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Please help either by rewriting the how-to content or by it to,. ( April 2016)In, lag is a noticeable delay between the action of and the reaction of the supporting the.The tolerance for lag depends on the type of game. For instance, a or a with a low pace may have a high threshold or even be mostly unaffected by high delays, whereas a game such as a with a considerably higher pace may require significantly lower delay to be able to provide satisfying gameplay. However, the specific characteristics of the game matter. For example, is a turn-based game that is fast action and may not tolerate high lag. Also, some twitch games can be designed such that only events that don't impact the outcome of the game introduce lag, allowing for fast local response most of the time. Contents.Etymology The origin of this term is unknown, but it might be from; compare lagga 'to move slowly'.Ping Ping refers to the network between a player's and the game as measured with the or equivalent.
Ping is reported quantitatively as an average time in (ms). The lower one's ping is, the lower the latency is and the less lag the player will experience. High ping and low ping are commonly used terms in online gaming, where high ping refers to a ping that causes a severe amount of lag; while any level of ping may cause lag, severe lag is usually caused by a ping of over 100 ms. This usage is a gaming cultural colloquialism and is not commonly found or used in professional computer networking circles. In games where timing is key, such as and games, a low ping is always desirable, as a low ping means smoother by allowing faster updates of game data between the players' clients and game server.High latency can cause lag. Game servers may disconnect a client if the latency is too high and may pose a detriment to other players' gameplay.
Similarly, client will often mandate disconnection if the latency is too high. High ping may also cause servers to crash due to instability.In some first-person shooter games, a high ping may cause the player to unintentionally gain unfair advantages, such as disappearing from one location and instantaneously reappearing in another, simulating the effect of teleportation, thus making it hard for other players to judge their character's position and subsequently making the player much more difficult to target.
To counter this, many game servers automatically kick players with a ping higher than average. Conversely, a high ping can make it very difficult for the player to play the game due to negative effects occurring, making it difficult for the player to track other players and even move their character.Rather than using the traditional echo request and reply to determine ping times, often build their own latency detection into existing game packets (usually based on the protocol) instead.Some factors that might affect ping include: used, Internet (connection speed), the quality of a user's Internet service provider and the configuration of. Ping is also affected by geographical location. For instance, if someone is in India, playing on a server located in the United States, the distance between the two is greater than it would be for players located within the US, and therefore it takes longer for data to be transmitted. However, the amount of packet-switching and network hardware in between the two computers is often more significant.
For instance, must modulate digital signals into, which is often more costly than the time it takes an electrical signal to traverse a typical span of cable. As such, lower ping can result in faster internet download and upload rates.Causes. A simplified game architectureWhile a maintains the main game state on the local machine, an requires it to be maintained on a central server in order to avoid inconsistencies between individual clients. As such, the client has no direct control over the central game state and may only send change requests to the server, and can only update the local game state by receiving updates from the server. This need to communicate causes a delay between the clients and the server, and is the fundamental cause behind lag.
While there may be numerous underlying reasons for why a player experiences lag, they can be summarized as insufficient hardware in either the client or the server, or a poor connection between the client and server.Hardware related issues cause lag due to the fundamental structure of the game architecture. Generally, games consist of a looped sequence of states, or 'frames'.
During each frame, the game accepts user input and performs necessary calculations (AI, graphics etc.). When all processing is finished, the game will update the game state and produce an output, such as a new image on the screen and/or a packet to be sent to the server. The frequency at which frames are generated is often referred to as the. As the central game state is located on the server, the updated information must be sent from the client to the server in order to take effect. In addition, the client must receive the necessary information from the server in order to fully update the state.
Generating packets to send to the server and processing the received packets can only be done as often as the client is able to update its local state. Although packets could theoretically be generated and sent faster than this, it would only result in sending redundant data if the game state cannot be updated between each packet.
A low frame rate would, therefore, make the game less responsive to updates and may force it to skip outdated data.Conversely, the same holds true for the server. The frame rate (or tick rate) of the server determines how often it can process data from clients and send updates.This type of problem is difficult to predict and compensate for. Apart from enforcing minimum hardware requirements and attempting to optimize the game for better performance, there are no feasible ways to deal with it.Perhaps the most common type of lag is caused by problems., or (an outdated packet is in effect a loss) may all cause problems, but these problems are relatively rare in a network with sufficient and no or little. Instead, the latency involved in transmitting data between clients and server plays a significant role. Latency varies depending on a number of factors, such as the physical distance between the end-systems, as a longer distance means additional transmission length and required and therefore higher latency. Routing over the may be extremely indirect, resulting in far more transmission length (and consequent latency) than a direct route, although the cloud gaming service has developed a solution to this issue by establishing relationships with multiple Internet Service Providers and choosing an optimal route between server and user. In addition, insufficient bandwidth and congestion, even if not severe enough to cause losses, may cause additional delays regardless of distance.
