Question What are good internet settings for online gaming ?

[marliyna]

I was playing an fps game and my game started lagging. I'm playing on the first pc I built and I'm not sure if there's something wrong with the internet or my pc. Are these normal numbers/good for gaming?

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[Ralston18]

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

PSU: make, model, wattage, age, condition (original to build, new, used, refurbished)?

Disk drive(s): make, model, capacity, how full?

Attached peripherals?

What games do you play?

 

[marliyna]

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

PSU: make, model, wattage, age, condition (original to build, new, used, refurbished)?

Disk drive(s): make, model, capacity, how full?

Attached peripherals?

What games do you play?

PC Specs
Motherboard: MSI B650 EDGE WiFi ATX
CPU: Ryzen 5 7600X
GPU: Gigabyte Geforce RTX 4060
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken 360
RAM: Corsair Vengance RGB DDR5-5600 32GB CL40 Dual Channel
SSD-1: Corsair Force MP600 CORE XT SSD 2TB PCIe 4.0 M.2
SSD-2: Samsung 870 EVO SSD 1TB 2.5'' SATA 600
PSU: Corsair RM750, (about 8-9 months old and bought new)
Case: NZXT H9 Elite
OS: Windows 11 Pro

Disk C is 80% full and disk D is 5% full. I don't think I have any attached peripherals and I mainly play Apex legends and Overwatch

 

[Ralston18]

Use Task Manager, Resource Monitor, and Process Explorer (Microsoft, free) to observe system performance.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

Use all three tools but only one tool at a time.

You will need to keep the tool window open and viewable while working and gaming.

Objective simply to learn more about your system's performance. Determine what happens or perhaps stops happening when game play lags.

It will require some time and effort to figure out a method that works for you.

As for the presented upload and download speeds that is mostly a matter of what service level(s) your ISP provides. However, the problem could be some faulty network component (cable) or network mis-configuration. Watch network performance.

And if you discover any performance problems directly attributable to a given game then the PC Gaming folks may be able to comment and make suggestions.

First though is to identify where/when lagging occurs.

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[Side note: I limit my disks to 70-80% of capacity. That is just me. Your Disk C is at the upper limit so keep an eye on it. If possible do some "housekeeping" to remove unecessary files. Be sure that everything important is backed up at least 2 x to locations away from the system in question.. Verify that the backups are recoverable and readable.]

 

[bill001g]

Speedtest means very little when you talk online games. They might use 1mbps and if you have more it does not really make the game run better or faster. It just means you can run other stuff at the same time in your house and the game can still get the 1mbps it needs.

Although speedtest show latency number these mean little. First it is the latency to the speedtest server not the game server. In addition it is testing when the internet is at 100% load which we can hope you are not doing when you try to play your game.

Games really don't are about bandwidth they care about the latency and more specifically they care that the latency is consistent. Games use the timing between packet to keep the client and server in sync. When the 2 are not in sync you will see what gamers call lag and when it is really bad you see teleporting.

Your best test is a simple ping command. Open a couple cmd windows. To start with a constant ping run to your router IP and in the other cmd window run a ping to a common ip like 8.8.8.8. When the game shows issue quickly tab over to these cmd windows and see if anything looks different. What you are mostly looking for is packet loss or very large spikes in the latency. 10-30ms of variation is fairly normal and will not cause a issue. You are looking for things like 100ms of variation.

In most cases you will not see issues to your router ip. I will assume you are using ethernet. It is extremely common to see latency spikes on wifi.

If you see issue to 8.8.8.8 but not to your router this generally means there is some issue with the internet connection coming to your house. If neither show issues it is going to be more complex. You can try to ping the game servers themselves....if the game company has not blocked the ability to ping. Unfortantly even if you were to find some issue to the game server and not to google (8.8.8.8) it will likely be outside even your ISP ability to fix. It can be some issue between any 2 ISP in the path or in the game companies data center or the server itself.

What you really hope is you see packet loss to 8.8.8.8. Most times this idicates a issue in the connection to your house the ISP can easily fix.............you just have to get a lvl 1 ISP tech that is not a idiot.