[Issue 38] How To Mitigate Lags

TriNitroToIuene · August 13, 2015

WITHOUT CHANGING YOUR BROWSER SETTINGS OR YOUR COMPUTER

The Isida next to you suddenly starts doing the Harlem shake for no reason. Shaft beams suddenly gain the ability to pass through solid surfaces. Your tank becomes a creaking, rusting, hologram. The dubstep-ish sounds playing in the background decide to metamorph into mobile notification tunes.

Nah, it's not a parallel universe - it's called lag!

What is lag?

~~Lag is when you travel in a plane and have difficulty in adjusting to the time zones, or when you are really far behind someone or something and have to catch up~~.

Hello, this is Tanki Online we're talking about.

Simply put, lag is when your computer lags behind the server time and therefore you notice a prominent time-lapse, simply put, everything loops for a while and then speeds up and comes back to normal.

Or, if you guys, like my dad, choose to go only with the best, here is the dictionary's definition -

Lag

Lag is impaired computer functionality (slow application responses or reduced/choppy framerates) resulting in high latency, packet loss, or low-performance (generally video) hardware.

That's it in pro language, but if you couldn't understand, let me clarify - when your gameplay goes wonky, you know it's time to run around the house with your arms up, shouting for the Telecommunications Government to fix your connection.

What are the types of lag?

Good question. Really good question.

But the frank answer is, lag isn't classified yet.

But never fear, people! I'm here with a few unofficial classifications of my own! *Na na na na na na TNTman!*

There are two types of lag, IMO, depending on how serious the lag is. The first, and the less harmless, is what I call 'temporary lag'. It's when your computer does not show obvious signs of lag, just that there is a time lapse of perhaps ten seconds tops. It doesn't affect your gameplay, just that other tanks appear to be Ferraris to you, and you appear to be a Ferrari to other tanks.

The second, apocalyptic lag, is what I call 'non-temporary lag' (notice I didn't use the word 'permanent' here, and thank your stars, I didn't, because it'd mean that you'd be staring at a parallel dimension and could never play Tanki again!). This kind of lag is often serious, resulting in all the symptoms described in the first paragraph of this article. It often causes you to refresh your page, and when you come back, you find out that you slipped down three positions in the battle list, your team is losing by fourteen flags or six gold boxes dropped in the five minutes you were out.

And that, is the lag we'll be dealing with in this guide (be patient, I've got to complete the formalities first).

What are the symptoms of lag?

When you feel you aren't killing anybody, you're not picking up drop boxes or flags, when other tanks start playing 'carousel', and when your tank starts skydiving instead of blowing up when you jump off the edge of a map and into a void.

Next.

What to do when you have lag?

First, abuse the caps lock button on your keyboard, and belt out all the bad words you can find (yes, you can say 'moron' all the times you want!). Then, rage-quit and head over to the forum, and belt out a topic in the 'Problems and Solutions' section saying 'I AM LAGGING PLZ PLZ HELP ME I CANNOT PLAY PROPERLY HELP ME PLZ!!!!1!11111!!!'. You'll get a dozen replies saying 'Use Standalone Flash Player', or 'Clear your game cache', or even 'Refresh the game, if it still doesn't get solved, go to................................. *insert incredibly boring computer directories here* and change your settings'. After the dozen replies, a mod will come, quote the ~~snazziest~~ most precise reply and say, 'Please follow these steps. Closed' in a veni, vidi, vici kind of way.

If you don't want to endure all that, you've come to the right place. And now, we arrive to the main topic!!!! *Clap clap clap*

HOW TO LESSEN LAGS

WITH EXPERTS' ADVICE

Do what they say - change to Standalone Flash if possible, and clear your game cache. Oh, and also use Mozilla Firefox, because Tanki runs most smoothly in that browser.

However, if you can't follow this advice due to some reason or the other, then this guide is for you - to lessen the lag you experience without changing your resources.

HOW TO LESSEN LAGS

WITHOUT EXPERTS' ADVICE

Well, if you want to survive in the game without doing all the namby-pamby, switty-swotty things the 'experts' tell you to, you'd better follow the steps given below - they're all classified into different categories based on how much your need is, or how much lag you have!

So get ready, tankers, for a wild ride through the following pieces of advice!

