Anyone else getting the egg timer during hyperspace jumps?

Gortron

Gortron
As above? It is driving me nuts! Every single time about 3 seconds into the jump the game freezes for a split second and up comes the egg timer. I have run out of ideas how to fix it so assume (and hope) it is a server issue affecting everyone. If not I'm gonna have to start taking some pretty dramatic steps to sort it..... game reinstall, windows reinstall...


Thanks in advance.

SOLVED: Nedash was right; it is close proximity to the galactic core that causes the problem. At around 4kly the egg timer doesn't show up anymore but there is still a brief pause. The duration of the pause decreases with increased distance and the duration of the egg timer increases with decreased distance (from the core).

Thanks to everyone that contributed.... I'll put in a bug report.
 
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HeavyGroovez

HeavyGroovez
Gortron said:
As above? It is driving me nuts! Every single time about 3 seconds into the jump the game freezes for a split second and up comes the egg timer. I have run out of ideas how to fix it so assume (and hope) it is a server issue affecting everyone. If not I'm gonna have to start taking some pretty dramatic steps to sort it..... game reinstall, windows reinstall...


Thanks in advance.
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Open ?

Solo ?

Bubble ?

Deep Space ?
 

Strangepork

Strangepork
Gortron said:
As above? It is driving me nuts! Every single time about 3 seconds into the jump the game freezes for a split second and up comes the egg timer. I have run out of ideas how to fix it so assume (and hope) it is a server issue affecting everyone. If not I'm gonna have to start taking some pretty dramatic steps to sort it..... game reinstall, windows reinstall...


Thanks in advance.
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VR?
 

Gortron

Gortron
Deep space; Solo, group, open, ASW on , ASW off.

I only play in VR.

The computer doesn't show anything up when it happens.... no massive blips on network, CPU, GPU, RAM.... nothing. Windows is up to date. Updated to latest NVidia driver tonight (trying to fix it), Oculus updated yesterday (was doing it before and after).
 

HeavyGroovez

HeavyGroovez
Gortron said:
Deep space; Solo, group, open, ASW on , ASW off.

I only play in VR.

The computer doesn't show anything up when it happens.... no massive blips on network, CPU, GPU, RAM.... nothing. Windows is up to date. Updated to latest NVidia driver tonight (trying to fix it), Oculus updated yesterday (was doing it before and after).
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You hardwired via cable to the router or using WIFI ?
 

Gortron

Gortron
On WIFI. I've recently gone from 3 meg to 75 meg broadband and oddly it is the only obvious thing to change recently. My ping is way better than it used to be too but perhaps there is a setting in the router that ED doesn't like..... I take it you don't get the egg timer in hyperspace?
 

HeavyGroovez

HeavyGroovez
Gortron said:
On WIFI. I've recently gone from 3 meg to 75 meg broadband and oddly it is the only obvious thing to change recently. My ping is way better than it used to be too but perhaps there is a setting in the router that ED doesn't like..... I take it you don't get the egg timer in hyperspace?
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Ditch the WIFI Mate.

I had all sorts of problems with it. You get loads of channel crossover noise that degrades the signal and batters your bandwidth and latency.

Either run powerline via RJ45 to the router or direct RJ45 to the router.
 
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Gortron

Gortron
HeavyGroovez said:
Ditch the WIFI Mate.

I had all sorts of problems with it. You get loads of channel crossover noise that degrades the signal and batters your bandwidth and latency.

Either run powerline via RJ45 to the router or direct RJ45 to the router.
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I've got a really long Ethernet cable somewhere... I'll did it out and give it a go; I'll be right annoyed if it works though.
 

HeavyGroovez

HeavyGroovez
Gortron said:
I've got a really long Ethernet cable somewhere... I'll did it out and give it a go; I'll be right annoyed if it works though.
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let me know if you get a result [up]

Powerline is the best solution, no long cables and comparable SNR to direct RJ45
 
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hems303

hems303
HeavyGroovez said:
Ditch the WIFI Mate.

I had all sorts of problems with it. You get loads of channel crossover noise that degrades the signal and batters your bandwidth and latency.

Either run powerline via RJ45 to the router or direct RJ45 to the router.
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^ Definitely this ^
 

Gortron

Gortron
Well I tried; ethernet cable, updated sound drivers, updated network drivers, updated intel management engine drivers, messed around with router settings...… no effect :(

Then it occurred to perhaps it is something specific to my ship (an asp with a bobblehead on the dash) which is not far from A* unfortunately and hence why the egg timer is doing my head in so much! So I log in to my other account, jump and no egg timer. Jumped a few times and no egg timer. So, whatever it is, it is the game that has the issue. It is either something about my ship or to do with the account. The good news is I can go back to WIFI, the bad news is I can't get to the bottom of it until I do hundreds of egg timer interrupted jumps lol
 

Nedash

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I noticed that too, but only near the galactic core.
Always assumed it had something to do with the increased star count that needs to be rendered....

Once I was far enough away from the core, the issue vanished again.
 

Gortron

Gortron
That would certainly make sense. I was heading from Colonia to near the core when it started happening. I’m headed back to the bubble now so it will hopefully stop happening on it’s own.
 

Happy Shrapnel

Happy Shrapnel
If switching to Ethernet from WiFi hasn't solved the issue then perhaps look at any apps that are running in the background. Kill off any running apps in the system tray one by one then testing again in Elite.

When I first got my Oculus I had severe display issues, the ONLY thing to cure the issue was to do a clean install of Windows 10 then only installing Gforce drivers, Ocuclus software then Elite Dangerous. This worked, I was able to run Elite in VR Medium on an i5 with a GTX 970, ASW set to ON. Buttery smooth.
 

Kinky Jalepeno

Kinky Jalepeno
Gortron said:
On WIFI. I've recently gone from 3 meg to 75 meg broadband and oddly it is the only obvious thing to change recently. My ping is way better than it used to be too but perhaps there is a setting in the router that ED doesn't like..... I take it you don't get the egg timer in hyperspace?
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I always play in VR and never get the egg timer.
Ditch the WiFi mate, never game over it as latency sensitive games like ED will suffer. You're bound to get spikes over WiFi which aint good when your game is tryinfg to contact the servers for data on the next system.
 

[VR] Frank_G

[VR] Frank_G
The last little studder and the few egg timers went away, when i switched from an HD to SSDs.
I have no experience with WiFi issues though, so your problem might still lie there.
 

Older Gamer

Older Gamer
I get this egg timer every now and again, and it often occurs when I play during peak player hours. If I play during the day, in the week, never see it. Play on a Sunday afternoon or Saturday night and I see it once or twice per session .

Im using the Rift, Ethernet net connection. I'm out at Colonia. Interestingly enough, when passing the galaxtic core, I had terrible problems with the galqxtic map slowing down to the point pf uselessness.
 
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