High Latency/Ping in games after upgrade to Windows 10? (Lenovo Y50)

[Skoots]

Hey community, so I've been experiencing ridiculous ping in games like CS:GO, CSS, CS 1.6, etc.. After upgrading to windows 10 from 8.1.

I’m using a Lenovo Y50 Laptop with the Dual Band 7260AC wireless adapter, tried literally every driver out there and still no luck. My ping in windows 8.1 used to be around 40ms average when playing CS:GO, right now it’s over 600-700ms making it (alongside literally any other game) unplayable.

Funny thing is plugging in a cheap $25 external USB Wi-Fi adapter results in the usual 40ms I used to get. Any ideas on the topic? Has anyone else with a Y50 that upgraded to Windows 10 experienced similar issues?

Also anyone else with the 7260AC wireless NIC experiencing this too?

Any information on the topic would help!

[Skoots]

Am i supposed to leave a $1500 laptop in the dust because the internal wireless is so dodgy with Windows 10 its compleatly useless? :(

[_I_]

incorrect drivers
uninstall all of the drivers you tried and get the correct one

if the card you have does not have correct drivers for win10 go back to win7-8
or buy a new m-pci-e wifi card and use the win10 drivers for it

[Skoots]

Originally posted by _I_:

incorrect drivers
uninstall all of the drivers you tried and get the correct one

if the card you have does not have correct drivers for win10 go back to win7-8
or buy a new m-pci-e wifi card and use the win10 drivers for it

Im aware its probably driver related but Intel refuses to understand that seeing as the Windows 10 Drivers they provided work fine for steaming video, downloading media, surfing. Its not slow at all, its only when playing games, it feels like massive packet loss.

Im afraid of getting a new m-pci-e wifi card simpily due to whitelist in the BIOS. There is no documentation online I can find regarding swapping out the internal wireless of my 2014 Lenovo Y50 Gaming laptop.

Who the heck sells such an expensive piece of hardware with such a shotty wireless adapter anyways. seems unethical. I went through about 7 drivers on Win8.1 before finding one that was working correctly. If only i could get it working here on Win10.

:/ It would suck to have to roll back the entire OS..

[PaulLayLow]

On the same boat. I'm usually at 10-20 for TF2 and 20-30 on CS:GO.

It was fine for the first couple days. just lag spikes, but now it would constantly be at 400-700 for both games. Wired works fine, but once I go wireless, that's when it spikes. Also a little confused as of why I can stream 1080p 60fps videos on youtube without any problems (haven't tried uploading yet, but downloading is also fine) yet it only affects online gaming.

I did see a significant difference in the fps though once I switched, I'd really hate to have to go back.

[Skoots]

Originally posted by FP Metalkamikazee:

On the same boat. I'm usually at 10-20 for TF2 and 20-30 on CS:GO.

It was fine for the first couple days. just lag spikes, but now it would constantly be at 400-700 for both games. Wired works fine, but once I go wireless, that's when it spikes.

I did see a significant difference in the fps though once I switched, I'd really hate to have to go back.

i've got some good news and bad news for you mate. I 'seem' to have resolved the issue. My ping is back to 45ish and feels about right.

The bad news is to do this, i had to go through a clean install of windows 10. Here's what i did

1) downloaded the Win10 update tool from MS's website here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
2) plugged in a USB flash drive and went through the programs steps
3) proceeded with a fresh install just like how you would do any (boot into BIOS, select the flashdrive as boot device, format your HDD, etc..)

I choose not to backup any of my games on steam because they were all installed when I had 8.1. Just incase they were installed with specifc parameters causing the high latency, i decided to just suck it up and loose all games.

I did however back up all my save files, music, documents, and pictures on another partition as well as dropbox. So you can go ahead and do that if you have an external flashdrive, external HDD, or even dropbox/onedrive/googledrive

Anyways, after proceeding with a compelatly fresh install, windows configured a generic wifi driver for my Dual Band 7260AC adapter. I then let windows update recieve all missing drivers for my hardware (but manually choose to install the graphics drivers to ensure they were up to date with specific configurations I do).

and then installed steam. Downloaded CS:GO and tested it out. What do you know? Back to 45ms, biggest spike was 70ms which was probably the server. That only lasted a second or two. No big latency issues otherwise.