1. Choose between aesthetics and quality

What this means is, if you play with full-blast graphics, you're only going to lag. Strip it down to the bare minimum, switching off mip-mapping, and switching off the skybox, and all the bells and whistles of high graphics. For god's sake, you're a player, not a game critic. If you play with basic graphics, you'll find yourself enjoying reasonable FPS, and your PING will also not go down that much. Well, if you don't do this, your tank will start teleporting, that's it. Seriously. Please, go ahead and try.

The thing with high graphics is, it needs many more online packets than regular graphics to run, so it becomes a little taxing on your computer, as a result of which....... well, it's history.

And, never switch on adaptive FPS if you lag, because your game will be stuck at 5 FPS. Thus the title - if you want your game to be beautiful, feel free. But, if you want to actually play the game, you'd better endure dreary graphics.

Here's an example of what ideal graphic settings should look like -

2. Is YouTubing so important?

Look here, I very much appreciate your admirable sentiments to share this wonderful game with the rest of YouTube, but sometimes, use your head if you're lagging. I know for a fact that most of you will shirk away from buying a proper screen recorder and will end up using Bandicam (which casts a horrible watermark on your screen by the way).

Time for some logic! *Feigns deafness at the groans of everyone*. If you're a YouTuber, you'll naturally be looking for Spectator Mode. If you want Spectator Mode, you'll need subscribers. If you need subscribers, you need high graphics to woo them, and that violates point 1 heavily. Even if you don't have subscribers, 90% of you will be using Bandicam.

And Bandicam's most commonly used viewing mode is the 'box mode', which involves the recording of everything within the area of a box drawn on your screen.

That, my friends, eats up your FPS. Now, most of you will be thinking, 'it's PING which affects lag!' But, if you have an FPS of less than five, would you ever be able to play properly? Lozix.

It's the strain of performing two simultaneous tasks that makes your computer so underefficient. Especially when you're recording videos. It feeds on your RAM.

If you still feel like recording videos after this mini-lecture, strap on your low graphics and head over to screencast-o-matic, which is a purely online recorder and has much less chances of affecting your gameplay.

3. Show-off or Showstopper?

You know what I mean - would you prefer to show off your prowess in huge maps like Dusseldorf, or just have a quiet, action packed game in Hill? The first option *facepalm+groan*. Okay, what if I told you there were no girls on that map? Finally, you saw sense.

Such big maps will not lag. Why? They'll never load. Even if they do, you'll be wondering, 'hey, how the hell did this map go all "Star Trek" ?' The simple answer is, they're so big that a lot of data has to load. And the data which goes into keeping your gameplay smooth, will go into simply sustaining such a big map.

Therefore, my advice - don't play in a map of a size greater than Polygon, yes, that includes SLTV maps! And also, don't play in a map with props that are way too complex, like 2042 or Noise, because your internet will have trouble processing all the rich textures.

So that leaves us with a few choices - the small maps. Which one is best, and which one will give maximum benefit to laggers? Hill? No. Too boring. Combe? Well, maybe, but the reverse CTF spoils the gameplay. Duel and Ping-Pong? Go ahead, if you're PREPARED TO DIE OF BOREDOM. Island? Well, it's not bad, but it's a wee bit too small. Then, what do we have left? I believe I have the answer -

^Yup, Sandbox it is!

4. Multitasking? 'No papa!'

Fourth, golden rule. Many nubs (not you, dear readers!) open YouTube tutorials or something while playing, or put something to download while accessing the game. Let me tell you, this eats up your internet capacity worse than Bandicam. Yes, worse! As the title says, stick to one thing. If you want to put something to download, it can wait till you're done.

Opening text content like the forum is fine, but try avoid videos, streams, or downloads, 'cause your page's never gonna open.

5. To stay or not to stay, that is the question

Next (albeit not-so-important) point is the time for which you stay in a battle. This is not directly affected by lag, it's just affected by how bad your lag is. If your computer makes it a point to lag at least once in 15 minutes, do the logical thing and join a 15 minute battle! If your computer lags twice (yes, can you even imagine?), then you could take the risk and join a 15 minute battle, hoping your computer doesn't hang, or join a 30 minute battle, willing to refresh your page but slip down in the battle ranking (and claw back to the top again, if you have skills). Either way, you shouldn't be playing for more than half an hour at a stretch. Helps to solve an addiction problem too, right?

Now you'll be asking, 'what if I have minimum lag?'. Should you even be asking this? Just go into a PRO BATTLE AND NO-LIFE FOR 999 MINUTES!

