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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All I know is my issue manifests offline and online, and they're always connected. If offline feels perfect, so will online. And vice versa. While every other game has zero issue in any mode.
Testing a few times very late at night over the last few weeks, it has resolved around the same time, online and offline. Like the fog is lifted. Now, that they're connected likely means that the issue is present right upon loading -- programming, cloud, storage, I don't know. And I don't know what's special about 3:30-4am affecting only this game offline and online (or possibly EA titles). I remain convinced as ever we're not getting the real story.
@DeliveryForKiki The worst part about it for me is that it always seems to get worse between games too. The first game is always good although a few minutes into it it starts to feel sluggish and i
can pinpoint the exact moment it starts. But then each game after this the delay gets worse and worse until after 2-3 it’s barely playable
@9up3dprurovjThat's why I tried to include a clip of the same game mode showing the delay after 5 minutes or whatever. The immediate moment it happens. A non-server game mode yet. It was WoC Free Skate, but it's no different in Offline Free Skate. You'd think the crack team over at EA, after a year, could hazard a guess of an explanation.
It's probably some nightmarish code so deeply entrenched in networking protocol by someone who left the company ages ago, and noone wants to touch it. The support has been instructed to keep insulting the clients' intelligence, by telling them to check their bandwidth and latency until they give up
- EA_Aljo
Community Manager
@Dadaruklija wrote:
It's probably some nightmarish code so deeply entrenched in networking protocol by someone who left the company ages ago, and noone wants to touch it. The support has been instructed to keep insulting the clients' intelligence, by telling them to check their bandwidth and latency until they give up
The reason we suggest troubleshooting is because this is reported by a very small portion of the community. The vast majority are playing without issue. If there were code causing this, chances are good it would be happening with everyone. Due to the very wide range of variables, this issue is not easy to track down.
- @EA_Aljo not reporting the problem doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Given EA’s track record on fixings bugs, why should anyone even bother to report anymore? The vast majority that I play with NHL has this problem, all of them to be exact and I’m the only one that has even bothered to come to these forums. EA should be a bit more proactive on testing the game on different situations, not just waiting that certain threshold is crossed on bug reports and then act. Even that doesn’t seem to guarantee that the bugs and other woes are fixed in reasonable time frame, like broken stick lift this year.
- EA_Aljo
When there is a widespread issue, we definitely hear about it. We would have a far higher number of reports. Just like we did a few years ago with the home captain input lag in EASHL. We had a ton of reports about it and tracked down the issue. Unfortunately, that's not the case this time. It would also be a lot easier if there wasn't basically an infinite amount of possible causes. We don't have the ability to test every piece of equipment, each ISP, bandwidth, etc. I know it's very easy to assume this is on our end. We haven't been without the occasional issue as well so I'm not saying it's impossible that it's on us. However, when there is a network issue stemming from our game/servers, we'd have much higher numbers of reports. We have looked into this and haven't found any issues so far.
- EA_Aljo
@Greyinsi wrote:
@EA_Aljo the home captain lag is kinda bad example here. It took what 3 years until it was even acknowledged that it might be issue on EA’s end. Sure it was easier to reproduce, it took way too much time to handle the issue.No. It was acknowledged shortly after it was discovered, but took a few months to resolve due to the complexity of it.
I have the input lag issue on FIFA23 and FIFA22. but none of my other online multi-player games.
So +1 for me..
We have 5 other players in a group who experience the same so +6 in total just from the handful of players i know.... this is a real issue affecting many many people.
