Feldon Today’s hotfix included some additional lag fixes. Here’s Rothgar:
With this morning’s update we made a fundamental change to how our zone servers throttle their frame rate. Our hope is that this change will allow busier processes to consume more of the server resources and increase performance (reduce lag). Whether or not this change has a noticeable impact will depend on many variables that can only be observed in the live environment and under a significant load.
We’ll be watching things on our end as we ramp up to primetime tonight but I’m also looking for your feedback as to whether or not you’ve noticed an improvement after this morning’s changes.
Thanks!
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=255&topic_id=476769
SmokeJumper: “Well, we’ll fix the lag first and then we’ll see how things go.
We’ve determined that one of the major sources of lag in the game right now is due to outdated server hardware, so we’re in the process of acquiring new hardware and upgrading everything.
This isn’t a quick fix. Since we just made the decision to upgrade, we’re just now starting the ordering process and it could take a good chunk of time to get it all in, configured and installed. But we are moving the process along and hope to have big improvements on lag before summer is over.
Then we’ll see how much that improves the situation.”
You don’t have to work behind the scenes to know that old server hardware isn’t going to help matters! At least they’re finally admitting it.
lol how long can it take to order some server hardware and set them up -.-