Chief Blur Buster wrote: ↑02 Mar 2022, 18:46
If discouragement was endemic, Galileo wouldn't have managed to convince some of the world that the Earth was round. He was assaulted by discouragement by all sides. So was Einstein. Etc. History is rife with that.
The big problem with that comparison is, Galileo was a scientist and a once in a century genius who questioned an established system with brilliant methods. In fact, he was very well respected and praised by his often equally genius peers.
His life evolved around constantly trying to prove his claims. Trying to find evidence. Naturally you will have doubters and discouragement when you question established beliefs.
However, intellect aside, with the average "I have lag, here look this fixed it" user, it is the complete opposite. They propose problems or realities without any evidence and demand solutions.
But quantifying their issue? Proving it exists? That, they have absolutely 0 desire to do, not even in the slightest.
The result is that reading the forums is often less about incubated ideas and more fishing for something valuable in a large pool of waste.
Just some things to consider:
1. Everyone has input lag.
Saying you have lag is like saying water is wet. How much do you have (or think you have)? What makes you think you have that much? What is your baseline or point of comparison?
Also: inconsistency (i.e. your FPS are unstable, frametimes vary a lot, system latency seems to jump from 10 to 30ms) is far more noticeable than miniscule differences in the sub <3ms range.
Potential methods of testing and verifying:
- Frametime measurements with caprframeX.
- high quality camera recordings (no, an iphone 7 does not qualify as high quality).
- reaction time tests (http://draebenstedt.de/reaction/reaction.html or humanbenchmark).
- High speed camera recordings, Syslat, Nvidia LDAT
Anything to back up your claims is not only recommended but should be considered mandatory in order for people to attempt and seriously address the proposed problem.
If you do not even attempt to verify or prove your claims, that means you insist on people believing you without evidence. It's the equivalent of "source? trust me bro".
You could also try and verify your ability to tell miniscule differences in latency:
Download
this test. start with 10ms and gradually lower.
In my experience, very few, if any people can reliably tell the difference in the sub 10ms range. Yet, most commonly discussed tweaks would reduce system latency by far less than 10ms or even 2ms in almost EVERY case but the most extreme scenarios.
2. The human perception.
External factors can and will impact your perception.
These include but are not limited to: Physical health, mood, diet, time of day, age, fitness, mental health (happyness, depression), circadian clock (massive impact on your alertness), recent events (gf broke up with you? lost a game? got hired for your dream job?).
Can you say with certainty none of these factors negatively impact your performance or judgement at the point of you making the observation or writing the post?
3. Snakeoil
There is a likelihood you decided to have a problem due to an underlying issue. Most common would be "I don't hit my shots anymore, something seems off, it's like I'm cursed."
Now, what's the answer? Is it the input lag or something else?
Reflect and question your reality and your motives before assuming you are not performing because you have 2ms more input lag than with your last PC (hypothetical scenario). It certainly hasn't stopped the greatest esport players from becoming the greatest, so why would it stop you? Maybe the problem truly lies somewhere else.
If, however, the motive was to have the lowest possible input lag with the simple goal of maximizing your potential , then it is fine.
Just understand that a few tweaks will not artificially remove any other issues or shortcomings you may have.
Don't try to find snakeoil and don't try to sell snakeoil.
