varangian_payday

Howdy all. Yes it's been a process of trying to eliminate as many of the variables that could be causing this over the past few weeks. My CPU is stock never overclocked. Before the last reinstall, I uninstalled any software I could think of that could have been tweaking my CPU settings without me knowing. As a matter of practice, I reset my router every three days. My PC is, and will always be, hardwired. I've been in contact with my ISP trying to identify any hardware faults in my area in my area, which is ongoing. As far a being a peak time issue, I've experienced this at three in the morning on a week day, before I did the reinstall. Thus far I don't really get any appreciable freeze of my screen in game, outside of momentary lag. My ping generally stays less than 100, and I've only once experienced a big FPS drop, on a map I've heard other people with better systems then me, have the same intermittent issue. The elephant in the room for me, is all this occurred after last patch. The first week of great performance, took a full spectrum of the different days of the week, peak and off peak loading on servers etc... As it now stands, the only conclusion given all the evidence available (assuming it was not the patch) is that the first week I got lucky with my connection for seven days and nights. And perhaps a hardware fault by chance developed in my area that same weekend. Or what I've experienced since is a truer reflection of the variability in performance of the internet of all the servers involved for me to play the game. It sucks, but I guess there really ins't I can do for a real long term solution. (apart from to wait for a tactical nuke to go off on the opposite side of the town I live, that misses the broadband infrastructure, and reduces the number of people by half... selfishly freeing up some capacity for me to play in peace, whilst leaving the people around me to rest in pieces). Again thanks for all responses

Hello, I've only played for around one month, worked great first week, unplayable since patch. Last time I attempted a game, I got killed with shellfire around 3km in front of my ship. My CPU is stock, I turn my PC off everyday, downloaded no new software, changed no settings, by elimination the patch is the cause. Any suggestions please? DxDiag.txt

Gutted, started to happen again. Initially less significant than before, but deteriorating last two games. My only game last night, I found I could only hit (what was a 6km shot) by clearly hitting an area one ship length in front. My shots hitting clear sea in front of vessel and registering hits.That I can handle, because I can take account of one ship length. My only game today, around midday Saturday, it got much worse. probably 3-4 ships lengths. Seemed to get worse as the game went on. Only got six hits early on, then couldn't hit a thing. In the end I tried to close to secondary range to finish a Fuso, Was within 1.5km, and bang he was dead, flooding damage, I rammed him by fluke, when on screen I wasn't even close from my point of view. Gutted, guess problem wasn't solved with reinstall and driver updates.

Haha... I'll have to wait for the scars to heal from the last time I humiliated myself! if it had been something as simple as the drivers alone, I should have been hung for wasting peoples time on a public forum. But I still think there is a degree of doubt to the literal interpretation of what event initiated the change to happen on my system to make this problem occur. The older I get the less I believe in coincidence!

Oh yes, game now works a treat after a full reinstall. Nearly creamed my pants having a functional game again, 47 hits and a couple ship kills first go back. Reinstall came first, it worked. Which indicates it's unlikely to have been my GPU drivers. However I'd checked regularly through windows about updates and it would say they were up to date. Direct from the nvidia website, you're correct they were out of date. I'd held back on a reinstall as a last resort because of my SSD. They don't like deletion and reinstalling. But I'll take the slight performance drop to be able to play again. Regarding the cause, I still see nothing that leads me to conclude anything else but the patch being the cause. The nature of adding new paid content, and the games natural evolution, means significant changes are made whose consequences cannot be foreseen on every machine. My PC's not particularly exotic or unusual. But as games free to download, I can't be angry, it just puts more of an emphasis on the user to find the solution, by doing things like a full reinstall, more often then they had on software they have in the past. BadGene, I was on the same page as you initially. Most problems I've had with other titles (like the later battlefield series) come down to a limitation of my ISP's service or hardware. That's why my initial investigation was with them. I'd turned off my AV, disabled the firewall on my OS and router. That had no effect so I eliminated them as likely causes. Although I'm skeptical about my routers occasional packet loss and latency, however it's intermittent. With other titles it was also an intermittent problem. Which is why I, like you, usually think ISP first. With WOW it was constant after it first occurred the day after patch. I'd never lost connection in game, and on only one occasion had my FPS drop below an average of 58. I'm not a computer professional, mechanical and electrical was my field. I'm just confident in being sure of things I've actually observed, was more my point in making. Finally, a possible point of interest. I've noticed in game more detail on certain aspects of my ship (T6 U.S battleship). Each turret now has what I'm assuming is a range finder on the side, I can't recall that before. On top of the turrets, there is some kind of webbing or soft structure, again I can't say I noticed that before. Perhaps the change that occurred after patch was as simple as changing some of my settings automatically without me knowing. After this point there was some kind of conflict. by reinstalling the game, it optimised the settings again, giving me the extra detail i hadn't observed before and making the game run smoothly again. Likely nothing to do with bad code, or WG being crap, as some others jump to conclusions and say. Anyway thanks all for your feedback, as it's ended with be being able to get back in the water again... a good result! cheers.

