Lag (again sigh)

Just over a year ago, i finally found my 'happy place'. No matter what mood I was in, I could visit middle earth whenever I felt the need. If I was in a 'chill out' mood, a ride around the shire, taking in the scenery was just what the doctor ordered. A social mood? no problem. Plenty of people all over the world to chat to. Adventurous? Plenty of quests and discoveries to find all over middle earth. Angry or annoyed? Plenty of orcs, goblins, spiders and dragons to take it out on.........whatever the mood, middle earth had a solution. Now? I might be leaving middle earth for good, (and not bound for the grey havens) because there is an evil and terror more potent and devastating than Sauron and his minions that now threaten to destroy middle earth once and for all! For months now, I have waited in anticipation to ride throughout Rohan but alas, this may now not be possible. Why? you may ask. It is because all enjoyment, fun and anticipation has now been drained from middle earth. I no longer feel enthused logging in as I once was, I really want to, but I wonder why bother. In the past 5 sessions of gameplay with my fellowship ( The Ayrshires), the lag suffered has made the game impossible to play within 15 to 45 minutes. Last night, the last 5 to 10 minutes of gameplay consisted of me travelling from the shadowed refuge to the first hall by stable goat in a series of still shots. I understand that I am not the only player affected here, as i am aware that the Lotro team 'are aware of the problem', but after months of the lag becoming more exaggerated ever time I log on until finally experiencing the type of gameplay I suffered last night it has sucked almost all of my enjoyment out of the game. I therefore anticipate my departure from middle earth sooner than I imagined. So to those friends I have made here, to the fellowship members, to the passersby on the road to Bree and Evandim, I bid you all a fond farewell when the time comes for me to leave.

If you want a 'please', then okay, PLEASE fix my lag. I dont really want to leave.

I have experienced more and more lag over recent months also and share some of your frustration. However, I have not looked right into it to see how isolated this situation is. It may be old or dodgy drivers on my machine or ISP issues at my end. Not really sure so would be interetsed to know how many others are experiencing general lag and freeze issues.

I have made other changes to my setup, like multi-monitors so this could be a factor. It would be nice to be able to see a latency gauge or something in-game (like Diablo 3 has) to get a measure on what is happening, particularly if you are just about to confront some signature Orc or the like.

Anyway, still love the game as obviously you do too, that's what makes it so frustrating! Good luck.

Anyone else got this issue or tips on checking latency in-game? (ie. Can I just ping some address?)

The game servers are firewall protected, so they can't be pinged in the ordinary way. The closest pingable server I'm aware of is the login server, which some people sometimes use to measure the approx. latency outside lotro.

But there is an in-game latency indicator. Search for "Show connection status" in the options menu. Enable it, and it will give you an indicator which gives you both the latency and package drops.

As for the OP, I'm guessing patience is the only option at the moment.. Maybe it's like the old saying, things will become worse before getting better?

For me latency jumped from a 50ms to 150ms average when we lost codies servers and since then it seems to bounce about like a yoyo at times.

I've gone through the motions of making sure consoles are off and unplugged as well as stuff on my pc that might be doing anything online in the backgrounds and nothing has helped it improve. As my pc is on a wired netowrk I even took off the ariel which only resulted in gf aggro.

Most of the lag seems to come into effect when I start combat especially the new mounted stuff, to the point where things are just unplayable. Tried at various times of the day and there's no noticable difference even in areas with only a couple of players about.

Finding it hard to motivate myself to play between that and the half hearted way additions have been made to the game. On the rare occaision of a relatively lag free session its quite fun but that is a rarity.

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Originally Posted by Moneydie

For me latency jumped from a 50ms to 150ms average when we lost codies servers and since then it seems to bounce about like a yoyo at times...

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Exactly + if you are doing raid and 12 people has 140+ping, well, that makes some mess.
+Lotro has some effects in the game, that CAN'T be turned off.

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Originally Posted by JoeSO

Exactly + if you are doing raid and 12 people has 140+ping, well, that makes some mess.
+Lotro has some effects in the game, that CAN'T be turned off.

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True,but 140 Ping in Lotro isnt too dramatic(although not the best either ofc) the reaction time is still enough to deal with most situations just fine, 200+ is where it gets annoying,300+ is going to cause trouble...
Thats from my experience in Lotro atleast..

Ofc,compared to an old ping of 30-50ms or lower there is a difference,mostly noticable in pvp... But its playable.

In an FPS or MOBA like Dota or LoL ping is much more meaningfull and has a bigger impact on everything.

Is anyone else experiencing more lag for the past 2-3 days aswell? I'm jumping around even when I play in the middle of the night in the moors or regular pve zones. No one around and still there's noticable lag. i got 140ms latency.

If you have Windows 7 you should try this:

http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/LOTRO_FlashBoost

(The lag was serious for me as well, in the past week i hardly even logged in, only in the Ettens i have no lags)

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Originally Posted by Tharvendall

If you have Windows 7 you should try this:

http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/LOTRO_FlashBoost

(The lag was serious for me as well, in the past week i hardly even logged in, only in the Ettens i have no lags)

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this works on win8?