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Fr3dY2
Rising Ace
6 years ago

Playing fluidly with a 75-100ms ping... just an illusion?

Hi,

In the NVIDIA Drivers thread at https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/New-NVIDIA-driver-436-02-Apex-Legends-optimizations/td-p/8139472/, the discussion turned to how badly a high ping affects players.

Since it has nothing to do with the original thread, I've opened this one... here's my experience after some people reported lag and choppiness when having a ping > 30ms:

Something must be "wrong" then... if somebody else is using my Internet connection at the same time (watching video streaming or downloading anything), I just don't play because it's unplayable: the whole game LAGS TERRIBLY (all menus, from lobby to countdown animations and game itself: there's a delay between pressing 'E' to pick up an object and actually picking it up, players "teleport" and so on...) and ping can be detected as 150-300ms.

So, I don't / can't play under those circumstances, not only because I can't - but to avoid ruining other players' experience too.

But then, on my idle DSL line (the game says 75-100ms ping, but I think it's more the later) I can play fluidly, I see things how they were supposed and other team members never complained. According to other players, this shouldn't be possible but somehow it is... HOW?? 😞

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  • kittypokit's avatar
    kittypokit
    6 years ago

    @Fr3dY2
    Your problem is from hitting your bandwidth cap and your game is waiting patiently for packets to arrive. If you can monitor your bandwidth in real time you will probably see you are constantly hitting the maximum when you experience these spikes.

    When your ping is high and stable you're able to interact with the game in a different state than other players, ie shooting someone who might appear in front of you in your version of the game, but they have already passed around a wall in their version of the game.

  • Huntinwabits's avatar
    Huntinwabits
    6 years ago

    @Fr3dY2Ive played older games as in 2002-2010 many times with ping into the 80-100. shouldn't have really bad lag if any lag, But maybe have your ISP run a test scan see if its timing out, Or you can go to c: type in ping google.com -t (hit enter) see the pings if they up and down alot then you have an isp problem. there is also a space in between the .com and -t
    hope this helps

  • Fr3dY2's avatar
    Fr3dY2
    Rising Ace
    6 years ago

    Yup, I've also played with those PING values in the past (damn DSL!!) without noticing any game-experience degradation, as happening now with Apex Legends.

    Some time ago I enjoyed fiber optics but not anymore since I moved to a different place where it's not deployed - yet.

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