would a vpn help with server ping

[[RG] Clark The Shark]

every single game i have around 200-400 ping when i come near other player hit marks show late and bullets don't fire when i click they fire hours after i pulled the trigger.. i have no ping problems with any of the other games i play no sure what to do i have all my settings to low and play in full screen mode

[Ceceli Δ]

Probably not since it's Crytek's fault and not your internet provider messing around with the routes.

[Warbreaker]

I live in Ireland, I get from 39ms to 41ms to EU servers and 105ms to US east coast so it could be a routing issue between your ISP and Crytek servers, have you tried both west and east coast?

While at it pick only one zone to test.

[Brokenmetaljaxx]

I lag sooooo bad in games. I have the fastest internet I can get here in my city. I have a good comp, great graphic's card.

They need to fix their servers if There are others lagging as bad as I do.

[Walker]

You can chose to which server you connect.(the world on the top right next to the setting wheel)
You probably choosed a server far away from you.

[[RG] Clark The Shark]

yes i have try'd both east and west cost servers i get lower ping on west but its still high in the 200-300 all game

[Blame]

You sure you're on the correct server?

[Xscha]

honestly I feel like any other game that has two US servers, I can play on either, but on hunt my ping just skyrockets. probably routing through vpn then to servers from that vpn would be beneficial depending how close the vpn server is to the hunt ones lmao

[Shakaron]

I play in Oceania. My ping is generally less than 25 ms.

If I connect to Asia, it's around 100 - 150 ms.

Connecting to US West: ~200 ms

EU is 300-350 ms

I appreciate different servers having different loads.

Also, people should understand that every game has their own servers. If Counter-Strike has a server in every country, then playing in Hungary will be just as fine as playing in France. But if there's only one server per continent, and e.g. it's in France, then obviously, playing from Hungary will have higher ping than playing from France.

Also, your GPU, monitor, CPU, graphics settings etc do not affect your latency. Your network provider does. Your network equipment (e.g. using WiFi instead of Ethernet cable; or poor network card, modem, router, etc). And obviously the server (load). But mostly the distance between you and the server.

[Ben Dover]

It will actually increase the ping. Normally packet of data travels from Crytek's servers to your computer, in case there's a VPN involved it travels from Crytek's server to VPN's and from VPN back to your PC. This should increase the amount of time it takes to send and recieve a packet from server. Or it should stay the same in the best case scenario. I'm no expert so if somebody actually knows how this will affect ping correct me if i'm wrong.

[Inv1s1ble]

Are you playing via Wifi or cable? Or is it even something worse like LTE/Sattelite or something the like?

A VPN will most likely make the situation worse because you add one more node to the network nodes your connection has to travel through and you will depend on the VPNs speed (additionally to your own speed) to not slow the connection down any further.

[Warbreaker]

I have a expensive computer, a high speed internet, I have a expensive GPU, I have everything, but ... do you have a good router?

Most people fail to understand that their router is shared and their CPU & RAM are ♥♥♥♥, that's why you need to pay for a good router, again; I play via WiFi and my ping is very stable, because I paid €180 for an Asus router, I'm sure you (not you personally) pay 4 times that price for a stupid phone so why not invest on a decent router?

[Xscha]

^see i figured that with how it normally works, but since server path is usually your internet>servers, you'd think adding another layer would hurt it lots. but in my experience it feels like your ping gets exponentially worse instead of more distance=steady rise in ping, maybe the less distance and better connection with a vpn network would help.

anyway the best thing OP can do is just test it and get back to us

[Warbreaker]

See, a router is just another computer, if you have a crappy computer handling your house's internet how do you think it is going to be responsive? look at the list of Asus routers, see the last two tables of the this link and see each RAM and CPU, then compare that with your own router and see that your routers (generally speaking, not directed at anyone personally) has one single CPU running at 500 MHz or less with like 64 MB flash RAM.

More expensive routers like the one I have has 2 CPUs at 1.8GHz with 512MB flash, for a router that's a lot.

List of Asus WiFi routers for comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asus_routers

[notSure]

Originally posted by Warbreaker:

See, a router is just another computer, if you have a crappy computer handling your house's internet how do you think it is going to be responsive? look at the list of Asus routers, see the last two tables of the this link and see each RAM and CPU, then compare that with your own router and see that your routers (generally speaking, not directed at anyone personally) has one single CPU running at 500 MHz or less with like 64 MB flash RAM.

More expensive routers like the one I have has 2 CPUs at 1.8GHz with 512MB flash, for a router that's a lot.

List of Asus WiFi routers for comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asus_routers

you just fooled by advertising man, every cheap fritzbox does the same work like this crap you mentioned here lol