Input Lag/Unresponsiveness
New game, same issue. Since last January. Not my first rodeo posting here! To get the jump on the response: Xbox Series X, 1ms monitor, all hardware has been swapped multiple times (including my sys...
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Yeah it has nothing to do with your hardware or connection. It has been in the game for years and EA has never acknowledged it, don't be surprised if this goes without response as well.
@bugabugabooboo Well, I dropped a lot of information and possible ideas, and it's appreciated that it's met with crickets.
Maybe I should try hard resetting my Xbox. 😂
Maybe I should try hard resetting my Xbox. 😂
Anyone want to take bets on when I'll even get a reply?
- EA_Aljo
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Hello, everyone. Apologies for the late response. We're currently looking in to this. In the meantime, it would be good to go through the troubleshooting steps listed here. Thanks!
- @EA_Aljo Is there going to be official word from the dev team on this because it has been happening for years? Why doesn't other games get weird input lag unresponsiveness like this does? It's shouldn't be a problem. Also if you press home button on series X the game gets input lag too like it feels its out of sync the rest of the match.
Okay, so there is actually a way to totally reset the game. Even a full factory reset and game deletion won't take you back to the original menus. Something remains on short term memory or the cloud that prevents it. It will still show "Last Played." This isn't an issue on other games, so it's something endemic to the programming of this game.
If you load up the game, THEN go offline, THEN delete all game data while in the game, it will close the app. Upon starting it back up offline, it takes you to the first load-up screens. This was never a thing on last gen NHL (when I had zero issues) because it would always do a full reboot startup of the game. Again, I'm quite certain I'm narrowing this down to a Quick Resume/Cloud bug. From there, I don't know why it causes the delay/input unresponsiveness online and offline (something affecting the performance of the Xbox?). But I had my normal sluggish feel offline last night. Then I did this full startup reset, and it instantly felt snappier in the same offline mode. Noticeably so. I'm not sure if the game re-syncing the Cloud data to play online would just revert it back.
You won’t!! I’ve had same issue for ps4 and now ps5! Nothing can be fixed!! I’ve suddenly gotten free hut packs at odd times?
Figured I'd give this my weekly bump. The gameplay remains heavy, sluggish, and unresponsive in both offline and online modes at all times. It seems even worse somehow. Other games by other developers play normally, online and offline, at all times. That can't be hardware; that can't be Internet; there is something native to THIS game on THIS engine. How else can you explain it?
While this middleman routine helps keep the mob at bay *wink wink* and concerns voiced only indirectly without any follow-up, I'm still waiting for an answer from the developers how this problem makes a lick of sense. After months, there's not even a whiff of an explanation from them? Hell, I'd settle for a hint of curiosity from higher ups about this issue. A back and forth. If it confuses me to the point of insanity, you'd think a developer would be equally curious in squaring this circle. Something stinks on ice with how this is being handled.
