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doubleome
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
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Latency 180+ out of nowhere

First time ever experiencing insane latency issues, whole evening I get constant diagnostics windows with a latency over 180. I restarted PC and router maybe there was an issue there dunno, but didn'...
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  • doubleome's avatar
    doubleome
    3 years ago

    I found the issue. For some reason my VPN was on in the background (new stupid feature apparantly never did this before) so I was connected via the USA and Battlefield really doesn't like that one bit.

    Also explains why the Diablo 4 pre-load was slow haha

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sk1lld
Legend
3 years ago
@doubleome

Malware? Called your ISP to see if any line issues.

Type CMD in search, right click and run as administrator type "tracert google.com" without quotes and let it run, look for bad hops or high pings.
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    doubleome
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    @sk1lld Ran a full scan nothing. Few days later still the same issue. It's also messing up the game so much, AA missles cannot be flared, while flares are up I still get hit even when they are fired 1 second before. And Lis rockets miss me by a mile but still register.

    Don't think it's the ISP either, my wife on the PS5 has no issues at least the graphs are not showing (set to show on problems)

    Tracert results:

    • doubleome's avatar
      doubleome
      Seasoned Ace
      3 years ago

      I found the issue. For some reason my VPN was on in the background (new stupid feature apparantly never did this before) so I was connected via the USA and Battlefield really doesn't like that one bit.

      Also explains why the Diablo 4 pre-load was slow haha

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