As with the hardware issues, packets that arrive slowly or not at all will make both the client and server unable to update the game state in a timely manner.Online game systems utilizing a may be subject to significant lag, depending on the architecture of the wireless network and local impacting that network. Electromagnetic interference (e.g. From a ) can cause transmitted packets to be lost, requiring a retransmission which incurs latency. Although through the air is faster than light through an optical fiber, wireless systems are often shared among many users and may suffer from latency incurred due to, or due to that introduce latency.Effects The noticeable effects of lag vary not only depending on the exact cause, but also on any and all techniques for lag compensation that the game may implement (described below). As all clients experience some delay, implementing these methods to minimize the effect on players is important for smooth gameplay. Lag causes numerous problems for issues such as accurate rendering of the game state and hit detection. In many games, lag is often frowned upon because it disrupts normal gameplay.
The severity of lag depends on the type of game and its inherent tolerance for lag. Some games with a slower pace can tolerate significant delays without any need to compensate at all, whereas others with a faster pace are considerably more sensitive and require extensive use of compensation to be playable (such as the first-person shooter genre). Due to the various problems lag can cause, players that have an insufficiently fast Internet connection are sometimes not permitted, or discouraged from playing with other players or servers that have a distant server host or have high latency to one another. Extreme cases of lag may result in extensive desynchronization of the game state.Lag due to an insufficient update rate between client and server can cause some problems, but these are generally limited to the client itself.
Other players may notice jerky movement and similar problems with the player associated with the affected client, but the real problem lies with the client itself. If the client cannot update the game state at a quick enough pace, the player may be shown outdated renditions of the game, which in turn cause various problems with hit- and collision detection. If the low update rate is caused by a low frame rate (as opposed to a setting on the client, as some games allow), these problems are usually overshadowed by numerous problems related to the client-side processing itself. Both the display and controls will be sluggish and unresponsive. While this may increase the perceived lag, it is important to note that it is of a different kind than network-related delays. In comparison, the same problem on the server may cause significant problems for all clients involved.
If the server is unable or unwilling to accept packets from clients fast enough and process these in a timely manner, client actions may never be registered. When the server then sends out updates to the clients, they may experience freezing (unresponsive game) and/or, depending on what types of lag compensation, if any, the game uses.Lag due to network delay is in contrast often less of a problem. Though more common, the actual effects are generally smaller, and it is possible to compensate for these types of delays. Without any form of lag compensation, the clients will notice that the game responds only a short time after an action is performed. This is especially problematic in first-person shooters, where enemies are likely to move as a player attempts to shoot them and the margin for errors is often small.Solutions and lag compensation There are various methods for reducing or disguising delays, though many of these have their drawbacks and may not be applicable in all cases. If synchronization is not possible by the game itself, the clients may be able to choose to play on servers in geographical proximity to themselves in order to reduce latencies, or the servers may simply opt to drop clients with high latencies in order to avoid having to deal with the resulting problems. However, these are hardly optimal solutions.
Instead, games will often be designed with lag compensation in mind.Many problems can be solved simply by allowing the clients to keep track of their own state and send absolute states to the server or directly to other clients. For example, the client can state exactly at what position a player's character is or who the character shot. This solution works and will all but eliminate most problems related to lag. Unfortunately, it also relies on the assumption that the client is honest. There is nothing that prevents a player from modifying the data they send, directly at the client or indirectly via a proxy, in order to ensure they will always hit their targets.
In online games, the risk of cheating may make this solution unfeasible, and clients will be limited to sending relative states (i.e. Which vector it moved on or shot in).Client-side As clients are normally not allowed to define the main game state, but rather receive it from the server, the main task of the client-side compensation is to render the virtual world as accurately as possible. As updates come with a delay and may even be dropped, it is sometimes necessary for the client to predict the flow of the game. Since the state is updated in discrete steps, the client must be able to estimate a movement based on available samples. Two basic methods can be used to accomplish this; and.Extrapolation is an attempt to estimate a future game state. As soon as a packet from the server is received, the position of an object is updated to the new position. Awaiting the next update, the next position is extrapolated based on the current position and the movement at the time of the update.
