Well I just got into playing on Uthgard these past 3 weeks, and I have had a blast here. The community is wonderful, and it truly feels like classic DAoC. I've enjoyed playing most nights, up until this past week when 1.95 went live. I updated to 1.95 through DAoCPortal v2.4b. Updated my Labyrth EU client, did complete file checks, etc, and everything checked good. Now I am unable to play the game for more than 10 minutes without locking up in strange lag and disconnecting.

What happens is within 10 minutes of me being in game I get red latency. While I am showing red latency, I can still hear all communications from people, will still auto attack if I was doing so before spike, and still get xp. I can not talk, or use skills however.

It's really strange, because I go link dead, but I stay in the world for a few minutes, and still can take damage, do damage, hear people, and get xp.. I just can not interact.

It isn't my end of the connection, I tested it out and I am able to play a full game of counterstrike pinging under 100 the entire time. I can play a Warcraft3 DOTA game from start to finish without any lag. The only time I have a problem is when I want to play daoc.

Everything worked fine with no lag whatsoever, until 1.95. Now it is impossible for me to play.

If anyone has any advice, suggestions, fixes, or questions please reply. I will send logs, screen recordings, I will provide every bit of information you need for this to be fixed quickly.

Thank you for reading, I hope I can get this fixed soon. I already have a lot of leveling catch-up to do.

Really strange. Have you checked the memory use when you're freezing? Just a guess.

it might be your UI messing up


tried running with one of the standart UIs?

Wasn't sure if we could even use custom UIs on Uthgard, I'm using the standard one.

Haven't checked memory useage, I will do that in a few minutes.

Something else to add to the confusion: Uthgard is unique to this problem. I can play any other freeshard through DAoCPortal no problem.

Is it maybe updating through DAOC Portal that's the problem? I updated through the actual game and it's fine.

ready for more confusion? neither am I.

I was able to play all day today, though the later it got, the more the problem became.. a problem. I was playing from 8pm eastern, to midnight. Up until it hit 11, I had absolutely no problems. Since 11, i have been going LD every 10 minutes again. Lagging through fights, etc.

I alt tab and check things, memory usage or cpu usage isn't being squeezed, i'm still receiving and sending packets correctly, still getting good signal, I can even browse websites.. but on Uthgard I can not do anything.

It isn't due to an excessive amount of playing / overheating / anything that would make the quantity of playtime a factor. I can play all day early on, but as soon as it is night no way.

For the time being, close this thread or ignore it.

I was able to play for the remainder of the night with only one case of linkdead. I don't understand what the problem is, but I can't rightfully say it is Uthgard's end at this point any longer.