I'm experiencing some frustrating lag in Fortnite, while my connection seems fine for other games like Minecraft and Rocket League. My frame rate drops intermittently, causing a stutter every few seconds, which is really impacting my gameplay. My WiFi settings indicate a ping of about 12 ms before launching, but it spikes to around 50 ms even in private creative maps. I've checked Task Manager during gameplay, and it shows a very low bandwidth usage of around 50 kbps to 70 kbps. I have a decent build with a 9600x CPU, a Gigabyte B850 Gaming X Wifi6e motherboard, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM. Could this be related to a BIOS setting or a driver issue? Any help would be appreciated!
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A 50 ping isn’t terrible, but it sounds like your real problem might be the frame drops. It could be Fortnite's servers acting up or something your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is doing, perhaps throttling the game specifically.
I totally understand! The ping isn't a big deal for me either, but consistent frame drops can ruin the experience.