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lardo
Adept I

2020 GUIDE, Improve aim, system latency, and input lag "Esports"

   I've seen many guides for "gaiming/ lower latency/ esports" but many have harmful details with lacking supporting evidence or outdated reasoning like timer resolution. I made a guide to improve aim, system latency, and input lag

BUT, most importantly I wanted a simple guide... This isn't an argumentative guide, but these are basic concepts, proof/data is in links at the bottom.

I just edited a guide I made for personal use. Here is something like I would do,/ currently use 

 

-Turn windows 10 game mode on (search for it in start menu, it's in settings)

 

-Turn off mouse acceleration in windows 10 by going into "mouse setting" and click "additional mouse options" then click "pointer options" and uncheck "enhance pointer percision"

 

-Graphics settings on high for .exe's, like games (search for graphics settings in search menu and add them to it)

 

-Ryzen high performance (In Chipset drivers can be found on motherboards website) is a power option/power plan (this will change if you use follow Process Lasso steps)

 

-Diable fullscreen optimizations (right click on exe's on desktop and (go into properties, compatability) Fixes windows 10 fullscreen issues/ input delay

 

-Disable xbox game bar (search "game bar settings" in start menu) (everyone agrees this is trash)

 

-Install Process Lasso and enable performance mode (in main setting) and set games to high priority (literally right click on an exe. in Lasso) (download) https://bitsum.com

Don't use AMD anti-lag or NVIDIA low latency unless you are GPU bound or use it if your GPU is going above 95% utilization is a game. (source) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CKnJ5ujL_Q&t=636s

-Don't screw with any timers or cmd edits they are outdated tweaks.

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OTHER USE FULL NOTES
-New drivers have a E-sports mode that enables AMD antilag, sharpening, and changes tessellation. Antilag and sharpening are usually not good.
-Sharpening usually makes games look terrible (overwatch)
-Cap your frames! FPS or framerate is directly related to input lag, the more fps, the less input lag. more below (ideally 144hz display)
--If your fps is all over the place, your input lag or frametime varies giving you inconsistent input lag which will hurt your muscle memory!
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-Source for windows 10 game mode being ON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVNRNOcLUuA&feature=youtu.be&t=599
-Source for Disabeling fullscreen Opt., details included from microsoft engineer Demystifying Fullscreen Optimizations | DirectX Developer Blog 

-Post about timer edits being harmful https://www.overclock.net/forum/375-mice/1742922-win-10-1909-bcdedit-set-useplatformtick-yes-causes-... 
Credit: Battlenonsense (YouTube)

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lardo
Adept I

That's crazy, cool stuff. Btw, "Using common 60 Hz monitor as an example, the maximum theoretical frame rate is 60 FPS (frames per second), which means the minimum theoretical input lag for the overall system is approximately 16.67 ms (1 frame/60 FPS)." You can still go higher fps, but with tearing, i'd just recommend a 144hz panel, they are relatively cheap nowadays. But that's more if your into really competitive games.  

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lardo
Adept I

Sorry had to branch a lot of off topic messages

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aballarde_1
Adept I

I have a lot of issues related to heavy lag, I'm talking about 16 ms (frame times) in old games. My Adrenalin software with -7 for frequency and manual agreesive fan curve. All other setting off or disabled  AM5 AMD Ryzen 9 7900x system with 64gb DDR5 RAM.  So I wish I can use some of your valuable info to see exactly from where that latency problem is coming from. 

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mengelag
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This is an excellent guide, @Sam_AMD is there a way we can PIN this? 

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It is an excellent guide @mengelag @lardo

Instead of pinning it, I'm going to post it to our How-To articles repository (where I'm sure it will get lots of views).

Sam
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mengelag
Volunteer Moderator

That's a great idea! I'm sure I can benefit from this, my aiming is horrible haha 

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