multiplayer freezing/lag ??

bridgemond

Had no problem the last few days but its crap today. Just logged on for few games and even when its trying to put me in a match the music in the back ground is skiping and the match is just constant lag. With eircom 8mg and xbox live

MarkY91

today im still getting into games with a mimimum of 75mm ping...****ing disgrace im gona try mw2 and black ops to see if i get high ping in them to determine if its my broadband or the game giving me high ping

breadmonkey

I just tried to give it a spin there and it was lagging in the pregame lobby to the point where it's simply not playable. I'm with BT in the UK

MarkY91

UPDATE..

speedtest.net and pingtest.net all say my ping is 20 at worst, everything is perfect


yet i still cant get into a below 75 ping game on mw3 :S i tried mw2 and im having the same problem..ive never EVER had this problem before in the 3 years of having a ps3

iMuse

It seems to be a PS3 issue and nothing to do with your connection because people across multiple ISP's are having the problem, just gotta wait till they patch/fix it.

MarkY91

iMuse wrote: »

It seems to be a PS3 issue and nothing to do with your connection because people across multiple ISP's are having the problem, just gotta wait till they patch/fix it.

i hope so! im even looking up a long etherent cable to go from my livingroom to my bedroom im that desperate :L either way having a wired connection will make gaming a little better at leist yeah?

theteal

bridgemond wrote: »

Had no problem the last few days but its crap today. Just logged on for few games and even when its trying to put me in a match the music in the back ground is skiping and the match is just constant lag. With eircom 8mg and xbox live

i've not been free to sit down for a game since thursday (which was working fine then). tried to get into mercenary about 20 mins ago and as soon as it started looking for games, the music started to skip - a solid 2 seconds of silence for every 3 seconds of music. i thought it would improve once the match started but it was unplayable.

i've a ~12mb sky dsl line (i'm in UK) with current pings to google.com of 29ms, playing on xbl. there's no problem with the line. this game could be getting sold tomorrow at this rate

Josey Wales

theteal wrote: »

i've not been free to sit down for a game since thursday (which was working fine then). tried to get into mercenary about 20 mins ago and as soon as it started looking for games, the music started to skip - a solid 2 seconds of silence for every 3 seconds of music. i thought it would improve once the match started but it was unplayable.

i've a ~12mb sky dsl line (i'm in UK) with current pings to google.com of 29ms, playing on xbl. there's no problem with the line. this game could be getting sold tomorrow at this rate

Same thing happening to me right now. My connection is fine.

Trevor451

Eldoco wrote: »

upc are a bunch of !!!!!!! if you play wireless on xbox live the connection is ****e which i have no choice as xbox no were near cable input...the lag is reduced a lot if you can play through your eternet cable....

How exactly is it UPC's fault then? :rolleyes:

The reason your connection is "****e" can be put down to a number of factors including (but not limited to) distance from modem and wireless interference.

MarkY91

Trevor451 wrote: »

How exactly is it UPC's fault then? :rolleyes:

The reason your connection is "****e" can be put down to a number of factors including (but not limited to) distance from modem and wireless interference.

i am sure its not upc's fault...tests say im getting 25mb download and 2.5 upload and a ping ranging from 10 to 20

its gotta be a problem on the games side? i cant play it until its fixed thank god im goign to buy assassins creed today **** you mw3

Kevtherev

Tried playing today, couldn't even get into a game. It would keep freezing in the lobby and the music would stop for four or five seconds. I don't get much time to play but when I have a few hours and this ****e happens.

redman85

Kevtherev wrote: »

Tried playing today, couldn't even get into a game. It would keep freezing in the lobby and the music would stop for four or five seconds. I don't get much time to play but when I have a few hours and this ****e happens.

This happened to me tonight so i took the game out and then restarted my xbox. worked a treat

Kevtherev

redman85 wrote: »

Kevtherev wrote: »

Tried playing today, couldn't even get into a game. It would keep freezing in the lobby and the music would stop for four or five seconds. I don't get much time to play but when I have a few hours and this ****e happens.

This happened to me tonight so i took the game out and then restarted my xbox. worked a treat

I'll give that a try when I get home from work.

Jev/N

Getting lag on 4 bar connection, 100Mb BB and over Ethernet - I'm prefiring a guy coming around the corner and somehow he seems to skate through my bullets on the odd occasion, not even a hitmarker when the aim was perfectly on target :mad:

MarkY91

Jev/N wrote: »

Getting lag on 4 bar connection, 100Mb BB and over Ethernet - I'm prefiring a guy coming around the corner and somehow he seems to skate through my bullets on the odd occasion, not even a hitmarker when the aim was perfectly on target :mad:

yeah im pretty sure id have gotten at leist 3 bullets to his upper body before he did and he still wins..

RGDATA!

breadmonkey wrote: »

I just tried to give it a spin there and it was lagging in the pregame lobby to the point where it's simply not playable. I'm with BT in the UK

theteal wrote:

i've not been free to sit down for a game since thursday (which was working fine then). tried to get into mercenary about 20 mins ago and as soon as it started looking for games, the music started to skip - a solid 2 seconds of silence for every 3 seconds of music. i thought it would improve once the match started but it was unplayable.

