Random input delays of up to 3 seconds

Hi. Quick one.
For, as far as I can tell, absolutely no reason, when my ping goes over ~65ms, I suddenly have to put up with severe input delay that renders the game unplayable.

This is not a hardware issue, I had tried with multiple keyboards and even a controller and have experienced the same issues. I have never had this issue in the past, and it has only recently started. (I rejoined the game around 2 weeks ago, and have been putting up with it since.)

If anyone has any fixes or suggestions that would be wonderful.

Have you tried investigating your connection between you and the game server? A WinMTR can help isolate problems that your Internet Service Provider or their networking partners may be experiencing when you connect to specifically Overwatch.

WinMTR instructions:

  1. Download WinMTR from Download WinMTR-v092.zip (WinMTR) (Console players need a Windows Desktop Computer connected to the same network as their console to do this.)
  2. Unzip the WinMTR.zip file to the Desktop.
  3. Open the WinMTR folder and select the 32 or 64 bit version. Choose whichever one corresponds to your version of Windows.
  4. Run the WinMTR.exe
  5. Type the IP address you want to trace in the “Host” field. To get the correct IP you will actually need to open up the game and go Practice Vs AI or Quick Play and if you are on PC hit Ctrl+Shift+N and it will bring up the ingame network diagnostic graph, or go to Video > Options > Display Network Performance Graph if you are on any platform including Console. In the top left corner is the IP address you want to run WinMTR to.
    Network Graph
    note When looking at the IP it will show up ingame as something like 12.34.56.78:12345. You will want to leave the last 5 digits and the colon at the end off and the IP you want to use is just the 12.34.56.78
  6. Once you notice the connection issue while playing, play for about 6 more minutes, minimize the game and click on “Stop”.
  7. Click on “Copy text to clipboard”, then return to this forum thread.
  8. Type two sets of four squiggly lines and then paste the contents of the WinMTR test between: ~~~~ Paste WinMTR Test Results Here ~~~~

If in the event you can’t even connect to Overwatch and get into any game mode at all, please use one of the following IP addresses based on your geographical region:

  • US West - 24.105.30.129
  • US Central - 24.105.62.129
  • Brazil - 54.207.107.12
  • Europe - 185.60.114.159
  • Europe - 185.60.112.157
  • Korea - 211.234.110.1
  • Taiwan - 203.66.81.98

Thanks. I appreciate I’m not the only person posting vaguely about this issue.

|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |
|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
|                             192.168.0.1 -   93 |   14 |    1 |   11 |   11 |   11 |   11 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|glfd-core-2b-xe-120-0.network.virginmedia.net -    0 |   71 |   71 |   11 |   14 |   24 |   20 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|       m686-mp2.cvx1-b.lis.dial.ntli.net -    0 |   71 |   71 |   12 |   17 |   44 |   26 |
|                          213.46.175.254 -    0 |   71 |   71 |   13 |   20 |   65 |   14 |
|              ae1-br01-eqld5.as57976.net -    0 |   71 |   71 |   20 |   25 |  120 |   20 |
|         et-0-0-2-br02-eqam1.as57976.net -    0 |   71 |   71 |   20 |   33 |  177 |   22 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   14 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
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