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[Yoozie]

Alright so, I already made a thread awhile back about this crazy lag on my laptop and ppl tried helping but.. it's not going away and it's really drivin me to quit RO.

I have Sony Vaio laptop with windows VISTA. if you need specs ill get that later.

So the issue has been that nothing on my computer lags except RO.

Symptoms:
-My mouse does not lag (computer itself does not lag)
-When mobbin/encountering monsters my character gets stuck in the "hit" position and cannot walk/do anything
-When I walk in straight line, theres a mini pause every 2 seconds or so
-I cannot cast skills once hit by a monster because my position is "off"
-for example, I cant use overbrand while i'm getting hit because i'm not ACTUALLY on the cell i'm trying to use the skill on
-when i'm mvping with sura, i cant cast gfist while getting mobbed because apparently i'm "far away" from the mvp
- i cannot snap away from mobs cuz my sprite is still on the mob and my screen doesnt move down for me to click on a further cell
- when i snap i need to wait AWHILE until i can use cursed circle cuz of position lagging

-I can't do two consecutive snaps on Sura because I snap once and get position lag
-Once in the pos lag, I must walk a cell or two to regain my true position.
-Monsters are sometimes off screen or way far away and I'm still getting hit
-My pot lags, fwing lags, bwing lags
-It cannot really be my ISP because every other online game works like charm
-Also tried playing using different ISP and have same issue so it's something to do with my comp


So I dunno wats wrong wit this.. i tried using leatrix latency fix, lowerping,etc. WHAT CAN I DO. DrAzzy said before that my tracert looks fine...

PS. Also how can I get rid of my cursor auto pointing on items/monsters? Its kinda annoying when I try to gfist mvp and cursor keeps moving to the mob next to it


And I have been getting that LIGHTMAP error where when I cast certain skill the whole screen becomes WHITE or INVERTED... so I have to type /lightmap to fix it temporary.. but why does this happen? it started happening recently with bunch of other ppl. Reinstalled the game but still happens.. why

Edited by Yoozie, 22 September 2011 - 06:55 AM.

[DrAzzy]

So I dunno wats wrong wit this.. i tried using leatrix latency fix, lowerping,etc. WHAT CAN I DO. DrAzzy said before that my tracert looks fine...

PS. Also how can I get rid of my cursor auto pointing on items/monsters? Its kinda annoying when I try to gfist mvp and cursor keeps moving to the mob next to it


And I have been getting that LIGHTMAP error where when I cast certain skill the whole screen becomes WHITE or INVERTED... so I have to type /lightmap to fix it temporary.. but why does this happen? it started happening recently with bunch of other ppl. Reinstalled the game but still happens.. why

I don't know what to say on the lag issue - it sounds like a network issue, if you've tested it on multiple ISPs and it's still failing. Are you using wireless? That can sometimes make things a lot worse (wireless is crap for gaming). RO does react much worse to lag than most games - it doesn't have the sort of mechanisms to hide lag from the player than some games do.

Options, uncheck item/attack/skill snap to disable that. And yes, all the good players disable that for that exact reason.

It happens because of a combination of RO doing something funky with lightmapping and your graphics drivers/card not handling it correctly. RO is built on DirectX 7, which is old, and which modern graphics card manufacturers are playing fast and loose with support for (my guess is they don't test it rigorously). The mount update changed something on RO's end, which seems to make it a lot worse. At the same time, depending on your drivers/hardware/OS/zodiac sign, it may or may not effect you. I get the lightmap error maybe once every 2-4 months and only during woe.

Edited by DrAzzy, 22 September 2011 - 01:36 PM.

[DieNasty]

If you are playing RO via a wireless router then you're bound to get position lag all the time. You need to do a port fowarding on your router to solve this issue.
How to do a port forwarding: portforward.com

[Yoozie]

If you are playing RO via a wireless router then you're bound to get position lag all the time. You need to do a port fowarding on your router to solve this issue.
How to do a port forwarding: portforward.com

How do u work that thing? I'm using verizon fios which the modem itself has wireless so im wireless-ly directly connected to the modem, which i dunno if that still matters.

[DrAzzy]

I don't think you need to do port forwarding to make RO work.

But connecting to RO via wireless rarely produces good results. Wireless is bad for gaming in general!

Your modem should have a normal ethernet port in it. Try using that, and see if RO still lags.

[Puppet]

Snap has always , Caused Postion lag among so many other skills, Short of gravity Disabling Naggling on both there SERVERS AND CLIENT postion lag will remain.Which will probably never happen as to that is to much for the dev/programors to handle or know how to fix and that if kRO aloud them to. And even if they did disable it, I doubt it would help a whole lot consider had bad the netcode is in the game.

Also Wireless is bad choice for Online gaming in general especially iRO

And if that fios router is anything like my uncles, it be pain to work with if you even have the password to access the router. use Ethercables

I also like to mention this postion lag wasnt that bad till they introduce the the skill flinch(Bug) that make you stuck in place and general postion lags you too cast alot of kills have this problem. they say that is intended, but it was never there till the add GH update so long ago.

Edited by Puppet, 23 September 2011 - 12:05 PM.