Essentially, the client will assume that a moving object will continue in the same direction. When a new packet is received, the position may be corrected slightly.Interpolation works by essentially buffering a game state and rendering the game state to the player with a slight, constant delay. When a packet from the server arrives, instead of updating the position of an object immediately, the client will start to interpolate the position, starting from the last known position. Over an interpolation interval, the object will be rendered moving smoothly between the two positions. Ideally, this interval should exactly match the delay between packets, but due to loss and variable delay, this is rarely the case.Both methods have advantages and drawbacks. Interpolation ensures that objects will move between valid positions only and will produce good results with constant delay and no loss.
Should dropped or out-of-order packets overflow the interpolation buffer the client will have to either freeze the object in position until a new packet arrives, or fall back on extrapolation instead. The downside of interpolation is that it causes the world to be rendered with additional latency, increasing the need for some form of lag compensation to be implemented. The problem with extrapolating positions is fairly obvious: it is impossible to accurately predict the future. It will render movement correctly only if the movement is constant, but this will not always be the case. Players may change both speed and direction at random.
This may result in a small amount of 'warping' as new updates arrive and the estimated positions are corrected, and also cause problems for hit detection as players may be rendered in positions they are not actually in.Often, in order to allow smooth gameplay, the client is allowed to do soft changes to the game state. While the server may ultimately keep track of ammunition, health, position, etc., the client may be allowed to predict the new server-side game state based on the player's actions, such as allowing a player to start moving before the server has responded to the command.
These changes will generally be accepted under normal conditions and make delay mostly transparent. Problems will arise only in the case of high delays or losses, when the client's predictions are very noticeably undone by the server.
Sometimes, in the case of minor differences, the server may even allow 'incorrect' changes to the state based on updates from the client.Server-side Unlike clients, the server knows the exact current game state, and as such prediction is unnecessary. The main purpose of server-side lag compensation is instead to provide accurate effects of client actions. This is important because by the time a player's command has arrived time will have moved on, and the world will no longer be in the state that the player saw when issuing their command. A very explicit example of this is hit detection for weapons fired in first-person shooters, where margins are small and can potentially cause significant problems if not properly handled.Rewind time Another way to address the issue is to store past game states for a certain length of time, then rewind player locations when processing a command.
The server uses the latency of the player (including any inherent delay due to interpolation; see above) to rewind time by an appropriate amount in order to determine what the shooting client saw at the time the shot was fired. This will usually result in the server seeing the client firing at the target's old position and thus hitting. In the worst case, a player will be so far behind that the server runs out of historical data and they have to start leading their targets.This is a solution that allows players to aim directly at what they are seeing. But the price is an aggravation of the effects of latency when a player is under fire: not only does their own latency play a part, but their attacker's too.
In many situations, this is not noticeable, but players who have just taken cover will notice that they carry on receiving damage/death messages from the server for longer than their own latency can justify. This can lead more often to the (false) impression that they were shot through cover and the (not entirely inaccurate) impression of 'laggy '.One design issue that arises from rewinding is whether to stop rewinding a dead player's lagged commands as soon as they die on the server, or to continue running them until they 'catch up' to the time of death.
Cutting compensation off immediately prevents victims from posthumously attacking their killers, which meets expectations, but preserves the natural advantage of moving players who round a corner, acquire a target and kill them in less time than a round trip to the stationary victim's client.Rewinding can be criticised for allowing the high latency of one player to negatively affect the experience of low-latency players. Servers with lag compensation will sometimes reduce the length of player history stored, or enforce ping limits, to reduce this problem.Trust clients It is possible for clients to tell the server what they are doing and for the server to trust the data it receives.
This method is avoided if at all possible due to its susceptibility to: it is a simple matter to route network data through a second computer which inserts fabricated hit messages or modifies existing ones, a technique which cannot be detected by tools.However, the sheer scale of some games makes computationally expensive solutions like impossible. In, for example, a 'hybrid hit detection' system is used where clients tell the server that they hit and the server performs only a vague test of plausibility before accepting the claim.Trusting a client's results otherwise has the same advantages and disadvantages as.Make clients extrapolate A less common lag solution is to do nothing on the server and to have each client extrapolate (see above) to cover its latency. This produces incorrect results unless remote players maintain a constant velocity, granting an advantage to those who dodge back and forth or simply start/stop moving.Extended extrapolation also results in remote players becoming visible (though not vulnerable) when they should not be: for example if a remote player sprints up to a corner then stops abruptly at the edge, other clients will render them sprinting onward, into the open, for the duration of their own latency. On the other side of this problem, clients have to give remote players who just started moving an extra burst of speed in order to push them into a theoretically-accurate predicted location.Design It is possible to reduce the perception of lag through. Techniques include playing client-side animations as if the action took place immediately, reducing/removing built-in timers on the host machine, and using camera transitions to hide warping. Cloud gaming is a type of online gaming where the entire game is hosted on a game server in a data center, and the user is only running a locally that forwards actions upstream to the game server. The game server then renders the next frame of the game video which is compressed using low-lag and is sent downstream and decompressed by the thin client.
