Constant lag spiking, is my headset to blame?

dGuMolly·Jul 2, 2019·1 votes·874 views

I don't know why I'm having these constant lag spikes in my games. I start off with 30ms every time, and throughout the game every 30seconds - 1minute I will get these lag spikes that shoot up to 120-300ms and then go back down to 30ms, causing me to teleport or freeze for up to about 3 seconds. I know for a fact that it's NOT my wifi, so please don't bring that up, as my brother plays on the same wifi on his macbook and he is perfectly fine. However, I use my Astros A50 Wireless headset while my brother uses a wired headset; I heard wireless headsets may interfere with your connection, is this true? Or what is causing this lag spike deal? I think it's my headset but I want to make sure before I go out and buy a new one. I've noticed that when on YouTube, the video quality is trash 340p and loading it takes forever when I have my headset plugged in, but when I unplug the headset USB the video loads up right away with 1080p I have restarted my computer several, several times... I really think it's my headset, someone please clarify.

(every once in a while my computer will be perfectly fine without lag issues, so I have no idea what the problem is really...) [sg-ahri-1]

My specs: 24GB ram AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor 3.5GHz Radeon RX 560 Series graphics card

5 Comments

AeroWaffleJul 2, 20191 votes

There's an easy way to eliminate the headset as a possibility. Unplug the headset.

dGuMollyJul 2, 20191 votes

Just did a game without it, same thing, less frequent but I dont know if thats because I turned off my computer for two hours and got back on :/

ViavarianJul 2, 20191 votes

Just because your brother has a stable Wifi connection, does not mean YOU have a stable connection. I mean, what kind of logic is that?

dGuMollyJul 2, 20191 votes

Then lmk why every game my ping is perfectly fine except for league, lmk how both of my brothers are able to play league without any ping issues... lmk how he has a more stable connection up stairs on the complete opposite side of the router and I'm playing right next to the router. I mean what kind of logic is that?