Ever since a few days ago I get massive lag spikes in game and it's making it impossible to play. Anyone else have the same issue?
You really didn't give a lot of details of your setup but this isn't the tech support forum either so I'll just touch on a few things.
1. If you're using wireless, try a wired connection to see if that helps.
2. Try restarting your router/modem equipment
3. Access the Blizzard Looking glass site and capture the data (MTR ping etc) and report those results to the tech support forum. Could be issues on your ISP :/
http://us-looking-glass.battle.net/
4. if others in your home are doing things like streaming netflix or the like it could cause your connection to spike over and over.
1. If you're using wireless, try a wired connection to see if that helps.
2. Try restarting your router/modem equipment
3. Access the Blizzard Looking glass site and capture the data (MTR ping etc) and report those results to the tech support forum. Could be issues on your ISP :/
http://us-looking-glass.battle.net/
4. if others in your home are doing things like streaming netflix or the like it could cause your connection to spike over and over.
Given the utter lack of details here, I feel compelled to back up a bit and seek some very basic clarification.11/05/2018 09:28 AMPosted by HpsEver since a few days ago I get massive lag spikes in game and it's making it impossible to play. Anyone else have the same issue?
"Lag" is network traffic, ping times.
"FPS Drop" or "Frame Rate Drop" is slowed or interrupted game display.
The first clarification is are you really talking about lag or do you mean frame rate drop?
If this is truly lag - if your ping times are above 200 for extended periods of time or spike above 400 then the issue is going to be in your connectivity somewhere.
There are some relatively basic tests that can be done to help isolate where in that connectivity but I'm not going to list them here until I'm sure this is your issue.
If this is frame rate drops, there are a number of things that can cause that - some in-game, some not - some software, some not - some settings-related, some not.
For users of the Adrenaline video drivers, for instance, something as simple as turning on mouse trails and then reducing the length of those trails to the minimum value can get rid of a certain class of frame rate drops (more specifically a frame rate stutter associated with first moving the mouse after leaving it idle for more than a few seconds).
As a start, you'd need to make sure your drivers are updated all the way down to the motherboard sub-components.
Since that's a good idea anyway, I'd suggest that regardless of whether this is truly "lag" or whether it's frame rate drops, you start with that.
How you do that depends on your hardware manufacturer. I pulled down a full suite of drivers all at once from Gigabyte just fine, but I have little recent experience with other manufacturers. I'm sure other posters here might be able to help you more with that.
One last thing, and this may sound a little silly, but if you haven't cleaned your PC in a while, you might give that a shot. Dust can interfere with cooling, not just of the CPU or GPU, but of individual components. Give everything a good shot of air and see how much visible dust is left behind.
If there's a LOT, you might want to consider shutting everything down and taking a day and a box of swabs and detailing your motherboard (very, very carefully) to get any clumps of accumulated dust and dirt away from the VRMs, the various heat sinks and heat spreaders and so forth.