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Jannonek
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5 years ago
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Lag Spike? Input Lag? I'm looking for help with solution.

Hello,

I'd like to ask you to help me analyse and fix problem that i have been having since early launch of 2042. The first few hours or release was the only moment i didn't have it and i thought it's all related to rubberbanding that all players have experienced. After fix came for rubberbanding it appeared issue still exists for me. I am not sure if it's lag spike, input lag or anythinng else, forgive me but i'm not familiar with all technical difficulties hence why i decided to ask here. Here are short clips of how does it look and i'll try to explain afterwards what's happening:

https://medal.tv/games/battlefield-2042/clips/4Y72SH6qlj6bn/6nc3xn86wDTl?invite=cr-MSxDR3UsMzQ2NjgzNjAs 

https://medal.tv/games/battlefield-2042/clips/4Y75NXs5xZ7jZ/DWuNyy1pgVK1?invite=cr-MSx3cWMsMzQ2NjgzNjAs 

In both clips i'm moving my mouse constantly however in the end you can see it stops, this is where my mouse and keyboard stops responding - my soldier follows direction himself. It looks always the same, there are two "lag spikes" one after another, they last for around a second in total and they occur every 40 seconds to 1 minute. Important thing to mention i believe is that from what i noticed everyone around is moving without any issues, there's no teleporting soldiers, vehicles, nothing that would imply it could be rubberbanding.

I'd like to add my PC specs are:

Ryzen Threadripper 1920X

Nvidia 2080TI

32GB Ram

Issue exists no matter what game settings i have (i've checked with the lowest settings and there's no difference).

I appreciate any help and if there's any information i need to provide to help with analysing this issue please let me know.

technical issues
  • stuntza's avatar
    stuntza
    4 years ago

    I solved the issue on my end by* completely reinstalling Windows 11.

    I did a full reset, wiping files (I backed up) and applications.

    Since then, this hasn't happened again.

    Hope this helps someone - I'm sorry that this is my only solution, I tried various other things while avoiding a full reset, but alas, that's literally the only thing that worked and it worked perfectly. I can play on full 128 server without even the slightst hitch.

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  • RayD_O1's avatar
    RayD_O1
    Hero
    5 years ago
    @Jannonek Are you getting any warning icons on the left hand side of your screen. I was having rubber banding, lag and stutter issues too..
    I was getting an orange icon which related to latency variation.
    Latency variation :
    In-game latency variation warning symbol.
    This measures the jitter on your connection to our servers, and it’s a real flag for an unstable connection.
    You’ll see an orange warning here if there is an 8-19ms difference in your latency over time, and a red one once that difference hits 20ms or above. High jitter means a frustratingly inconsistent game experience, you may see rubberbanding, input lag spikes, and related problems that feel all the more frustrating for their apparent randomness.

    What fixed it for me was changing my connection speed. I was connecting via 5G and changed it to 2.4G and it is smooth as butter now.
    If you can have a look for the icons when the stutter issue happens it will guide you on how to fix it, In my case it was my connection.
    Hope this helps.
  • BrokenCompile's avatar
    BrokenCompile
    5 years ago

    Yes it looks like your internet connection is "off" every once in a while. Did you try running some speed test (like Ookla) to see if you can notice some down-spikes?

  • Jannonek's avatar
    Jannonek
    New Rookie
    5 years ago
    @RayD_O1 wrote:
    @JannonekAre you getting any warning icons on the left hand side of your screen. I was having rubber banding, lag and stutter issues too..
    I was getting an orange icon which related to latency variation.
    Latency variation :
    In-game latency variation warning symbol.
    This measures the jitter on your connection to our servers, and it’s a real flag for an unstable connection.
    You’ll see an orange warning here if there is an 8-19ms difference in your latency over time, and a red one once that difference hits 20ms or above. High jitter means a frustratingly inconsistent game experience, you may see rubberbanding, input lag spikes, and related problems that feel all the more frustrating for their apparent randomness.

    What fixed it for me was changing my connection speed. I was connecting via 5G and changed it to 2.4G and it is smooth as butter now.
    If you can have a look for the icons when the stutter issue happens it will guide you on how to fix it, In my case it was my connection.
    Hope this helps.

    Hello, thank you for suggestion. After playing for a while i noticed that warning symbol appears once or twice per game, it  did happen once during this "lag spike" and it was orange one as you said. Unfortunately i cannot change connection type since i'm on cable unless there is a way. That said there's no other game that has this issue for me and some games are more latency dependent so i've no idea why this issue persists only here. 

  • Jannonek's avatar
    Jannonek
    New Rookie
    5 years ago
    @BrokenCompile wrote:

    Yes it looks like your internet connection is "off" every once in a while. Did you try running some speed test (like Ookla) to see if you can notice some down-spikes?

    I have checked speedtest however graph doesn't show any issues, it's very consistent and speed doesn't change. I don't know if there's any way to see what's happening while in game.

  • EA_Atic's avatar
    EA_Atic
    Icon for DICE Team rankDICE Team
    5 years ago
    Do you have anything overclocked in your systems and how is hardware usage looking in task manger? @Jannonek

    /Atic
  • Jannonek's avatar
    Jannonek
    New Rookie
    5 years ago

    Hello,

    @EA_Atic  i'm sorry for late reply however i wanted to test few things and give it a time before i come back. What happened is there was a moment, a week after second patch where this issue completely disappeared. Nothing like this ever happened but after that since two weeks it's been even worse than originally. Frequency is higher so instead of every minute it's every 20-30 seconds.

    I've been monitoring hardware behaviours and they seem fine, GPU usage is around 20% at 60-70 degrees, CPU is at around 30 to 40% at most. And i do not have anything overclocked in my system.

  • SluggersDelight's avatar
    SluggersDelight
    4 years ago

    @EA_Atic  The Unlimited Power event in BF2 didn't happen for the second consecutive New Year (Jan 1).  Can you look into that?  Can it be rescheduled?

  • Jannonek's avatar
    Jannonek
    New Rookie
    4 years ago
    @EA_Atic Yes unfortunately, I have been checking regularly. I downloaded tool to monitor all hardware and nothing worrying visible there, temperatures are fine, usage is fine. I tried to move game location to different drive and it's the same, i can still try using main SSD which is M2 type reserved for system only and see what does it do.
    I must say this issue takes away entire joy of playing, it occurs now so often that there's no action without it being involved. Sometimes i cannot stop my character from walking and it falls from tower or just as i'm about to pull a trigger of my weapon it stops me from doing it and target survives.

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