Suddenly....A High ping appears!

Wicked Bug Reporting
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Summary

Hello, i just bought the game and every co-op play is a nightmare.

i have terrible ping spikes on EU server (i pass 35 ping to 700) and the game becomes unplayable for me!

The ping shown before joining the game is 30-35.

How to replicate?

Join the Realm of my friends.

Workarounds

I tried:

  • Using a VPN
  • Repairing the game files
  • Changing my internet connection.
  • Loading the server before he joins.
  • Waiting a while after he connects
  • Uninstall and reinstall the game
  • Changing mutliple settings in my game settings

DataStore

Player Log

Player-prev.log

DxDiag

Screenshot

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Has it been reported before?

i’ve searched everywhere online and on your forum, but no real solution is mentioned.

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Check so that roaming is turned off (if its on turn it off)

Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network Connections

are you connected wireless or through cable?

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Hi ! i’m connected through cable :slight_smile:

edit : I comfirm Roaming is desactivated.

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any background processes that eat up your bandwidth?
you can check that while the game is running in the “resource monitor” on windows 10 or 11. And expand the Network tab. if the tips down below doesnt work ^^

You can always try plugging your into a different port on your router.

Run the command: netsh winsock reset in CMD (Admin) to reset the network stack.
and netsh int ip reset
then Restart PC

oh one last step to try is running the game as Admin..

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I’ll try all that and get back to you.

P.S.: My game has been running as administrator from the start :slight_smile:

For the first solution :
I have only this 3 thing opening in background (The game, Opera GX and Discord)
(Yeah is writing in French sorry :’))

And you can see, on right side of the pic, i’ve got nothing and suddenly BOOM high ping ^^”

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dont worry thankfully i know some francais from school :wink:

i might not be able to help sadly so you might have to w8 for a moderator but you can always restart your Router ^^

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Well… I’ve tried everything and unfortunately nothing works :')

It’s very kind of you to give me advice!

Thanks again, and I hope the moderators will have a solution :slight_smile:

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NP! Yes i hope so too :innocent:
before i go what OS are you running?
i just saw that Windows currently have alot of issues reported atm just maybe you can find a fix for the problem there. it can Very well be No Rest For The Wicked where the problem is located but also Windows xD

I still run Windows 10 ^^

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oh, so maybe that’s where the problem lies?

I’ll look into it, thanks again :')

I’m on Windows 11

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looks to be similar case even if your ping is higher

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Hey there, I saw a Reddit Forum post that did the following:

created new character > created new realm > joined new realm with new character > ping was fixed

I can’t find the Reddit Forum post right now, but later he added that he joined the new realm with the old character. After he did that the old realm was fixed too.

But that post was a little older if I remember correctly.

However if your case matches the linked High Ping/Bad latency case that @askan94 linked, I can confirm that using a VPN solved my Problem.

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Yes ive seen that post and i think its here on this Forum aswell.. i remember around christmas etc.

Anyways thanks for letting me know :innocent:
btw im not the one with the problem, its @Dr-Raton who have the problem :slightly_smiling_face:
Thank You once again for reaching out! :innocent:

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So… I try exactly what you see on reddit Forum :eyes:
and that doesn’t work for me :’(

I took the opportunity to connect the new character to my friend’s game, but that didn’t do anything either :')

I try a VPN too, but that’s doesn’t work too :confused:

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There are still a few unanswered questions that might help :slight_smile:

Did you try to create a new realm → share it → join it with the new character and the old character?

Do you also have a high ping while noone else except you is connected?

Are you playing on the same network (same LAN network)

If you are one the same Network. Did you try to use VPN on both machines? (Make sure the VPN actually works by checking your public IP Address)

Did you try disconnecting and reconnecting again multiple times? Did that change anything on your latency? Because another post stated, that this could help.

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1 : I tried opening my game with the new character and I have the same bug! :open_mouth: ( i never try that before)

2 : Yes i have the same issue :frowning:

3 : No but he live at 10 kilometers of my home :rofl:

4 : No i never try that! i’m gonna try that :slight_smile:

edit : I try the last…and…Don’t work too :cry:

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Make sure that you or your friends dont use cheats/trainers/mods/hacks/similar programs etc. or have them active in background even if they are used for other games.

it can cause high ping/disconnect/lag for other players.

I however dont think this is the case for You, but i leave it here as a reminder to other people :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hey Raton,

I have not much else to suggest since these 2 rockstars have taken that upon them.

Is this the only online or co-op game you experience these ping issues with?

Silas

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Hi,

A few additional things to try, even though I don’t believe they will help much:

  • Are your network card drivers up to date?
  • Are Steam games updating automatically while you play?
  • Who is your internet service provider? Some French ISPs have a ping setting in the router’s administration interface (Free, for example).
  • Fiber or ADSL?
  • Specific tweaks on UDP connections (Firewall / IDP / etc) ?

You could add a firewall exception for the game, but I think other people would have had the same problem and this solution would have been discussed (and since I don’t have Windows to test it, I’m not sure if it would make any difference).

Let’s not forget that it could also be a server issue, in which case you wouldn’t be the only one experiencing the problem. @Silas-Inservio-Pax , I know you don’t work at Moon, but do you know who hosts the servers? Is it a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP?

PS: Coucou depuis pas loin de La Rochelle ! :baguette_bread: :croissant:

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Hello everyone !
Another day, another try !

Last night I did some more testing!

Some friends bought the game and I was able to do more tests.

  • If I create a game and put it online, I get the same bugs!

(with a new or an old character)

  • When joining other people’s games (other than my first friends who plays) I also get this bug :')

so @askan94 So the hypothesis that my friend was using cheats/trainers/mods/hacks/similar programs etc. is ruled out because the guys from yesterday had just installed the game :')

@Silas-Inservio-Pax Hello ! :slight_smile:
This 2 dude is amazing i comfirmed xD
That’s the weird part…It’s only this game where I have this problem :confused:

@Alistanor

  • Yeah it’s update :slight_smile: i check like 4-5 time xD
  • Nop, i desactivated the way he updating when i play :slight_smile:
  • My internet provider is “Bouygues Telecom”
    I try to go on Administration Interface but it was always “down” and they tell me that the page is unattainable
  • I’ve got ADSL
  • Hummm…I don’t know? The game is adding specificaly on my firewall and for the IDP i don’t know what is :slight_smile:

PS : Hey ! Vraiment pas si loin je suis pas loin de Saint-Malo :pirate_flag:

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Hm at this point I am almost out of ideas. Just throwing in stuff that might be helpfull, but have you tried clearing your DNS cache?

To do that:
Open cmd.exe > Type “ipconfig /flushdns” (without ")

Also check your startup Apps in Taskmanager.
Set all apps that you do not need to deactivated.
(Try as many as possible you can active them later if you need them)
After you did that restart your pc and try again.

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