Windows 10: How to reduce Latency for Gaming on PC

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If you are an online gamer, your utmost priority would be to minimize latency as much as possible. Any sign of latency can exacerbate your experience and can cost your precious K/D Ratio. In this post, we will learn how to reduce latency for gaming on a Windows 11/10 PC. How to reduce Latency for […]

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Reducing Game Latency

It's been a while since I loaded up CoD4, I'd say just load up the browser list and find one that looks good to ya and has latency under 300...usually the browser at least for me was always reading higher than my actual latency to the server, so in a 300 room I'd actually get around 120-150ms latency which I could live with.

*Toast :toast:

 

Reduce render latency while gaming

You can adjust the graphics settings in your game to reduce the strain on your graphics card and improve performance.

you're playing an online game, make sure your internet connection is stable and fast enough.

you may need to upgrade your hardware, such as your graphics card or processor, to improve your gaming performance.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/gfe...

I hope this help you let me know if you need further assistance.

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What can cause download latency spikes?

Hello Anthony Michael Worrow,

I'm glad you built a new machine but I'm sorry you're facing download latency spikes and causing freeze or go offline. Have you changed your network bandwidth, or could you please to tell me when this happened within 24 hours or just during a specific time period? Here are some suggestions:

Please switch to wired network (turn off Wifi)

Close other programs or devices that are using the network, of course you can perform a clean boot and close any non-Microsoft third-party apps(antivirus) to lunch your game again.

These steps of "clean boot" might look complicated at first glance. However, to avoid any trouble for you, please follow them in order and step-by step so that it will help you get you back on track.

Choose a server closer to you: You can choose a server closer to you in your game settings to play the game. This can reduce the distance your data travels over the network and reduce your network latency.

Use a network accelerator to reduce latency.

Check your machine performance: Each game have detailed parameters so please make sure it meets the running requirements.

I hope these methods help you enjoy multiplayer games better.

Best Regards,

Lenka-MSFT| Microsoft Community Support Specialist