My parents recently switched their ISP provider (from DSL to Cable), and I am now experiencing enormous delay when connecting to EfU. Any action-- sending a message, opening up an inventory, or moving to an area-- will take on average five seconds to actually register and show up.

This problem is ONLY with Neverwinter Nights, and not with any other game. It occurs at seemingly random intervals, and will at other times be perfectly fine. Restarting my computer will fix it 50% of the time.

I will be grateful if someone helps me with this problem, so I can DM for you all again : (

Hm. More details would be great, really.

If possible could you give us your OS, Ram, and connection speed?

(If you need a connection speed test, I always like speakeasy http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ )

Download Speed: 4855 kbps (606.9 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 487 kbps (60.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

OS is Windows XP.

1 gig Ram.

Safe to assume you've gone through this already? http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=252714&forum=49

If that fails Id probably associate the issues your experiencing with lack of Ram. I might be wrong (God knows I'm wrong often enough) but with 1gig ram its a possibility.

Id recommend you hit your computer with a Spyware scan (Spyware eats Ram) and open up processes and see what background processes are running. (Google gears, Active desktop, etc.) and considering lightening that load.

If all that fails try turning NWN's graphics quality to mush.

And if all that fails... er.... I have no idea at the moment (other then Pebkac)

Lets hope something in that post is... kinda useful.

I am positive it is not a hardware issue.

It does not happen in single player, and I am able to run games that are more graphically intensive.

Calculor Convince your pareants to switch it back to normal. Instead of trying to use technology convince your pareants to switch it back Do some Chores get good Grades Etc.

Ok, some updates!

I am on a wireless modem, and using tracert; I found out the local node times out. (I don't know what that means.)

Please be helping me someone : (

I feel you I HATE WIRELESS MODEMS! The best Advice I can give is make sure the Modem is really close to your Comp.

I've experienced the same issues when I used wireless

Move out and get your own house.

Better yet, Create your own cable connection, Hijack your neighbor's maybe.

Thomas Advice should not be taken seriously.

Non can appease the Lagbeast. It is all-seeing, all-knowing, and all-destroying. It will find you anywhere you go, no matter your feeble ISP.

Fear the Lagbeast.

Ok. Im back again. (Had to sleep and all)

The local node is the point of determination of the IP address. It times out periodically to keep the system fresh, per-say.

You need to find out if your IP is determined by your computer or your router.

Either way, if Time-out is the issue, you just need to extend the timer for the local node.

Let me see If I can find instructions I can link to somewhere so I don't have to type them out.

EDIT: Cant find it. ("It" being a step to step guide online)

First, go to your router. If its a good one, you may even have an option that says "Timeout". If not, you may need to dig some, its really different in every router. You may want to recruit your parents for this, just so you don't get yelled at for messing with your router. Anyway, If your sure its not there, then...

Gah, post again if its not there. I have carpel tunnel (SP?) right now and typings hell, so Id like to avoid any unnecessary typing.