WadaBebo Posted July 16 Report Posted July 16 Hi all. I've been hosting a Vintage Story server through the website's purchasable server option. It's been up and running for around a month now, and just recently (within the past day or so) one of the players on the server is experiencing high ping (in the tens of thousands). I'm at a loss for what to do because I've done some googling and searching around the forums and there doesn't seem to be much documentation on this issue (unless I've been looking in the wrong areas, I don't know)… We're all connected from different parts of the world but this player specifically is located in Africa, and before this issue their ping averaged around 150-200ms. Their ping issues began happening when I went off on a journey several thousand blocks away from our base, and they suddenly began experiencing HEAVY lag and increased ping. Someone else was on the server with us and they were completely fine, their ping was sitting around 50ms, so it seems to just be an issue with this one player, and I'm not sure why. Their drivers are up to date, adequate RAM allocation and graphics settings. We were in a discord call when this began happening, and their connection there was fine, no internet issues, so it seems to be an issue with the server itself, maybe? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
LadyWYT Posted July 16 Report Posted July 16 Welcome to the forums! 1 hour ago, WadaBebo said: We're all connected from different parts of the world but this player specifically is located in Africa, and before this issue their ping averaged around 150-200ms. Their ping issues began happening when I went off on a journey several thousand blocks away from our base, and they suddenly began experiencing HEAVY lag and increased ping. Someone else was on the server with us and they were completely fine, their ping was sitting around 50ms, so it seems to just be an issue with this one player, and I'm not sure why. Their drivers are up to date, adequate RAM allocation and graphics settings. We were in a discord call when this began happening, and their connection there was fine, no internet issues, so it seems to be an issue with the server itself, maybe? If you were generating new chunks when you went off on that journey, it's possible that their connection and/or hardware is struggling to keep up with whatever new data the server is generating. 150-200 ms is technically playable in terms of online gaming, but definitely not ideal at all for any kind of play that requires time-sensitive actions. If this is the case, the Discord call and any downloads going on in the background probably isn't going to help the situation, since that's more things that will be competing for already limited resources. You might also check to see whether your friend is playing on a wired connection or a wireless connection. Sometimes that can make a difference. If friend lives with other people, it could also be that someone else in the residence decided to do something online around that time, which could potentially cause issues depending on what kind of service is available. In fairness, I'm not sure that that's much of a concern these days, but it used to be a thing, I think.
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