Who is getting lag after new patch

Daddy420-11156 · March 23, 2018, 2:27am

I went from my normal 40ms to now 80-90 “Latency” The game is way to lagging to play now. Anyone else have the same issue?

AkaiEngarde-1459 · March 23, 2018, 2:29am

I’ll get periods of really random lag, and it’s…really noticeable. Haven’t had this issue until the last patch

AkeD-2999 · March 23, 2018, 2:34am

No issues here, latency usually 50-60 instead of the ping-value that was 35-36. Saw something about latency was expected to be 10-20 higher then ping. Calculated differently and an average over shorter time then the old ping.

BUT, due to a patch in windows 10, i get stuttering periodically in games if i have netflix or some other video-heavy site on my 2nd monitor while gaming. Even if the video is paused. Can no longer use my 2nd monitor to watch netflix during queue-times due to it. Found several threads online about other people having it aswell.

Bitty-11913 · March 23, 2018, 2:35am

You’re not lagging more than usual

Replacing Ping and RTT with Latency

Prior to patch 1.21, Overwatch maintained two estimates for your network quality: RTT and ping. Your RTT (round trip time) was measured as the time between sending a packet to the server and hearing a response, which included some application processing time on both ends. Calculating your ping, on the other hand, required us to timestamp every packet at the exact moment it was sent or received, something that became much more expensive after we patched for Meltdown & Spectre. Without these timestamps, your ping and your RTT are effectively the same value.

Rather than report a less accurate and less stable ping, we opted to merge the ping and RTT stats into the single Latency figure you now see in Advanced Performance Stats. You can expect this Latency number to be 10-20ms more than the ping value we previously displayed (higher if your system isn’t hitting 60FPS consistently). The difference between your old Ping and the new Latency figure is purely due to the missing timestamps, and has no effect on your gameplay. Latency measurement will also be more responsive to changes in network quality – your ping previously was averaged over 15 seconds, which made it hard to notice brief latency spikes. The new value is sampled over the last 3 seconds, and should do a better job of capturing brief hiccups in connectivity.

As a part of this patch, we also disabled displaying the Latency statistic if you’re not in a match. The numbers displayed while out of a match were the last stale values from your previous match and did not reflect your current networking environment.

(We missed including this in our patch notes, sorry for any confusion!)

Daddy420-11156 · March 23, 2018, 2:36am

I have no clue what to do. I use a wifi router and the a wireless Ethernet by Netgear. Have good computer.

Midi-1577 · March 23, 2018, 2:37am

They stopped giving you the ping and merged it with the RTT (round trip time). So the LATENCY metric you see will be higher than PING, but should be roughly on par with what RTT used to be.

For me, that has been the case. I used to be 20-21ms, now I’m around 38ish, which is what my RTT was roughly at.

Bitty-11913 · March 23, 2018, 2:38am

Wifi is only so good. To make your Latency as small as possible you should try and use an ethernet cable if you can.

Daddy420-11156 · March 23, 2018, 2:39am

well mine isn’t. Anytime i fire/hit something the sounds don’t go off

Midi-1577 · March 23, 2018, 2:44am

Sounds and hit registration only, or are you also rubberbanding and clear delays in actions?

I know Overwatch has had a lot of problems with wifi/wireless in the past, and I have a 25m blue cable snaking through the living room as a testament to that. When I had such issues, rubber-banding was also part of the issue.

Daddy420-11156 · March 23, 2018, 2:47am

I use a Netgear Powerline 1200 and my wifi router is a Linksys EA9500

SteveyHooves-1572 · March 23, 2018, 3:40am

I got a comp match with lag it weird. I think it stopped though… there were 3 leavers on the enemy team. So it might have been there connection. I’m almost certain.

Daddy420-11156 · April 10, 2018, 2:55pm

A tech friend told me to re download the game, it worked.

MrWallygator-1196 · April 10, 2018, 2:57pm

latency is higher than ping, it represent a different value, but generally a bit higher than your ping was, i know people who had 50 ping and now have 100 latency, i had 10 ping, now have 27 latency.