On-host lag is real. Did you know, it might be manageable?
Dec 29, 2022 19:01:56 GMT
andy_3_913, Tonymac, and 3 more like this
Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2022 19:01:56 GMT
Another match today, where I ended up being the host but the lag was so bad for me that I was shocked when we got to the lobby. Phantoms broke all of their sync rules, and I was seemingly getting one-shotted left and right. This was annoying.
It was fun to find an old thread on Fextralife, bashing on Robarcool for talking about hosting on his connection and having lag. We used to ridicule that notion, because we were a bunch of drooling idiots that couldn't comprehend how any of this works. Or, we just liked the drama... very hard to tell with the OG crowd then. There were a lot of douchebags. Anyways -
Our new GPUs like to do their own things... apparently they will happily ignore some in-game settings. Even FPS settings. And, of course, we have some tryhards and even just "monitor enthusiasts" (?) that like to play at maximum framerate, even if it is detrimental to the experience of others. Well... it is detrimental to others!
This thread, for an entirely different game, is somewhat enlightening as to what is going on. The top comment on the Steam thread is from a developer. Now, this may not be a perfectly analogous situation, but I think it might be.
Relevant portion -
Clue was that my RTX graphics card was running at 99-100% whereas other people (admittedly with less powerful GPUs) were hitting anywhere between 40-60%. Turns out that the problem was that my GPU was maxing out its frame rate (even with frame rate capped inside the game itself) and attempting to use every drop of GPU goodness to render the game!
The suggestion there, is to use your GPU control panel, and manually set the Max Frame Rate to 60. I also thought maybe the Background Application Max Frame Rate should be set to 60, but learned that this setting only affects the game when you have changed focus to desktop or another window. Not something that would affect game performance.
So, I have done this, and will see if it helps my on-host issues at all. I suspect if it does, it will be very minimally. Why? Because to get this to really work, everyone would have to do it. When a newer/powerful GPU is in the match and the player using it hasn't tuned things, that extra processing on their end will affect my processing of their game. Which will then also affect the processing of my game. And everyone is lagging, yay!
So, I present this thread as something to try. I also present this thread as another example of rushed development, and things to nail down further in future titles. Finally, it possibly explains why I feel like I have experienced more lag, in general, when playing this game since getting my 3070. I will report my feelings on this, it won't be super-scientific but hey, what do you expect from an expelled Jedi?
