Huge input lag on high graphics settings (Dying Light)

[Dr Girlfriend]

I'm not sure what's causing it. With max settings I'm still getting 50-60+ FPS, but my input lag feels like it's around 500ms, which is unplayable. Bump it down to medium graphics and the input lag decreases, but is still there, and I'm getting 70-90fps. Finally I decrease to low, there's zero input lag, and I have like 110-130fps.

I tried turning v-sync on and off, but it didn't help.

My current specs are in my sig. I'm playing on a 2k monitor.

 

[kaptainkuftic]

Does it do that for other games too?

 

[Dr Girlfriend]

Does it do that for other games too?

I don't play too many games these days, but it does happen in Skyrim as well. It does not happen in Overwatch or HoTS though.

 

[kaptainkuftic]

Does it do that for other games too?

I don't play too many games these days, but it does happen in Skyrim as well. It does not happen in Overwatch or HoTS though.

Hmm, if you have some time to test, open Dying Light, and set everything to max. Then take one setting (say textures) and move it to the lowest setting. Then test to see if you have the input lag. keep testing until you find the setting that is causing the problem.

 

[Dr Girlfriend]

Ok, so I can reduce the input lag by turning off Ambient Occlusion, and I can kill it by also turning off NVIDIA HBAO+ and NVIDIA Depth of Field.

I can keep everything else maxed out.

 

[kaptainkuftic]

Ok, so I can reduce the input lag by turning off Ambient Occlusion, and I can kill it by also turning off NVIDIA HBAO+ and NVIDIA Depth of Field.

I can keep everything else maxed out.

You shouldn't see much of a decrease in how the games look by taking those out. AO is a light affect that attempts to make light react realistically on surfaces like faces. The HBAO is related to AO too, try changing that to SSAO if you want, but it doesn't matter much either. Depth of field kind of speaks for itself, but it's fine to let go of too

 

[Dr Girlfriend]

Cool beans. I'm fine to play with them off, just confused as to why my FPS is fine with them on, but there's input lag. Unsure how or why that would happen.

 

[kaptainkuftic]

Cool beans. I'm fine to play with them off, just confused as to why my FPS is fine with them on, but there's input lag. Unsure how or why that would happen.

Solid question. My first guess was something with Direct X or something, but it could be a driver problem with your card.

if you see any weird problems like this in the future, use Display Driver Uninstaller to get rid of all drivers for the GPU, and then reinstall only the latest ones

 

[Dr Girlfriend]

Alrighty, thanks for the help!

 

[kaptainkuftic]

Alrighty, thanks for the help!

Happy to help 😀