lexlazootin wrote:We're talking about a player that doesn't understand screen tearing and i suppose didn't know it was normal.
This is not the case here, and you have completely misunderstood what he is really saying.
The main problem is that
his in game performance varies a lot:
Some days or even hours it is better. Some days it is the worst. It DOES really change a lot.
- he has mentioned it several times in his posts.
And he assumes that what he sees and feels is the problem. Tearing, motion blur, stutter, input lag - internet connection problems (huge variance in network performence) may make you feel like these things are the problem, not sure how it works (probably a mind doing its thing), but you might feel that these things are somehow amplified at times and that it creates the problem that you are experiencing. But the key thing here is this: Tearing, motion blur, stutter, input lag - all of it will be
always there if the problem is on your side, it will not go away or magically disappear just to surprise and bother you 2 days or 2 hours later. People need to understand that when the perceived problem is constant it is on the clients side and it can be fixed, if the perceived problem shows up randomly and randomly goes away, it is an internet connection problem that can't be fixed on clients side, no matter what you do. Please keep in mind that i am still talking and referring to online game performence here, because this is the reason all these people came here for help. Apart from this topic, there are others,
here and
here, all these guys feel like their problem is related to "Tearing, motion blur, stutter, input lag" that affects their in game performence to a bigger degree. I had a similar way of thinking in the past, despite knowing deep down that i had internet connection problems.
And lets get a little more intense here. Do you really think that all these people would not be able to fix their problem for all these years ? All of them had this problem for years and still can't figure it out. It is because they are looking at the wrong thing here. If you play the game day after day, everyday, and you experience huge variance in your gaming performance that clearly creates problems and affects your gameplay, then think about this. Nothing in your hardware, software or system changes during that time,
nothing. The only thing that changes constantly is your network performance, and the only thing that can have a huge effect on your online gaming, create serious problems ("hit registration") and incosistencies, are network performance fluctuations. Hardware, software or system related problems can't do that.
Do you know why all these people came here for help ? Because they have convinced themselfes that their problem is related to "Tearing, motion blur, stutter, input lag" or a combination of these things. So they bought themselfes new high end hardware, new ultra fast monitors, gaming mouses... and guess what, it didn't change a damn thing. And now they are going mental, because they can't figure out what the problems is ! One guy is going deep into electrical problems, the other one thinks that it is a game engine problem that is affecting only him (!) and not the other people, third guy doesn't want to believe that it is a internet problem, even when
everything he says clearly points out to it. And what is even worse, people like you lexlazootin claim that there is no problem at all, and people are either imagining things or they are just bad at playing the game.
Please learn to read between the lines, use logic and common sense. None of these people came here, because they had "Tearing, motion blur, stutter, input lag" problems, they came here because their
online game performence varies a lot, creating huge problems and inconsistencies of how the game feels like. And the sad thing is, you won't be able to help them, fix their problem, or even diagnose it, based on your area of expertise. Why ? Because it is completely unrelated to what the real problem is, which is an internet connection related problem.
Another very important thing that people here clearly don't understand. When playing via internet, apart from players skill, network performance is the most important thing when it comes to FPS gaming, it is so important that everything else becomes really irrelevant. And by everything else i mean, mouse, monitor, 60fps@60Hz, low end pc (low fps), tearing, stutter, motion blur. All of it doesn't really matter if player has skill and great network performence (low ping and perfect or near perfect hit reg). Example:
1) high skilled player will be play at the same level, even with 60fps@60hz, low end pc (low fps), random mouse, as long as he has low ping and great hit reg. Your eyes can adjust to 60fps@60Hz (even when you change from 144fps@144Hz), and you can get used to random mouse, tearing, motion blur and stutter, in the end it will not affect your performence
to a significant degree as long as you have low ping and good hit reg.
2) high skilled player will not be able to play at the same level, when he has really bad network performence (bad hit registration) even if he has best hardware in the world. Bad network performence can skill cap you so bad, that you go from being elite/high skilled to average skilled (gaming via internet). Bad network performance may render gaming unplayable, regardless of what your hardware is.
lexlazootin wrote:
Occam's razor please. I'm open to other possibility but this internet/power thing is stupid with no evidence to back it up.
I can now say that without shadow of a doubt you have no idea what you are talking about, mostly because you simply don't understand how internet works and how important its performance is in relation to online gaming. You can't play online if you don't have internet or if your internet doesn't work. So how anyone dares to say that internet performance fluctuations can have any affect on online game performence... god, ignorance at its fullest.
@lexlazootin, the sooner you realize that you are wrong and lack knowledge and experience in this area, the better. Only then you will be able to help other people that are experiencing these problems, and the sooner they realize what the real culprit is, the better and healthier for them, they will be able to make a peace with it and move on with their lives.