What the?l: Why does it lag so much?
 

For some reason, once I get to the sign in screen, on emu or live, after I press connect, it lags hardcore for about 30 seconds, then says " establishing connection with login queue ( or whatever it normally says), about 30 seconds later it says "login request added to queue" then usually a "cannot connect" error or the odd time I get to the screen and its incredibly laggy, it takes me a good 2 minutes to get my mouse over the server I want to go on, and then another minute to press enter, then finally the screen goes black and brings me back to the server screen with a 1017 error.

So, yeah, if you understood that run-on sentence, does anyone know what the problem is. Pretty much, it's insanely laggy and slow and I cant get on...

Is this because of the graphic change engine they did or whatever?
I don't have one of those ATI Radeons or whatever they said you needed-just the same card I had before-32 mb

Need a response, asap, please.

EDIT: By the way, if this has already been posted several times, I apologize because I did scroll through and didn't find this topic.

Re: What the?l: Why does it lag so much?
 

I had this EXACT same problem for 1 week straight. And this is how it went:

I called EQ Tech, they did a trace and for some reason the trace was stopping short 150 miles east of me, it would not go through! They told me to call my ISP, so I called Charter and told them the IP it was stopping at and they said "Oh, thats an AT&T IP Address", kinda confused I called AT&T and they looked and it showed everything ok at that IP. I then tried to connect to EQ on my moms computer which is on the EXACT same connection (using a router) and it worked! So right then I knew it was something wrong with my computer, I tried so much, finally i said "F it" and reformated cause i been having problems anyway, I get windows back installed, put back on EQ and guess what... it worked. I have not had that error yet.

Hope this helped, you are having the exact same symptoms I had with my computer, long time to log in, server screen blank till finally servers showed up a min later, click enter world and wait 2min and it comes back 1017.

Ah I see..Yeah..I'm no computer wiz, but to reformat windows XP, you do indeed need a windows XP disc, correct?

Thanks for the help, Hardy.

Yes, you do need a Windows XP disc to boot up off of to reformat and re-install.

Np, hope you get it fixed :D 8)

I heard of someone having this problem, and it was something with like 16 bit resolution, not sure if it was that, but thats what i think, its worth trying.

I always keep mine at 32 bit, I did check that but that wasn't it. I checked so much, firewalls, adware, spyware, everything, i could not figure this out. Finally I just backed everything up and reformated. I get back on and it works now.

Well, as Hardy implied, it definately looks like an interned connection issue. Are you on dialup or some sort of Broadband connection (such as DSL, cable, or satellite)?

If you're on dialup the solution can sometimes be as simple as hanging up and connecting again. If you're on broadband, the problem is most likely going to be a little more difficult to fix. . .

Might not necessarly be an internet issue. I hooked up my moms computer with the exact same modem/connection, and it connected to EQ just fine. I connect to this one, and it gets 1017. I tried reseting the router, the modem, I tried alot. It might have to do with a corrupt windows file, but I did try to re-install Windows without reformat and it was a no go. Reformated, installed windows, and it works like a charm now.

I'm about to try right now on a diff computer on the same connection ( router).

This is Valhalla, on brothers name.

How did that come out? If its the same outcome (1017), get a hold of your ISP, have them do a trace on you and see what it comes out with, you might be loosing connection if that computer don't work either.
Also, try connecting DIRECTLY to the modem and see if that clears up the problem, if it does, then the problem lies in the router.

It works. Man, what the hell.

The computer it works on is a total piece. 500Mhz, 9gb harddrive and 256 ram.

Then its your computer. First what you might try, is do a clean boot. Go to start -> Run -> type msconfig and hit enter. On the window that pops up, click the tab "Startup", uncheck EVERYTHING, and click Apply. Restart computer and give it another shot, if that don't work, keep reading. Also if don't work, you can re-enable the startup items you had, same process just check the ones you want to startup and click apply and reboot.

Do a complete virus and adware scan, also do a defrag. Restart computer and try EQ again, if don't work, continue reading...

Do a new Windows install WITHOUT reformat. Boot to the Windows XP disc, and tell it to install Windows over your current installation. It will tell you that its possible you might loose your "My Documents" contents, so you might want to back them up just in case, I did not loose it though. After its done re-installing, try EQ again. If don't work, continue reading...

You need to back up your stuff, and do a complete reformat. You might have a corrupt windows file or a virus that your virus scan does not pick up. That should work, if not, I would talk to a local computer shop and ask them what you could try doing. Just tell them your loosing connection to a game, and its not the internet connection (since other computer works).

Hope you get it figured out and hope one of them steps above works.

Cool. I'll try some of those solutions..or I will..If I get a damned windows disc.

Thanks Hardy

np, hope you find the disc 8)
Post back if you remember when u get it fixed, curious if one of the other solutions before reformating worked for ya.