Help, characters skipping/lagging

[foxtrot08]

Hi, i am using the Ultimate Repack 3.0.3 and i have some questions. First, when i play the game with some of my friends, at my point of view, their characters are lagging and skipping across my screen. And when they look at me, its the same thing. For my friends, they said there was nothing lagging, like when they killed mobs, it died right away instead of it dying 2 seconds later. So i keep thinking that is the repack that does that.

Could it be that my server is just lagging? or could it be the repack that is buggy? Cause i tried a different 3.0.3 repack and it does the same thing.

[Edude]

just get a better motherboard/ramn/internet connection

[foxtrot08]

im serious... i have a good computer with T1 connection, me and my friends are under 50ms ping. We are not lagging, the characters are just glitching around.

[farter]

try dropping video settings to lowest and try again. even if u have good latency ur frame rate might be crappy. remember ur running mutliple connections which is eating memory like pac man. i had similar prob with descent comp but still its just that not a dedicated server. lowering helped

[foxtrot08]

i did, my video settings are to the lowest possiblities. But, my players are also seeing what im seeing, they also have good connection and computer and their seeing me and othe players glitching around.

[farter]

sry have no idea but i like helping people so ill keep my eyes peeled for an answer for ya.

[foxtrot08]

i appreciate for your effort on assisting me with my situation.

Edit:

Could it be that i extracted my maps wrong? How large is the maps suppose to be? mines came out to be about 443 mb

Edit 2:

Well i re-did the map extraction, and it turned out to be 1 GB, so theres a 600MB different between the 1st one i did. But thats after i did a repair because i thought my wow was damaged and missing maps. So here my new problem emerges, when i get in the game, the first thing i see is a blue sky, no ground, no terrain, nothing, just sky. And after that i get a fatal error... Can someone help...

Edit 3:

So i tried several different repacks. and the only one that seemed to work was the Ultimate repack 3.0.3 by treston. I dont think the maps folder had nothing to do with my characters glitching all over the place. Its something else, but i still think its because of the maps folder, or is it because i need to have wrath of the lich king installed? Am i suppose to have wrath of the lich king installed and then extract the maps? is that why its like that? i still have burning crusade, but i updated it to 3.0.3.

[TheSpidey]

Glitchy movement is a known core issue.

[foxtrot08]

is there a fix?

[Mango Jerry]

Try get another kind of version of MySQL.
- Recommended version is: 5.0 or 5.1

The laggy movement is an issue with some databases and cant be fixed.

[foxtrot08]

I see. So could the problem be that i am using Wampserver as a mysql? Because it looks like it works the same way. So i would need the mysql one?

Edit 1:

Unfortunately, i tried to use mysql server as well, same problem...

[foxtrot08]

I want to bring up this thread cause im getting pissed off having this same problem. I even tried to reformat my computer and following a guide on how to make a server step-by-step. I did everything the guide says but i still seem to be having this same problem. I have a number of questions.

1. Do i need to have WOTLK expansion pack installed before running the maps extractor?
2. Do i need t o have vmaps?
3. Do the players need to have WOTLK expansion installed as well?
4. What am i doing wrong?

[TCarter]

Character location is viewed via the database.

In short, the database has the X,Y,Z location, plus the direction the person is looking. The game also tries to predict where the person is going. Hence if you run straight, then tap the left, then right buttons simultaneously, on another screen it'll show you jumping from the left to the right side of the screen.

In short, either there is a setting (which in my thread, people say theres not), or the server to database to server to client process is not as fast as what it should be.

Because each viewing person (someone watching you) has to go from them, to the server, the server reads the database, redirects it back to the server, the server redirects it back to you...multiple times.

It seems like the update is about 1sec. Which it should be alot faster. The amount of data being passed is so minimal (your talking about maybe 20bytes) so the update rate shouldnt matter.

[foxtrot08]

i find your reply useless, because i didnt understand, but i appreciate for your attempted support. But does anyone else have any explanation

[TheSpidey]

Character position is only saved in the DB when you dump characters to the DB, not every time they walk.

As I've said, a known core issue. Aspire has this fixed.