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Surprisingly fun and engaging...shame about the rubberbanding
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As the title says really. Having never played Guild Wars I thought I would check out the free trial today. I had a blast playing a ranger/monk for a few hours. Very surprised at the beauty of the game, despite its age, how playable it was, and the strength of the storylines. It really sucked me in. Wish I had found it many years earlier.
But...my only problem was almost constant rubberbanding. In towns it was largely ok, but out in the world mobs were teleporting all over the place, and so was my character. I was teleporting to npcs and loot drops. It became pretty unplayable in the end, which is a shame as I would've considered playing more.
I know it is not my pc or my connection as no other game has any of these problems (I played Lotro for several hours immediately afterwards and it was its usual smooth self).
So my question to more seasoned GW players is - has it always been this way? Is there some kind of fix to lessen or remove the rubberbanding, or was today just a bad day on the servers?
I did try a few tips I found - no alt-tabbing, clicking to move, changing instances, restarting the game, switching to windowed mode and back to full screen - but sadly none of them made any difference.
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i have a lot of rubberbanding on my pc when i play GW but its probably because im using wireless, i experience it alot when im alt-tabbing but i was playing on my friend's the other day and it was running very smoothly.
That was my only problem with GW as well,probably not as bad as yours but even with a 100mbps connection i would get bad latency.
Funnily enough I played some today and went to Regent Hills for new skills. Not a single instance of rubberbanding while I was there. I wonder why that was fine and around Ascalon City was so bad.
odd.
i own the game and neither I or my wife have had any issues with rubberbanding.
i've only put maybe 20-30 hours into it in the past month though. maybe i've just been on at good times.
I usually don't have that problem (been playing for 5 years) but it happens whenever I have something draining a lot on my line, like when I run Vuze in the background.
Try to close down all background programs like that and see if it goes better. And run Ad-aware or similar program to see that you don't have any malware slowing you down.
I dont have a particularly impressive machine, but game runs smooth with no rubber banding. I believe rubber banding occours when you fail to send you last location to the server, which may be down to packet loss which can be caused by your PC, your ISP or the game server. Probably not the latter since most people play GW with no problems - and it is a very old well established game with a lower population than what it has coped with in the past - so the servers are likely to be running under capacity.
edit, there is one thing with GW1 if I alt tab out and then swap back to GW1 i allways get a rubber banding 'effect' but if I minimise the GW window and maximise again once or twice it allways fixes this issue. This is maybe what you are seeing?
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Just changing the districts region while in town to your region works quite well or if you're already there you can choose to switch to another region district and see what it does.
I'm sorry to hear you have that problem. In all my years of playing I didn't really had bigger issues with this. Encountered it just a few times and it went away when I either reloged or changed the districts region.
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Never have had any problem with rubber banding in GW. Never.
I've always had some issues with rubberbanding in GW. But they lessened over time to the point of not being all that noticeable.
My problem is that the game just isn't any fun.
This happens if you alt tab. Do not alt tab and it won't happen.
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If only that were the case. Soon as I read it was caused by alt-tabbing I restarted the game and didn't alt-tab once. Sadly I still zipped all over the place as did the mobs. Seemed fine in Regent Hills though, but Ascalon was bad.
guild wars always had bad connections, even with my 100 mb internet connection. For the last year, the studdering started to appear for me , and sometimes make it unplayable, but it did not happen that much.
Its odd, I played it to have the 30 points of HoM for GW2 but i never had that problem.
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I played since release and never had that problem. If you have resolved your wireless and router issues at home check with your ISP; some of them block ACK packets from gaming and torrent sites and that means you will need to add a rule on your side.
I have not played guild wars in about 2 years I did not know anyone played anymore, but i remember you could get odd hitching and gliches for who knows why and then sometime you play and it runs smooth, Lotro you can play on just about any type of computer
i only have 3mbps cnx and i live in SEA, i seldom have any problem with rubberbanding and i can PvP just fine, played lots of JQ lately. cnx only slows down when when my dad is downloading his porn >_>
i also remember playing GW when it first came out on a 56kbps dialup modem ^_^ and it was pretty playable for me
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If you run the game full screen and alt tab out, it will do this. My solution was to play full-screen windowed. It didn't happen after that.
So I played some more, rubberbanding seemed to be much better, and I used windowed mode for reading the wiki while playing, and that helped a lot.
So....I picked up Guild Wars Trilogy for a bargain price and am now playing for real! Anyone recommend any guilds to help this complete noob get acclimatised?
Well, mostly any active guild will do...
Don't join any newly formed guilds because you won't get much help from people in it.
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That's what I've found too. If you alt-tab you'll rubberband like crazy.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
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The only other thing I could add to try is maybe the Leatrix Latency Fix. Ive never had any issues with rubberbanding in GW, and this is the only "major tweak" I've ever used.
Here's a link to make it easy. http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13581-LeatrixLatencyFix.html
So I joined a guild I found in Ascalon City (I am still in pre-searing), and with 14 people online I thought that looked good. But it seems they hardly speak and don't answer any of my newbie questions.
So....any recommendations would be appreciated. I am a pretty social player and it really helps in a new game to have a guild. Especially in GW where I am spending most of my time alone in the world doing quests.
I can't say that being in a pre-searing guild is your best bet, if you have all the campaigns just make your way to Kamadan, there are a ton of guild advertising for members.
At least, thats what I would do.