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does updating 10/100m/1000m gigabit ethernet pci actually help competitive strategy games on wi-fi?

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  1. Vik I.
    @viki679

    I keep reading guides that say to tweak network adapter settings for competitive strategy games: disable interrupt moderation, disable power saving, change buffers. Some of it sounds like cargo cult stuff ;) On Wi-Fi, what has actually helped u? 馃槀 And does updating 10/100M/1000M Gigabit Ethernet PCI matter? Im especially interested in what you measured before and after, not just what felt better. If u tried a tweak and it did nothing, thats usfeul information too. any ideas??

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  2. Lina
    @lina_thread

    hmmm do the spikes also show when pinging your router? ?

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  4. Freya Reid
    @freya.reid

    im literally losing my mind here my second monitor setup is officially haunted pls help 馃檹

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  5. Bram M.
    @bram.moreau

    ahh classic itnerrupt moderation tweaks can lower latency slightly but increase CPU usage... the difference is usually small.. ;) id only test it if uve ruled out bigger issues. good luck man!

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  6. Freya Reid
    @freya.reid

    finally got it working, thanks everyone. bump. still happening with ethernet for me

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  7. Daria
    @daria.koch

    ugh. reading this at 2am instead of sleeping, no regrets

    the real fix was the friends we made along the way

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  8. Freya Reid
    @freya.reid

    oof for a racing game, the biggest latency factors are usually Wi-Fi interference, router bufferbloat and teh route to teh server... drivers matter less, unless a specific version has a bug, test with a wired connection first if you can.

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  9. Freya Reid
    @freya.reid

    ahh classic to measure, run ping -t to your router and to an outside address at the same time while playing :D if the router ping spikes too, the issue is local (Wi-Fi/driver/interference). if only teh outside ping spikes, its further out.

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  10. Silas Torres
    @daemonworks
    in reply to @freya.reid

    wait what i've seen driver updates genuinely fix periodic spieks. background scanning behavior changes between versions. idk maybe im wrong lol

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