For the cloud gaming experience to be acceptable, the round-trip lag of all elements of the cloud gaming system (the thin client, the Internet and/or LAN connection the game server, the game execution on the game server, the video and audio compression and decompression, and the display of the video on a ) must be low enough that the user perception is that the game is running locally. Because of such tight lag requirements, distance considerations of the through come into play, currently limiting the distance between a user and a cloud gaming game server to approximately 1000 miles, according to, the only company thus far operating a cloud gaming service.There is also much controversy about the lag associated with cloud gaming.
In multiplayer games using a client/server network architecture, the player's computer renders the game's graphics locally and only information about the player's in-game actions are sent to the server. For example, when the player presses a button, the character on-screen instantly performs the corresponding action.
However, the consequences of the action such as an enemy being killed are only seen after a short delay due to the time taken for the action to reach the server. This is only acceptable as long as the response to the player's input is fast enough.When using cloud gaming, inputs by the player can lead to short delays until a response can be seen by them. Inputs must first be transmitted to the remote server, then the server must start rendering the graphics of the action being performed and stream the video back to the player over the network, taking additional time. Thus, the player experiences a noticeable delay between pressing a button and seeing something happen on-screen. Depending on the skill and experience of the player, this can cause disorientation and confusion similar to and hampers navigation and aiming in the game world.
When rapidly inputting a long combination move, the on-screen character will not be synchronized with the button presses. This usually causes severe confusion in the player resulting in the failure of the combination move.The extra input lag can also make it very difficult to play certain single player games.
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A television’s input lag is the amount of time that elapses between a picture being generated by a source and that image appearing onscreen. When gaming, you’ll experience this as the time between making an input and seeing the reaction appear onscreen. It’s only important for gamers, and even then, different gamers will have different sensitivity to lag.We record the lowest input lag time of which a TV is capable, the amount of lag present when motion interpolation is enabled, and the amount of lag a TV has when using our calibrated settings at different resolutions and refresh rates. Update: We have added new input lag tests with the (1440p @ 60Hz, 1440p @ 120Hz, 1440p with VRR, 8k @ 60Hz, 8k with VRR). We have also removed rarely used tests (1080p @ 60Hz + HDR, 4k @ 60Hz @ 4:4:4 + 8 bit HDR).Update: We have added new input lag tests with the (4k @ 120Hz and Variable Refresh Rate).
We have also removed rarely used tests (1080p @ 60Hz @ 4:4:4, 1080p with Interpolation).Update: We have changed our testing methodology to use a. As a result, we have now measured 1080p @ 120Hz input lag for all supported TVs we have in our lab.Update: We are now testing input lag in various resolutions, including 4k and HDR.
We've retested all 2016 4k TVs that we bought so far. For testing 4k and HDR, we are using the Leo Bodnar tool chained into the and the to upscale to 4k and inject HDR metadata. These tools don't add any significant input lag to the measurements.Note: Input lag is not the same as response time. The response time is the time it takes a pixel to shift from one color to another, which is significantly shorter than the input lag time. Response time is related to.If you want to see our test for Monitors, check our ' article. Test results. When it mattersInput lag only matters for playing video games, either on a console or on a PC.With fast-paced games like shooters and fighting games, quick reflexes are key.
Lower input lag can mean the difference between a well-timed reaction and a move that takes too long to register and ends up countered by the opponent before it can ever be performed. This lag doesn’t matter for watching movies, though, so unless you’re a gamer and are worried about PC peripheral lag, or Nintendo, Xbox One, or PS4 controller input lag (or other controllers), you have nothing to worry about. Most people will not notice under 50 ms of input lag while more competitive gamers should look for a TV that can do below 40 ms.
Almost everyone will also find anything over 100 ms terrible to play with. Our tests 1080p @ 60Hz Input lag. This input lag test represents the lowest lag a TV is capable of achieving with a 1080p @ 60Hz signal. This number is important for most gamers on console or PC which have a Full-HD or 1080p output, such as the PS4 and Xbox One, and is even more important when playing fast-paced or competitive games. We use to perform this test, as it provides an accurate, continuous measurement of a TV’s input lag.To get the lowest amount of lag on most TVs, it’s necessary to enable 'Game' mode. On some, though, special steps are required, which we always list on the settings page of each TV.
