Is input lag a real thing?

[coda]

Or it's just made up nonsense, to cover up a bad mood, or smth. I heard a little bit about this thing, and at first sight it looks like some sort off psychological issue, but i`m not sure. So Is this thing real? Is there any way to test it?

[Unholy]

Are you asking if system input lag is real? If so, yes it is.

[76561199152870089]

Input-lag is a real thing but I think its utter non-sense. Let me explain. Average input lag is about 50 to 30 millisecond (depending on the hardware), after playing for a couple of hours your mind adapts to whatever your input lag is. I believe input-lag does not have a really big affect on your performance in-game. On the other hand, better refresh rate monitors and lightweight mouse's do help with your in-game performance. Do keep in mind, everyone needs time to hone their skills in-game.

[coda]

But I heard like it's some sort of spiritual thing, and when planet's fit in special way, you can not perform as always. Like it's same computer, same keybord, same mouse. But you just can't play as good as yesterday, because of this. That's what i heard about input lag thing.

[Tututerokツ雨]

Originally posted by coda:

But I heard like it's some sort of spiritual thing, and when planet's fit in special way, you can not perform as always. Like it's same computer, same keybord, same mouse. But you just can't play as good as yesterday, because of this. That's what i heard about input lag thing.

what

[L0rdMada]

Yes, it's very much a real thing, but it's so low in modern hardware that it's insignificant and you shouldn't think of it too much

[76561199152870089]

Originally posted by coda:

But I heard like it's some sort of spiritual thing, and when planet's fit in special way, you can not perform as always. Like it's same computer, same keybord, same mouse. But you just can't play as good as yesterday, because of this. That's what i heard about input lag thing.

Its about consistency, you have to practice each day by playing CS2 everyday. Also, input-lag doesn't change by much if it changes at all, it only changes by 1 to 5 milliseconds so I think it doesn't matter if your input-lag is average. If its above average and you feel a delay in your aiming then you should change your hardware and turn on Anti-Lag in AMD's driver software (I don't know about Nvidia).

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[coda]

Originally posted by Czaer:

Originally posted by coda:

But I heard like it's some sort of spiritual thing, and when planet's fit in special way, you can not perform as always. Like it's same computer, same keybord, same mouse. But you just can't play as good as yesterday, because of this. That's what i heard about input lag thing.

Its about consistency, you have to practice each day by playing CS2 everyday. Also, input-lag doesn't change by much if it changes at all, it only changes by 1 to 5 milliseconds so I think it doesn't matter if your input-lag is average. If its above average and you feel a delay in your aiming then you should change your hardware and turn on Anti-Lag in AMD's driver software (I don't know about Nvidia).

1-5 ms is not even noticable for a human being. So i guess, when people bragging about this otherworldly force, which interfere their game, is most likely just an excuse.

[76561199152870089]

Originally posted by coda:

Originally posted by Czaer:

Its about consistency, you have to practice each day by playing CS2 everyday. Also, input-lag doesn't change by much if it changes at all, it only changes by 1 to 5 milliseconds so I think it doesn't matter if your input-lag is average. If its above average and you feel a delay in your aiming then you should change your hardware and turn on Anti-Lag in AMD's driver software (I don't know about Nvidia).

1-5 ms is not even noticable for a human being. So i guess, when people bragging about this otherworldly force, which interfere their game, is most likely just an excuse.

I couldn't agree more.

[Just Guy 0_0]

my game has 8 ms input lag , in other games I do 15 ms , dont see much diffrence but on 40 ms its visible minor lag for me.

60 ms is very visible lag , any higher is not playable. (100 ms is basically power point gameplay)

basically any value to 40 ms is not too much noticable , but once you change from 60 ms to 8 ms you can see it.

input lag in csgo does affect awp shots , other than that its just about you not being distracted by lag in game.

[coda]

Originally posted by HIZ:

my game has 8 ms input lag , in other games I do 15 ms , dont see much diffrence but on 40 ms its visible minor lag for me.

60 ms is very visible lag , any higher is not playable. (100 ms is basically power point gameplay)

basically any value to 40 ms is not too much noticable , but once you change from 60 ms to 8 ms you can see it.

input lag in csgo does affect awp shots , other than that its just about you not being distracted by lag in game.

I think you are a little bit misunderstood the thing we talking about. I guess, you are talking about ping/latency. But the post is about input lag. I was concerned about it, because I am playing cs games like more then 15 years. Even back then, I was aware about ping or fps and how it affects game experience. But this input lag thing is something new. 3 years ago I haven't even heard about it, and now people talking about it, like it's a real thing, and it can affect your game experience. So my concernings about it is, how we could play for decades, and couldn't even notice a thing, that affect gameplay. As I see from comments, it's not really signifficant.

