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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A phrase a person will say in online games if they experience connection problems. After this being asked, the other players will reply "yes" or "no" depending on if they lag too. The point of this is to know if the server they're playing on is having issues or it's the individual player's internet.
If everyone replies"no", you can be sure that your own internet is the problem, however if they reply "yes", it's most likely the server.
A phrase a person will say in online games if they experience connection problems. After this being asked, the other players will reply "yes" or "no" depending on if they lag too. The point of this is to know if the server they're playing on is having issues or it's the individual player's internet.
If everyone replies"no", you can be sure that your own internet is the problem, however if they reply "yes", it's most likely the server.
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Get the mama lag mug.Usually some limpdick, no-skill loser-scrub who feels the need to intentionally lag the game in order to win. Most commonly used in fighting games and FPS games.
He's definitely a lag switcher, I played against him online and when I was about to beat him and then the game suddenly started lagging when I tried to block his ultimate, he won and left without saying anything.
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In a fight
Me:Ez win
Game:I don't like you, lets cause some LAGGGGG
Me:Aaaah watch the flipppppppppppppppppppppppp, I died
Me:Ez win
Game:I don't like you, lets cause some LAGGGGG
Me:Aaaah watch the flipppppppppppppppppppppppp, I died
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