For the first time in a very long time, the input lag problem is completely gone.

[kimchi man]

I am one of the people experiencing exactly the same issue that many of you are dealing with.

Today I played Apex Legends, and the difference compared to normal was enormous.

I use a 240Hz monitor, but under normal conditions it feels more like 80 FPS. There is noticeable motion blur and even a sense of dizziness. It is not smooth at all.

However, today was different. Everything felt incredibly smooth, almost as if I had put on a VR headset and stepped into the game world itself.

There was also a huge difference in image clarity. Everything on the screen looked sharp and well-defined. I use a 1080p monitor, but the image quality honestly felt comparable to the 4K TV in my house.

My aim definitely improved as well, although it still wasn't quite as good as I remember it being.

This only lasted for the first and second matches. After that, the experience gradually degraded and returned to its usual state.

There is one important thing to pay attention to here: I did not change anything. The problem suddenly disappeared and then came back on its own.

This suggests that the cause is not something static, but rather something that changes over time.

In other words, my conclusion is that fixed hardware (PC, cables, monitor) and software (Windows, BIOS) are very unlikely to be the root cause of the problem.

In fact, this is not the first time I have experienced something like this. Including this case, I have experienced it seven times across different games: Battlefield, Monster Hunter Rise/Wilds, Apex Legends, Rainbow Six Siege, and Elden Ring.

The common factor in every single case is that I changed absolutely nothing.

I feel like I am finally starting to see the outline of the real problem.

I hope people stop spending money on hardware and software upgrades in an attempt to fix this issue. In my opinion, they are not the cause of the problem, nor can they improve it, even slightly.

[kimchi man]

One more thing I'd like to add is that, in my opinion, this issue is not simply a matter of black and white.

It's not a case of either having the problem or not having it at all.

Rather, there seem to be different levels of severity. Some people may be affected only slightly, while others may experience it much more severely.

In other words, the extent to which the underlying cause affects someone appears to vary from person to person.

That's why two people can have the same root issue but experience it very differently. One person may barely notice it, while another may find it severe enough to significantly impact their gameplay.

[amorou]

I experience this every couple days man
And yes its not on and off , every home i tested has different intensity of this ( some re near perfect )

[MK92]

Neutral impedance and voltage drift changes constanlty depending on load, and admins still call this "niche issues" lmao, 95% of people here have electrical problems and nothing else. I fixed it by getting a fresh dedicated circuit and fixing main neutral bar.

[Yazeedtt]

Neutral impedance and voltage drift changes constanlty depending on load, and admins still call this "niche issues" lmao, 95% of people here have electrical problems and nothing else. I fixed it by getting a fresh dedicated circuit and fixing main neutral bar.

How much did it cost you

[MK92]

Around 350€, but this heavily depend on how close the main panel is to your room, it can be even lower but it can also cost you 1000€ if the distance is big

[popop1]

for me, removing the mousepad fixes it and improves the blur + desync

[amorou]

Neutral impedance and voltage drift changes constanlty depending on load, and admins still call this "niche issues" lmao, 95% of people here have electrical problems and nothing else. I fixed it by getting a fresh dedicated circuit and fixing main neutral bar.

Agreed.

By main neutral bar did you mean your flat's or buildings main bar , do u live in apartment or single house ?

[MK92]

I live in an old apartment with TN-C system, the bars are located in the hallway, not in apartment itself.

In my case, it was like this:

During day:
PC worked bad whole the time, but not extremely bad ---> if I turned on oven, induction hob or clothing iron, the PC became great ----> when I turned OFF those devices, the PC became even worse than at the beginning, it was literally not usable - it needed about 1 hour to stabilize and became just "bad" again, not extremely bad.

During night:
After midnight, it always worked perfectly fine for some reason.

So it was probably two different issues - the first issue was a 55-year-old wiring in my apartment that was probably corroded and broken already, and this was fixed by bypassing the wall wiring by installing a fresh dedicated current - this fixed PC instability during the day and oven / induction effect; I also had PC socket on the same circuit as those appliances. It was 99,99% neutral drift and neutral impedance issues, and then voltage sags.

While the second issue was apparentlly dirty electricity coming in from neighbours through shared neutrals, and this is why it worked fine at night. Looks like replacing the connectors at neutral bar fixed this, or maybe the entire fix was just a dedicated circuit, OR it was just a faulty neutral bar and I wouldn't even need a dedicated circuit, who knows.

[adrian_13371]

I live in an old apartment with TN-C system, the bars are located in the hallway, not in apartment itself.

In my case, it was like this:

During day:
PC worked bad whole the time, but not extremely bad ---> if I turned on oven, induction hob or clothing iron, the PC became great ----> when I turned OFF those devices, the PC became even worse than at the beginning, it was literally not usable - it needed about 1 hour to stabilize and became just "bad" again, not extremely bad.

During night:
After midnight, it always worked perfectly fine for some reason.

So it was probably two different issues - the first issue was a 55-year-old wiring in my apartment that was probably corroded and broken already, and this was fixed by bypassing the wall wiring by installing a fresh dedicated current - this fixed PC instability during the day and oven / induction effect; I also had PC socket on the same circuit as those appliances. It was 99,99% neutral drift and neutral impedance issues, and then voltage sags.

While the second issue was apparentlly dirty electricity coming in from neighbours through shared neutrals, and this is why it worked fine at night. Looks like replacing the connectors at neutral bar fixed this, or maybe the entire fix was just a dedicated circuit, OR it was just a faulty neutral bar and I wouldn't even need a dedicated circuit, who knows.

Until you guys can actually measure and capture the "PC working bad" because of "dirty" electricity to me it's all schizo posting and placebo. There is literally zero videos/benchmark that show the difference between how pc works on "clean" vs "dirty" electricity