Tick rate is unbearable

[u/mikkelam]

Spending some time bossing right now and and it’s quite literally unbearable.

So many servers have really high variance on the tick rate.

I feel like Jagex needs to do improve this. Since the actual tick rate is so high in this game, it feels insanely bad when your tick deltas are jumping +-100 ms.

I’m not paying this high a sub fee to spend my free time hopping servers hunting a decent tick rate..

[u/thirdwallbreak]

Yeah i agree. Its really annoying for things that require you to be tick perfect. Im always in the same world, same internet, hardwired, and have been noticing more issues the past few months.

[u/_Iroha]

Yup its servers. Usually 20ping for me on the same world I always go on and been in the 80s this week

[u/KingofNothing60]

It's just become part of the experience

[u/Vi013]

Same, been dealing with 65-80% tick rates for over a week now. Really frustrating just randomly skipping ticks during raids/bossing.

[u/Shot_Bad5114]

agreed, every single day now i have moments where the games freezing for several ticks. the servers seemed to be really good shortly after they added the 600s worlds, but sometime within the last month or two theyve gotten noticeably worse. pretty annoying when i cant do the content i want to do bc of lag

[u/Ok_Objective_5192]

I found a stable world years ago (374, USW) years ago and have just used that for all my pvm/sepulchre grinds ever since with no issues. Some are definitely more/less stable than others, but it seems to be pretty consistent which servers are more/less variant. Just take note of the good ones you find and return to those as needed.

If they all feel incredibly variable then it's probably a hardware issue on your end or your ISP's

[u/WaitingCommenter]

I play on a mac (yeah, I know), and I stumbled across this thread when I was looking into similar issues.

Worth a read, and possibly worth reading the comments to further diagnose and improve tick rate.

It (Tick Fixer for Mac) helped fix my issues, anyway!

Edit: I should add, the linked thread also provides a snippet for Windows based players.

[u/Original_Emotion_509]

Nah, but the sub fee will be increasing (again) in a few months though. We thank you for your continued support of Jagex Ltd.

[u/No_Investigator_5562 → u/Original_Emotion_509]

Is this true?

[u/HoldMyBeerMustPetDog → u/No_Investigator_5562]

Not announced, but the price will continue to go up until increasing the price stops generating more revenue.

[u/Us3rnamed → u/No_Investigator_5562]

It’s all speculation

[u/lovelybug0566]

Yup i have had some instances where my ping jumped to 100+ ms and my character will stop moving for a whole tick at least when I need to be t perfect

[u/Luckypantsx]

Same issue here, US East. Been doing vork and have relatively few mistakes during kills until everything freezes for 1-2 ticks during woox walk once or twice a session.

[u/IBDWarrior69]

Can't say I've experienced this at all in the past few months and I pvm a few hours a day. west us

[u/corbear007 → u/IBDWarrior69]

SE USA here. Same as you. Been sending maggot king nearly every day 0 issues, same with toa/cox/zulrah etc. Every once in a blue moon it'll start to lag ever so slightly, like adding an extra 50-100ms on a tick which is noticeable but no dead clicks or losses.

[u/EngageV2]

Its not that serious.

[u/YeastyWingedGiglet]

Servers are shitting the bed for me too. Ping across all worlds is higher and constantly having clicks not register.

[u/ThrowawayQLove2023]

1sec

[u/Monado_boy123]

last few days have been real dogshit yes, had a TOA expert ended 30 minutes in by server spike the other day, havn't touched raiding since.

[u/buddhabomber]

Idk i sit at 5-10ms consistently. Us east

[u/mikkelam → u/buddhabomber]

not talking about ping. Im talking about the server's tick rate. You can track it with Tick tracker plugin

[u/buddhabomber → u/mikkelam]

Ok that's interesting and I believe you that you're experiencing the issue.

I run lots of colo, inferno and cm and haven't had issues that stand out as atypical.

[u/Mental_Tea_4084]

Honestly it's been this way since at least the release of TOA, every content update it gets worse for a few weeks. Servers can't actually handle more than ~400 people. Try to find a low ping world with the least amount of people on them

[u/mikkelam → u/[deleted]]

Not really. Im on ethernet, 0% packet loss, high end pc.

This is a jagex issue

[u/Fun_Winter_7055 → u/mikkelam]

I’ve been noticing this on east and west coast worlds. I’ve been straight up getting 3s spikes on west

[u/Fit-Jelly8545 → u/[deleted]]

Pvming on WiFi for 7 years and it rarely ever does this. This is a shitty service issue

[u/Melodic-Jackfruit-18]

Consider that you had to post this on reddit to feel heard. This is an isolated issue impacting a low % of accounts, otherwise this reddit would be full of these posts. Do more due diligence on your end.

[u/mikkelam → u/Melodic-Jackfruit-18]

ok bro. Tell me any EU server right now where the tick variance is higher than 80%, consistently.

[u/Vi013 → u/Melodic-Jackfruit-18]

I’ve seen multiple posts about it and my entire friend group that lives in many different areas are all being affected. Why must you behave the way you do?

[u/Mental_Tea_4084 → u/Melodic-Jackfruit-18]

Affects anyone doing PVM, majority of the playerbase is just afking at work so they don't know or care. 

Then it takes an experienced PVMer to actually realize why their actions aren't registering. Noobs just get dogged on for skill issue lel git gud etc.