Hello everyone,
I just purchased a new laptop and installed steam usf4 and I am noticing a good amount of input lag. Is there something in the in game settings or something that I can change about my computer settings to reduce the input lag?
Here are the specs of my laptop. I’m not sure if there is anything other info that would be useful…
I’m not interested in purchasing an external monitor as it will not look great in my office lol
This is my first gaming laptop and I have 0 experience gaming on laptop outside of ggpo years ago. I’ve made changes in the in game settings as suggested on the steam forums (v sync off, etc.) and it doesn’t seem to make a difference.
Are there settings that I could change on my graphics card to help out? Thanks for your time!
I can tell you right now. its not your PC’s hardware. Mid ranged PCs from 6 years ago can run Street Fighter IV just fine.
PC versions of Street Fighter games have always been pieces of crap.
As you are playing on a laptop, you shouldn’t get input lag from the monitor.
Also the help on Steam forums is a joke, turning off v sync does not do squat.
You want to do is diagnosed your Laptop it self, ignore Street Fighter and Steam
You want to close off any unnecessary processes, shut off as many programs and apps running in the background as possible.
Can you open up task manager and tell us how many processes you are running.
You can use MSconfig or system config to reduce the number of programs that are starting on start up.
Protip: get rid of any and all tool bars for your Web browser as they just waste resources, run Spybot S&D or/and Malware Bytes to clean up any malware running round, also try to defrag your HDD if you haven’t done this in a while (do not defrag SSD drives).
Thanks for the reponse dark. I will check how many processes that I have running in the background. It is a very new computer and i have used it dor about 4 hours, installed google chrome and steam. Otherwise there are no other programs that I have installed.
Any other advice, solutions, and tips are welcome. Thanks again Dark.
To clear things up, by “lag” do you mean the game slowing down and dropping frames or do you mean as you press a button, you feel it takes forever for the action to hit the screen?
Do you guys really expect everyone to just know this stuff? It’s easy to forget that not everyone knows everything that we do and how easy it is for things to be confused when you already know it. We lose perspective quite easily.
Not everyone knows what input lag is when they complain about it. Anyway, we had an input lag thread like, down the page.
If there is input lag that takes forever then I don’t know what to tell someone. A PC should not have major input lag, ever. Laptop or not. Having programs running won’t cause that, all that would happen with a bunch of background processes is game slowdown and frames dropping from lack of ram. That is why I asked actual input lag or game slowdown. Some people call game slowdown game lag.
You are right about that. I have no idea about pcs. Im old and this is literally the first pc game that i am playing outside of ggpo when it first came out. I break things when i change settings on a computer.
moonchilde said:
“Not everyone knows what input lag is when they complain about it. Anyway, we had an input lag thread like, down the page…That is why I asked actual input lag or game slowdown. Some people call game slowdown game lag.”
You asked the right question earlier and after playing some more, going to my card settings, turning triple buffering, threaded optimization, vertical sync off, and setting my pre rendering frames to 1, it IS actually slowdown and stuttering that I am experiencing.
Free up as much ram as possible by disabling any start up programs possibly eating ram. It’s been a while since I’ve used Windows but I think you can google for program startup regedit and find a registry key that lists programs during startup. You could also run msconfig and check there, but sometimes stuff doesn’t always register in msconfig and can be found via the regedit program.
There is also services, and Windows runs a ton of worthless services probably not needed. Only problem, if you don’t know what you’re doing, you shouldn’t mess with them. Your PC should be more than enough to run the game, but maybe try running it at a lower resolution like 720p, changing model and shading detail to mid or low, turning anti-aliasing down or off, and so on. IMO, keep vsync on, but disable pre-rendered frames. If you make a profile for the game, then you can actually disable vsync in the game and enforce it at the driver level. There you can also over ride other settings like AA and so on. Worth looking into.
Thanks for the tips Moonchilde,
I’ll look into the startup programs and also try running it at 720p.
I’m also open to other ideas people may have. Maybe this is just how the game runs on pc.
From the looks of it the situation is more serious than what you could fix by just this, but have you set the number of maximum pre-rendered frames to 1 on the nVidia Control Panel? If not, it should be at least a little help…
On the nvidia control panel you have pictured click program tab and look for USF4. You may have to manually add the applications. The it should have a choice of which cards are available to use.
I remember seeing the option of which card to use. I will make sure that it is set to the nvidia card. I am coming to the conclusion that it is the game itself. I read that people play the game in Arcade Mode with find opponent off for best results. Otherwise the game has issues in the other modes.
I actually don’t experience the same type of slowdown when I have played online. I do get the internet lag but it’s different than the slowdown and stuttering that I experience offline.
Yeah you can set it to be in use globally but it has issues that way. It’ll burn through your battery hella quick and it won’t change over to the right gpu on certain applications. Found it easier to just manually set which applications use what.
It seems to be working OK now. Someone mentioned on the steam site that Arcade mode has less issues than the other modes and this has definitely been my experience. Here is what I ended up doing…
Created a profile for usf4 in the NVIDIA settings with the following changes
Set max pre rendered frames to 1
Triple buffering off
V sync off
Power management mode = prefer maximum performance
Where it asks which gc to use I changed it to the NVIDIA card rather than automatic (this is the part the made the biggest difference in my opinion.)
In game settings:
I jacked all the settings to max, did a benchmark test and got 119.551 fps
I used the recommended settings in one of the guides on this site and got 299.626 fps
The game is running better, it’s not perfect, and not as good as 360 but something to mess around on when I am in the office for sure. Seems like it’s just not a great game (performance wise) for steam.
Arcade mode seems to be okay. My matches online have been okay. Training and Challenge modes are where I experience the most difficulty.
Thanks for the help everyone. Still open to ideas and/ or suggestions to test out
