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WoW forever on linux high latency. (lemmy.world)
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sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.

Recently i switched to steam os on my pc, installed battle net and everything went smoothly. I played in beta and i dont have issue but when i play on live my ping would shoot to 1000 to 4000. and it only smooth on the first 10 minutes or so. I dont know what else i should do so any help is appreciated.

things i tried

restarting.

Im using starlink so i tried to relocate the dish.

turning off firewall in my asus modem

turning off firewall in my pc

turning on and off qos

turning on and off ipv6

changing poton

I tried several ping checker and in my browser everything seem normal

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[–] 3 points 6 hours ago (7 children)

If you can traceroute to some unrelated cloudflare dns server like 1.1.1.1, then the problem seems likely to be outside your machine, outside your home network, and then we scrutinize what hop it's failing at to see if we can rule things out further. (I'm making assumptions obviously, this is just how I'd think about it.)

Maybe that's your ISP, or something in a data center with a hostname related to wow itself?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 hours ago (6 children)

    i tried the mtr thing, is it okay for me to show it? it looks like there some kind of problem after it hopped outside of the country (im assuming because i see singapore and japan) the rest is ips that im not sure what it is or how to check where is it

    just to be sure i tried using different network (thethering from my phone) and still same result

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

    What traceroute and mtr have told us is that ICMP echo requests (called a ping) don't get there reliably, but that can happen for multiple reasons. Maybe a server along the path doesn't feel like passing your ping along and drops it. There's a point in their machinery which blizzard doesn't want you peeking past, and other companies might have their own reasons even if the route is healthy.

    A friend says the game has two network sockets that have individual pings (latency measure this time not echo) and you can see them by hovering your mouse over the indicator. Which is it that's misbehaving?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

    i see, so there is a chance that something is wrong with my machine or isp that makes them do that?

    i do tried tethering from my phone, same result.

    yeah it has home and world ping. iirc home handle about chat stuff and world is character stuff. both has high ping. sometimes one is wildly higher than the other sometimes both

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago (3 children)

    There are a ton of unknowns here, it may end up being as easy as disabling some game setting related to network optimization or ipv6 use. Most of troubleshooting is just thinking of more questions to ask!

    Are you launching the game using wine/proton/???

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 4 hours ago

    update. its something about the lan connection. i tried using my wife laptop and it ran perfectly then it hit me what if i connect with wifi. and behold it works fine. so its something about the lan

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    i did try disabling ipv6 and enable it both in game, router and network setting.

    all of the router, game, launcher, steam network setting that i know off has been tried enabled or disabled.

    im using steam to launch the game so proton. and i have tried several version, hotfix, stable and even custom proton to no avail.

    currently im trying to install wow in my wife laptop and see if its network or my pc thats the problem

    with any luck perhaps she interested in playing together..

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    I had a lag spike situation on a steamos machine playing a game called shape of dreams when using wifi but not ethernet, and it wanted a network card driver update. Kind of a shot in the dark but you might try it.

    I'm reading that there's a network stats API that addons can use https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/API:GetNetStats

    Maybe there's a network performance monitor addon you could find, but I don't have suggestions there.

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