6. Blunder from afar, or dominate through kamikaze

Another important thing - the turret and hull you choose will have a great impact on your gameplay.

Avoid using turrets with delay between shots, or those turrets which have very high turning speed (you're excused, Twins!). For example, if you fire up a shot with Railgun, in the space of the one second that the orb takes to disappear and the beam to appear, your computer will do the L word and you'll find yourself shooting the enemy, followed by a series of 'GO HOME MULT' messages in your battle chat.

Even Shaft could be included like this, because there's a high tendency for the turret to 'wobble', and once you lag, you could be shooting the wrong person - or just into thin air.

As for hulls, avoid using Wasp or Hornet, because their speed also effects a lot of lag in your server. You're going simply too fast for your internet to register. The ideal hulls to suit your lagging setup are Hunter and Viking, and you'll find yourself going steadily along.

But I've still not answered the turret issue - which one to use? Well, the turrets which are affected least by lagging are the ones without any recoil, and the ones with fairly high turning speed. Say hello to our three role models for all lagging turrets!

The reason why they're so perfect is, they don't have any recoil. So it's easier for the server to recognize their movements faster. Need I say any more?

7. In different places at once

Again, this depends purely on the intensity of your lag. If your lag is reaaallllly high, try camping. You won't move much and there won't be much strain on your internet. If you lag moderately (like me), then strap on a Viking or a Hunter and go midfield! If you have minimal lag, then, well.... ATTACK! NO MERCY!

Also, if you're lagging heavily, let me drop a hint - avoid playing CTF as much as possible. Because, due to lags, you'll glitch, and you'll find yourself dropping flags and someone else taking your hard-earned experience points. For that matter, don't play CPs either, but if you find a juicy Polygon CP, flock to the centre and kill off as much of the crowd as possible, while capturing whatever few points your computer allows you to. DM and TDM are the best, because kills aren't affected too much by lag.

Honestly, this is a combination of all you read so far in this article. It depends on the combo you take, the position you prefer, and of course, the style that your lag favours!

COMPLEX ISSUES

DEALING WITH CONSISTENT LAG

If you lag too much, you'll see your computer freezing every few minutes, and you'll have to refresh your computer every now and then. This becomes too cumbersome and time-consuming. Fortunately, for you trigger-happy tankers, there is an interim solution -

If you see your computer lagging, go to your taskbar, where the internet connection icon is displayed. Click it, and HAMMER the refresh button in the top-right side of the dialog box that appears. Guaranteed (well, almost), within a few seconds, your game will get back to its normal, minimal-laggy way.

For those of you who are confused which menu to open, this picture illustrates it very well -

Easy, right? It's just like spamming, just that in place of letters, you have to click the mouse many times!

However, if you still have desperate lagging issues after reading this article (I repeat, desperate! Don't come to me saying that your Hornet somehow managed to cover two feet instead of the usual one foot in a second! That's either really minor lag or you've picked up a speed boost.), then try the methods suggested by the people who reply to your topic in Problems and Solutions - yes, the dreary old DNS cache and stuff - because they know better than I do about lags. Also, you can refer this topic for further clarifications.

When do I know that I have stopped lagging?

There goes a saying - once laggeth, always laggeth. If your computer lags, it will never stop. The most you can do is get a better PC or a better internet connection, but then, the whole point of this article was how to reduce lag using the limited resources you already have!

But you can know when you're not lagging for the time being - trust your instincts. If you can play without frisbeeing your keyboard around, you're not lagging! Congratulations!

What was the whole point of this guide?

~~To tell you that I can write stuff~~ To tell you that you can reduce lagging without doing everything the self-acclaimed 'geniuses' say! Oh, wait, is it genii? Naaah, I'm getting confused now.

So, tankers, I hope that you, with the help of this guide, were able to play in a self-induced, indigenous and lagless state of mind! This was TNT. Till next time, have fun, play safe, and don't lag! See you on the battlefield!

Edited August 14, 2015 by TriNitroToIuene

PAKlSTANI · August 14, 2015

i love that What to do when you have lag? part :D

Edited August 14, 2015 by PAKlSTANI

TriNitroToIuene · August 14, 2015

Doesn't Work.

Which part?

I wrote this based on personal experiences and tried n tested methods, k :)

Edited August 14, 2015 by TriNitroToIuene

PAKlSTANI · August 14, 2015

Which part?

