During the gameplay on offline modes the player movement feels a bit slow and laggy which look like it’s missing some fps or something like that.I did find this when playing offline HUT and offline Play now matches, but then on offline Threes it worked like it should, the gameplay was smooth and you can 100% sure see the difference.

I have this problem as well. The jerseys keep flickering and it doesn’t play smooth.

@EA_Blueberry I don't know if they have video or not. But all you have to tell your team is to play offline games with Game Speed set at 3/6Setting it at 4/6 fixes the problem but anything under that causes the lag/choppy gameplay

Be a pro is almost unplayable on Xbox one, when you are sitting on bench it's ridic slow FPS and so laggy it makes you sick watching the game. You can see other players on bench moving like one screen shot a time.. It's really bad.

Nothing else plugged in the PS5. Just HDMI, Ethernet cord and power cord.

I read the Operation Sports review of NHL 22 and they said EA is aware of the issue and is looking into it. "We do want to call out one issue that seems to be plaguing users on next-gen consoles (or at least the PS5 from our testing) where the frame rate does go through some dips and stuttering. This seems to only happen when you mess with the game speed, so it’s not impacting “default” settings online/offline or anything, but it’s an annoying issue all the same. EA is aware of the issue and is looking into it at this time."One thing I disagree with there is "it's not impacting default settings", that depends on what preset you use. For me, the default game speed is 3 and it dips and stutters on that speed, as well as any speed under it. You definitely have to have the Game Speed set to 4 to not have the issue.Hopefully EA will fix it soon, I think they will.

Laggy gameplay on offline modes (PS5)

43 Replies

craigiecubsfan
4 years ago
I have this problem as well. The jerseys keep flickering and it doesn’t play smooth.
EA_Blueberry
Community Manager
4 years ago
Thank you, @miiqaa @craigiecubsfan

We're alerting the team about it.

Just to double-check on the hardware side, do you have anything plugged into your PS5 other than the HDMI cable and power cable?
craigiecubsfan
4 years ago
Nothing else plugged in the PS5. Just HDMI, Ethernet cord and power cord.
miiqaa
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
Hi @EA_Blueberry
Same for me, ethernet and HDMI cable.

Seems like the jerseys are flickering on all game modes played in ”arenas” as it plays smoothly on outdoor rings. I tried again playing Threes and Ones, works just fine. But when playing offline (Play now/HUT) games in NHL/International arenas, the flickering appears again making the game play and player movement very laggy.
I read some people managed to remove the flickering effect by increasing the game play speed slider.
But for example in HUT offlines matches there’s no option to change any sliders so the problem cannot be fixed in that way.
I can also share some video of the ”laggy” game play if needed.
JNolan1993
Rising Traveler
4 years ago
I have this same problem as well on PS5. Hopefully you guys can find a way to fix it soon after launch.
EA_Blueberry
Community Manager
4 years ago
@craigiecubsfan @miiqaa

Do any of you have video of the flickering we can forward over to the team?
JNolan1993
Rising Traveler
4 years ago
@EA_Blueberry I don't know if they have video or not. But all you have to tell your team is to play offline games with Game Speed set at 3/6

Setting it at 4/6 fixes the problem but anything under that causes the lag/choppy gameplay
Hendertoft
4 years ago
I just downloaded NHL 22 for Xbox One and it's the same problem there. Offline gameplay was lagging, until I increased the game speed to 4. Now gameplay is much smoother, but the high game speed makes things too arcade like for my liking, and I'm sure for many other's liking as well. EA needs to fix this and patch it, because right now the game is unplayable at "normal" game speed.
JNolan1993
Rising Traveler
4 years ago
@Hendertoft I hope they do fix it, and I had that same complaint, it was too fast and arcade like. Something that helped me was to set the Preset to #4 Full Sim (I usually play on #3 Competitive) and change the game speed to 4/6

I do hope they fix speeds 1-3 but playing on Full Sim at speed 4 is pretty good.
refined98
4 years ago
Be a pro is almost unplayable on Xbox one, when you are sitting on bench it's ridic slow FPS and so laggy it makes you sick watching the game. You can see other players on bench moving like one screen shot a time.. It's really bad.