Details about the lag

[BTM22 268]

Everything Tanki related either lags, never loads, or takes ridiculous amounts of time to load. Once in awhile I get lucky and can play for an hour tops.

 

I will be lucky if this posts--even my forum will not load at times. It took five minutes since I logged into the forum to get the "reply option" to appear. I have performed all troubleshooting, no virus, browser/flash/drivers all up to date. Amazingly everything else I use my PC for is performing. Tanki, not so much...

 

So much for ranking and stockpiling crystals before next sales sweep.

[bbcc256 0]

Seems like my Tanki related Web access lag (including TO Forum and TO game) problem depends on my time of access to Tanki.  If I access during UTC 3am to UTC 8am, I will have severe lag, never complete any page load.  Other time (except server update time), my access and TO game are fine.

 

[Hex 11,520]

Im in Pakistan, the lag started at about Monday onwards, 700+ PING.

I use 8 GB Ram, Intel Core i7 with 1 TB of ROM, with an excellent Nvidia graphic card (I forgot its name)

My usual FPS is 55+ during lag, its drops down do below 10.

Usual PING is 100 below but during the lag it skyrockets to its max value i.e. 999.

 

For additional info, I use Mozilla with no tabs running, meaning I play TO only with TO running, NOT the forum and some other website running in another tab simultaneuosly.

 

I have awesome laptop, still lags like crap.

Edited October 14, 2015 by Hexed

[Firebird.Twins 6]

When my lag starts there are about 8 players in battle the PING is 999 and the screen freezes or the tanks are only rotating there turrets and i cant destroy them. If my screen freezes it starts after about 15-20 seconds and my brain raises like volcanic eruption. On dayi was playing Ping-pong CTF our flags were 98 and other team 32 my score 4 988 and battle fund 7 908 i was 1st and 4 mins left till battle over and an horrible lag came which was 30 sec the lag destroyed my game and i didnt get even a single crystal!!

[Papaya14 481]

I'm having a big problem now with keys getting stuck (for example, turret keeps turning after pressing Z), which usually occurs during periods of low FPS, which itself occurs in the heat of the battle, which is the worst time for keys to get stuck!!

 

If it helps any, I use Firefox, and sometimes Opera. The problem occurs with both browsers. All graphics settings are turned OFF, including the background.

[r_Soldier280 478]

I can't Enter any battle with lag ._. Then i just waited and waited then boom :/ Kicked coz of Inactivity.

[BSG-62 512]

For the first time since I was using my old computer, I've played at less than 10 FPS. I miss not having lag... I want my 15 FPS back!

[howeird 0]

i live in the san francisco bay area, and the lag has been awful for quite some time, at least a week or two...

 

I have comcast, 50MB down, 12MB up. I had them come out and check my entire house, and the drop from the street. They also ran a diagnostic on my entire neighborhood, and no other trouble was found.

 

Internet is good, check.

 

I use a laptop over wifi (802.11n)

HP Pavilion DV7

INtel Core i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20 GHz

16 GB RAM

64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium, SP1

512 GB SSD drives (no hard disk)

 

While lag is happening, I have run dozens of speed tests and ping tests to other domains and servers, and they all work fine, no indication of any trouble.

 

I experience the same "ghost world" as others report, seems like the local flash client (game code) is running, but has no comms with the server (usually EN2, but I have tried most of them, same)

 

Turrets spin, shaft lasers stay lit, firebird flames on, freeze is non stop, etc.

 

When play returns, the "speedup" effect happens, with tanks flying around the map catching up to their positions (as if all the movements were stuck in a queue, and finally made it the the local game engine)

 

I love Tanki (I am 52), and my son (8) and I used to play quite often together. It is now so frustrating that I won't really even try to log in.

 

Until this is resolved, can you put a notification onscreen when we log in, to indicate server/issue status? FPS and ping times are nice, but a short "things are still screwed up" or "we fixed the lag!" message would ease the stress of trying and failing to play.

 

Thanks for a great game, and feel free to contact me directly if you want to use me for remote diagnostics.

 

I am a network engineer.

 

Best of luck to all the devs, and fellow tankers!

 

Howeird

[parachute9 0]

Lag starts right after i kill someone(ping lag) and my fps goes down to 10 during the first 10 seconds of joining a battle... because of this lag the anti cheat system always thinks im flying when climbing tanks for catching the gold box, and then i self destruct. i hope this info helps in any way to solve the lag problem

 

[QueenSeraphina 407]

It's taking ages for me to enter a battle....especially Polygon CP.

