alt Hacker News> I have to deal with VERY noticeable input lag. Like maybe a quarter of a second. It’s pretty much unplayable
Your experience is not normal.
If you’re seeing that much lag, the most likely explanation is your display. Many TVs have high latency for various processing steps that doesn’t matter when you’re watching a movie or TV, but becomes painful when you’re playing games.
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jonny_eh • 07/30/2025
Luckily newer TVs and console can negotiate a low-latency mode automatically. It's called ALLM (Auto-Low Latency Mode).
chamomeal • 07/30/2025
it's possible, but it seems to specifically be a rocket league on xbox series s problem, not a display problem. Other games run totally fine on the same display with no lag!
This does not undermine chamomeal's argument. The whole point is that back in the N64 days, they could not possibly have had that experience. There was no way to even make it happen. The fact that today it's a real possibility when you've done nothing obviously wrong is a definite failure.