Hi @bishtop ,
When hardware offloading is 'ON' then your CPU will offload the processing of network tasks from the CPU to your NIC !
If your NIC is up to it, then it is definitely the way to go, as the CPU is typically the main bottleneck for the interactions with everything you have attached to your PCI bus. (when running a system perf test, while gaming, you should get a good insight into if your CPU is challenged in current setup?). If so, then by offloading, you will typically see great improvements to both the generic tasks completion and also your local network latency caused by your PC!
The NIC is specialized to handle the load of processing network tasks better than CPUs, though of course not all NICs are equally good... But if you have a decent PC and its components are of same generation, then I would always by default run with offloading ON.
Best of luck with this nerdy stuff. :o)
Thank you, appreciated. My NIC : Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller. While i have been playing today i have noticed a few people saying that others are lagging and even though visually their bullets had hit their target they still did not die. Also it seems to make some sense that when i play on the same server when its less busier it does seem smoother.
Thanks man