 

The loading bar takes very long time to load!

Edited October 24, 2015 by QueenSeraphina

[OKDad70 862]

I trust you are still working to resolve. It is still bad. I had it locking me into 8 frames per second. That doesn't work. Had to close the browser and relaod. Refersh wouldn't help.

 

Other glitches and fatal errors are common now, at least on the large maps.

 

Berlin is my favorite map, and it is almost unplayable. Spend as much time re-entering game as respawning.

 

I intend to switch to unity because the flash version is so difficult to play.

[Mr.Privacy 5]

Hi,

 

Again I got lags. how is that possible and how can I change it? I Really hate this. i missed over 5 gold boxes cause of this stupid issue..

 

HELP ME with this please

[QueenSeraphina 407]

Sometimes during a game in the RU server, I see everything starts to be 'frozen', and I can't hit/pick up boxes. My FPS and Ping are in yellow and green, not red. Is this normal? It lags so bad that gameplay come to a complete standstill. Sometimes I couldn't collect my crystals because of this and match wasted.
 

Pls help.

[KillerGnat 3,135]

This is my life. My ping is consistently 999, and my fps is usually averaging 9. I don't really mind that there's lag, because it's sort of leveling the playing field for me  :). I do realize that others are very annoyed at this, so for their sake please get this fixed. I just want the devs to know that not everybody is hating the lag.

[dfoofnik 341]

It's back again. It was gone for awhile, mostly, then 4 times today on RU2, the ping spikes, spinning, and disconnection from the battle.

[dfoofnik 341]

I intend to switch to unity because the flash version is so difficult to play.

Uh, oh. (gnawing suspicion) Is it possible that people are being selectively *driven* to Unity by these server glitches??

[QueenSeraphina 407]

It's back again. It was gone for awhile, mostly, then 4 times today on RU2, the ping spikes, spinning, and disconnection from the battle.

Does this happen in EN servers?

 

Everytime I played in RU server it gives me the same problem as yours, but EN servers seems to have little to no problems.

[KillerGnat 3,135]

Does this happen in EN servers?

 

Everytime I played in RU server it gives me the same problem as yours, but EN servers seems to have little to no problems.

It happens to me on every server.

[chucknorrs 7]

hey i just noticed right now that i am lagging (unplayable) in EN2 then went to RU4 its totally fine chatting and playing, then i went back to EN2 to see that it is still lagging heavily! so I went on to play in RU4, im happy in RU4 B)

i also noticed that im the only one lagging in EN2, maybe because of the country? idk :unsure:

Edited October 28, 2015 by chucknorrs

[viratno2 146]

Just lags. Ping regularly goes to 999 and it takes more time to join a battle. My internet is airtel 3G network with 20GB left and i usually get 50-60 fps and a ping of 100-120

[P_U_N_I_S_H_E_R 732]

I should say that this lagging happens to everyone, regardless of Internet speed, etc. This lag started 2-3 weeks ago for me, and what would happen is you would just be carrying on, playing the game, and all of a sudden everyone's turret would just spin and spin and spin, no one moved other than that, you couldn't chat, and you couldn't self destruct. There was also an odd background sound when this happened, and these lags could last from about 30 seconds up to about 5 minutes.

[P_U_N_I_S_H_E_R 732]

Uh, oh. (gnawing suspicion) Is it possible that people are being selectively *driven* to Unity by these server glitches??

My god man, I never thought about that! That is a definite possibility, eh?

[QueenSeraphina 407]

I should say that this lagging happens to everyone, regardless of Internet speed, etc. This lag started 2-3 weeks ago for me, and what would happen is you would just be carrying on, playing the game, and all of a sudden everyone's turret would just spin and spin and spin, no one moved other than that, you couldn't chat, and you couldn't self destruct. There was also an odd background sound when this happened, and these lags could last from about 30 seconds up to about 5 minutes.

Same here.. now it's starting to happen in EN servers and every other server I go..

[dfoofnik 341]

Locked up my browser with a static image of the battle when I tried to reload the battle after the lag/freeze/spin glitch.

Worst part: battle was about to end so I lost all my reward. :angry:

Edited November 4, 2015 by dfoofnik

[Ammo1 0]

Lagging starts as soon as I enter battle and doesn't stop at all. I end up closing the game. very frustrating.