"Smartboost" for PC work? And also curious to know other PC players setups for best hit detection

[bbursley]

Does smart boost "gaming" priority also work on PC, or just console?

I have a 200/200 dedicated fiber circuit from local ISP. Not really any jitter or latency on the line (traceroutes etc. included). Does Smartboost gaming apply to PC, or would I have to set my device icon as a console for it to kick in properly? Is it tracked by ports etc? Just trying to dial in the hit detection as it still does not seem as good as it should be considering the fiber I have is probably better than what else I can get for my area. Speed tests often show 270 DL/185 UL to most servers, but should I ignore that and try to stick closer to what my ISP applied as my "line rate"? Its a little confusing, as I know a dedicated circuit technically has an active connection all the time compared to residential, but I can imagine that does not mean that it cant ever be a victim to BB sometimes (maybe just a little harder to do).

Does anyone have tips specifically for getting best hit detection on PC specifically, even Bios or NIC settings if applicable. Just curious to see what worked for people out there. I have already enabled XMP/EXPO, so ram speeds are max, and low latency mode is enabled (recently) to get timings as low as possible. All drivers updated. PC is a 7800X3D and 4080S so can push up to 240 FPS, which maybe helps a very small amount due to more updated frames, but as we know, it has more to do with the net side since even console players are still killing me fast at lower. 

A few traceroutes to some COD servers as observed/pulled in resource monitor, as well as a couple generic sites showing stability (also seen in traceroutes). I just don't get why my bullets STILL sponge lol, its super frustrating. Any "packet loss" seen I think is simply just from the hop not replying if I'm not mistaken, since I have never seen packet loss in game or traceroutes or pings ever.

[Netduma Fraser]

It will work on PC as well yes - easy way to tell if it is working is it'll show on the graph when you're gaming whether gaming is showing/being prioritized. If it isn't then consider adding the PC as a device instead to prioritize. Your ping is ridiculously stable and so in networking terms there should be no issues with lag if it continues to be that consistent when playing. However, in CoD land, it's quite possible you're being lag compensated due to your steady low ping. In which case try forcing servers slightly further away and see if they play better for you even if the ping is a bit higher.

[bbursley]

52 minutes ago, Netduma Fraser said:

It will work on PC as well yes - easy way to tell if it is working is it'll show on the graph when you're gaming whether gaming is showing/being prioritized. If it isn't then consider adding the PC as a device instead to prioritize. Your ping is ridiculously stable and so in networking terms there should be no issues with lag if it continues to be that consistent when playing. However, in CoD land, it's quite possible you're being lag compensated due to your steady low ping. In which case try forcing servers slightly further away and see if they play better for you even if the ping is a bit higher.

Right, its super stable, thats the crazy part.

Is it legitimately possible that the "packet loss" is just due to the hop not replying back? I think I might have to give that a go honestly with drawing around some further servers, as it seems like low latency (to NY) has not been a good result, or sometimes mixed really. Also, the Constantcompany-ic382520.ip.twelve99-cust.net would just be the point at which twelve99 peers (directly) with choopa right? Same with the other traceroute that shows the NYIIX? '

I tried to yell at the ISP, and all they could really tell me is "our network is optimized and we dont see any issues", granted this is a dedicated business line, so I got my hopes up thinking, sure, cod will run flawlessly, it has to right? They also tried to blame my NIC card, saying during their layer 4 "true speed test" I assume the one that tests the speeds from the service switch to their CO, they saw less than 1% of TCP retries, directly connected to the switch of course. 

 

Thanks for any and all replies Fraser!

[bbursley]

Also my NIC is the onboard Realtek, my work macbook seems to even load pages faster than my gaming PC does. MY coworker suggested that this could be just better harmony with all the parts and OS that mac uses than a gaming PC, but it is an intel based NIC as opposed to a Realtek, and im not sure if that makes any difference or not.

[Netduma Fraser]

Yeah that hop is nothing to be concerned with, you just want to focus on the bottom graph which isn't showing any loss. It'll be one of the last hops yeah. I'm not sure about the configuration of the NICs in MACs but on a PC they have options coming out of your ears so there are settings there you could experiment with to see if you notice any difference but I'm fairly confident in this scenario it's the lag compensation working against you.