Extreme lag when using Lich

[Methais]

Unrelated but not thread worthy:

I have this weird issue with just Methais to where if I don't log in and then manually quit and then log back in (disconnecting myself via logging in a 2nd time doesn't seem to fix it most of the time), almost every time at some point, my game window will stop updating but everything in the game is still happening and still scrolls fine on my alts' windows. It only seems to happen once per day. Maybe twice, but that's rare.

Been a thing for years now and I've never had the first clue wtf could cause that.

I don't really give a shit about fixing it, just curious if anyone has any idea what would cause that.

[Alashir]

Unrelated but not thread worthy:

I have this weird issue with just Methais to where if I don't log in and then manually quit and then log back in (disconnecting myself via logging in a 2nd time doesn't seem to fix it most of the time), almost every time at some point, my game window will stop updating but everything in the game is still happening and still scrolls fine on my alts' windows. It only seems to happen once per day. Maybe twice, but that's rare.

Been a thing for years now and I've never had the first clue wtf could cause that.

I don't really give a shit about fixing it, just curious if anyone has any idea what would cause that.

Have you upgraded to lich 5?

[Rinualdo]

Are you using bigshot?

[Methais]

Have you upgraded to lich 5?

No but I need to. This predates Lich 5 though, but thanks for the reminder, hopefully that'll fix it. If not then I just have an insane amount of clutter, which wouldn't be surprising. I forgot Lich 5 was a thing.

[Akaylas]

Unrelated but not thread worthy:

I have this weird issue with just Methais to where if I don't log in and then manually quit and then log back in (disconnecting myself via logging in a 2nd time doesn't seem to fix it most of the time), almost every time at some point, my game window will stop updating but everything in the game is still happening and still scrolls fine on my alts' windows. It only seems to happen once per day. Maybe twice, but that's rare.

Been a thing for years now and I've never had the first clue wtf could cause that.

I don't really give a shit about fixing it, just curious if anyone has any idea what would cause that.

This is similar to my experience. I'll have the occasional experience where the client lags, no screen scroll, for 15-30 seconds, and then the client catches up and I see everything that happened.

So now that I think about it, it definitely sounds like some I/O blocking behavior.

[m444w]

This is similar to my experience. I'll have the occasional experience where the client lags, no screen scroll, for 15-30 seconds, and then the client catches up and I see everything that happened.

So now that I think about it, it definitely sounds like some I/O blocking behavior.

I think something is broken on Simu's side, because I had this problem with my login script the other day and it doesn't use Lich at all and it hung for 40 minutes until the CI service timed the job out.

[Lavastene]

This is similar to my experience. I'll have the occasional experience where the client lags, no screen scroll, for 15-30 seconds, and then the client catches up and I see everything that happened.

So now that I think about it, it definitely sounds like some I/O blocking behavior.

This happens to me frequently.

[Methais]

This is similar to my experience. I'll have the occasional experience where the client lags, no screen scroll, for 15-30 seconds, and then the client catches up and I see everything that happened.

So now that I think about it, it definitely sounds like some I/O blocking behavior.

Mine stays hung up indefinitely until I log out and back in, then it's fine 99% of the time.

Strangely enough, the only time this seems to ever happen on my alts is when I'm running DR. They ghost through it all though so they still get credit at the end of the run. Just weird how it seems to happen on my alts when I'm in DR.

[Asha]

i always put it down to script hunters totally wiping clean the whole third floor of Nelemar. It's so bad up there when it's packed that I get literal screen tear while watching the lag

[Methais]

i always put it down to script hunters totally wiping clean the whole third floor of Nelemar. It's so bad up there when it's packed that I get literal screen tear while watching the lag

I don't ever get any lag up there, but I'm pretty sure it's the only area in the game that still reminds me of hunting in GS3 where finding something to kill can be a pain in the ass because there are retards in almost every room.

Fortunately most people are too scared to hunt the 2nd floor, so I can clean up there pretty quickly.