Since launch I’ve been seeing these yellow, orange, and red boxes on the right side of my screen. This wasn’t present int he beta for me at all, or any other BF that I can recall, and I’ve had them all.
Basically every game I’ve been in has had this issue, and pretty bag lag to go with it. From what I’ve been seeing it’s a packet loss/latency issue, but how do we resolve this on our end?
Or is it completely on Dice/Ea’s end? I’ve never had this in the beta, and haven’t changed anything on my computer or internet connection.
Just turn them off. Nothing you can do in most cases. Gameplay/Advanced network performance indicators
How do you turn them off?
Ok, found the settings thanks. But what to do about the lag issue? Is this something everyone’s experiencing or just me?
I get them to and have zero internet issues. 80-90 down, 10-15 up, 26ms ping and 0 packet loss according to ping test.
I’ve been getting the orange network display warning since last patch. Before that was okay. And my ping less than 20.
I have same issue, its unplayable at times, i can not kill anyone or thing. Everything just moves to fast to hit. The money us guys pay is not worth the performance these servers are supplying us with. Answers please.. I think its just euro servers are not up to the task. My network is ok I get at least 50meg download speed. Again answers please we deserve to know, we pay the cash for the privilege, if you can call it that.
Bttt I’d love to see any further explanations as to the performance issues on EU servers?
What do the Network Performance Indicators mean?
If you leave them on, everyone will see them at some point, and since not everyone has connection issues they are therefore a waste of time.
Just disable them - they are not accurate at signalling anything with which to concern yourself with.
I m not sure about the US, or other countires, but every ISP in the UK permits up to 10% packet loss on the line before they consider it a fault as per the standard. So what are you gonna do if you have packet loss? call your ISP?
You: “Er, yeah I’m playing this game, and I’m getting packet loss. I’m on a top notch router, and playing on a wired connection”
ISP: “oh ok, let me see sir, I’ve ran some tests and your line is showing 3% packet loss - that is normal”
You: “but I don’t want packet loss”
ISP: “Anything else I can help you with today?”
click
Exactly - since it’s not an issue anyone can do anything about even when they have it, it’s pointless having the indicators. The reason they are on by default is to protect DICE not you, it’s so if you get a “dodgy netcode” video clip and you moan to DICE about it, and packetloss icons happen at a point before or after, they can discredit your opinion on the basis on “it’s your connection” because it’s on the screen. That’s why they were included in the first place in BF4 CTE.
Is it possible to hide network indicators? how? Tell me please!!
You can’t now, DICE decided it would be a good idea for the game to be in permanent troubleshooting mode and removed the option from the menu.
Not currently. (a lot of people are complaining, though so I expect the option to turn them off will return) Also, don’t necro really old threads. It’s annoying to the mods here, and everyone else.