Reducing latency for games
Posted: 16 Jun 2011, 15:25
Reducing latency for games:
When you play in a network (local or Internet), the latency is very important. It corresponds to the response time between when you press a button or move the mouse and when the desired action is executed in the game by default, Windows combines small packets into one before sending (algorithm Nagle). By disabling this feature, small packets will be transferred immediately, without delay, thus reducing your latency.
Caution, this can slow down your file transfers. To implement so when you want to play network games and just after your downloads. Note that this operation is valid for Windows Vista (with SP1) and Windows 7.
When you play in a network (local or Internet), the latency is very important. It corresponds to the response time between when you press a button or move the mouse and when the desired action is executed in the game by default, Windows combines small packets into one before sending (algorithm Nagle). By disabling this feature, small packets will be transferred immediately, without delay, thus reducing your latency.
Caution, this can slow down your file transfers. To implement so when you want to play network games and just after your downloads. Note that this operation is valid for Windows Vista (with SP1) and Windows 7.
- Click the Start button. In the Search field, type the command regedit.
- Click the right mouse button on the program regedit.exe and select Run as administrator.
- Unroll the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Services, Tcpip, Parameters, Interfaces.
- Then open the key) (NIC NIC which is the identifier of your network card. To find the right key, open them all, but is that where your local IP address is specified (if you do not know, use the ipconfig command )
- Click the Edit menu, click New then DWORD Value 32bit.
- Name the new value TcpAckFrequency and double click it.
- Enter 1 in the Value Data field and click OK.
- Pull the key from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SOFTWARE, Microsoft, MSMQ.
- Click the Edit menu, click New then click Key.
- Name the new key Parameters.
- Click the Edit menu, click New then DWORD Value 32bit.
- Name the new value TCPNoDelay and double click it.
- Enter 1 in the Value Data field and click OK.
- Finally close the registry editor and reboot your computer to apply changes.
