Lag with Low Ping and no Packet Loss

[Sludge Gangster]

For some reason since coming back to Dota on thursday, every single match I've been lagging and rubberbanding like my ping is high, but it remains on 30 anyway. I've also tried verifying game cache. Have asked some other players who have also experienced it but no luck in resolving it. Any ideas or solutions?

[Pluviophile-]

whats ur pc specs? try lower the resolution and others

[Sludge Gangster]

Originally posted by Pluviophile-:

whats ur pc specs? try lower the resolution and others

Intel i5
16GB RAM
Nvidia 750 Ti
2 TB Hard Drvie

Never had any issues before, but I'll try to tweak the settings and see if that helps.

[tendency]

Originally posted by Helps to Have a Map:

For some reason since coming back to Dota on thursday, every single match I've been lagging and rubberbanding like my ping is high, but it remains on 30 anyway. I've also tried verifying game cache. Have asked some other players who have also experienced it but no luck in resolving it. Any ideas or solutions?

[Harmonica]

Something was up with the servers today, not sure about since Thursday. As you describe, it feels like bad jumpy lag. Very high ping spikes upto ~250 ping every few seconds, normal ping is about 20. I think it's just a problem on Valve's end. Might be fixed by the time I post this.

[Sludge Gangster]

Originally posted by Harmonica:

Something was up with the servers today, not sure about since Thursday. As you describe, it feels like bad jumpy lag. Very high ping spikes upto ~250 ping every few seconds, normal ping is about 20. I think it's just a problem on Valve's end. Might be fixed by the time I post this.

Well given it's happening to others (even though I'm not seeing many other posts about it) I don't think it's just me, hopefully will be fixed soon. I do recall similar issues during last year's battle pass event too, though not as bad.

[Sludge Gangster]

Originally posted by Helps to Have a Map:

Originally posted by Pluviophile-:

whats ur pc specs? try lower the resolution and others

Intel i5
16GB RAM
Nvidia 750 Ti
2 TB Hard Drvie

Never had any issues before, but I'll try to tweak the settings and see if that helps.

Welp, tried messing with just about every single setting and resolution and no dice, still the same. Not sure what to do at this point, its playable but god help me if i play a hero like AA that requires specific targeting with this lag :/

[Ais Wallenstein]

Sea server?

[Sludge Gangster]

Originally posted by Ais Wallenstein:

Sea server?

Been on Aus the whole time (im in Melbourne). I'll give Sea a go and see if it's any better.

[Sludge Gangster]

Originally posted by ourps:

Same ♥♥♥♥ here, that rubbrband + decent fps+ping+zero packet loss meant that valve lie, no idea at what network or game logic level it happens.

I have a feeling it's something to do with the battle pass? But I really have no idea, I just hope it gets fixed soon

[充值让你变得更强]

Have you fixed this issue? Actually I also had this problem after playing open AI one month ago. Low ping, no packet loss but lagging for 3secs regularly. all other games and network service run well

[Sludge Gangster]

Originally posted by 充值让你变得更强:

Have you fixed this issue? Actually I also had this problem after playing open AI one month ago. Low ping, no packet loss but lagging for 3secs regularly. all other games and network service run well

Nah, still going on so far, nothing I've tried has helped. Constant and consistent lag every match as if I've got high ping, but nothing.

[Phate]

Originally posted by Soaking Mormons:

Originally posted by 充值让你变得更强:

Have you fixed this issue? Actually I also had this problem after playing open AI one month ago. Low ping, no packet loss but lagging for 3secs regularly. all other games and network service run well

Nah, still going on so far, nothing I've tried has helped. Constant and consistent lag every match as if I've got high ping, but nothing.

Hi, mate. Did you ever find a solution to this issue? I've been experiencing the same thing since returning to the game about a month ago, following a long hiatus. It's beyond frustrating.