Hello, yes this bummed me out for a few weeks, I opened another thread about this and got some responses. Many said it's not a problem with the game patch and got defensive. My problem wasn't an FPS drop but more a mega lag/desync, which was happening all times of the day. I've solved the problem last night by doing a full game reinstall, and went to the nvidia webiste to get my updated drivers. My Windows OS had always said my drivers were up to date, but it turns out they were 2 and a half years old. My first game back, it was great, I got 47 hits and all seems good now! This game was working great before last patch, and I still think it was the patch that caused the problem. Because the nature of paid content, they change a lot each time it updates, it's going to cause problems they can't anticipate. And it's generally up to us to fix by doing things like a full reinstall. Hope this helps, and I'll see you in a battle some day!

Ok thanks, I'll try it tomorrow. If it works I'll get back, eat humble pie and publicly flagellate myself.

Thank you for all your responses. It's true there could be another reason that by chance occurred the same time as the patch. And many people jump to conclusions, which I can tell has begun to piss you guys off, I get that. I'm with virgin broadband UK, which is not helpful. I've analysed my pingplotter results over the last week, minimal packet loss on the final hop. My BQM graph isn't great but doesn't show a massive increase of packet loss or service recently. Regarding being hit, I was the last player on my team, all the enemy ships were shooting a huge distance in front of me (several km) and registering hits on me. No one left in the game to shoot but me. A salvo a distance in front finally killed me. Rest assured I'm no idiot, and work in a technical field, it was more than a ship length or a few seconds, it was in a different part of the map. Aside from that I've experienced loss of control, ships goes side-wards, stays stationary when registering 21 knots, and I once sailed through an island... side-wards. Unless someone spiked me with acid or mushrooms, these things are not my imagination. I'm no fan of Microsoft, so I've all auto updates turned off, so no software change, I am aware of, occurred on my computer to cause this. This game was working perfectly the days before. I was averaging 30-40 hits and one ship kill, with my battleship, per game. First three games after patch not one single hit. This made me suspicious. My effectiveness reduced by a factor of 40 overnight. In the 30 or games I've tried since, I've killed 3 ships, and averaged 2-3 hits a game, which need to come in the first few minutes, after that I can hit nothing. I use a 50" as my primary which gives me an advantage, I'm not that useless or mentally fragile that I blame my lack off skill on someone else. I understand the principle of deflection shooting, I have significant real-life firearms experience. I'll try a re-install, and update my drivers. Will I lose the progress I made, and have to start again? Cheers Adam

Same, game is now un-playable, since patch couple weeks back. Had been fine for my first week on the game (noob). My aim improved to average 30-40 main gun hits (as a battlehsip) per game. My best was over 120 hits with a cruiser. Me being dumb to what was happening after patch, played 3 games after each other, and did not make a single hit.....NOT ONE! I've never experienced anything as bad as this before, on any game. At any range impossible to hit, delayed reaction times off the chart, ship goes side-wards through island, going backwards when it says i'm doing 20 knots etc...In the 30 or so games played since, I've sunk one ship. I average 3-4 hits a game, which need to be made in first couple minutes, after that a complete disconnect from what I see to what is happening. I have to go close and hope my secondary's do damage... that's how desperate it is. Thank god this happened when it did, I was few days from getting paid, and was going to put 20 pounds into credits. Any ideas or solutions, or should I uninstall and move on to something else? i5 4670 (un-clocked) Asus 760GTX cu2 250GB samsung ssd Gigabyte mobo windows 7