During the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, many people had to stay in their homes and that led to having to find new ways to entertain themselves to stop thinking about real-world problems, as always, which led to the discovery of independent games. that had little or even no popularity, and among these games there is one that swept the world of online streaming and gaming videos, and this was the infamous Among Us, created by the InnerSloth studio.
Among Us is essentially a very simple game to start playing, similar to games like Mafia and Clue, where players have to guess or must deduce which of the playmates, or in most cases guess, is a partner. normal or is he an assassin , operating with a simple voting system, but adding tasks that must be completed by the players, or crew in this case, to win the game before the assassin, or impostor, kills everyone, hence the name “Among Us” which translates as “Between us”.
Index( )
- Why do I get lag in video games?
- What are MS and how do they affect my game?
- Strategies to improve performance and reduce game lag
- Clear game cache
- Delete all background apps
- Connect to the nearest server
- Play with friends who are in the same country
- Restart your modem and cell phone before starting to play
- How to set a high priority for Among Us on PC
- Lag, the weakness of the Among Us game
Why do I get lag in video games?
Although it is not possible to alter the connection of the servers, it is always possible to try to control how well the quality of the game can go.
It must be understood that the Lag can be due to the high amount of ping or more, which is basically the time in milliseconds that is required for the information to travel from the local server to the original server of the game or service, being lower latency or Ping is preferable so that the time is shorter, the general consensus being a ping of less than 100ms .
Another reason why there may be lag is the physical lag of the device, either on the cell phone or on the computer, which can happen thanks to the lack of RAM memory that the device has or the internal memory overload, causing the fps, or the frames per second, are greatly reduced, so even if there is little ping there may be problems with the fps , or vice versa as well.
What are MS and how do they affect my game?
When we speak of ‘MS’ we refer to the measurement in milliseconds that we obtain through the ping in the game, this is used to take the time it takes for our equipment to communicate with the IP network. This measure is very important when participating in online games, since our performance in it depends on it.
For example, if we are playing any video game online, it is not convenient for us to have a very high ping, since this translates into a longer response time or in other words, what we see on our screen is much slower than that of others, making us a very easy target. We must take into account that MS can be affected for several reasons:
Most of the time it is usually due to our internet connection , as it can also be a problem on the same server, the state of our equipment can also be a problem, added to the saturation of the servers in the game.
Strategies to improve performance and reduce game lag
When playing, the application is normally in English, since the Spanish versions have not been as prioritized today as the English ones, so in order to understand what it says it is necessary to switch Among Us to the Spanish language .
Having already understood this, it is necessary to admit that, although the game can be better understood in Spanish, there is not much to do within it to solve the lag, but to recognize the problems , it is necessary to understand if the lag is due to latency or memory .
Having resolved the doubt, it is necessary to select which direction to take, if it is a Latency problem the possible solutions are to connect to a better Wi-Fi signal or to a server close to the user’s location , considering that for the Spanish country the server of ” Europe “is the best option. Another option is to use a VPN to change the IP address and connect to a server located in any of the 3 regions.
When the failure is the system memory, it is preferable to free up the space of the device , either speed up the device and fix the RAM so that the fps improves while in turn it is a good option to free memory to improve the performance of the system.
Clear game cache
When we clear the cache, we are deleting the temporary data of the game , without affecting our user data. In this way we will have a game as just installed without deleting our user and settings.
Delete all background apps
The slowness in our game is usually due to the fact that we are using many applications at the same time or while we are in a game, which consumes resources on our device and causes us to have lag, by closing all these apps we can have a more fluid game experience
Connect to the nearest server
If our internet provider is not that good, trying to access remote servers is quite detrimental when starting a game, as the response time will be longer. The ideal is to look for closer servers , for example, if we are in Latin America it is not advisable to access a European server.
Play with friends who are in the same country
Taking into account the performance of our internet provider, it will be more beneficial for us to play with people who are in a close range or in the same country. Since this gives us a similar response time and makes the game more pleasant.
Restart your modem and cell phone before starting to play
Restarting our internet modem can be a solution both to reduce the ping, as well as to solve other internet problems , it will only be enough to turn it off and on again. The same happens with our phone, when we restart it we refresh its operation. As resource-consuming background apps will be shut down automatically, which will reduce the ping considerably.
How to set a high priority for Among Us on PC
This will help the performance of your PC when playing. To do this, you just have to go to the task manager, switch to the more details tab, go to the details option and click on Among Us with the right button in the section set priority option. Doing this will ensure that your PC gives more power to the game than to other open programs.
Lag, the weakness of the Among Us game
Remember that the popularity of these games, as was the case with Among Us, came overnight, with a monthly base of at least a few thousand players to millions of active players daily, and that it is still increasing as there are many ways to download the game, even for free.
This led to server overload being a common problem, still being a big problem in many places and times. The game servers, despite being functional, could not keep up with the constant mass player count that the game enjoyed from its time of greatest popularity.
Since in the game only 3 different servers can be selected: “North America”, “Asia” and “Europe” leaving many players out of the reach of the servers and therefore affecting the performance for these players.
