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rounder_074's avatar
2 years ago

PS5 input lag

Hi there, as there are million posts  already and 0 acknowledgments from EA I doubt anyone will ever get an answer and it will never get fixed but here we are again.

Playing on PS5 , NAT type 1, ethernet connection (no wifi), all ports open, fibre 3GB Down, and 3GB UP, connecting either directly to telco or via router (DMZ or open ports or UPNP) and in all  cases completely isolated from local network. PS5 is only device on that subnet. Still game is mostly unplayable.

Connection score A+ download and upload, ping, jitter and ping under load A+  (3ms ) , no packet loss.

Load  never happens anyhow as it is only device connected. PSN connection test shows 940 MBPS down and 500 MBPS up.

Warzone servers shows open NAT and any other game as well.

There is no lag in Warzone or any other online game.

If i play a EA FC24 game vs a friend  game in a friendly season mode no issues whatsoever ,  sometimes i would play with a friend in europe and my ping would show 100 ms and his  would be 20ms for example and it feels way better then any UT mode , thats how bad it is.. there is slight delay for me and vice versa when he connect to  north american servers  but playable 

Tried crossplay off and on, same thing, its  probably even worse if that is possible with crossplay on.

1) When game lags, your AI lags too, player runs without controlling them, there is no formation, defending is impossible , switching doesnt work, commentator voice lags, players cant run, goalie lets any shots pass by, passing a ball to a player and he never gets switched to, ball passes him very elegantly 🙂  , defenders are a second late and continue running after missed tackle of course,  players fall over each other, dribbling is impossible , after scoring  a goal even though all celebrations or replays are skipped my opponent already had a kick off 🙂)))) , basically you are fighting a controller the whole game

2) Game would play normally for a few games out of 20 lets say, it doesnt matter what day or time of day it is 

3) Sometimes you get a streak of good games, this weekend i went 9-1 in qualifications but then  in champs completely unplayable, stopped playing on Saturday , continued on sunday , same issues .

4) I dont bother anymore finishing a game, if a game lags I just quit  ASAP. On Sunday i quit 10 champions games and 20 rivals game in a row with score being tied... its not fun .

Menus would even lag, my settings would be constantly overwritten , mostly  camera and visual settings, and sometimes trainer would be on by default too  , every new game is a surprise 😉 

Even to load UT it takes 15 seconds which is so bad in this age, and loading new images takes forever that shows how bad front end implementation is, players faces dissaperaing from cards, you can actually see stats changing on cards when you scroll 🙂 I cant believe that whole menu and settings is always being pulled from server, you go to a store, image is loaded. you go out, it loads again 3-4 seconds for simple image 🙂 its funny

5) Ping always shows 20-30 ms conenction to EA servers but  i guess this is just a ping, not actual server response with actual data because  it never shows your opponent ping, if I am at 30 ms ping, my opponent at 30 and server response should be 1 ms so game should still be playable but its not 

6) I would check on netduma router to what servers im connectiong  too, sometimes  it would be cloud in virginia , sometimes iowa but it makes no difference , I tried isolating good ones but it makes no difference,  same ping would produce completely different gameplays , im addition EA has only 6 cloud locations  in North America, where warzone has 10, only 2 in South america where every other game has at least 5 ....  so they are not even trying to make servers as close as possible to everyone, there is none in Canada   and that leads me to nr 7

7) Our connections are fine, friendly online  season mode with friends is fine even when they are further away , you can feel slight delay  but its ok ish which leads to nr8

8) there is something happening on fifa servers , it is either lag compensation,  bad server responses with garbage data or server delays or just simply non optimized net code.

Because it lasts for the whole game i would like to point  it to some kind of sync or lag compensation with other player  that went terribly wrong.

As we dont know opponent ping and has he any gameplay issues i can only assume that when I am having "too good of a game" my opponents feel disgusted.

9) I cant belive EA is not aware off this issue , its not once in a blue moon occurrence, its probably 80% unplayable, ping showing 20ms is simply a lie, why dont they show us actual connection with our opponent at least.

How can gameplay vs a friend in Europe while I am in north america is better then any rival or champions game , its mind boggling.... 

Cheers and delete  the game if you can or keep coming back every week as me hoping to have a  good session

4 Replies

  • The problem appears that other users are reporting your gameplay and are envy of your success and want them to have all the success. 

    When your game lags connection that usually identifies from experience that it's just a replay of a report made and that you're now the victim. 

    On other words your time on EAFC Is being used against you so others can Excel. 

    However after reading your problem you didn't identify the issue and I assume you're experiencing lag?  

  • RANGERSFC3228's avatar
    RANGERSFC3228
    New Traveler
    2 years ago

    This is something that EA will need to review on their servers, as mentioned before it appears to be a repeat and that it's the advantage to them and its more feedback complaints situation. Another way is that it's a complaint against you and that's what they wanted to happen with that outcome the gameplay to their advantage with you forgetting that you played them so this can happen.  I don't have access to the page itself,  so EA employees will find a solution as this is a common interference.  

  • viscagala13's avatar
    viscagala13
    New Rookie
    10 months ago

    While watching this video, I felt like I saw what happened to me, my goalkeeper missed the ball, my player locked on the loose ball and let the ball go when he got to the ball, balls falling short even if I filled the bar full, and a ton of other nonsense that now haunts my dreams.
    Sometimes it's as if the AIs are out of control, they absolutely lose positional awareness, they collide, they don't lock onto the ball or the opponent, and coincidentally this usually happens in matches where I feel there is a problem with my connection/game lobby. What's worse is that my game has been like this for a while now.

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