60fps, no packet loss, 20-30 ping, but constant rubber-banding (and I mean constant - half a second in duration, one after the other each second). Unit animations will continue to roll, but units (creeps, heroes, projectile objects) will remain stationary during the rubber band and will teleport in the split second before the next one hits. Absolutely unplayable.

I have tried:
- Reinstalling Dota 2, verifying cache (have not reinstalled Steam - unsure that this would be necessary, or that it would make a difference)
- Disabled Steam in-game overlay
- Disabled WLAN/Wi-Fi scanning per Windows 10
- Lowest graphical settings
- Dx11, Dx9
- High priority to the game's process in Task Manager
- Updated all drivers
- Hard reset router

I have not tried a wired connection (as opposed to wifi). That said, I have noticed that when the stutters begin (and continue until the end of the match), my ping will jump momentarily to about 70ms, and then back down to 20-30. Still, I would wager this is a local application / system issue.

[充值让你变得更强]

Originally posted by Phate:

Originally posted by Soaking Mormons:

Nah, still going on so far, nothing I've tried has helped. Constant and consistent lag every match as if I've got high ping, but nothing.

Hi, mate. Did you ever find a solution to this issue? I've been experiencing the same thing since returning to the game about a month ago, following a long hiatus. It's beyond frustrating.

60fps, no packet loss, 20-30 ping, but constant rubber-banding (and I mean constant - half a second in duration, one after the other each second). Unit animations will continue to roll, but units (creeps, heroes, projectile objects) will remain stationary during the rubber band and will teleport in the split second before the next one hits. Absolutely unplayable.

I have tried:
- Reinstalling Dota 2, verifying cache (have not reinstalled Steam - unsure that this would be necessary, or that it would make a difference)
- Disabled Steam in-game overlay
- Disabled WLAN/Wi-Fi scanning per Windows 10
- Lowest graphical settings
- Dx11, Dx9
- High priority to the game's process in Task Manager
- Updated all drivers
- Hard reset router

I have not tried a wired connection (as opposed to wifi). That said, I have noticed that when the stutters begin (and continue until the end of the match), my ping will jump momentarily to about 70ms, and then back down to 20-30. Still, I would wager this is a local application / system issue.

Hi bro,

My problem has been fixed fortunately but basically I believe it was fixed by valve.

My situation was exactly the same as you described(rolling animation but stay still and teleport). I also tried almost everything i could which were mostly listed above in your comment. I even tried playing dota with my phone hotspot.

BUT all of them didnt help at all.

The only way i can imagine but didnt try is playing dota on another PC OR going to inter-cafe. I bet there was something wrong between the DOTA software and my PC but i cant afford a new one.(BTW, this issue also occurs when i played against robots)

After three days' frustrating trying I had to turn to some other games without playing dota. And dota went well automatically when i accidentally tried after about 3 months.

The other thing you may want to know is that three months ago my PC just collapsed when i was playing ladder match. It kept collapsing every 2 mins while I kept trying to restart PC->reconnect>play Dota, which is quite tiring and i got reported finally. Again, other games went well, Internet went well, PC went well. But This time it was fixed by a trivial update after about 4 days.

So I am raising my bet and would suggest a new PC or turning to other games and wait long enough for the update coming to you

[ʍolɟ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ]

Watch out for suspicious lag. Is it when your hero is around a certain hero? Does it allow them to freely combo when you can't get off your own spells.
I've been suspicious that these things could be lag hackers or even a balancing tool implemented by game programmers. Interfering in the first fight or first 5 minutes can drastically alter the flow of the game.

In addition to rubberbanding I've experienced other things that look like dynamic difficulty adjustment. Delayed/ dropped inputs, out of sequence spells on rubberbanding, changes in input sensitivity. I can't say its not the actual game...

[BoOsTeR]

there are 3 types of delay , 1- lag 2- pocket lost 3- ping spike , it might be ping spike and those spikes might be so fast but strong so you can barely see those change in ping , test ping spike fixes please