Hello everyone,
For a couple months now, I've been experiencing huge ping spikes while playing the online multiplayer game League of Legends. I always thought it was due to Internet problems (Netalyzr showed a huge upload buffer), until a few days ago, when I changed ISP and it solved my buffer problems, but not my lag spikes.
I am starting to suspect that my ping spikes aren't related to my network, but to other hardware problems within my computer, but I don't know if this is possible.
The symptoms are:
-While playing LoL, I get huge ping spikes at key moments in the game (when game elements spawn, during fights, when things get revealed through the fog of war).
-I check my ping via: cmd prompt -> "ping google.com -t". I let it run all the time. It is stable at 17-20 ms out of game and while surfing the net. Watching HD streams might make it rise to ~40 ms. Playing LoL creates sudden ping spikes from the usual 20 ms to over 1300 ms periodically throughout the game.
-I haven't played much DotA2, but I have gotten huge ping spikes in it too.
Now, the key thing is that I've been getting those ping spikes in single player LoL custom games too, but not while doing network intensive tasks like watching HD videos or uploading videos on Youtube (ping only goes up to ~200-300 ms when the network is getting stressed to its full potential).
My question is: is it possible that hardware failure other than my wireless LAN card can actually cause those ping spikes? For example, lag in the motherboard or the RAM or my graphics card is indirectly causing huge network ping spikes.
My computer is 2 years old, but has had a ton of problems in the past. It loads very slowly and behaves weirdly to certain things (like trying to launch files like setup.exe or various installers causes my file folder to stop responding and it doesn't launch the program. However, right clicking and choosing "run as administrator" works perfectly fine.). I have gotten many different BSODs in the past and recently too.
Any help is greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance!
For a couple months now, I've been experiencing huge ping spikes while playing the online multiplayer game League of Legends. I always thought it was due to Internet problems (Netalyzr showed a huge upload buffer), until a few days ago, when I changed ISP and it solved my buffer problems, but not my lag spikes.
I am starting to suspect that my ping spikes aren't related to my network, but to other hardware problems within my computer, but I don't know if this is possible.
The symptoms are:
-While playing LoL, I get huge ping spikes at key moments in the game (when game elements spawn, during fights, when things get revealed through the fog of war).
-I check my ping via: cmd prompt -> "ping google.com -t". I let it run all the time. It is stable at 17-20 ms out of game and while surfing the net. Watching HD streams might make it rise to ~40 ms. Playing LoL creates sudden ping spikes from the usual 20 ms to over 1300 ms periodically throughout the game.
-I haven't played much DotA2, but I have gotten huge ping spikes in it too.
Now, the key thing is that I've been getting those ping spikes in single player LoL custom games too, but not while doing network intensive tasks like watching HD videos or uploading videos on Youtube (ping only goes up to ~200-300 ms when the network is getting stressed to its full potential).
My question is: is it possible that hardware failure other than my wireless LAN card can actually cause those ping spikes? For example, lag in the motherboard or the RAM or my graphics card is indirectly causing huge network ping spikes.
My computer is 2 years old, but has had a ton of problems in the past. It loads very slowly and behaves weirdly to certain things (like trying to launch files like setup.exe or various installers causes my file folder to stop responding and it doesn't launch the program. However, right clicking and choosing "run as administrator" works perfectly fine.). I have gotten many different BSODs in the past and recently too.
Any help is greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance!