->Guide<- Causes of Lag and Delay!

Here some facts info. about Delay and Lag while playing OL Games. I search and Found it some info. about it, And I like to share it. ^_^

How to reduce Lag?

Now, you might be thinking, is there any solution to reduce lag without spending a penny. Well, I can suggest you some tips to reduce lag, these tips may or may prove beneficial to you. So, lets see what are these tips if you are getting more than 150 ms of latency.

Step 1: Check whether only you are the one who is getting high latency or there are  more than 60% players who are also getting high latency. If it is only you, then server is OK and its internet connection is also OK and working fine, there is a problem at your side, move to step 2. Otherwise, there is a problem from server side or in its internet connection or ISP.

Step 2: Close all extra running applications which you don’t need while playing, to somehow free up RAM and CPU. Or its better to restart the computer. In addition, your computer must not be warm high.

Open Task Manager and look for the applications that are not visible in taskbar and system tray. For example, Adobe Updater is using your internet connection and consuming speed in downloading, may be torrent is running in background. If this didn’t work move to step 3.

Step 3: Restart your router or modem, let it be cool. Try to obtain another IP Address, sometimes on restart, your ISP will automatically serve you another IP Address. Otherwise, do it manually.

Press Window Key + R, Run Window will come up, type cmd, and then look for ip by command ipconfig, and then type ipconfig /flushdns  and again type another command ipconfig /release. Restart your PC and look whether your IP Addres is changed or not.

Step 4: If these steps didn’t help you in getting low latency then try to change your internet connection and plan. At a speed of 2 MBPS or 250 KBPS downloading, every game works fine.

You will always get a low ping if you are playing on the server located in your country. And you will also get a low ping if your ISP is same exactly the ISP of server then, distance won’t matter much.

Step 5: If these all didn’t work try to change your hardware. Purchase motherboard, CPU(processor) and RAM of latest technology and of renowned vendor or company.

It is surely possible that you will get a low latency and hence low lag after following these 5 Steps. For the step 1, if server has the problem in its internet connection, we can do nothing. It is better to join another server. And as soon as more and more players join server, latency will increase and hence lag will cause.

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Use Cat5 cable first off, make sure you are using a broadband connection with at least 3 megs. Upgrade your RAM. Also, run msconfig on your comp(if using windows)and turn off any applications you don't need running at startup. Lag can almost always be traced back to memory deficiency. I would also check any add ons you have installed, they suck up RAM too.

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well i dont experience lag, but delays. is there a fix for it too?

JackSparrowYAY wrote:Lag and delay is basically one and the same thing

yeah but lag and delay are different in some games. like flyff, when lag happens its like the screen freezes or something, delay is when you press a skill it takes a good 2-3 sec wait time or even higher before it executes the action.

i wonder if its normal that my crackshooter shoots 3 arrows before the damage ticks, its does not say miss or parry on the first 2 shots so thats what i mean by delay, its okay if im just killing boss with loads of hp but when im farming it kinda delays the farm quite a bit because i can 1 hit the monsters but the damage registers so late that it affects the amount you can farm, well atleast thats how i see it.

ps: sorry for the long post i just want to put it out there.



Edit: last question, where is the server located?

JackSparrowYAY wrote:It's still the same thing. The original Flyff server had the same issue, so people tend to shoot 2 arrows before aggroing the next mob. You'll also experience this using skills of mammies in Azria on the hills with your arcanist, for instance windfield or eva storm ^_^ Kinda something you have to live with, but a good internet connection generally helps a lot.

thats what i thought, i dont have the best internet but i certainly dont have the worst so yeah i can live with it, it just kind of bugs me just a little but hey nothing is perfect right?

btw thanks!