Many players report that the Rocket League game lags too much. For example, this is what a player said about Rocket League lagging: “Not sure what happened this season, but I literally can’t play the game. The lag is so bad that every touch is delayed, and I’m just guessing what’s happening.” Excessive lag can make Rocket League very unresponsive, slow, and choppy when playing it. These are some ways you can fix excessive Rocket League lagging on a Windows PC.
Adjust Gameplay Settings
Adjusting gameplay settings like Input Buffer, Bandwidth Limit, Client Send Rate, and Server Send Rate can potentially reduce Rocket League lag. For example, CSTS is an Input Buffer setting for counteracting high ping and packet loss. Start your Rocket League game, select Settings, and then try setting options on the Gameplay tab as follows:
- Input Buffer: CSTS
- Client Send Rate: High
- Server Send Rate: High
- Bandwidth Limit: High
The Gameplay tab
Reduce Video Settings
Various advanced graphical settings add many layers to Rocket League. Lowering the video settings for Rocket League can reduce rendering latency. Start Rocket League to select Settings > Video, and then try adjusting the graphical settings as follows:
- Texture Detail: Performance or High Performance
- World Detail: Performance or High Performance
- Particle Detail: Performance or High Performance
- High Quality Shaders: Disable
- Ambient Occlusion: Disable
- Depth of Field: Disable
- Bloom: Disable
- Light Shafts: Disable
- Lens Flares: Disable
- Dynamic Shadows: Disable
- Motion Blur: Disable
- Weather Effects: Disable
- Transparent Goalposts: Disable
- Vertical Sync: Disable
- Render Detail: Performance
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
The Video tab
Disable Voice Chat
Voice chat is a feature that consumes network resources when enabled. So, try disabling voice chat to fix Rocket League lagging. This Epic Games help page tells you how players can disable voice chat in the Rocket League game.
Set a High Rocket League Priority
Setting a higher priority for the Rocket League process can reduce input lag for the game. Task Manager includes priority settings you can change to apply this potential fix for Rocket League lagging. This is how you can set a High CPU priority for the Rocket League game.
- First, start the Rocket League game, and press the Windows key to bring up the desktop.
- Right-click any part of the taskbar and select Task Manager.
- Click Details to view that tab.
- Right-click the Rocket League game process on the Details tab to select Priority > High.
- Then, return to the Rocket League game by clicking its taskbar icon.
The Set priority option
Adjust Compatibility Settings
Override high DPI scaling behavior and Disable fullscreen optimizations are two compatibility settings that can reduce Rocket League lagging when selected. The Override high DPI scaling setting prevents Windows from handling scaling. Disabling full-screen optimizations bypasses the default borderless windowed rendering that can generate input lag when selected. This is how you can select those compatibility settings for Rocket League:
- Open File Explorer and the Rocket League game installation folder (C:\Program Files\Epic Games\rocketleague).
- Next, right-click the RocketLeague.exe file and select Properties > Compatibility.
- First, click on Disable fullscreen optimizations to select that option.
- Click on the Change high DPI settings button.
- Select the Override high DPI scaling behavior setting.
The Compatibility tab and settings
- Click on OK.
- Then, click on the Apply and OK options on the Rocket League properties window.
Set a Different DNS Server
Although setting an alternative DNS is not a guaranteed way to fix all types of lag, it might help in some cases by reducing latency and packet loss issues. Google and Cloudflare DNS are two good alternatives you can set on your PC. This Epic Page explains how you can switch your DNS server to one of those alternatives.
The DNS settings
Other Possible Ways to Fix Rocket League Lagging
If excessive Rocket League lag persists, there are more potential fixes. These are some additional potential remedies for Rocket League lag:
- Restart your PC’s router.
- Close more background programs and processes with Task Manager before starting Rocket League.
- Update the network and graphical drivers on your PC.
- Stop (or pause) any background software updates, such as those in Epic Games or Windows updates.
There may not be a surefire way to resolve Rocket League lagging. Yet, the potential remedies above have reduced Rocket League lag for some players. Therefore, the troubleshooting methods mentioned above for reducing lag are worth trying.
