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Subject: Major lag in a lot of servers. Can you help Bungie?
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Dear bungie. Halo PC is a masterpiece for sure (beyond the fact that you have to download CE to play custom maps.) But for some weird reason.....every server has lag. Im not talking minor lag or anything, Im talking lag that forces you to lead shots ahead of everything.....so far ahead even. I have the highest DSL available and in other games I dont get this lag....except for Halo. Is there anyway whatsoever to change servers from having so much lag? Even I scrim with my clan on our own server and I get lag (we all have DSL or Cable.) Hopefully, this problem will be ended, as it is very frustrating.

  • 10.02.2005 1:02 PM PDT
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I've been around these parts for almost eight years now...wow! Maybe I should be concerned about that...

No.

  • 10.02.2005 1:58 PM PDT
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You have to lead shots in multiplayer Halo. There's no other way around it that I know of.

  • 10.02.2005 6:24 PM PDT

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Lag was lovingly installed in to the game by gearbox. It's consistently there, just like Bungies/Gearbox/Microsoft's refusal to correct the issue. Learn to lead

  • 10.03.2005 1:04 PM PDT
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Yeah, it just sucks that when I was paying $10.00 a month, I had to lead.....and now at $30.00 I have to lead.....

  • 10.03.2005 1:39 PM PDT
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It's even worse when there are different players on from different continents. When you get pings of 50 playing with pings of over 400 it's good fun. People and vehicles disappear and re-appear in different places etc. Very, very frustrating ........

  • 10.04.2005 9:48 AM PDT

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Bungie servers have always had lag. But now, there's that window in the lower right hand corner where it has a red "x". that never happened before.

  • 10.04.2005 11:36 AM PDT

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That is not Bungie's problem that is most likely you or your ISP's problem. The red X means that your client is not receiving information from the server. Somewhere between your computer and the server the signal is not getting thru. If you have a wireless network in your home that would explain it. Wireless networks can be intermittent.

  • 10.04.2005 12:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: Iggwilv
That is not Bungie's problem that is most likely you or your ISP's problem. The red X means that your client is not receiving information from the server. Somewhere between your computer and the server the signal is not getting thru. If you have a wireless network in your home that would explain it. Wireless networks can be intermittent.


I am having the same issue on the Bungie servers now, and I never used to. Nothing has changed with my connection, I test it regularly to check the speed, and my ping is always in the low to mid thirties when playing, yet I still get the box a few times per session. It is very frustrating because nothing has changed on my end, so I do not know if there is any way to fix it.

  • 10.04.2005 1:08 PM PDT
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No way it is the ISP. How would you explain every single person on the level experiencing the lag? Something happened to Bungie, in my option.

Tonight, on CTF 6, no pings showed for anyone. Every server that my husband and I go to all have major lag problems. This has never been the case before. Bungie's servers were always excellent, now they are all terrrible. It is easier to play on the European servers with a ping of 200-260 than it is to play with ping of 60 here in the States.

Forget leading, it never used to be like that. Someone just has to find and fix the problem.

  • 10.06.2005 10:45 PM PDT
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No way it is the ISP. How would you explain every single person on the level experiencing the lag? Something happened to Bungie, in my option.

Tonight, on CTF 6, no pings showed for anyone. Every server that my husband and I go to all have major lag problems. This has never been the case before. Bungie's servers were always excellent, now they are all terrrible. It is easier to play on the European servers with a ping of 200-260 than it is to play with ping of 60 here in the States.

Forget leading, it never used to be like that. Someone just has to find and fix the problem.


Yeah, I encountered that yesterday as well. Zero pings for everyone! It would be great, if it were true, but unfortunately it was one of the most lag-filled games I had ever played. Maybe I will have to try the EU servers....

  • 10.07.2005 7:20 AM PDT
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I am in Vancouver, BC, Canada. When I look at the EU Bunigie servers in the lobby, the pings show at around 200 or so. Whether that is truly indicative of the ping I wil receive on those servers or not, I have no idea. I will give it a try today after work and post back with the results, I figure nothing can be worse than the lag I experienced yesterday on the US servers.

  • 10.07.2005 8:02 AM PDT
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Posted by: Mr B

Dont like fighting 200+ pingers, but there we go!


Understood, but take solace in the fact that you should be able to up your kill count by at least a few if I show up there with a 200+ ping (or any ping for that matter really).

Cheers.

[Edited on 10/7/2005]

  • 10.07.2005 9:58 AM PDT

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Everyone's getting a red "x" in the bottom corner, not just me, so it's not just my internet, and plus we all have DSL or cable, no wireless. It's either SBC or it's Bungie, because it has never lagged this bad before. I would love to see 0 ping again lol.

  • 10.08.2005 8:05 AM PDT
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well, i believe the 0 ping is from the extreme lag we are getting. as for the lag from everywhere, its the netcode that is mostly hardcoded in the game itself. a fix might need a re-release of the game ... hell for everyone since the game has to be recalled from stores, re-ship new copies, pay 30$ for the re-release, the actual redoing of the net code, and whatever else happens.

as for a hypothisied reason for lag... check my first post in http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=4964640



oh, and jsut to yell you, i have a 56k connection, so a "bad" ping of 250 is a great time for me anywhere. i havent been on hpc for a month but as it sounds, i probably would estimate my ping of more than 550

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  • 10.08.2005 12:58 PM PDT
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you can just get a better computer

[Edited on 10/8/2005]

  • 10.08.2005 3:17 PM PDT
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I've spent the last 3 weeks alone on Battlefield 2. I was playing last night and today on the bungie-ctf servers, and it was Laggy with a capital L. Everyone was getting the red x several times a game. My gun starts to reload 5 seconds after i hit the reload key. And worst of all, the vehicles. They would warp all over the place.

Bungie, i think your servers need a reboot, or at least check on them.

  • 10.08.2005 3:41 PM PDT
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Well, I wish i could get into games. For some strange reason, when i click on a server and press "Join Game", it kicks me out and says EXCEPTION! and my computer spazzes out and i have to restart it.

  • 10.08.2005 3:55 PM PDT

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you can just get a better computer



why spend $800+ for a better computer when I can get a patch or a new game for $30?

  • 10.08.2005 4:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan 19283746
you can just get a better computer

A better computer will only fix lag in campaign (if you have any), and/or let you run other programs while playing (windows media player). It will not fix network related lag that's on the server side.

  • 10.08.2005 6:17 PM PDT
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Wow, this topic picked up really quick....anyways, Bungie needs to update this lag issue. I highly doubt it's some super hard problem that would take months to fix. I mean, if bungie can update Halo 2 all the time and fix problems, they can do the same for us right? But dont get me wrong, I love Bungie's games and setups, just need to think about those who still play there older games.

  • 10.09.2005 9:45 AM PDT
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Also, bungie should make an update that combines Halo PC with Halo CE so that you can play custom maps and not worry about no one ever being on.

  • 10.10.2005 2:04 PM PDT

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The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

didn't mean to start a thread on the same topic, perhaps a mod can merge my thread with this one?

On topic: we need to start a petition somhow and send it to the right people. BTW, hello to a few familiar faces :)

  • 10.10.2005 2:10 PM PDT

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