38 replies to this topic

[Tono34]

+ needed server and game update...

[Aimless]

Actually they have already given their answer and tried to fix it.http://http://forum.worldofwarplanes.eu/index.php?/topic/53100-november-14-server-downtime/

 

The problem is, it only helped to a certain extent. Still too many human players for the server to cope with.

[CaptainAim]

The problem started occurring again tonight. First noticed it about half an hour ago, give or take.

Veeery frustrating. Uninstall or wait?

[Aimless]

Now that the event is over and the player count decreased, everything's fine again. Surprize!

[0berhessen]

Lag makes game unplayable - 17:45 CET

[Woolfie_aka_paca_chatban]

yep  has  wowp any staff left  ?

 

[Ziptop]

out of interest...have any of you updated windows within the last few weeks?

 

I'm not joking, I had terrible stuttering in game, had a ticket open etc. Finally noted there were other complaints online related to a recent windows update breaking network stuff and rolled back to see what would happen...

 

issue resolved. all stuttering gone.

 

Yes, during the birthday event I also had packet loss lag etc. this is unrelated. but rolling back the windows update fixed something!

[GonerNL]

Windows 7 or 10 ?

[Ziptop]

GonerNL, on 28 November 2019 - 09:19 AM, said:

Windows 7 or 10 ?

 

Is that like the "an African swallow or a European swallow" sort of question? ;-) 

 

I run my main gaming rig on Win 10. It's the recent Win 10 updates that are questionable. - There have been more since, which I have postponed. Updates are important so I'll have to actually research and then filter out the precise bad boy that wrecked my gaming experience at some point and update the rest but I just have not got around to it. 

 

[zen_monk_]

This game was written and finished in Win7. Then the core programmers left.

 

For Win10 the new people applied patches, which sometimes and for some elements of the game don't work as they should. (the proper solution would be writing the new code but hey...)

 

Hence it would be wise for all to run in Compatibility Mode, a lot of problems should disappear.

[GonerNL]

Just curious. 

I'm still running Windows 7 and - apart from the infamous Saturday when everybody noticed lag & packet loss - I have not had any problems (apart from all the other bugs and issues like disconnects etc.).

Edited by GonerNL, 28 November 2019 - 10:16 AM.

[Ziptop]

I run Win 10, with WoWp in Win7 compatibility. 

 

I also experienced the great day (or two) of not being able to connect or being kicked from servers...and once they resolved that my game was a little shonky. Stuttering, some packet loss etc. - It was this that rolling back the Windows 10 update resolved. 

The Birthday period packet loss and lag, I saw some of this, but not as much as other folks, perhaps I was just playing a lot of my games at times of less server load. - I doubt a Win update would cause this, but it's actually always worth checking because I trust the OS authors perhaps even slightly less than I trust the game authors. (having owned a windows phone really trashed any respect or trust I may have had left)

[zgubny]

Ziptop, on 28 November 2019 - 02:34 PM, said:

I run Win 10, with WoWp in Win7 compatibility. 

 

I also experienced the great day (or two) of not being able to connect or being kicked from servers...and once they resolved that my game was a little shonky. Stuttering, some packet loss etc. - It was this that rolling back the Windows 10 update resolved. 

The Birthday period packet loss and lag, I saw some of this, but not as much as other folks, perhaps I was just playing a lot of my games at times of less server load. - I doubt a Win update would cause this, but it's actually always worth checking because I trust the OS authors perhaps even slightly less than I trust the game authors. (having owned a windows phone really trashed any respect or trust I may have had left)

 

Even with the windows 7 compatibility mode i have problems , since this week end i cannot play at all . I was playing at tier 4 with my BF 110 C-6 and after a disconnection when i came back i had to sign up and accept the terms of the game client and for some reasons my plane went AFK !!! I tried 7 or 10 times even in the training room and nothing ... Only a black screen and i had to press ALT+F4 to connect again .... but impossible to use my plane : it was in a battle even if the battle was ended . I try to go into the menu into parameters and i discovered the page is frozen , impossible to go into the settings .....

Obviously i ckecked everything : windows is updated Nvidia too i reinstalled the game the game center ... I've sent a ticket , we'll see !

[madScientist404]

so did they answer with any kind of a solution ? Because i have alot of packet loss nowadays and I never had it this bad before. It makes the game unplayable.

 

[Sidus_Preclarum]

Game is rather unplayable this morning, getting 1-2 deconnexion every second game.

 

*edit* fkn atrocious.

Edited by Sidus_Preclarum, 05 January 2020 - 09:24 AM.

[Frateras]

It works for me this morning on EU server, but I got no experience in the last weeks, because I'm playing almost on the America server which seems to work fine. (without spending a penny)

Edited by Frateras, 05 January 2020 - 11:12 AM.

[Ziptop]

Over Christmas / New Year I have also experienced incredibly laggy games. (Massive ping spikes and packet loss) but I had put this down to playing on my laptop on my sister's sketchy broadband in UK. 

 

Did some pingplotter checks and all the packet loss I'm seeing seems to be happening on a UK node - I'll be getting back to my own stable network connection in Sweden later so I'll get a better view of any issue from there....

[Ziptop]

Played a fair bit last night and also today. Didn't see any lag, high ping or packet loss. 

Played on the US server a bit, saw higher pings to that, maybe a tiny bit of packet loss but not much.

 

However, when I was in the UK connecting through ISP of different family members I did note horrific packet loss. Less bad on my brother's broadband (which was actually not too bad) but seriously horrible on my sister's connection. Pingplotter session from my sister's seemed to indicate a regular packet loss at a UK node. Almost as if her access was being throttled. (Like a regularly spaced packet loss burst every 30 seconds. With a bigger one every couple of minutes.) 

I decided to test unbuffered video stream on her connection and indeed the same rhythm of packet loss translated into video stutter while watching an unbuffered stream) 

Naturally I probably can't name and shame the ISP but if you are a Brit and know who the Nationally owned telecoms company that was privatised in the 1980's is and you have them as your ISP and are trying to play online games or watch unbuffered video through the same nodes as my sister is routed then....you have my sympathies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RoyalFlyingCorps]

1980s, not 1980's!  There is no contraction or possession here.