I wrote this based on personal experiences and tried n tested methods, k :)

Btw , Nice Writing or i can say "Funny" . ^_^

TriNitroToIuene · August 14, 2015

Btw , Nice Writing or i can say "Funny" . ^_^

Thank you.

BuriedSky · August 14, 2015

This was a real TNT + dynamite...

You write amazing bro!!!

I mean...Seriously!!!

I just didn't stopped smiling throughout the article...

And tbh, this was my first 'such' long article that I have ever read fully....not missing a word...maybe because of the jokes in between..:P

kostas604 · August 14, 2015

It's ok but... I'm lagging most when using fire-hunter (both have freaking high turning speed!)

I think the best to use while lagging is mammy-isida :P

1stsuperwhitedragon · August 15, 2015

WITHOUT CHANGING YOUR BROWSER SETTINGS OR YOUR COMPUTER

The Isida next to you suddenly starts doing the Harlem shake for no reason. Shaft beams suddenly gain the ability to pass through solid surfaces. Your tank becomes a creaking, rusting, hologram. The dubstep-ish sounds playing in the background decide to metamorph into mobile notification tunes.

Nah, it's not a parallel universe - it's called lag!

What is lag?

~~Lag is when you travel in a plane and have difficulty in adjusting to the time zones, or when you are really far behind someone or something and have to catch up~~.

Hello, this is Tanki Online we're talking about.

Simply put, lag is when your computer lags behind the server time and therefore you notice a prominent time-lapse, simply put, everything loops for a while and then speeds up and comes back to normal.

Or, if you guys, like my dad, choose to go only with the best, here is the dictionary's definition -

Lag

Lag is impaired computer functionality (slow application responses or reduced/choppy framerates) resulting in high latency, packet loss, or low-performance (generally video) hardware.

That's it in pro language, but if you couldn't understand, let me clarify - when your gameplay goes wonky, you know it's time to run around the house with your arms up, shouting for the Telecommunications Government to fix your connection.

What are the types of lag?

Good question. Really good question.

But the frank answer is, lag isn't classified yet.

But never fear, people! I'm here with a few unofficial classifications of my own! *Na na na na na na TNTman!*

There are two types of lag, IMO, depending on how serious the lag is. The first, and the less harmless, is what I call 'temporary lag'. It's when your computer does not show obvious signs of lag, just that there is a time lapse of perhaps ten seconds tops. It doesn't affect your gameplay, just that other tanks appear to be Ferraris to you, and you appear to be a Ferrari to other tanks.

The second, apocalyptic lag, is what I call 'non-temporary lag' (notice I didn't use the word 'permanent' here, and thank your stars, I didn't, because it'd mean that you'd be staring at a parallel dimension and could never play Tanki again!). This kind of lag is often serious, resulting in all the symptoms described in the first paragraph of this article. It often causes you to refresh your page, and when you come back, you find out that you slipped down three positions in the battle list, your team is losing by fourteen flags or six gold boxes dropped in the five minutes you were out.

And that, is the lag we'll be dealing with in this guide (be patient, I've got to complete the formalities first).

What are the symptoms of lag?

When you feel you aren't killing anybody, you're not picking up drop boxes or flags, when other tanks start playing 'carousel', and when your tank starts skydiving instead of blowing up when you jump off the edge of a map and into a void.

Next.

What to do when you have lag?

First, abuse the caps lock button on your keyboard, and belt out all the bad words you can find (yes, you can say 'moron' all the times you want!). Then, rage-quit and head over to the forum, and belt out a topic in the 'Problems and Solutions' section saying 'I AM LAGGING PLZ PLZ HELP ME I CANNOT PLAY PROPERLY HELP ME PLZ!!!!1!11111!!!'. You'll get a dozen replies saying 'Use Standalone Flash Player', or 'Clear your game cache', or even 'Refresh the game, if it still doesn't get solved, go to................................. *insert incredibly boring computer directories here* and change your settings'. After the dozen replies, a mod will come, quote the ~~snazziest~~ most precise reply and say, 'Please follow these steps. Closed' in a veni, vidi, vici kind of way.

If you don't want to endure all that, you've come to the right place. And now, we arrive to the main topic!!!! *Clap clap clap*

HOW TO LESSEN LAGS

WITH EXPERTS' ADVICE

Do what they say - change to Standalone Flash if possible, and clear your game cache. Oh, and also use Mozilla Firefox, because Tanki runs most smoothly in that browser.

