Ping in Australia

[slate thicket]

Hey Everyone, is there any way to improve your ping? I'm in Australia and it's impossible to get things under 300 with my vpn off. Any settings I can change to make it better?
Cheers!

[rugged osprey]

look for Oceania servers and maybe American ones, these should have lower ping for you than European ones

[slate thicket]

I can only find two servers that are around 100 and the rest are over 300, I dont understand why i dont have any issues playing other racing games like AC/ ACC, iRacing and AMS2.

[rugged osprey]

different approach. Raceroom has tighter requirements to ping but it allows for more accurate prediction of your opponents positions and better close fights because of that

[slate thicket]

After testing with Reva it shows that the ping is under 100

[vernal patio]

Can you share how you have ping indicator from game?🧐

[slate thicket]

It's a pretty cool piece of kit, does take a bit of fluffing around to get it setup but you can monitor heaps of this g's, CPU, GPU usage and temps.

[sudden knot]

is that ping the same as when you check in the server browser? kinda doubt that it will actually ping the server you're connected to 🤔

[vernal patio]

I know that it is from Rivatuner ( or software that use it like MSI after burner) but I never saw any option to see the ping in their overlay. Is it new option that recently added? Need to check and find more information.🧐

Find it @sudden knot
It ping the guru3d site by defualt. It Need a script to ping the server we connect to report right ping and work.🧐
Is it possible to ping the game server we connect? Does server allow it?🤔

[sudden knot]

probably not, and it's not the "correct" way to ping it anyway. a ping goes through the ICMP layer (which is blocked on some of the servers) and in-game it uses a different protocol

so it could be that the ICMP gives -1 / nothing, or a number between 1-500, while in-game it's a different number

[slate thicket]

There isnt really a lot of races outside Europe which kind of makes the game not worth playing which sucks because it really is a great game even before the update.

[tiny forum]

best bet outside europe is to join some community
for US timezone I've seen things like brazilian league which had many drivers it was full lobby, same for some argentina league, there is some US community too I think
for aus/nz ofc AUS/NZ Simracing, amazing racing always I watch these pretty often and would love to have this kind of thing in EU timezone https://discord.com/invite/SwMJWYE

[slate thicket]

Thanks dude I seriously appreciate it!

[steel idol]

Pretty sure that's the latency calculated from framerate/refresh rate, nothing to do with networking