Lag (latency) in a game
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66Mustang
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Just in case anyone can help as I know we have some gamers here
I have a weird problem that only occurs with one program, a game called World of Warcraft
Basically once in a while, maybe once a day, my latency/ping will go up from the usual 20-30 to about 100-200 so doesn't make the game unplayable but makes it unpleasant.
Nothing else on the computer is affected, every other program is fine and even doing a ping test returns nothing unordinary
The only fix is to restart my whole computer, after which it will work again for a while
The only thing I can think (as a total novice so may make no sense) is some file or script, which isn't present after a restart, occasionally decides to load up which affects the latency?
I'm on a Mac if that matters and don't have anything like antivirus getting in the way.
Any ideas?
I have a weird problem that only occurs with one program, a game called World of Warcraft
Basically once in a while, maybe once a day, my latency/ping will go up from the usual 20-30 to about 100-200 so doesn't make the game unplayable but makes it unpleasant.
Nothing else on the computer is affected, every other program is fine and even doing a ping test returns nothing unordinary
The only fix is to restart my whole computer, after which it will work again for a while
The only thing I can think (as a total novice so may make no sense) is some file or script, which isn't present after a restart, occasionally decides to load up which affects the latency?
I'm on a Mac if that matters and don't have anything like antivirus getting in the way.
Any ideas?

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Hmmm, that's an odd one, have you looked at other processes that are running when the lag happens?0
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I'm not sure about that @Albus_Scope but I have decided to take a screenshot of all the running processes now, while it's working, and will compare that with when it's not working!0
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It could be other software looking for updates or automatically downloading them? Or a memory leak perhaps? I'm not great with macs, I'm 100% PC, so I'm not 100% how macs do things.0
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