Why would someone have so much lag (ping) when playing a single game?
Why would someone have so much lag (ping) when playing a single game?
I've been having trouble recently when trying to play OW2. For most of the time, my ping is between 240 and 290ms, but the last 20% spikes around 90ms, which is usually okay for me. When I compare it to other games like Valorant and League, my ping ranges from 60 to 100ms. I've checked that my region is set to NA because that's where I am located. Because my ping in OW2 drops to my average of 90ms, I'm not sure if the problem comes from the servers being far away. Also, for some context, I didn't have any issues with OW2 until about Thursday last week, so this has been happening for roughly four days now. Any help would be great.
Where do you get those ping numbers? Are you actually running a ping command, or is this just something coming from inside a game? Games can always lie to us. Can you find out what IP address your real server has? What does a normal ping command tell you about the latency? If you run tracert to an IP on games but not on WoW, you might see where the delays differ. Remember: you need the real game servers' IPs, not their websites or login pages. The problem will be if you find extra delay in your network compared to what's normal for that game; then there is very little you can do about it. You have no control over which path your data takes and even if something is wrong, it might not be in your ISP network at all. Usually, the real reason is just that the game is lying: it gets stuck rendering a video frame or doing some other job, so when it finally checks its own ping numbers, it blames the delay on the network instead of thinking about reading data from its buffer too slowly.