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surfingcloouud99
Rising Newcomer
4 days ago

Performance issues and server problems

I’m from Mississippi I been playing apex legends for many years now!  The past couple seasons has been horrible for me. I use to be able play on St. Louis server which gave me 25 to 40 ping.  Now I’m have to play on us east 1 or us central 1.  Which both give me disadvantage because I’m getting anywhere to 60-150 ping. I have 1 gig fiber internet so that not the issue.   I have played many more games with this kind of ping but there no input lag.  If you can’t fix server or add closer  data center to Mississippi for better connection.  Can we atleast get a vsync toggle for on and off to get rid of input lag.  I can play on pc with 150 ping and I can tell difference in my aim and my input actions.  Compared when I’m at 60 ping on console with such a huge delay. I just wanna enjoy apex legends again. Without all the disadvantage of how far the servers are from me and the 20 tick rate. I think vsync is main reason for this or the hd textures that download to apex legends which you can’t remove like your can on battlefield which give worse image but better performance which I rather have. Don’t let us  or me down EA! 

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  • Salo_MnK's avatar
    Salo_MnK
    Rising Veteran
    4 days ago

    According to my experience ping is not the only variable effecting on the gameplay experience.  I have ping of about 35ms in European servers, but I can get sometimes even better gaming experience when playing with East US servers with about 110ms ping. It may have something to do with amount of packet loss or server processing power. Luckily at the end of this season things have been better in European servers too. I did also an experiment with playing on Asian servers with 350ms ping which was interesting experience, as sometimes the gameplay was a slideshow (occasionally) which maybe was because of so much missing packets or something unknown else.

    Input lag is another thing that you can experiment with game and graphics settings but as far as I know there is no definate right information which way is the best for input lag as there are so many variables including your gaming device (PC, various consoles) and inside that gaming device ecosystem G-Sync, Vsync, AMD or Nvidia advanced settings are totally different. On consoles even your actual monitor/TV can have effect on your input lag. 

    On PC I have set vsync off in game settings and let Gsync do its thing and because of my monitor limitations I have setup 230Hz limit on nvidias control panel max refresh rate to prevent tearing. On PS5 there is not much settings available but it is possible to get 120hz refresh rate which is ok if you are using a fast monitor (older TV's may have horrordous 50ms input lag on the image processing so that causes also input lag as it is basically impossible to guess to the future, it is also possible not to remember to set your tv in gaming mode which may minimise the input lag). Also on PS5 there may be a possibility to get better input lag by using a controller with USB cable as who knows how much there is bluetooth/wifi interference or controllers may have issues on reaching the console via radio frequencies.. Its.. trial and error.