Input Delay v.24

@DeliveryForKiki Take this from someone who has been troubleshooting this for years, read your massive thread from NHL 23, and scoured the internet for every single possible description of this problem. I can very confidently tell you that this is NOT an EA issue or an NHL issue and it’s not a connection issue either, at least not in the traditional sense. I have your issues in every game on both PC and console, offline and online. The way the problem appears will obviously depend on the type of game you play and it can be somewhat difficult to notice in FPS games. In NHL it’s completely gamebreaking because the game is very fast and relies on precise inputs to get animations.  Read these threads on this site.  

https://forums.blurbusters.com/viewforum.php?f=24

All of these people I guarantee have the exact same problems in their respective games. If you Google “floaty mouse” “desync” or “heavy car bug” you will find people having the same problems as you. It seems to be some sort of extremely complicated issue related to electricity potentially caused by infrastructure. Some people think it’s EMI/RFI, some have suggested something related to dirty electricity or harmonics, idk anything about any of this stuff but it’s very frustrating. The reason I think it’s so hard to troubleshoot is that I think the console, router and monitor all are effected. These all have very sensitive components that require precise voltages and once things go wrong you will experience very weird behavior. On my monitor the visuals become fuzzy and some inputs don’t seem to register or process correctly. Games often appear “faster” and opposing player models do not move smoothly in a way that you can react to them. In NHL often when the puck or another player gets close to me it feels like my inputs freeze temporarily. Also when I receive the puck my player often will not be able to pass and sometimes no inputs work at all. 

“Sometimes, if I reset play, it will stop. But then just begin again. Usually, the first few minutes of loading the game work before there's some slight hitch in the frame rate. Then it's shot.” 

Yep this is the norm. The first 30 seconds or so are fine and then it gets weird. You’ll also notice this general decline over the course of a game and after the start of each period when it somewhat “resets”. Each successive game during my sessions get  progressively worse too and I think it’s because there is error correction issues at each level of the hardware chain from the router to the Xbox. It’s exactly the same for me in Rocket league on my PC where I have thousands of hours and am an extremely mechanical player. First few seconds or so of free play are fine and then all of a sudden it’s like I have Parkinson’s. Weirdly myself and TONS of people find that alt+tabbing  out and back into the game temporarily relieves the desync but it’s short lived. On the Xbox the equivalent is changing the input from auto detect to HDMI or changing the resolution sometimes helps too. I’m not saying these are fixes but just to demonstrate how wild this all is.

People who play NHL have literally no technical fluency or awareness of input fluctuations so you won’t see complaints about this but I can assure it’s all over the internet among competitive FPS players