11-10-2015, 01:01 PM
(11-10-2015, 12:39 PM)Stonyhands Wrote: So in theory can you improve latency by increasing bandwidth? Or am I busted doomed to die a lag filled death over and over again until I move back to society?
No, increasing your bandwidth won't change much, if anything at all, when it comes to online gaming.
There are different things that can cause perceived "lag" in video gaming. One of them could be server location. Take League of Legends for example, my ping got significantly better when they moved from the west coast to a more centralized location in the U.S. I changed nothing on my end, but they moved their servers and now people in the middle and eastern side of the country have more steady and low ping. Does this affect most of us very much? Not quite, but if you're super serious about gaming, every millisecond counts.
Another thing that you could check out is input lag on your monitor/TV. There are tons of articles out there that discuss the topic, and some television sets are noticeably terrible for gaming even by a casual gamer's eyes.
That's about my general knowledge of latency and video game lag. More bandwidth isn't going to change anything, server location can be a big deal, and input lag on some TV sets is a very real drawback. I'm sure Au165 can shed some light on this, he read some book that I haven't, so hopefully he can help out here too.
