Abstract: When you’ve been playing with bad specs all your life, causing you to feel like you’re framing and lagging even when you got a good PC.
Lag PTSD is the mental state of feeling like your PC is performing bad, when it is performing perfectly fine. As the name suggests, this condition is caused when a person has played or watched media all their life with a bad PC. This causes them to frame and lag frequently, and them having a less than average time gaming. Then, after they got used to their PC’s bad performance, when they get an actually good PC they continue to feel like they’re lagging and framing, even if the PC is tearing through the game at QHD 144+ FPS.
One of the more versatile solution to countering this is to have the game’s performance tab open. Seeing the frame counter at a stable and desired number can quell any feelings of lag and framing. Additionally, if this condition takes the variant of only occurring in retrospect, remind yourself that you can likely play Cyberpunk at 60 FPS+.
Lag PTSD can be caused by having less than 60 FPS on even the lightest of games at minimum graphics settings.
Lag PTSD is the mental state of feeling like your PC is performing bad, when it is performing perfectly fine. As the name suggests, this condition is caused when a person has played or watched media all their life with a bad PC. This causes them to frame and lag frequently, and them having a less than average time gaming. Then, after they got used to their PC’s bad performance, when they get an actually good PC they continue to feel like they’re lagging and framing, even if the PC is tearing through the game at QHD 144+ FPS.
One of the more versatile solution to countering this is to have the game’s performance tab open. Seeing the frame counter at a stable and desired number can quell any feelings of lag and framing. Additionally, if this condition takes the variant of only occurring in retrospect, remind yourself that you can likely play Cyberpunk at 60 FPS+.
Lag PTSD can be caused by having less than 60 FPS on even the lightest of games at minimum graphics settings.
“I recently got a PC with a 9800X3D and a 5070 TI. I still feel like I’m lagging though. I lowkey might have lag PTSD.”
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Get the Lag PTSDmug. Defined as a large group of Bibites, the titular organism from the evolution simulator game, The Bibites.
by AnnoyedSonic June 1, 2023
Get the A Lagmug. by Furrykillers.com March 12, 2023
Get the lag logmug. A situation during gaming when the FPS drops very low, causing game footage to look choppy and stuttery. In most situations, it becomes hard or immposible to play while lagging.
by Cyan_on_the_dictionary February 24, 2022
Get the lagmug. The amount of time that it takes between Alex Jones having a conspiracy theory and it turning out to be right is known as Jones lag.
by @mrkulci September 10, 2020
Get the Jones lagmug. The feeling theatre kids/stage people feel after a theatre production closes. After a long tech week and hard work put into a show, tech lag is what the cast experiences when the show finishes and they finally get to rest, à la jet lag.
Theatre Kid #1: “Oh man, I am really feeling techlagged now that Pippin has closed. Running Simple Joys 50 times in rehearsal really weighed on me.”
Theatre Kid #2: “I’m feeling more post-show depression myself, but that tech lag is gonna kick in tomorrow, I know it.”
Theatre Kid #2: “I’m feeling more post-show depression myself, but that tech lag is gonna kick in tomorrow, I know it.”
by Ilovedinosaurs1738 November 15, 2020
Get the Tech Lagmug. When you travel to a very different time zone and your other bodily functions havent caught up to your new sleep-wake routine.
Resident of destination: You all settled in?
Traveler: My jet lag is better but I still cant use the restroom
Resident: Don't worry, your colon will catch up soon. You just have gut lag.
Traveler: My jet lag is better but I still cant use the restroom
Resident: Don't worry, your colon will catch up soon. You just have gut lag.
by Mister Crapaud October 6, 2022
Get the Gut lagmug.