Severe Audio Lag

merevie · June 7

We are all getting it at the same time in coms pvp, so it is NOT you, it's the server.

Many of us also getting dead stops when we go to pve dungeons -then sudden catch ups. That's obviously been in pvp for awhile but not so much pve.

Many of us have long held the belief that PTS destroys the main server while it runs.

Right now it feels like my computer might be about to die -even though the ping shows fine and it's not hot at all.

kevkj · June 7

Toanis wrote: »

NPCs popping up with a 5-10s delay is also back. Seems like the server is struggling with all the NM instances. We've seen something similar when IA (or EA) was all new and fancy, and everyone was in there.

Could it be related to the large uptick in IA farming that I'm sure has occurred in light of upcoming class set changes as well? Night Market + Infinite Archive instance slam happening concurrently.

SaintJohnHM · June 7

Yep, I've been getting multi-second lag delays of audio and skills going off after I press them. Lots of players I raid with also have been experiencing it lately. Please fix, it's really frustrating.

Ishtarknows · June 7

I've had this audio lag for months. It began I don't remember when, but definitely last year sometime as my team was in Sanity's Edge progging the HM last summer and it happened then. I tried without add-ons for a bit to see if that helped but it didn't.
It's got a lot worse since the night market arrived and is one of the reasons I'm not playing much at all now.

Xbox EU, series X

Ryori729 · June 7

For me it was about 3 weeks ago. I play an alt account on my XBox One - I don't expect great play anymore but it got really bad. Dolmens are the easiest to see - mobs are invisible for a while. Able to kill and loot the dolmen boss before he appears.

Sound is related. It often is 5-10 seconds behind if it happens at all.

Less much often happens on the Xbox Series X but it is common. Still have the invisible mobs too, but again, much less common.

Overland performance has been worse since the release of NM, but that Saturday about 3 weeks ago it went downhill in all facets. I haven't PvPed since NM came out so I can't speak to it there.

Cin_Vhetin · June 7

PCNA - all kinds of strange lag, high ping, resetting my location, erroring me out of the game, booting from game as I try to log back in.

Gabriel_H · 5:47AM

Umbracat449 wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Malprave wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

I have not noticed any of this and I'm on PCNA. Could an add-on have anything to do with it?

Really? You don’t think I disabled everything as a first step in troubleshooting? Do you work for Zos? Come on man!

Well something is causing it for some, but not for others, so it doesn't appear to be a server issue.

That's not how things work.

Animations are client side. Sound effects are tied to animations. i.e. they are client side too.

BretonMage · 6:07AM

There's definitely some odd de-sync going on with the animations and the sounds though. Last week it really struck me as odd when I tried to force lock on a chest, it failed unusually quietly, then succeeded on the second attempt - but the lockpick breaking sound only played after I had already looted the chest and left.

Orbital78 · 6:24AM

Thankfully I haven't experienced this yet. Night Market or elsewhere.