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Desync while online gaming Valorant
During gaming enemies appear to see me before I see them. On my screen I see running headshots and movement speed that is very fast. When I watch the replay they clearing stop, aim, shoot while I don't even shoot at them. I don't have input lag but I think Desync. System is 9800x3d 5070ti and a 240hz monitor. Riot support points me to internet issues, but in game metrics do not show any issue. Wired internet, Stable ping, no packet loss, no frame time spikes, no issues with cpu or gpu temps.
But is this actually a comcast issue or a riot issue?
"if you need help about how to approach them about the situation, you can ask for a re-route, and it is a good idea to request your ISP to assign you a static IP address if possible, and you would need to ask them to verify if you are getting a consistent public IP with all your traffic bound to the Internet, regardless of protocols."
zandor60657
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3 days ago
Could be either TBH. Debugging stuff like this is often "entertaining", and not in a good way.
Riot's "suggestions" are a bunch of garbage. No consumer ISP is going to do any of that. Change your routing? A static IP? In 2026? Really? Yeah you can get one or multiple statics, but you'll have to pay up for commercial grade service and it probably won't fix your problem. Comcast will keep giving you the same dynamic IP over and over again as long as your router stays up most of the time. They use standard DHCP (or at least it acts like standard DHCP) and don't switch your IP on the fly. If your router, modem or gateway is down/offline for a while it could get reassigned and you'll get a new one when you turn it back on, but that won't happen while you're gaming.
How are you measuring ping & packet loss? Is it to the game servers or are you just using some speed test?
It's also possible Valorant has a bot/cheater problem. I don't play it and don't really pay any attention to it, so I don't know how good they are about keeping that stuff under control.
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BruceW
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5 hours ago
Release/Renew is not likely to be helpful. When used with a standalone modem or with a modem+router gateway in bridge mode, Release/Renew would perhaps change the public IP. The IPs they assign are "sticky dynamic", which means the DHCP server attempts to assign the same IP every time the device connects, based on its MAC address. The longer a device is offline, the greater the chance it will receive a new IP.
So there's a good chance you'll just get the same IP back again. When a gateway is not in bridge mode Release/Renew would perhaps change the user's local/private IP, but not the public one.
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