Community ManagerI get latency errors and the black bar still. I noticed if I use public dns it happens more frequently, if I put my isp dns and quad9, opendns, or google dns with isp as primary and one of those three as secondary, I get better ping, and very rarely encounter the server icon error, but even after going defcon 5 with my isp, and threatening to file a fcc complaint, they have updated the entire infrastructure at this point, and I have the personal phone number of a NOC for my ISP. Pathing is showing me now that my one bad hop is fixed, and it is server sided. I have experimented with several windows, network, nic, and highly aggressive scripts to the registry. I have had to reformat my pc multiple times trying to solve it. My OS, TCP, NIC (hardwired) are optimized to the max I can go with perfect stability. I have a pretty high end pc, but still constantly get the black bar popping up with Lat Var being yellow 9 to orange. I’ve seen the yellow and red server warning. NOC dude called me today, my entire neighborhood infrastructure got updated, balanced and optimized, I can say with certainty now, it’s not on my end. I’m either getting randomly connected to wrong or bad servers, or something along those lines, because I have games that are amazing, I’ll exit for a smoke break, and when I return, I find the really terrible servers.
You should know that DNS has zero effect on gameplay. Once connected and playing DNS has already served its purpose.
