What can I do to prevent disconnects?

To prevent disconnects and other things that can severely impact the performance of your game, we recommend disabling the following programs when playing our game, and then re-enabling these programs once you are finished playing:

• Windows Defender
• Any 3rd Party Software that may alter the game Client
• Any streaming services active in the background
• Certain IRC clients
• In-game pets. Try unequipping your AQW pet.

Other things that can affect your game play are:

• unusually high latency
• a wireless connection that has intermittent latency spikes
• cheat clients
• too many tabs open in your web browser

To check your latency:

1. Begin an AQW session and log onto the Twilly server
2. Go to your Start menu, and type CMD
3. Type ping 74.53.22.41
4. Check the values in the 'time' column
5. If the number is above 250 or if it spikes to 1000 or more, you may have a connection issue and need to contact your ISP

Please note: we are not responsible for any issues caused to your registry for trying these suggestions. If you need to restore your registry visit: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756

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