Recent lag issues.

[Party in the forest at midnight]

I'm not sure if I should post in the bug forum or here, but I don't think the issue has been addressed on the forums so I want to put something here. I've heard a lot of people complaining about it, so it's not just me.

After the NWN update a few months ago, the game regularly gets extremely laggy at the same time of day. Sometimes, I desync from the server immediately after login, making it impossible to play. The lag usually happens anywhere around 5 pm to 8 pm PST, and usually clears up after half an hour to an hour.

When the issues start, sometimes I also have trouble loading the nwn server list.

I don't believe it's an ISP issue with Arelith, I've had ISP issues connecting to Arelith before and time of day did not impact it.

I don't believe it's an issue with servers being crowded either, because I experience this on the Guldorand server even when only 20 players are on.

[Tecknooo]

Bumping this up to hopefully get an answer to the ongoing issue I've also been experiencing the same thing for a while now, even on servers with only 30-40 players as well.

I've done some testing as well and know it's nothing to do with an ISP or Framerate/hardware as far as I can tell. (Capped fps at 90 steady even as I'm desyncing, unplayable with 5-7s delays on every action.) I experience it about 7pm-10pm cst (which would be about the same time as Party's 5pm-8pm PST) It most certainly is something desyncing with a few players besides just me, but no one in my circles besides one other has this issue that makes it completely unplayable.

I've gone through testing about everything I can think of, at this point, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Security_Blanket]

I've experienced this a little bit too when there's not many players on the server, normally it plays pretty smooth for me but lately there's been a little bit of a choppiness to it.

[AstralUniverse]

Not to dismiss anyone's experience but it's worth mentioning that afaik all of our servers exist on one main frame. So it doesnt matter how much traffic there is in a single server, but in all of them combined. If you have a total of 400 players online, and only 20 of them are in Guld, you still have a total of 400 players online and it will affect performence in nearly empty servers on the same main frame.

With that aside, I've had terrible lags around EU evening for many years, and later on I've realized that it happens more or less when the servers become much more crowded, but the last reset was many hours prior. So a sudden afternoon/evening spike of players + no recent reset to clear out all of the garbage left in barrels/floor and random henchmen near server transitions with an undifined rally point = not so amazing for performence in general. May or may not be related idk.

All that said, the #1 lag cuase is to my knowledge, still, large scale cringe multi-language lessons.