However, if you can't follow this advice due to some reason or the other, then this guide is for you - to lessen the lag you experience without changing your resources.

HOW TO LESSEN LAGS

WITHOUT EXPERTS' ADVICE

Well, if you want to survive in the game without doing all the namby-pamby, switty-swotty things the 'experts' tell you to, you'd better follow the steps given below - they're all classified into different categories based on how much your need is, or how much lag you have!

So get ready, tankers, for a wild ride through the following pieces of advice!

1. Choose between aesthetics and quality

What this means is, if you play with full-blast graphics, you're only going to lag. Strip it down to the bare minimum, switching off mip-mapping, and switching off the skybox, and all the bells and whistles of high graphics. For god's sake, you're a player, not a game critic. If you play with basic graphics, you'll find yourself enjoying reasonable FPS, and your PING will also not go down that much. Well, if you don't do this, your tank will start teleporting, that's it. Seriously. Please, go ahead and try.

The thing with high graphics is, it needs many more online packets than regular graphics to run, so it becomes a little taxing on your computer, as a result of which....... well, it's history.

And, never switch on adaptive FPS if you lag, because your game will be stuck at 5 FPS. Thus the title - if you want your game to be beautiful, feel free. But, if you want to actually play the game, you'd better endure dreary graphics.

Here's an example of what ideal graphic settings should look like -

2. Is YouTubing so important?

Look here, I very much appreciate your admirable sentiments to share this wonderful game with the rest of YouTube, but sometimes, use your head if you're lagging. I know for a fact that most of you will shirk away from buying a proper screen recorder and will end up using Bandicam (which casts a horrible watermark on your screen by the way).

Time for some logic! *Feigns deafness at the groans of everyone*. If you're a YouTuber, you'll naturally be looking for Spectator Mode. If you want Spectator Mode, you'll need subscribers. If you need subscribers, you need high graphics to woo them, and that violates point 1 heavily. Even if you don't have subscribers, 90% of you will be using Bandicam.

And Bandicam's most commonly used viewing mode is the 'box mode', which involves the recording of everything within the area of a box drawn on your screen.

That, my friends, eats up your FPS. Now, most of you will be thinking, 'it's PING which affects lag!' But, if you have an FPS of less than five, would you ever be able to play properly? Lozix.

It's the strain of performing two simultaneous tasks that makes your computer so underefficient. Especially when you're recording videos. It feeds on your RAM.

If you still feel like recording videos after this mini-lecture, strap on your low graphics and head over to screencast-o-matic, which is a purely online recorder and has much less chances of affecting your gameplay.

3. Show-off or Showstopper?

You know what I mean - would you prefer to show off your prowess in huge maps like Dusseldorf, or just have a quiet, action packed game in Hill? The first option *facepalm+groan*. Okay, what if I told you there were no girls on that map? Finally, you saw sense.

Such big maps will not lag. Why? They'll never load. Even if they do, you'll be wondering, 'hey, how the hell did this map go all "Star Trek" ?' The simple answer is, they're so big that a lot of data has to load. And the data which goes into keeping your gameplay smooth, will go into simply sustaining such a big map.

Therefore, my advice - don't play in a map of a size greater than Polygon, yes, that includes SLTV maps! And also, don't play in a map with props that are way too complex, like 2042 or Noise, because your internet will have trouble processing all the rich textures.

So that leaves us with a few choices - the small maps. Which one is best, and which one will give maximum benefit to laggers? Hill? No. Too boring. Combe? Well, maybe, but the reverse CTF spoils the gameplay. Duel and Ping-Pong? Go ahead, if you're PREPARED TO DIE OF BOREDOM. Island? Well, it's not bad, but it's a wee bit too small. Then, what do we have left? I believe I have the answer -

^Yup, Sandbox it is!

4. Multitasking? 'No papa!'

Fourth, golden rule. Many nubs (not you, dear readers!) open YouTube tutorials or something while playing, or put something to download while accessing the game. Let me tell you, this eats up your internet capacity worse than Bandicam. Yes, worse! As the title says, stick to one thing. If you want to put something to download, it can wait till you're done.

Opening text content like the forum is fine, but try avoid videos, streams, or downloads, 'cause your page's never gonna open.

