Out of Sync

[stonewarrior]

Hi, this is not a bug so much as an annoying problem. Last night on the Asmo entry fight I got out of sync...my logs kep running so I could "see" the battle (I use Claus' parser and it kept running as well). Also, I could see the chat logs of the rest of the party. I do not think I died for a couple of minutes as I was still was not getting the "dead" box. It is hard to describe but I was able to click on spells and other quick slots until I got the "dead" box. After that I showed as alive but when clicked anything I got the "dead" box. At that point I relogged. When I got back most of the initial spawn was down...unfortunately I had a timer or two that did not get picked up and I soon limboed. After the relog and port back to the Asmo fight I was fine and had no further issues.
This seems to happen to me on most Asmo entry spawns (2 or 3 times with Bard, 2 times with Druid, 1 time with Threader..but not with CoT or Rogue). Another example was when I demi'd my Threader...she continued to thread on her run and I could see the damage show up on the parser even though nothing else moved. It has also happened on large spawns in Maladomini (Acaos was there the last tme it happened..think it was my Druid?) and other runs where there is a very large spawn.

Anyway, as I mentioned I know it is not a "bug" but if anyone has any suggestions as to how I might resolve this continuing problem I would be greatful. Until I die it seems I continue to "function" I just have no idea what is going on. Oh, and when I typed in a message last night it took almost 2 minutes for it to show up in the chat logs.

Peace, John.

[Acaos]

Are you playing on a laptop or wireless network? The only times I have ever gotten a desync like that are when I have been playing with one of those two methods.

Acaos

[stonewarrior]

No, I am playing on a PC with a cable attached from my router. I do have a laptop hooked up on a wireless connection that I run a parser on during runs. I am not sure if it would matter but I am not sure it has happened to any of my toons other than my Bard, Druid and Threader...and it is always on a very large spawn.

[Acaos]

Which video card are you using? Are you running Win2k, XP, or Vista? How much RAM do you have, and have you tried the cache size increase performance tweak from the performance improvement thread?

Acaos

[stonewarrior]

I want to say my video card is an nVidia 6150? I am not certain. I run Vista on my desktop with 2 gig of RAM. I have not tried adjusting the cache size but will check out the thread.

[crimsonbinome22]

As a sidenote, since updating to the 177.79 drivers i experienced exactly the same kind of desync at the Dustbone bossfight, and ended up getting disconnected twice. I am unsure if there was network lag in there, usually I only experience desync when ping is horrible, but i could find no one else in the house using the internet to cause it (didn't get round to a tracert).

Probably a bit early for me to pointing a finger at the drivers, just an observation. (Running XP, 2gb RAM, 8600GT)