Input Delay, Lag, and Slow Motion on PC

Hey guys, I’ve been dealing with a really frustrating issue in FC 26 and I honestly don’t know what to do anymore. I’ve had the game for a while now, and as of January 2026, the problems are still there and feel even worse.

I mainly play Clubs (League matches and Drop-Ins) and sometimes Division Rivals (UT). I’m on a gaming laptop, connected via Ethernet, with 500 Mbps internet and supposedly good ping. In-game it always shows something like 20–60 ms, but that clearly isn’t accurate.

In most matches, around 4 out of 5 games, I get massive input delay that keeps getting worse as the match goes on. It starts at about 1 second and can increase to 10–30 seconds. I enabled the setting that shows two controller inputs, one for when I press the button and one for when the game actually registers it, and it clearly proves this is not a controller issue.

On top of that, the game constantly goes into slow motion. It doesn’t freeze or stutter, it just feels like everything is running at half speed, and the delay keeps stacking.

Sometimes I get 1 match out of 5 where the game starts with a bit of delay, around 1–2 seconds, but then becomes almost perfect. However, the moment the ball goes out, there’s a replay, or a cutscene happens, which often isn’t even skippable, the lag comes right back after the replay ends. Sometimes it eventually fixes itself, and sometimes it never does.

What’s even weirder is that this now happens even in Kick-Off. The game runs in slow motion, like everything feels extremely heavy, but at least there is no input delay there. I assume that’s because Kick-Off is single-player or local and doesn’t involve online servers or multiple players like Clubs or UT.

At this point, I genuinely don’t know what to do anymore. My connection is fine, my controller is fine, and my PC can run the game, but FC 26 is almost unplayable online and now even offline feels wrong. If anyone has any idea what’s causing this or how to fix it, please help.