Alright folks, so today I was trying to play Naraka Bladepoint with my buddy on PlayStation while I was on my PC. Man, the lag was brutal! Made me want to throw my controller half the time. Hit registration felt like a suggestion, not a command. So, I went digging for fixes and decided to test them out myself, live in my actual games.
First Thing – Checked My Own Connection
I was so ready to blame the crossplay servers, you know? But smart advice said start at home. Grabbed my laptop and ran a quick speed test. Okay, download was decent, but upload? Basically trickling. That’s bad news for games needing constant updates back to the server. Did the router restart dance – yep, unplugged it for a solid minute, plugged it back in. Felt smoother just navigating the menus afterwards. Simple, but often ignored!
Next – Wired Up! No More Wi-Fi Wars
I hate running cables. My desk is chaos. But I dragged that dusty old ethernet cable from behind the TV and plugged my PC straight into the router. Holy difference. That wireless ping spike rollercoaster? Flatlined. Way more consistent connection instantly. If you can manage it, a wire is still king, especially for frantic games like Naraka.
Diving Into Router Settings – QoS Stuff
Okay, this sounded scary. Logged into my router settings page (usually just type 192.168.1.1 or whatever in your browser). Found the QoS (Quality of Service) section. The goal? Make the router prioritize my PC’s traffic over, say, someone else streaming a movie. Found an option to prioritize the gaming port range, or even just picked my PC from a device list and cranked its priority to “High”. Saved the settings. Another noticeable bump in smoothness.
PC Settings Tune-Up
Back to my PC. Naraka is a beast, right? Launched the game, went into Settings.
- FPS Lock: Capped it at a solid 90 instead of letting it bounce wildly between 110 and 70. Smoother frame pacing feels better than higher average FPS with drops.
- Reflex: Found the “Nvidia Reflex Low Latency” option (AMD has something similar) and turned that ON. Supposed to shave off crucial milliseconds.
- Background Nonsense: Made sure nothing crazy was downloading updates or hogging bandwidth in the background. Closed unnecessary apps.
The Last Resort – Server Choice
Even after all that, sometimes you just get dumped into a faraway server because of the crossplay pool. Noticed one match still felt sluggish? Checked the server location during the match. Saw I was somehow on Asia! Exited, manually selected my actual region server (North America for me) before queuing next time. Immediate improvement. Don’t trust Auto-select! Be bossy, pick your server yourself.
Final Result? Massive difference, seriously. Game felt responsive. Parries started landing, grapples actually connected when I expected. Went from rage-quit territory to actually enjoying intense fights with my console friend. It’s not magic internet, but these steps dragged my crossplay experience from awful to totally playable. Took maybe 30 mins total, including router fiddling.