1080p @ 60Hz Outside Game Mode. This input lag test represents the lowest lag a TV is capable of achieving when displaying a 4k @ 60Hz @ 4:4:4 signal. You can read more about 4:4:4; however, it is generally only useful for PC use. For most TVs, this requires changing to a PC mode or input icon, however, you can see our settings page of any TV for more information.For this test we use the same method as other input lag tests, however, we additionally test that chroma subsampling is displayed correctly. 4k @ 60Hz Outside Game Mode. Noticeable difference:15 msThis input lag time represents the lowest amount of lag a TV can get with the motion interpolation feature (soap opera effect) turned on and a 4k signal.
If you want to increase the frame rate of videos by adjusting the TV’s settings, this is a test you should care about. Just keep in mind that this setting will usually have significantly higher input lag than the TV’s minimum, and so isn’t great for competitive games (it works well for most RPGs and turn-based games, though).We use the same testing process as for the first test, only instead of enabling game mode, we enable motion interpolation at its highest setting.On most TVs, this isn't playable for fast games. Some people chose to live with a higher input lag to get a smoother motion.
8k @ 60Hz Input Lag. This is similar to the 1080p @ 60Hz input lag test; however, a variable refresh rate signal is sent instead (such as FreeSync), using the maximum refresh rate available on the TV (such as 120Hz). You can read more about variable refresh rate (VRR), but in a nutshell when a game's framerate changes, a VRR capable display will show the framerate changes smoothly without sudden framerate jumps; VRR also often has very low input lag. This test is useful for PC and Xbox One S / One X gamers who have a TV that is capable of using VRR. 1440p with VRR.
When it matters:Console gaming; both PS4 and Xbox One S/X support ALLM.This tests whether a game console can request the TV switch into a game mode when a game is being played, and into a non-game mode when non-game content is played. This is one of the new specs introduced with HDMI 2.1 and has been backported to some HDMI 2.0 TVs such as 2018 Samsung TVs. This feature is useful if you use a game console for watching other content, like Netflix, and want to use a fully-featured picture mode for this content. Currently, only the Xbox One S / One X support the official HDMI ALLM spec, but the PS4 and PS4 Pro have a similar Sony proprietary feature that works on most TVs.
Additional information How input lag is measured. An input lag of 40ms can be seen on the television.Input lag is not an official television specification because it depends on two varying factors: the type of source and the settings of the television. The easiest way you can measure it is by connecting a computer to the TV and displaying the same timer on both screens. You can find a timer.
Then, if you take a picture of both screens, the time difference will be your input lag. This is, however, an approximation, because your computer does not necessarily output both signals at the same time. In this example image, an input lag of 40ms (1:06:260 – 1:06:220) is indicated.In our tests, we measure input lag using a dedicated device made just for this purpose:. This is a lot more accurate than the two screens method. Why there is input lag on TVs. The total input lag time is the addition of three partsThree main functions delay the television: acquiring the source image, processing the image, and displaying it. Acquisition of the imageThe more time it takes for the TV to receive the source image, the more input lag there will be.
With modern digital TVs, using an HDMI cable will allow you to minimize the acquisition time, as that will transfer from the source a digital signal that is easily accepted by the TV.You might find a bit more lag is present with analog connections, like component or composite cables. This is because the TV needs to convert the analog signal to digital before video can be displayed, and the conversion process takes time. Video ProcessingOnce the image is in a format understandable by the video processor, it will apply at least some processing to alter the image in some way. A few examples:. Adding overlays (like menus).
Adjusting the colors and brightness. Interpolating the picture to match the television's refresh rate. Scaling it (like 720p to 1080p, or 1080p to UHD)The time this step takes is affected by the speed of the video processor and the amount of processing needed. Though you cannot control the speed of the processor, you can exercise some control over how many operations it needs to do by enabling and disabling settings. The more settings you enable, the more work the processor needs to achieve.Some televisions have a dual-core processor in them. This can help to reduce the input lag if a lot of processing options are turned on.
Displaying the imageOnce the television has processed the image, it is ready to be displayed on the screen. This is the step where the video processor sends the image to the screen.
The screen cannot change its state instantly, and the amount of time it will take depends on the technology and components of the television. There’s, unfortunately, no way to improve or control the amount of time taken by this phase; it is a fixed amount of time for each television. How to get the best resultsMost televisions can be adjusted so that they do not have high input lag.