How to fix Lag and high ping in Windows 11 games

Despite everything that Windows 11 has evolved, the truth is that when we are enjoying our favorite games, it can happen that everything suddenly slows down and our experience gets worse. To prevent that from happening, you should keep reading.

Some functions of Windows 11 undoubtedly favor when playing the most spectacular games compatible with this operating system. We have extremely interesting specifications such as automatic HDR, a system that gives us better colors, DirectX 12 or the game bar that allows us to have certain options very close at hand.

All these characteristics and some more make the new operating system from Microsoft to become one of the best platforms we can find to play top-level games with spectacular graphics.

The problem comes when we are playing a game, one of those that require all our attention and speed to get through the different phases, and suddenly the Internet slows down and everything starts to go downhill.

At that moment we start to have a really high ping time and everything slows down, which means that the possibility of continuing to play will be extremely difficult.

If this has ever happened to you, you should know that there are several methods to try to solve the problems that can cause excessive lag and ping in Windows 11. Let’s see what they are.

Reboot the network

The first thing we should check is the network adapter, since it may be that there has been some kind of specific conflict or that an update has caused some kind of problem.

The good thing is that we will always be able to restore it to the default configuration, which will mean that it will work correctly again.

You should know that what this system is going to do is uninstall the adapters from the device, so that once the computer has been restarted, they are reinstalled with the default configuration of the device.

To do this you have to follow these steps

• We are going to Setting pressing the keys Windows + I.
• We came in Network and Internet in the left pane.
• let’s go down until Advanced network settings.
• then in More settingswe click on reset network.
• We click on the button reset now and in the box that opens click on Yes.
• We wait until the computer restarts, so that its network adapters will be automatically reinstalled.

Background

When we have many applications running in the background Windows 11 we can suffer a significant drop in computer performance, in addition to increasing its ping.

Surely many of the applications that we have in the background right now, we do not need them to be there dormant for all that time.

To be able to close them, what we are going to use is the Task Manager as follows:

• We open the Task Manager from the Start menu or using the keyboard shortcut by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc and then selecting from the list that comes out.
• Let’s go to the tab processes and we look at Net.
• We observe how much each process occupies, analyzing if there is one that excessively slows down this part of the process. Windows.
• Now just by marking the app and tapping on To finalizewe will make that application not in the background.
• Something that we strongly advise you is that you always close the programs that you know what they are and what they do. If you are wrong, you can make the system extremely unstable, making things worse.

Change DNS

Normally, we use the DNS provided by the internet service provider.

The problem is that these are not usually the fastest and there are times when they can cause some kind of problem, so the easiest thing is to change to a new DNS server that can meet our needs.

Currently the most recommended are those of Google (preferred DNS: 8.8.8.8 and alternative DNS: 8.8.4.4) and Cloudflare (preferred DNS: 1.1.1.1 and alternative DNS: 1.0.0.1).

These are the steps we must follow to be able to change them.

• We enter the Setting pressing the keys Windows + Ithen click on Network and Internet.
• We are going to Wifi (Ethernet if we use a cable connection).
• Click on Manage known networks.
• We select the WiFi network that we want to change.
• We click on the button Edit beside DNS server mapping.
• In the menu dropdown, select Manual.
• We choose the internet protocol (IPv4 almost always).
• We enter the numbers of preferred DNS and we do the same with alternate DNS.
• Finally, we click on Save.

Install network driver

If we realize that our problem is that the network connection does not work or is directly excessively slow, it may also be due to having an outdated driver.

The best we can do is update it, since these types of additions generally correct errors and improve the performance of these adaptersso it is convenient that we make sure that all the ones we have on our computer, not only those that are network, are always updated to the latest version.

To manually update the drivers of a Windows computer, we must perform the following steps

• We start the application Device administratorright-clicking on the Windows icon that is in the task bar of the operating system.
• We just have to click on Device Manager in the delegable that is launched on the screen.
• From the entire list that comes out, we must click on the option network adapters.
• Then what we must do is right click on our network adapter.
• At that time we select update driver.
• Then we click on Search for drivers automatically.
• Now the system will search for the most modern ones and then start installing them.
• When it finishes, it will tell us and we should restart the computer by ourselves, if it does not do it automatically, since that is the way for the changes we have just made to take effect.

Everything you have been able to read are solutions so that we never again suffer from lan or ping on our computer with the Microsoft operating system.

If you want to tell us which of all these solutions is the one that has worked on your Windows 11, our social networks are there for that and for you to ask us those questions that you need to know.