Originally Posted by neuralassassin
Any lag between activating the ability and it being used would be on the latency side of things, which would normally be between you and your ISP. Though I did notice alot of lag last night and our server crashed 2 or 3 times (Twisting Nether) so there is always that possibility too.
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Based on the description it seems like she is seeing UI lag, not internet lag. Normal operation
1. You click a button
2. The client starts the animation
3. The client sends a request to server to ensure you are allowed to use that ability.
4. The client stops or leaves the animation alone depending on whether the server response says it is allowed or not.
The same situation with UI lag
1. You click a button
2. There is a perceived delay between the click and when the animation starts.
3. The client sends a request to server
4. an so on like normal operation.
The difference here being there is some client side lag with the input system before it even gets to the point of sending messages across the internet.
I can only think of two reasons:
1. One of the addons is causing problems with bad interface code or general inefficient code. An addon that watches all button presses and does some calculations each time could do this.
2. Anti-virus might be able to cause something like this if it is watching & processing all key presses and other input before it gets to the game. In addition to clean programs, there can be viruses and malware that do this.
You can try the Reduce Input Lag option, although I have heard it causes the overall framerate to go down.