Unplayable in open / groups

DidierDrbois

DidierDrbois
It hasn't been exactly smooth sailing for me since I decided to go full-time open / groups, but gradually, it got to the point where I can't play in those modes at all. Lag, stutter, rubber-banding, buggy teleports, utterly weird player ship behaviour, all of it at once all of the time is what I'm getting now. I mean, it doesn't even fluctuate anymore, the open button essentially guarantees an absolutely unacceptable experience.
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I've done my homework before posting this but 90% of the advice I'm finding is obvious stuff that I have tried long time back, with the rest being plain delusions. What is to blame?
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Netconn? Well, I'm on 30/10 fibre and nothing - nothing - else has so much as a whiff of a problem.
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Router? Tried UPnP, tried with forwarded ports (5100, but I may be wrong). What else can I do? No magic buttons as far as I can see.
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Geographical location? Could be that, given the ridiculous P2P model, that I'm just too far away from the 'swarm', constantly? Anything else related to that?
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I have never played any P2P-based online games, nor can I think of any for testing or comparison, but if e.g. BitTorrent (P2P AFAIK) is anything to go by, then yes, the speed and response isn't always guaranteed. In which case I'm probably stuffed and forever banished to solo.
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Need your help, savvy commanders!
 
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Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
DidierDrbois said:
Netconn? Well, I'm on 30/10 fibre and nothing - nothing - else has so much as a whiff of a problem.
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Nice connection, but it means absolutely nothing given that if you are not the island owner, you are subject to the island owner's bitrate. He could be on an acoustic coupler at 300 baud, and until you leave that island or the matchmaking server decided a better match for your instance, there's nothing you can do about it.
 
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Cmdr Eran Mintor

Cmdr Eran Mintor
I've played on open since I bought the game over a month ago and never had too many issues. Only times I have rubberbanding issues is when I'm in the really popular CG areas and I try to avoid those when they get overcrowded, or hang out a few jumps away depending what I'm feeling like doing.

I've had occasional disconnects but not enough for me to be concerned about it. Are you playing around other players or in the middle of an empty sector? And when you switch back to solo you have no issues again? Do you have a firewall running or VPN or other running background application you're forgetting about?
 

DidierDrbois

DidierDrbois
Cmdr Eran Mintor said:
Are you playing around other players or in the middle of an empty sector? And when you switch back to solo you have no issues again? Do you have a firewall running or VPN or other running background application you're forgetting about?
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Yeah, I thought it was the CG areas so last night I flew as far away as I deemed far enough (200LY give or take). Same thing, NPCs are teleporting, lag, etc.
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Believe it or not, switching to solo is an instant remedy. No issues whatsoever, everything is buttery smooth.
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No firewalls, VPNs, or otherwise. ISP throttling unlikely too as mentioned BitTorrent is always blitz fast if there are seeds.
 

DidierDrbois

DidierDrbois
Asp Explorer said:
Nice connection, but it means absolutely nothing given that if you are not the island owner, you are subject to the island owner's bitrate. He could be on an acoustic coupler at 300 baud, and until you leave that island or the matchmaking server decided a better match for your instance, there's nothing you can do about it.
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How likely is it that I'm matched to such instances all the bloody time?
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The 'island owner' shall receieve a gift then. Severed horse's head comes to mind.
 

emacinnes

emacinnes
Some ISP's block non-standard ports < 36000, try a much higher port number, like 51000 (same basic rules for bittorrent ports basically). Also, ensure that UDP is forwarded on that port as well as TCP, the game uses mostly UDP. They are not the same thing at all, so if only TCP is forwarded, u'r gubbed (scientifically speaking).

I'm in Singapore, about as far away from any swarm as you can imagine, but it's generally playable for me, so there has to be a technical issue.

If you can't get an acceptable ping time to, say, www.yahoo.com (<100ms), then chances are there's a general bottleneck "somewhere", and then it's a process of elimination. Could be the router, a switch, a bad LAN cable. U can try plugging the PC directly into the internet (if possible) avoiding any wifi access points, and then that should see if it's a WAN or LAN issue.

If your PC is connected over WiFi, you may be getting interference, esp if u live in a busy neighbourhood, or simply have a cordless phone point near the router (esp if u have an older router).
 
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