Ok so, I've made a few posts in forums and Discord support over the past months since 1.8 came out, no solutions yet. Lag is unplayable in TSW since 1.8 release. I've done everything client-side possible to help even though most of them don't make sense, so problems on my end can be safely ruled out. Additionally, I have no issues (and never have) with any other online thing of any sort including battlenet D2 and other mods like Path of Diablo, MMOs, other ARPGs (Path of Exile, Wolcen etc), streaming (Youtube and such)... anything. This is everything I've done:
Picked best ping game server using tool on the forums, output as follows:
Top 5 average pings:
GS51 Dallas, United States [us] .......... 14
GS10 Texas, United States [us] ........... 15
GS24 Dallas, United States [us] .......... 16
GS11 Georgia, United States [us] ......... 33
GS22 Atlanta, United States [us] ......... 33
Crazy low pings. I've tried all of these and every other GS in the US. I'm located in East Texas.
Continuing:
Complete fresh reinstall of D2 and median (even cleaned the registry of everything median after uninstall)
Used TCPoptimizer to optimize my network adapter
Disabled game sound
Set up game with cnc as instructed in 2.0 patch notes
Opened the ports D2 uses on my router
Disabled unused network protocols on my network adapter
Restarted modem and router
Restarted PC
Some more stuff I can't think of.
ISP routing issues can be safely ruled out as well. If something was wrong there, I would have problems with normal Blizzard battlenet and Path of Diablo, and really any other sort of online service. The hops to the ISP are clearly working perfectly fine, which is the "ISP routing issue" end of that argument. As the Median server ping tool indicates, my connection to the servers is superb. Sub 20ms connection? That's insane, any other game I play is 60+.
Again, this has been happening since 1.8, so it's not isolated to the 2.0 problems that seem to be plaguing the game right now. I would just play SP like I've always done, but I'm not risking a character lockout from inventory issues.
Something is clearly wrong on the server end of Median and all of the support I've gotten so far deflects that, referring me to the same steps I've already done (most of which have nothing to do with network connectivity).
I understand that this is free, so I expect nothing and sincerely appreciate the Median team for the entertainment I've enjoyed since the mod was conceived (I've been playing since the beginning).
I just want to know once and for all, is there any hope that I'll be able to play this mod again? Or should I just give up and move on for good?