SPECIAL EVENT: 64-bit stress test with the Devs

[Br4d]

I didn't have this experience. What is your bandwidth?

For me it took about 30 mins to do the DL and install. I do not have great bandwidth so I would expect my experience to be more the norm than a 2 hour process.

I'm guessing that disk space or some other factor slowed things down.

 

[Loromir]

I didn't have this experience. What is your bandwidth?

Downloaded and installed for me in about 10 minutes.

 

[Abramax]

Yesterday the kobolds DPS test were very laggy in the dojo, much more laggy than the Skel in the closet raid test.

 

[zfoo]

as we measure how good the new 64-bit server handles player activity

Excuse my ignorance, but shouldn't this be properly worded like "how good our new 64-bit code works in today's most common hardware"?

 

[Rull]

Just mounting up in the marketplace:

https://imgur.com/a/lWUXJCR

FPS stayed at 60.
Connection latency was very close to 150ms every time I checked; sometime 149 or 151 but very stable.
Although I did not check during this incident.

I did not release the W key even when my characters stopped moving forwards at 00:03

 

[Coffey]

There was about 200 players on the test server at most when i periodically checked the list.

 

[Cordovan]

We are working on another preview for the near future that we'd expect will also use the Lamannia game launcher for access. Stay tuned for more information! We'll let you know whether we might be looking at something like Thursday or something else.

 

[Ryiah]

Over 2 hours, 17k files downloaded, more than 23k to go. Your stress test failed spectacularly because the installer is pure cancer. I've installed games 5x larger in less than minutes.

HDD?

 

[Svirfneblin]

Ran NRGraveyard key farm with my cap Warlock and little to no lag.

Smugglers Rest group Raid Boss Smackdown Fest…. My normal 80ms connection lagged down to 19ms at its worst… typically around 29 to 35ms.

What concerned me was I can swear that my Warlock Chain Blasting would sometimes not jump to multiple targets, and thy were within range. Also, per usual with a lagged session, damage numbers would keep scrolling long after I stopped attacking.

 

[Witcher]

Guild Leader

Yup. You're correct.
But I don't remember having this issue in the past and why copying my character is an issue anyway? Is it because it uses the same checks as transfer?

 

[Cordovan]

At this point we frankly already have a lot of good data to sort through and work is already being done to address some things found in this week's preview, so the plan is to get as much of that work in then get another preview ready, probably something like early next week.

 

[Natashaelle]

hmmmmmm -- in Euro-DDO, Codemasters once experimented with switching Dungeon Alert off on Live. It was a massive lag-a-thon, lasting about a week until they switched it back on, but it could be a possible test gimmick in the next preview ?

 

[J1NG]

I'm going to guess they're going to up the amount of data that can be sent out to player clients. I noticed that we were capping at around 35k data being sent to us (received) no matter what was happening on screen. It never really went beyond that until they shifted over everyone from another instance into another when it went to 60k+ data temporarily. No loss was noted despite that.

But the amount being sent appears to be the biggest hurdle for the lag players experience now. On live, you'll be lucky to hit 3k data being thrown before it starts lagging in some fashion for players. But that's no longer the case back on Cormyr. But that 35k odd limit seems to be the new (current) 64bit server to client lag cause/issue.

J1NG

 

[Natashaelle]

Some really good post stress test stuff here :