5. To stay or not to stay, that is the question

Next (albeit not-so-important) point is the time for which you stay in a battle. This is not directly affected by lag, it's just affected by how bad your lag is. If your computer makes it a point to lag at least once in 15 minutes, do the logical thing and join a 15 minute battle! If your computer lags twice (yes, can you even imagine?), then you could take the risk and join a 15 minute battle, hoping your computer doesn't hang, or join a 30 minute battle, willing to refresh your page but slip down in the battle ranking (and claw back to the top again, if you have skills). Either way, you shouldn't be playing for more than half an hour at a stretch. Helps to solve an addiction problem too, right?

Now you'll be asking, 'what if I have minimum lag?'. Should you even be asking this? Just go into a PRO BATTLE AND NO-LIFE FOR 999 MINUTES!

6. Blunder from afar, or dominate through kamikaze

Another important thing - the turret and hull you choose will have a great impact on your gameplay.

Avoid using turrets with delay between shots, or those turrets which have very high turning speed (you're excused, Twins!). For example, if you fire up a shot with Railgun, in the space of the one second that the orb takes to disappear and the beam to appear, your computer will do the L word and you'll find yourself shooting the enemy, followed by a series of 'GO HOME MULT' messages in your battle chat.

Even Shaft could be included like this, because there's a high tendency for the turret to 'wobble', and once you lag, you could be shooting the wrong person - or just into thin air.

As for hulls, avoid using Wasp or Hornet, because their speed also effects a lot of lag in your server. You're going simply too fast for your internet to register. The ideal hulls to suit your lagging setup are Hunter and Viking, and you'll find yourself going steadily along.

But I've still not answered the turret issue - which one to use? Well, the turrets which are affected least by lagging are the ones without any recoil, and the ones with fairly high turning speed. Say hello to our three role models for all lagging turrets!

The reason why they're so perfect is, they don't have any recoil. So it's easier for the server to recognize their movements faster. Need I say any more?

7. In different places at once

Again, this depends purely on the intensity of your lag. If your lag is reaaallllly high, try camping. You won't move much and there won't be much strain on your internet. If you lag moderately (like me), then strap on a Viking or a Hunter and go midfield! If you have minimal lag, then, well.... ATTACK! NO MERCY!

Also, if you're lagging heavily, let me drop a hint - avoid playing CTF as much as possible. Because, due to lags, you'll glitch, and you'll find yourself dropping flags and someone else taking your hard-earned experience points. For that matter, don't play CPs either, but if you find a juicy Polygon CP, flock to the centre and kill off as much of the crowd as possible, while capturing whatever few points your computer allows you to. DM and TDM are the best, because kills aren't affected too much by lag.

Honestly, this is a combination of all you read so far in this article. It depends on the combo you take, the position you prefer, and of course, the style that your lag favours!

COMPLEX ISSUES

DEALING WITH CONSISTENT LAG

If you lag too much, you'll see your computer freezing every few minutes, and you'll have to refresh your computer every now and then. This becomes too cumbersome and time-consuming. Fortunately, for you trigger-happy tankers, there is an interim solution -

If you see your computer lagging, go to your taskbar, where the internet connection icon is displayed. Click it, and HAMMER the refresh button in the top-right side of the dialog box that appears. Guaranteed (well, almost), within a few seconds, your game will get back to its normal, minimal-laggy way.

For those of you who are confused which menu to open, this picture illustrates it very well -

Easy, right? It's just like spamming, just that in place of letters, you have to click the mouse many times!

However, if you still have desperate lagging issues after reading this article (I repeat, desperate! Don't come to me saying that your Hornet somehow managed to cover two feet instead of the usual one foot in a second! That's either really minor lag or you've picked up a speed boost.), then try the methods suggested by the people who reply to your topic in Problems and Solutions - yes, the dreary old DNS cache and stuff - because they know better than I do about lags. Also, you can refer this topic for further clarifications.

When do I know that I have stopped lagging?

There goes a saying - once laggeth, always laggeth. If your computer lags, it will never stop. The most you can do is get a better PC or a better internet connection, but then, the whole point of this article was how to reduce lag using the limited resources you already have!

But you can know when you're not lagging for the time being - trust your instincts. If you can play without frisbeeing your keyboard around, you're not lagging! Congratulations!

What was the whole point of this guide?

