When the lag spike occurs, my ping shoots up to around 17,000 followed by NA. My character will constantly rubberband back to the same spot, you're pretty damn *** if you think that's still an issue with my computer hardware. Stop trying to act clever, you just look like an idiot.

You keep editing stuff into your post. Ok let's get this one over with finally shall we. This isn't my only PC. My other PC, to my left, with just 1 client running, following around my character on my main PC, will lag the the hell out at the exact same time as the character on my main PC. Explain to me why that is if this is a hardware issue? You think the other pc is sharing the hardware issue of my main PC even though it is running only one client and it's a completely seperate PC with seperate hardware? I guess 8% cpu usage must be to heavy for it.

It has to be the height maps maxing your connection.  Maybe they need to optimize those downloads to not prioritize over the usual data being sent.

Don't know what to tell you with the upload though.  I never see much in that department