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Low FPS While Playing Online Games
I play a lot of PC games and most of those games are online games. My problem is that I get such low frames per second while playing online. When I play single player offline games I have seen my fps well over 100 and I average about 60.
When I play online games, (MMO's for example) I average 20-60 fps and I even see my fps dip into the teens occasionally. This is with or without V Sync. Needless to say, I do experience slow down. It's not often but when it does happen, it is annoying.
I utilize cable oppose to DSL and I average about 8Mbps download speed, so I can't figure out for the life of me what the problem is.
I hear some people say that they average 60-100 fps even while playing these same MMO's or other online games. It sounds kind of fake to me when I hear that these people are getting such good numbers and I'm getting such bad ones. I don't have a top of the line PC but I don't have a toaster either. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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