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noratio
10 years ago

NHL 16 Online mode Frame Rate (FPS) bad , input lag, offline good (PS4)

Hi, This year version of NHL (16) brought a slower frame rate when playing online crating input lags (you press example pock check, and it takes a bit of delay before your player react).  You can fe...
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noratio
10 years ago
I have analysed more and found the problem. It, s a BGP issue. Sometimes the path the PS4 is using to get to EA server is different. Its hit or miss. One day the best path is one route and the other day it's another one. What EA needa is more proxies. It seems to be affecting most users from North Canada/Us Easr coast. I went in Cancun Mexico and brought my ps4 and shared my LTE connexion and never had a lag issue playing about 15 games. I traceroute and I was getting bout 45ms to ea servera. From Calgary I am getting about about 85ms and its *, sometimes its 35ms and its perfect. When in Toronro, same *, when in Montreal same *. Went to vegaa (yes I travelled alot) and its was perfect. The problem is the BGP route that your provider use to talk to.other providers. Sometimes its more direct (less latencies) and sometimes is * (more.latencies). Bwcause the majority of people playing nhl are in Canada, it makes no sense we go to California's EA servers. The best way for them to fix this is to give a mode for peer to peer. If the ping between you and your friend is 25ms to 50ms it should be perfect. The problem is one going to EA server at 80ms to 120ms and the other end user going the samw respond time.. the mix is 240ms.. a slow game. BGP is dynamic routing, it uses a different for multiple diferent reasons to get to destination. If servers for east user were in Toronto, mtl users would be fine and the providers will just peer into their servers. Easy hey? Yes it is.. they have to invest in a good network guy and pay for server farms closer to their users that pays lot of money to play online.
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Anonymous
10 years ago

This makes a lot of sense.  I live in NY and have had intermittent game play issues with HUT. Some games are good, some are virtually unplayable.  I also noticed that the latest tuner made it even worse. For those that say this is an input lag issue between console and display, i switched my ps4 from my Samsung tv to a BENQ gaming monitor. There was some improvement but not as much as i was hoping for.  C'mon EA - fix the game!

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    noratio
    10 years ago

    Its important not to confuse people here.  If you have LCD input problem, go to your TV manufactue website and start a thread there.  If you have LCD lag, it will be with and in all your games.

    Here is about issues with EA's network infrastructure where sometimes, the games are slow.  The reason has been explained earlier and hasnt changed yet.  Until EA put proxys in East Canada/North of America, where majority of NHL players are, it will be hit or miss depending on the BGP route your isp are using.  One route could be faster to ea's server and another one could be better.

    The only accepted solution will be where EA reply they added proxy server in Toronto Internet Exchange and/or Montreal/New York.  Until there, east users will suffer.

    I know who they can contract if they want to make this work properply for thousands of users

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