So the verdict? Seems like a fresh install of any OS is the only way to go. Upgrading from 8.1 brought bugs and im quite sure some of them were related to networking aswell.

As for activations, skip all product key prompts during win10 install, when you get into windows, sign in with a microsoft account that is linked to your product key. (if you dont yet have one make a new hotmail/live/outlook email and connect it to your current install now). When you sign in, it will re-sync the key and make windows activated to Windows 10 Home Edition as well as transfer over your settings, desktop wallpaper, etc..


I just installed the latest official drivers from intel for my wireless adapter and am about to test CS:GO again to see if there is any latency issues. Hopefully I never see them again.

[Skoots]

Now if you'll excuse me, i've got about 400gigs worth of steam games i gotta re-download on a 18Mbp/s connection (2.3MB/s at best).

In other words.. This is gonna take a couple days... :(

[Meow]

Same problem here. I've tried download the newest driver, disable 5GHz connection, and everything that is possible on my side. It ended up still intermittently high ping to my local router (which means the problem is indeed the WLAN adapter). My laptop is Y50 with AC3160 adapter. I think both Intel and Lenovo need to do something about this, especially Lenovo. It is rather ridiculous that a "Gaming laptop" cannot even perform a proper online game.
In a word, WIN10SUCKS.

[Skoots]

Originally posted by 猫！:

Same problem here. I've tried download the newest driver, disable 5GHz connection, and everything that is possible on my side. It ended up still intermittently high ping to my local router (which means the problem is indeed the WLAN adapter). My laptop is Y50 with AC3160 adapter. I think both Intel and Lenovo need to do something about this, especially Lenovo. It is rather ridiculous that a "Gaming laptop" cannot even perform a proper online game.
In a word, WIN10SUCKS.

I dont think its windows 10 that sucks but its just so stupid both Intel and Lenvo have big "Discover Windows 10" banners on their website while they cant even provide the consumer proper working hardware in a GAMING laptop.

I spent $1500 of my own money on this machine and within 2 months after purchase, wireless started dropping connections to my home network and refusing to connect to my university network. I went through a crap tonne of driver updates before finding 17.13.11.5, and that stoped all the issues. I continued to use it for almost a year until now when i got Windows 10, but supprise supprise, yet again, wireless is super shotty.

I sent both Lenovo and Intel support claims on the issue and hope to have it resolved full soon but knowing them, it could be months before the next driver update. Thus rendering internal wireless on such an expensive Lenovo Y50 laptop compleatly useless for both you and me.

Same laptop, different wireless card. Both are broken.

[Meow]

Originally posted by Fu-Im-Yellow!:

Originally posted by 猫！:

Same problem here. I've tried download the newest driver, disable 5GHz connection, and everything that is possible on my side. It ended up still intermittently high ping to my local router (which means the problem is indeed the WLAN adapter). My laptop is Y50 with AC3160 adapter. I think both Intel and Lenovo need to do something about this, especially Lenovo. It is rather ridiculous that a "Gaming laptop" cannot even perform a proper online game.
In a word, WIN10SUCKS.

I dont think its windows 10 that sucks but its just so stupid both Intel and Lenvo have big "Discover Windows 10" banners on their website while they cant even provide the consumer proper working hardware in a GAMING laptop.

I spent $1500 of my own money on this machine and within 2 months after purchase, wireless started dropping connections to my home network and refusing to connect to my university network. I went through a crap tonne of driver updates before finding 17.13.11.5, and that stoped all the issues. I continued to use it for almost a year until now when i got Windows 10, but supprise supprise, yet again, wireless is super shotty.

I sent both Lenovo and Intel support claims on the issue and hope to have it resolved full soon but knowing them, it could be months before the next driver update. Thus rendering internal wireless on such an expensive Lenovo Y50 laptop compleatly useless for both you and me.

Same laptop, different wireless card. Both are broken.

Yes I am aware it is Lenovo and Intel that are responsible for this problem. I should say, they were not doing decent job while the Win10 was put up on test.
I've given up on this say "DUAL BAND" hopeless Intel chipset and switched into a cheap TPLink USB adapter, which works perfectly fine. No delay, no spikes.
Moral of the story: never buy a dumb Intel network card, nor a computer equipped with it.

