Grumbler

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See if you get the same spikes when in Safe Mode (check on updater).

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Yes I do.

I am getting horrible lag in certain instanced missions too. For me though, it is related to triggered spawns within an instance. When you have the time make a new villain and go to the tutorial zone. I'd be interested to see if you get the lag in the same place I do, at the first contact in the courtyard. It's one place I can always guarantee of reproducing massive packet loss. If you put in a complaint with nc support do yourself a favour and update all your drivers,check if it happens with firewall and anti viral and messenger services turned off and update windows cause thats what they are going to tell you to do. I am at the update windows part but don't see it as going to help. If you do find a way to fix it please let everyone know.

I've run the optimizer and turned off any settings I can think of that might help. Once again though the game runs fine right up until there's a triggered spawn. Just tried making a noob villain to run through the tutorial zone and it was awful. Netgraph showed more red packet loss than successful (green) packets sent/received. I could understand it if I was running a task force but this is a simple solo piece.

The game runs fine most of the time with any graphics setting and only a ,not unexpected, amount of lag due to my oh so awesome dial up. The problem arises only in certain situations.

During a mission I can play just fine with 6-8 mobs in a fight and powers flying all over the place,but when you get a new spawn such as when you kidnap/rescue someone I get massive packet loss. In game netgraph turns red for various lengths of time depending on how big the spawn is and naturally causes lag and eventually map disconnects if its long enough. Bank missions are impossible,even solo. Once I hit one of the resisting arrest spawn nodes the packet loss hits badly.It also occurs when I create a new villain and hit the first contact in the prison yard ( I noticed that there's a group of arachnos guards that spawns in the background and beats up the longbow and prisoners when the packet loss hits). Zombie and Rikti invasions are of course a complete wipeout for me.So it seems to be a problem only with triggered spawns.

I know and expect some problems due to being on dial up but I never had this problem the last time I was stuck on dial up. I can play other MMO's without problems. I have tried turning off firewall,no anti viral running, turned off pg2 and exited messenger. I've seen other posts with people facing random lag and disconnect issues so I am wondering if it's just me or are other people facing these issues under the same circumstances? Anyone have any ideas ?

Hijack this :
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTsvcCDA.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\RUNDLL32.EXE
C:\Program Files\Analog Devices\Core\smax4pnp.exe
C:\Program Files\Analog Devices\SoundMAX\Smax4.exe
C:\Program Files\Creative\SBAudigy\Surround Mixer\CTSysVol.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Rundll32.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint\ipoint.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliType Pro\type32.exe
C:\Program Files\Creative\MediaSource\Detector\CTDetect.exe
C:\Program Files\Creative\MediaSource\Go\CTCMSGo.exe
C:\Program Files\PeerGuardian2\pg2.exe
C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\usnsvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
F:\Program Files\HijackThis.exe

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {7E853D72-626A-48EC-A868-BA8D5E23E045} - (no file)
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [amd_dc_opt] C:\Program Files\AMD\Dual-Core Optimizer\amd_dc_opt.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SoundMAXPnP] C:\Program Files\Analog Devices\Core\smax4pnp.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SoundMAX] "C:\Program Files\Analog Devices\SoundMAX\Smax4.exe" /tray
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CTSysVol] C:\Program Files\Creative\SBAudigy\Surround Mixer\CTSysVol.exe /r
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [P17Helper] Rundll32 P17.dll,P17Helper
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [UpdReg] C:\WINDOWS\UpdReg.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IntelliPoint] "C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint\ipoint.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [type32] "C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliType Pro\type32.exe"
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Creative Detector] C:\Program Files\Creative\MediaSource\Detector\CTDetect.exe /R
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Creative MediaSource Go] "C:\Program Files\Creative\MediaSource\Go\CTCMSGo.exe" /SCB
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [PeerGuardian] C:\Program Files\PeerGuardian2\pg2.exe
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{4F2BB0A8-D2F8-485A-ABE9-9CA7BCCA92DF}: NameServer = 202.4.231.239 58.108.160.137
O18 - Protocol: livecall - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL
O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL
O23 - Service: Creative Service for CDROM Access - Creative Technology Ltd - C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTsvcCDA.EXE
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe