I am experiencing severe lag in Battlefield: in-game the latency (LAT) shows ~11 ms, but the tick/network delay (TN) is consistently 400–600 ms. This makes the game unplayable.only during the evening/night, i have occasionally no lagg at all; it reverts back to having TN 11-20MS. To rule out my own internet connection:Other games (Deadlock, Delta Force on Steam) run smoothly.For example, psping to Deadlock servers shows ~8 ms average, 0% packet loss. My ISP connection is stable: WinMTR and psping to other providers are clean (Odido NL, Valve EU).The issue only appears in Battlefield.Technical details I gathered:Battlefield server IPs appear to be hosted on AWS Dublin, routed through Zayo/Twelve99.WinMTR shows stable ~17 ms up to those hops, no packet loss.However, once in-game, TN spikes to ~500 ms even though LAT remains ~11 ms.Screenshots attached of in-game network overlay and traceroute results.Ive added 2 docuements:1. Screenshot battlefield network2. screenshot WinMTR (EA server). Any help would be appreciated.

It won't be fixed till the developer fixes it. It's a mystery as to who's affected and who isn't. It's not framerate, hardware, connection linked.

tried several VPN's, problems are still high TN ms, nothing changed. So it can't be me provider at this point. iom curious if battlefield can get this fixed...

Yeah I tweeted about this and David Sirrland replyed to it but left me with no update or another reply. You can do things like enable XMP or do a cfg but none of these worked for me atleast and I haven't seen it work for anyone else . So far this is a unfixable Issue. If you want you can go to https://x.com/tiggr/status/1961386936922202216 and mention the TN lag issue in it so he hopefully notices and we atleast get an update. Or just tag @tiggr_ on twitter.

Unduru Please post an in-game screenshot of the whole screen while playing BF6.Do you see 3 yellow rectangles stacked on top of each other in the top left corner of the screen?If so it's indicating the framerate is below 60fps and is causing time nudge (TN) to spike.I wrote an explanation of what time nudge is.High TN/slowmo/skating inconsistency issue on official servers | EA Forums - 12740587Low framerate is usually caused low CPU performance. I wrote CPU performance troubleshooting steps.Severe Time Nudge / Rubberbanding in most modes — Still Unresolved | EA Forums - 12761674

no i dont see those. im currently checking if any of the CPU's core is the bottleneck through MSI afterburner.

Battlefield 6 lag: MS 9-15, TN ms 400-600.

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OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
2 days ago
Unduru Please post an in-game screenshot of the whole screen while playing BF6.
Do you see 3 yellow rectangles stacked on top of each other in the top left corner of the screen?
If so it's indicating the framerate is below 60fps and is causing time nudge (TN) to spike.
I wrote an explanation of what time nudge is.
High TN/slowmo/skating inconsistency issue on official servers | EA Forums - 12740587
Low framerate is usually caused low CPU performance. I wrote CPU performance troubleshooting steps.
Severe Time Nudge / Rubberbanding in most modes — Still Unresolved | EA Forums - 12761674
Unduru
Seasoned Newcomer
24 hours ago
no i dont see those. im currently checking if any of the CPU's core is the bottleneck through MSI afterburner.
Unduru
Seasoned Newcomer
23 hours ago
MSI afterburner results
Unduru
Seasoned Newcomer
23 hours ago
so after trying lots of settings, turning everything to low, adjusting frame rate to 120fps 90 fps, 60 fps, the results are the same, always between TN 400 to 600 ms.
I also have a new cpu so i really doubt it has anything to do with my cpu at this point.
Unduru
Seasoned Newcomer
23 hours ago
im starting to think its a bad ISP routing from my provider (Odido-NL), could this be the case, and is there a way to undeniably support this claim? Because they keep telling me that i should contact EA about this.
Im currently at a loss about what to do now...

Also important to note, again, is that lag drops around the evening, after 21;30/22;00 local time *NL, it shows TN 9-20 ms.
During the day and evening its always between 300 to 700 ms. with an average of tn 400 ms.
CaptMcShotgun
Seasoned Novice
23 hours ago
It won't be fixed till the developer fixes it. It's a mystery as to who's affected and who isn't. It's not framerate, hardware, connection linked.
Unduru
Seasoned Newcomer
22 hours ago
tried several VPN's, problems are still high TN ms, nothing changed. So it can't be me provider at this point.
iom curious if battlefield can get this fixed...
ADI69001
New Novice
22 hours ago
Yeah I tweeted about this and David Sirrland replyed to it but left me with no update or another reply. You can do things like enable XMP or do a cfg but none of these worked for me atleast and I haven't seen it work for anyone else . So far this is a unfixable Issue. If you want you can go to https://x.com/tiggr/status/1961386936922202216 and mention the TN lag issue in it so he hopefully notices and we atleast get an update. Or just tag @tiggr_ on twitter.
OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
21 hours ago
Unduru wrote:
no i dont see those. im currently checking if any of the CPU's core is the bottleneck through MSI afterburner.

Everything looks mostly good in that screenshot, but I suspect the ping time might be fluctuating.
The latency is 14ms with an average latency of 26ms. That's a ping fluctuation of 12ms. (26ms - 14ms = 12ms)
Do you have network widgets disabled in BF6 settings? Usually there's a yellow icon in the top left corner to indicate latency variation.
Unduru
Seasoned Newcomer
20 hours ago
i have those settings turned on. i never notice any yellow icon.