~~To tell you that I can write stuff~~ To tell you that you can reduce lagging without doing everything the self-acclaimed 'geniuses' say! Oh, wait, is it genii? Naaah, I'm getting confused now.

So, tankers, I hope that you, with the help of this guide, were able to play in a self-induced, indigenous and lagless state of mind! This was TNT. Till next time, have fun, play safe, and don't lag! See you on the battlefield!

god damn I didn't know that you're a reporter :o

TriNitroToIuene · August 15, 2015

god damn I didn't know that you're a reporter :o

Well, you know now :P

LeIouch_Vi_Britannia · August 15, 2015

How about when lags are caused by devs k.

Cor7y · August 15, 2015

Screen cast O matic. Seriously ? I tried that before for my rank up and it was hell ! In the game I was playing at 60 FPS full graphics but in the video that came out...... It looked like I had a bad PC. So to conclude, DO NOT use Screencast-O-Matic.

TriNitroToIuene · August 15, 2015

Screen cast O matic. Seriously ? I tried that before for my rank up and it was hell ! In the game I was playing at 60 FPS full graphics but in the video that came out...... It looked like I had a bad PC. So to conclude, DO NOT use Screencast-O-Matic.

In the video, you may look bad; but you yourself admitted that you could play at full 60 FPS in the game- that's the point I made : screencast o matic does not cause lags when you use it. This is an article on reducing lags, not YouTubing. Hope that cleared things up :)

donut70 · August 15, 2015

I can personally attest that screencast-o-matic is a nearly perfect screen recorder, (with the only drawback being a 15 minute recording limit for the free version, but beggars can't be choosers.) Here's a few highlights of what it can do

HD GRAPHICS AND SOUND (once uploaded)
Don't be discouraged when the instant playback seems a bit grainy, once it's been uploaded to Youtube on it's "HD Youtube Upload" setting you will be able to watch your kills in all their 1080 glory, (once youtube loads the hd version at least)

NON-INVASIVE WATERMARK
(Though in my case the AVS video editor I use slaps it's own on.)

EASY TO USE AND ADJUST

NO NOTICABLE EFFECT ON FPS OR PING

and most importantly
FREE!!!

Edited August 15, 2015 by donut70

r_Your-Daddy3 · August 15, 2015

Good bye Lags !!!

lukey0 · August 16, 2015

Nice.

Darren4Turbo · August 16, 2015

Nice ^_^

Helindu_2014 · August 16, 2015

mm hmm

luckily i don't lag THAT bad..

and my PC doesn't support high graphics..

Nevertheless, great article!

PROFESSIONAL QUALITY!!!!!!

S:-D

Edited August 16, 2015 by Helindu_2014

TriNitroToIuene · August 16, 2015

Nice.

Nice ^_^

mm hmm

luckily i don't lag THAT bad..

and my PC doesn't support high graphics..

Nevertheless, great article!

PROFESSIONAL QUALITY!!!!!!

S:-D

Thanks, guys.

Penguin40 · August 17, 2015

De problem wid me iz... My internet stopz worcking for somm time!

Bad grammar aside, awesome job! Would help me when I am lagging not having a disconnected internet.

Edited August 17, 2015 by Penguin40

anuclearbomb · August 17, 2015

Hello, this is Tanki Online we're talking about.

Simply put, lag is when your computer lags behind the server time and therefore you notice a prominent time-lapse, simply put, everything loops for a while and then speeds up and comes back to normal.

ye who likes to simplify

great article, was ^ that^ meant?

if so ignore this.

Edited August 17, 2015 by anuclearbomb

TriNitroToIuene · August 17, 2015

ye who likes to simplify

great article, was ^ that^ meant?

if so ignore this.

Thanks for that feedback, I accidentally put simply put twice.

anuclearbomb · August 17, 2015

Thanks for that feedback, I accidentally put simply put twice.

no problem.

Ambitious · August 18, 2015

Beeeeeeeeeautiful article! This is certainly help me out with my lags.

manish17 · August 20, 2015

What was the whole point of this guide?

~~To tell you that I can write stuff~~ To tell you that you can reduce lagging without doing everything the self-acclaimed 'geniuses' say! Oh, wait, is it genii? Naaah, I'm getting confused now.

Lol

HUGHIY · August 20, 2015

Approved. Lag nerf on Hornet success.

Edited August 20, 2015 by HUGHIY

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