Sponsored | Published on 23 Apr 2021
Most of us haven’t really experienced low-latency gaming or wouldn’t be able to tell the difference unless it is explicitly pointed out. If you prefer single-player games with campaigns that rarely have quick reflexes or RPG games where the focus is more on character building and strategic combat instead of fast reactions, then low system latency will hardly matter. In fact, we’ve all certainly experienced really high system latencies during gaming and weren’t really bothered by it. It becomes a nuisance when you start noticing your ingame characters lagging a little behind your controller input. Again, the most noticeable instances would be experienced in online games wherein your ISP’s connection to the game servers take a slightly longer route resulting in higher network latency, and thereby, causing your ingame characters to lag behind a little. Did you notice that we were talking about two different kinds of latencies here? There’s actually a lot more.