[76561199152870089]

Originally posted by coda:

Originally posted by HIZ:

my game has 8 ms input lag , in other games I do 15 ms , dont see much diffrence but on 40 ms its visible minor lag for me.

60 ms is very visible lag , any higher is not playable. (100 ms is basically power point gameplay)

basically any value to 40 ms is not too much noticable , but once you change from 60 ms to 8 ms you can see it.

input lag in csgo does affect awp shots , other than that its just about you not being distracted by lag in game.

I think you are a little bit misunderstood the thing we talking about. I guess, you are talking about ping/latency. But the post is about input lag. I was concerned about it, because I am playing cs games like more then 15 years. Even back then, I was aware about ping or fps and how it affects game experience. But this input lag thing is something new. 3 years ago I haven't even heard about it, and now people talking about it, like it's a real thing, and it can affect your game experience. So my concernings about it is, how we could play for decades, and couldn't even notice a thing, that affect gameplay. As I see from comments, it's not really signifficant.

Let me clear it up again. Input-lag is literally a selling point for higher end GPU's like AMD's RX 7000 series and Nvidia's RTX 4000 or 3000 series. They say that "Enabling Anti-Lag will reduce your input-lag by 10 or 5 milliseconds" which it does but it isn't that notice-able. I forgot what Nvidia's alternative was called but it does the same thing. As I said before it is not that notice-able.

[coda]

Originally posted by Czaer:

Originally posted by coda:

I think you are a little bit misunderstood the thing we talking about. I guess, you are talking about ping/latency. But the post is about input lag. I was concerned about it, because I am playing cs games like more then 15 years. Even back then, I was aware about ping or fps and how it affects game experience. But this input lag thing is something new. 3 years ago I haven't even heard about it, and now people talking about it, like it's a real thing, and it can affect your game experience. So my concernings about it is, how we could play for decades, and couldn't even notice a thing, that affect gameplay. As I see from comments, it's not really signifficant.

Let me clear it up again. Input-lag is literally a selling point for higher end GPU's like AMD's RX 7000 series and Nvidia's RTX 4000 or 3000 series. They say that "Enabling Anti-Lag will reduce your input-lag by 10 or 5 milliseconds" which it does but it isn't that notice-able. I forgot what Nvidia's alternative was called but it does the same thing. As I said before it is not that notice-able.

Oh, so it comes from GPU sellers, like a marketing tool. That's why noone heard of it, back then. Interesting.

[Just Guy 0_0]

Originally posted by coda:

Originally posted by HIZ:

my game has 8 ms input lag , in other games I do 15 ms , dont see much diffrence but on 40 ms its visible minor lag for me.

60 ms is very visible lag , any higher is not playable. (100 ms is basically power point gameplay)

basically any value to 40 ms is not too much noticable , but once you change from 60 ms to 8 ms you can see it.

input lag in csgo does affect awp shots , other than that its just about you not being distracted by lag in game.

I think you are a little bit misunderstood the thing we talking about. I guess, you are talking about ping/latency. But the post is about input lag. I was concerned about it, because I am playing cs games like more then 15 years. Even back then, I was aware about ping or fps and how it affects game experience. But this input lag thing is something new. 3 years ago I haven't even heard about it, and now people talking about it, like it's a real thing, and it can affect your game experience. So my concernings about it is, how we could play for decades, and couldn't even notice a thing, that affect gameplay. As I see from comments, it's not really signifficant.

no I am talking about input lag , its 8 ms input lag on 280 refresh rate with 280 fps on 1080 resolution. (thats what I get)

and its called nvidia reflex which I already use.


as I said you dont need to care about it unless your main gameplay is awp.

or if you do over 40 ms input lag.

any lower is not noticeblae but 60 ms input lag vs 8 ms is very noticeable.

input lag improves itself (lower is better) when you go higher refresh rate and fps so many people dont care about this ascpect , because they reduce it by upgrading anyway.

lowering resolution also has slight effect.

40 vs 60 is also visible in long run.

once you go from 60 ms to 8 ms you can see what I mean.

[Mr. Rubber Ducky]

Input lag is a thing but honestly we as humans are more or so crippled by our own ability to react to stuff so ehh

Unless you're very cracked at SSG or AWP, I wouldn't really mind it by much unless it's high to the point where you can physically feel it.