time out error still happening... where is the sticky thread

[SHADOWBROKER]

i know your guys pain to. i am a xbox 360 player NA and sence the dlc i have only finished 5 arkfalls out of 34 today even after the patch i ran to a arkfall pulled out my cluster shot and started to give the arkfall hell. well after the small ones got finished and headed to the last part got the boss down to the end and CRASH. so yeah it sucks bro you ps3 players are not alone in this mess we call tri'n

[cornyracer5]

The time out error is sucking alp the fun out of the game.
You work your arse off doing the mini arkfalls, then go to
the final and do not even get to do it. No XP, no scrip, no keys.
It makes it imposible to level up. Happened 6/10 times lastnite.

[Rizzlok]

there should have been a sticky about this day one

funny.

[hey u]

I Have had about 12 critical errors and say 4-7 hard locks in the past 3 days. Worst I have had happen to me. So much in-game lag. Enemies jumping like in the air then back on the ground. HUGE LAG. HUGE DELAY ON ALMOST EVERYTHING. Then after depending on the time of day I may get lucky and get back into the game before all hell breaks loose and like I said.

Critical error I try like 5 time to log back in with each time no go then guess what yep system freeze and have to hold down the button till the first beep. Been SO EPICLY BAD these last few days and oh ya I try 5 times in a row to get booted from co-op game. Then when I was able to finish a game it was such a bad lag.

I just log on and went and did a dark matter ark fall and they were jumpy and lag with them but not as much and as bad as past days. As I normally do I go make my COFFEE and go up in the game and kill em kill em all

[Indra Echo]

i know your guys pain to. i am a xbox 360 player NA and sence the dlc i have only finished 5 arkfalls out of 34 today even after the patch i ran to a arkfall pulled out my cluster shot and started to give the arkfall hell. well after the small ones got finished and headed to the last part got the boss down to the end and CRASH. so yeah it sucks bro you ps3 players are not alone in this mess we call tri'n

Might want to look into your connection and also even what's happening in the game when you lag out. I've not had this happen on the xbox NA to the extent you have. If a lot of people are using BMGs, explosive weapons, and there are vehicles running around, I know lag will happen and I might lag out. Pay attention-if you suddenly aren't able to change weapons, then you'll have real problems-either lag out, or the arkfall will take forever to end. It will be over for others, but not so for you. Also, if a lot of people are using those things, don't try and change your loadout-you will be lagged out.

But I also know a way to minimize the "damage" it can cause of not getting the end rewards. A workaround but then I can't control what others are doing at these arkfalls so I deal with it.

We can debate the issue that maybe goes back to Trion in fact wanting to do an MMO on a console. Bungie and Activision have backed away from doing one on the next gen consoles, so that may be an indication of a bigger problem.

Lag is a problem even on games with smaller MP instances. Sometimes it's due to just a lot of poor connections. Sometimes it's due to people wanting to play with friends and overriding the system's attempt to make good matches.

This game has many things that cause lag. First is the number of people in one phase. Then, there are the weapons that get spammed and vehicles and so on. It's a complicated issue with no easy solution. If Trion made all maps flat bland locations with no complexity and not trees or anything else, removed all foes, stopped the arkfalls and sieges and everything else, lag would still exist.

I've played games online where there were very small lobbies and where only one other person was in my game with me, and there was still lag. With fewer foes, smaller areas, and all that. And there'd still be disconnects.

[Indra Echo]

The time out error is sucking alp the fun out of the game.
You work your arse off doing the mini arkfalls, then go to
the final and do not even get to do it. No XP, no scrip, no keys.
It makes it imposible to level up. Happened 6/10 times lastnite.

If you are on the xbox, there is a way to workaround this and get you rewards if you get back in in time, even if you have no friends online. On the PS3, you need to have a friend online and in the phase where the arkfall is.

The xbox makes it somewhat easier in that all you have to do is keep track of a couple easy to remember names at the arkfall, and if you get lagged out, when you're back in, do a find player, then inspect, view gamer card (maybe 3 times) until you see "join session in progress", and then select that. If you never get the join session thing, then try one of the other names you made note of. Once you join the session you will be back in that arkfall phase and if the arkfall has not ended will get the rewards. If you can get back to the arkfall you can continue from where you left off.


This isn't a great thing to have to do, but I don't think it will ever be possible to get rid of all the lag.

[Sliverbaer]

Lag is a problem even on games with smaller MP instances. Sometimes it's due to just a lot of poor connections.

Oddly though, on the same LAN, I have no issues in the PC game as I do on PS3. Granted my PC Specs > PS3 Specs.

I haven't had any lag in the Arenas on PS3, like some have mentioned. That was actually the only thing I played last night, because I have no lag there. (That, and the fact I only seem to get silvers, haha)

I can't recall having issues in the co-op maps. Perhaps I will try a few tonight and see if it gets laggy.

[Yenkin]

I just had it happen to both a Minor and Major DM arkfall, this game is destined to become another Hellgate London, a potentially great game, that dies because of bugs. My prediction this game will be dead before the series runs it course. I like playing this game it is a good go to game when I have nothing else to do or less time to log into some of the other games I play. I do hope they fix this game, or sell it to a Korean company to fix it and re-release it, that worked for Hellgate.

[Sliverbaer]

So, playing some NA PC Defiance I have NO LAG. None whatsoever. Did a Volge Siege, DM Arkfall, a bunch of story missions, drove around (don't actually run into things because it renders way BEFORE I get to it) and did some fast travel. No lag at all.

I decided to watch my RAM usage on Defiance.exe when I started and while playing.

Started out at 831,632K. Slowly getting larger. I notice it gains like 50-100k every time I use fast travel. If you reboot or exit out of Defiance it should clear this up.

So there seems to be a memory leak in the game? PS3, PC, and XBOX causing the LAG and Disconnects? Maybe? I dunno.

I don't notice it, because I have 16GB of RAM. I suppose if I played all day and night it would eventually max out. Too bad my PS3 doesn't have 16GB of RAM, haha.

[Justified]

Got timed out 3 times in 2 hours yesterday afternoon. I gave up and stopped playing after that. It really kills my enthusiasm to play this game.