[OLDMAN🎅]

Originally posted by Fu-Im-Yellow!:

Hey community, so I've been experiencing ridiculous ping in games like CS:GO, CSS, CS 1.6, etc.. After upgrading to windows 10 from 8.1.

I’m using a Lenovo Y50 Laptop with the Dual Band 7260AC wireless adapter, tried literally every driver out there and still no luck. My ping in windows 8.1 used to be around 40ms average when playing CS:GO, right now it’s over 600-700ms making it (alongside literally any other game) unplayable.

Funny thing is plugging in a cheap $25 external USB Wi-Fi adapter results in the usual 40ms I used to get. Any ideas on the topic? Has anyone else with a Y50 that upgraded to Windows 10 experienced similar issues?

Also anyone else with the 7260AC wireless NIC experiencing this too?

Any information on the topic would help!

Do a ping, trace on the server you are connecting, to trace your network problem, without the trace route you are just guessing.


download pingplotter-freeware-1.30


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You can install drivers in compatibility mode
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Older drivers can be installed in compatibility mode in Windows 10 Technical preview. Since this is just a preview version, specific drivers are not likely to be available.



Download the required drivers from the below link.

http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/lenovo-y-series-laptops/y50-70-notebook-lenovo/downloads/DS100264

Refer the steps to install the driver in compatibility mode:

Right click on the setup file of the driver and select Properties.

Select Compatibility Tab.

Place a check mark next to Run this program in Compatibility mode and select the operating system accordingly from the drop down list.

Let the driver to install and then check the functionality.

[joel0827]

Originally posted by Fu-Im-Yellow!:

Originally posted by FP Metalkamikazee:

On the same boat. I'm usually at 10-20 for TF2 and 20-30 on CS:GO.

It was fine for the first couple days. just lag spikes, but now it would constantly be at 400-700 for both games. Wired works fine, but once I go wireless, that's when it spikes.

I did see a significant difference in the fps though once I switched, I'd really hate to have to go back.

i've got some good news and bad news for you mate. I 'seem' to have resolved the issue. My ping is back to 45ish and feels about right.

The bad news is to do this, i had to go through a clean install of windows 10. Here's what i did

1) downloaded the Win10 update tool from MS's website here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
2) plugged in a USB flash drive and went through the programs steps
3) proceeded with a fresh install just like how you would do any (boot into BIOS, select the flashdrive as boot device, format your HDD, etc..)

I choose not to backup any of my games on steam because they were all installed when I had 8.1. Just incase they were installed with specifc parameters causing the high latency, i decided to just suck it up and loose all games.

I did however back up all my save files, music, documents, and pictures on another partition as well as dropbox. So you can go ahead and do that if you have an external flashdrive, external HDD, or even dropbox/onedrive/googledrive

Anyways, after proceeding with a compelatly fresh install, windows configured a generic wifi driver for my Dual Band 7260AC adapter. I then let windows update recieve all missing drivers for my hardware (but manually choose to install the graphics drivers to ensure they were up to date with specific configurations I do).

and then installed steam. Downloaded CS:GO and tested it out. What do you know? Back to 45ms, biggest spike was 70ms which was probably the server. That only lasted a second or two. No big latency issues otherwise.

So the verdict? Seems like a fresh install of any OS is the only way to go. Upgrading from 8.1 brought bugs and im quite sure some of them were related to networking aswell.

As for activations, skip all product key prompts during win10 install, when you get into windows, sign in with a microsoft account that is linked to your product key. (if you dont yet have one make a new hotmail/live/outlook email and connect it to your current install now). When you sign in, it will re-sync the key and make windows activated to Windows 10 Home Edition as well as transfer over your settings, desktop wallpaper, etc..


I just installed the latest official drivers from intel for my wireless adapter and am about to test CS:GO again to see if there is any latency issues. Hopefully I never see them again.

I'm so glad to have found this. I'm having the same issues with my Gigabyte p25X v2 Laptop. I also have a 7260AC adapter, and the lag is pretty frustrating ever since I upgraded to Windows 10 . The thing is I did a clean install right away after my upgrade. I'm glad that you were able to get it working. But sadly it might not be a solution for some :(. Clean install, and up to date drivers did not fix my issue. I've also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers to no avail. I hope there is a fix soon.