Gcoats Posted July 24, 2006 CID Share Posted July 24, 2006 For the past few weeks I've been having constant patches of lag where the game freezes for like 4 seconds at a time. I don't know exactly why this is happening or how I could fix this problem. If anyone has any input or suggestion for this problem I'd be glad to hear them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinlay Posted July 24, 2006 CID Share Posted July 24, 2006 Welcome to the forum Gcoats Well online gaming isn't recommend with a satillite connection due to high latacy. That could be most of your problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted July 24, 2006 CID Share Posted July 24, 2006 where does it says he's on sat? anyway, what connection do you have gcoats, and are any other web services or sites affected? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Fan Posted July 24, 2006 CID Share Posted July 24, 2006 where does it says he's on sat? He posted in the Wildblue forum.. Runescape works fine for my brother on Direcway. It has lag, but he doesn't really complain anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted July 24, 2006 CID Share Posted July 24, 2006 ah. ok. i was wondering there for a minute. yeah, that would explain any lag... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gcoats Posted July 24, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 24, 2006 Yes I do have a wildblue internet connection. The weird thing about all this lag though, is that a few weeks ago I had barely any lag while playing. Another thing that leads me to suspect something strange, is that a friend of mine also has wildblue and plays runescape with little to no lag. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted July 24, 2006 CID Share Posted July 24, 2006 Yes I do have a wildblue internet connection. The weird thing about all this lag though, is that a few weeks ago I had barely any lag while playing. Another thing that leads me to suspect something strange, is that a friend of mine also has wildblue and plays runescape with little to no lag. Any suggestions? well that sounds like you make have some spyware running system do some scans and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nos7667 Posted July 24, 2006 CID Share Posted July 24, 2006 When i used to play runescape i found that the GIF popups with sound tend to cause alot of lag in the java template. This could also be the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brock01 Posted July 25, 2006 CID Share Posted July 25, 2006 are you a p2p or f2p? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug7272 Posted July 25, 2006 CID Share Posted July 25, 2006 Also the room you are in. World I should say. Also try playing it on the low res setting. Welcome to the site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gcoats Posted July 25, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 25, 2006 I'm a member, it doesn't matter which world I'm on as far as lag goes, and I'm pretty sure my computer has little to no spyware on it. Anyone have any other suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted July 27, 2006 CID Share Posted July 27, 2006 how fast is your connection at the moment? did you get fap'ed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Fan Posted July 27, 2006 CID Share Posted July 27, 2006 Yes I do have a wildblue internet connection. The weird thing about all this lag though, is that a few weeks ago I had barely any lag while playing. Another thing that leads me to suspect something strange, is that a friend of mine also has wildblue and plays runescape with little to no lag. Any suggestions? Has your signal changed at all? Maybe you could be FAP'd.. It is near the end of the month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brock01 Posted July 27, 2006 CID Share Posted July 27, 2006 Are you using SwiftSwitch or are you playing off of Runescape.com Whats your rsn, my brother owns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wouter Posted July 28, 2006 CID Share Posted July 28, 2006 if your game is freezing(and not losing connection) its probably because your ping time exceeded 2000. if it does, then it times out and cancels it basically, so your player wont do anything. if it happens more than once, itll seem like a lag spot. its not suprising, because with a initial delay of about 700 because of satellite thne the fact it has to go through ENGLAND game servers i wouldnt be suprised if it happend quite a bit. IF however your losing connection instead then i dont know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gcoats Posted July 30, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 30, 2006 No I havent FAP'd yet. I'm using swiftswitch and my rsn is Shadow Lobo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anchorman Posted October 30, 2006 CID Share Posted October 30, 2006 hmm. i dont lag when im playing runescape and im on 512/512 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan314 Posted October 30, 2006 CID Share Posted October 30, 2006 In my experience swift switch and runescape.com arent too different in the ways of lag. If you are playing on firefox thats your problem. For some reason firefox doesnt handle runescape very well. I played rs for 3 years straight almost every day but i quit recently. I never had problems with runescape lagging even when my connection was having problems, so just play it in IE or Swift switch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DammitDee Posted December 21, 2006 CID Share Posted December 21, 2006 I am having the same problems with Wild Blue Latency! There is a big flap going on...since a 11/17 software update... Perhaps some of your questions could be answered here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/wildblue Good Luck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 21, 2006 CID Share Posted December 21, 2006 I am having the same problems with Wild Blue Latency! There is a big flap going on...since a 11/17 software update... Perhaps some of your questions could be answered here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/wildblue Good Luck... if your on satalite your going to have a ton of lagg no matter what Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostmaster Posted December 22, 2006 CID Share Posted December 22, 2006 On Nov. 17, Wildblue released a firmware update that causes huge latency spikes in your connection. They are also most likely using traffic shaping to put ICMP traffic at the low end of the priority list. Some have speculated that Wildblue did this on purpose. Explanation: A few months ago, Wildblue introduced a traffic shaping method which reduces your bandwidth when your connection is idle, or you aren't doing anything bandwidth intensive. In other words, when your usage picks up, your speeds pick up. Well, this didn't sit to well with many users because it created connection issues, so they created a program called "big ping" which I guess keeps your usage up enough to keep your bandwidth at full throttle. There has been speculation that this "firmware update" on Nov 17th increased ping times to bypass this "big ping" method of avoiding the throttling. Please remember this is just speculation. How is this related to the topic? Because everyone that got this firmware update has had terrible pings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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