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Anonymous

14 years ago

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help with multiplayer lag

I was wondering if someone can help me with a multiplayer problem, i join some pugs and the framerate is good but i get terrible lag, i waslk 20 feet into anoter room and BAM im back in the room i was in before i see someone run past me into a wall and BAM now there somewhere else, this is very annoying and has actually costed me a game where it wouldnt let me pick up a teammate, does anyone have similar issues and any idea to stop this?

1ago
14 years ago
First, I'd check if it's not my connection by pinging a bigger website like www.google.com (Start/run - then type "cmd" and in the screen that opens type "ping www.google.com" - without the "" of course) and see if the pings are constant and low (should be <100ms). If you don't host a game you'll always be depending on the connection of the host, who might be on the other side of the globe. Other than that there is not much you can do from your end as you have no way of checking which host you get, at least not if you you're not on PC. For PC there is a tool that someone from the BioWare forums wrote that lets you check the pings of the players in your lobby and see if there is anyone who has major ping issues: see here.

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1ago
14 years ago
First, I'd check if it's not my connection by pinging a bigger website like www.google.com (Start/run - then type "cmd" and in the screen that opens type "ping www.google.com" - without the "" of course) and see if the pings are constant and low (should be <100ms). If you don't host a game you'll always be depending on the connection of the host, who might be on the other side of the globe. Other than that there is not much you can do from your end as you have no way of checking which host you get, at least not if you you're not on PC. For PC there is a tool that someone from the BioWare forums wrote that lets you check the pings of the players in your lobby and see if there is anyone who has major ping issues: see here.
Anonymous
14 years ago
Try hosting a match, wait for players to join and see if it continues.
If it does, you have a connection issue with ME/EA servers.
If not, then it was just a bad host. Look for another lobby/match.
Xetto
9 years ago
Please dont tell players to test their connection by hosting, you never get lag as host unless your rig is so bad that you have hw issues.
There is so many hosting with issues wich makes the game for the people joining a terrible experience.
As a rule if your latency to google is more than 30ms dont host
if your latency to google variates with more than 3ms dont host.
if your rig cant maintain uniform framerate dont host.
if you are not on a static public ip, DONT HOST!!!!!
holger1405
Hero+
9 years ago
@Xetto

I appreciate that you try to help other players, but this thread and the answers are nearly 5 years old.
Xetto
9 years ago
Ah, it was ment for MEA, i was searching through google on mass effect andromeda and it sent me here, my bad for not really paying attention.
However since other people might do the same "derp" maybe the comment isnt that bad, to have here.
🙂