Why are pings so high?

MrGoat · Sep 11, 2011

Will they be lower when the full game is released? I have really good internet and I live in Dallas, tx. I can always find a server with like 40 or less ping, but in RO2 i'm lucky with 100 or higher.

Is this the same for everyone?

Jorg Biermann1 · Sep 11, 2011

One Word

Punkbuster!

Apparently?

Moyako · Sep 11, 2011

If yuo look at the server browser, pings are ok. But when you're inside the game, it goes up, sometime twice high

Stahlhelmii · Sep 11, 2011

My ping is 40. On one server today, everyone's ping first shot up to 100-200, then to 150-300. It went on the whole, laggy, unplayable game. And yes, I agree it seems nearly all of the populated servers are for some reason 100+ ping since the update. WTH is going on?

AeneasXI · Sep 11, 2011

Stahlhelmii said:
My ping is 40. On one server today, everyone's ping first shot up to 100-200, then to 150-300. It went on the whole, laggy, unplayable game. And yes, I agree it seems nearly all of the populated servers are for some reason 100+ ping since the update. WTH is going on?

very strongly agree
Since the update I lost interest in playing anymore since it is lagging so much. Playing on servers with 60players is just frustrating...
And even playing with few people it seems worse than before the update
Lag is a real gamekiller to me...
WTH is going on? :S

wazups2x · Sep 11, 2011

The last patch caused major lag in servers with high player count.

gotee · Sep 11, 2011

Is there a command to retrieve pings through the console? I wonder if the player list might be reporting incorrect pings.

Krobar · Sep 11, 2011

gotee said:
Is there a command to retrieve pings through the console? I wonder if the player list might be reporting incorrect pings.

"stat ping" most likely

Xendance · Sep 12, 2011

Krobar said:
"stat ping" most likely

Stat net.
And if the ping for everyone on the server shoots up, then the server CPU can't handle that many players the server has.
Punkbuster has never caused anything like that in any games I have played.

OrdeaL · Sep 12, 2011

But what if the server has been doing fine with 64 players until latest patch?

Kiwi-NZ · Sep 12, 2011

Maybe this could help or explain to find a solution:
Ping / round-trip delay time

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_delay" target="_blank">[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_delay[/URL]

brutal99 · Sep 12, 2011

"The ping is to damn high!"

Eighties · Sep 12, 2011

there is something going on for sure, pings was fine before last update. hope they fix it! D:

wikchi · Sep 12, 2011

brutal99 said:
"The ping is to damn high!"

Party.

Anyhow with stat net command my ping is always over 100ms in this game, it used to be lower and i get 60ms in other games.

cyclonejack · Sep 12, 2011

I get the same thing. It shows low ping in browser and then in game its twice as high.

Graphic · Sep 12, 2011

Some of the main problems with the game (high ping, bad hit reg, etc.) seem to be caused by servers running 64 player games when they're not powerful enough for it.

Cpt-Praxius · Sep 12, 2011

Moyako said:
If yuo look at the server browser, pings are ok. But when you're inside the game, it goes up, sometime twice high

Odd.... I seem to have the opposite issue, where servers I join that have pings of say 80 end up being only 40 when I am in the match.

I guess that's not really an issue, lol

I've also noticed when you console "Stat FPS" it brings up your FPS but there's also another number below that in miliseconds, which I assume is also the ping?

Icey_Pain · Sep 12, 2011

OrdeaL said:
But what if the server has been doing fine with 64 players until latest patch?

Agreed, the current servers were able to run 64 players without any substancial lag. You would get 150 ping at most.

After the patch the average ping has doubled and with punkbuster enabled tripled. Now I know they are fixing punkbuster, but I'm really hoping they are putting effort into getting the netcode/serverload issue fixed as well.

Baleur · Sep 12, 2011

Xendance said:
Stat net.
And if the ping for everyone on the server shoots up, then the server CPU can't handle that many players the server has.
Punkbuster has never caused anything like that in any games I have played.

What? It has caused it in pretty much every punkbuster game i have ever played.
If not bad network preformance, bad framerate stutter.

There must be Some connection when every game using punkbuster has online issues in one way or another. I will not believe it is just "oh RO2's netcode sux", because it was fine before punkbuster was "turned on" in the patch.

Ziggurattus · Sep 12, 2011

Yeah before this patch pings were fine , and the high ping is real , i ntoice it mostly when proning and moving , it's rubber band party time !

Hopefully this is another thing that can be fixed before the game goes live .

Why are pings so high?

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