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Re:SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites by russdill on Thursday November 15, 2018 @08:57PM (#18465612)
If you're going to another continent, you're going to see a big latency savings. If your going to another state, you're probably going to get lower latency on fiber. But really, a 60Hz frame is 33.3ms, and many online games advance their world state at 60Hz too, so it's easy to get up to 67 ms of latency just sitting still.
Re:SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites by nugga on Friday November 16, 2018 @03:55AM (#18467494)
You are right in that games have latency inherent to the processing of game engine ticks and depending on when you press the button the server might have just advanced to the next frame when your input gets processed and you're looking at another delay of potentially tens of milliseconds on top of network round trip and of course however long it takes the game to draw the updated info on your screen once the information gets back.

Wonder if it would make sense nowadays to send world state updates to clients at 1000 Hz or if it's even feasible?

Re:SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites by diamondlovesyou on Friday November 16, 2018 @01:47AM (#18467003)
A lot of people play with 144hz (what I play on) and some even higher (240hz). Which is just under 7ms and just over 4ms, respectively.
Re:SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites by de_watcher on Friday November 16, 2018 @02:49AM (#18467239)
He's talking about network frames, not graphics frames.