I had this problem the other day. Tried restarting router/Xbox, and still experienced it. I cleared the Xbox cache (something I only recently discovered for another reason) and that seemed to fix it immediately.

Spudman_20000

Yep, clearing the cache solved the problem for me too, but I still can only join games with what seems to be a stupidly high ping.

I think it was the second game update the borked it up for most people. Everything was hunck dory up until that.

MarkY91

yep everything was fine til update 1.03, cant get in a game unless its >75mm ping :mad:

huge thread going on in the callofduty forums about it, loads of users game recordings of lag/freezing/died when should have killed him etc all with perfect full bar connection...exackly my problem

MarkY91

MarkY91 wrote: »

yep everything was fine til update 1.03, cant get in a game unless its >75mm ping :mad:

huge thread going on in the callofduty forums about it, loads of users game recordings of lag/freezing/died when should have killed him etc all with perfect full bar connection...exackly my problem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMg2638WkjI

there is that thread. suprised im the only one who started a thread here about this when it seems to be disturbing alot of peoples mw3 experience..not only ps3 even xbox apparently!

Nuri Sahin

MarkY91 wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMg2638WkjI

there is that thread. suprised im the only one who started a thread here about this when it seems to be disturbing alot of peoples mw3 experience..not only ps3 even xbox apparently!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056443246&page=10

theteal

RGDATA! wrote: »

I had this problem the other day. Tried restarting router/Xbox, and still experienced it. I cleared the Xbox cache (something I only recently discovered for another reason) and that seemed to fix it immediately.

i have it working fine since (touch wood), i didn't touch the cache though. i turned off the recording yoke, no interest in the slightest. i also set port forward on a few router ports for xbl - never had to do that for the xbox in 4 years!

Jet Black

Going to turn off the recording and see if that helps in the PS3. Can't play BF3 on the playstation either because the controls are broke. 2 games I was looking forward too and both are broke beyond a joke.

raze

Jev/N wrote: »

Getting lag on 4 bar connection, 100Mb BB and over Ethernet - I'm prefiring a guy coming around the corner and somehow he seems to skate through my bullets on the odd occasion, not even a hitmarker when the aim was perfectly on target :mad:

I'm experiencing the same thing. I'm convinced it has nothing to do with anybody's connection. It's more like players in a game are out of sync with each other. This doesn't feel like network lag.

Also, MW3 is the only time I've ever seen a game on a P2P host system where everybody in a game, even the host, has been on less than 4 bars.

Currently every game of MW3 is affected by this. I wish people would stop playing it entirely for the time being. It would be pretty embarrassing for the world's biggest selling franchise to lose its player base, if only temporarily, just weeks release. Never going to happen though.

No gunfights are resolved by skill, situation or reaction time, instead it's a roll of the dice whether your hits will count or not. What's the point of playing?

Pretty disappointing considering I traded Black Ops after less than a fortnight due to the same issues a year ago. I'm strongly thinking about checking for the best trade value again.

MarkY91

raze wrote: »

I'm experiencing the same thing. I'm convinced it has nothing to do with anybody's connection. It's more like players in a game are out of sync with each other. This doesn't feel like network lag.

Also, MW3 is the only time I've ever seen a game on a P2P host system where everybody in a game, even the host, has been on less than 4 bars.

Currently every game of MW3 is affected by this. I wish people would stop playing it entirely for the time being. It would be pretty embarrassing for the world's biggest selling franchise to lose its player base, if only temporarily, just weeks release. Never going to happen though.

No gunfights are resolved by skill, situation or reaction time, instead it's a roll of the dice whether your hits will count or not. What's the point of playing?

Pretty disappointing considering I traded Black Ops after less than a fortnight due to the same issues a year ago. I'm strongly thinking about checking for the best trade value again.

couldnt agree more!

Trevor451

Have you guys considered contacting activision support about this particluar issue? I presume that other multiplayer games work fine?

baldymac

Has this happened to any one,
i played MW2 and had open NAT type
played BO it went to moderate
played MW3 still moderate
now i havent changed any setting since
im with vodafone but i was with eircom when MW2 was out i think.

so a friend told me to try this, put in MW2 start multiplayer turn off then play
BO it was then changed to open nat type and same thing is with MW3. but if i turn off PS3 and play BO or MW3 it go back to moderate so i have to put back in MW2 to get

anyone know why this may be happening?

Jev/N

Ridiculous things happening this evening so I had to turn it off.

For instance, I ran towards a doorway when a predator was incoming and although I got well inside beyond the blast radius and it was coming from the wrong side so as to be impossible to guide it inside the door, it still killed me.

I watched the killcam and, sure enough, it showed me being hit just before going inside the door! :mad:

Jet Black

Anyone noticed any improvement? Its seems to be much smoother than last week, could have been too many people playing.

Liam90

Yeah since i had to download that update it seems to be much better, don't know if that has anything to do with it. There is still the odd game with a bit of lag but mostly okay.

Nuri Sahin

Playing Mercenary, the game runs a hell of a lot smoother for the most part in my MW3 experience so far.