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iopq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1068 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-08-31 22:16:14
August 30 2017 19:30 GMT
#1
Recorded at 60 FPS with a mutalisk. All data is delay between green circle showing up and command card lighting up measured in frames. Each frame is 16.(6) ms apart (60 FPS). Encoder settings: crf=0 which should make it lossless, but I'm not sure if I were getting every keyframe.

8 Turn Rate Low Latency
9, 11, 13, 13, 11, 13, 10, 11, 11, 12,
12, 12, 16, 11, 11, 12, 10, 14, 10, 10

average: 193ms

12 Turn Rate Low Latency
6, 7, 7, 6, 5, 7, 5, 5, 2, 6,
8, 4, 5, 4, 3, 6, 8, 6, 10, 5

average: 96 ms


12 Turn Rate High Latency
9, 7, 10, 8, 10, 9, 10, 5, 7, 10,
9, 4, 7, 10, 10, 9, 9, 10, 7, 9

average: 141 ms

12 Turn Rate Extra High Latency
9, 10, 13, 12, 12, 12, 12, 15, 13, 12,
11, 13, 10, 10, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12, 12

average: 190 ms

Conclusions:

It seems turn rate 8 is similar to turn rate 12 extra high latency. Not sure why, but in my tests turn rate 12 low latency was twice as fast.

Bonus meme:

numbers for iccup:
11, 7, 12, 12, 14, 11, 13, 9, 8, 13,
13, 12, 14, 11, 9, 15, 9, 13, 13, 10

average is 11.45 which is 191ms, roughly equivalent to Turn Rate 8 Low Latency, or Turn Rate 12 Extra High
ProMeTheus112
Profile Joined December 2009
France2027 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-08-30 20:09:19
August 30 2017 20:07 GMT
#2
you know I think it would be great if turn rate 12 was set after a ping test before start of game on ladder, don't need turn rate 12 all the time on but having it on when possible would be great
so according to your data if ping test returns less than 100ms set to turn rate 12 :D?
quirinus
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Croatia2489 Posts
August 30 2017 20:08 GMT
#3
Nice, thanks for the data!
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Gorgonoth
Profile Joined August 2017
United States468 Posts
August 30 2017 20:12 GMT
#4
What is the standard turn rate for the SCR ladder?
iopq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1068 Posts
August 30 2017 20:19 GMT
#5
On August 31 2017 05:12 Gorgonoth wrote:
What is the standard turn rate for the SCR ladder?

AFAIK turn rate 8, but I didn't test it
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10700 Posts
August 30 2017 20:30 GMT
#6
Thanks!
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BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
August 30 2017 21:13 GMT
#7
On August 31 2017 05:12 Gorgonoth wrote:
What is the standard turn rate for the SCR ladder?

It's TR8
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iopq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1068 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-08-30 22:38:01
August 30 2017 22:33 GMT
#8
On August 31 2017 05:07 ProMeTheus112 wrote:
you know I think it would be great if turn rate 12 was set after a ping test before start of game on ladder, don't need turn rate 12 all the time on but having it on when possible would be great
so according to your data if ping test returns less than 100ms set to turn rate 12 :D?

that's not what the data says, actually

it implies this is how it works:

if you have TR8, you will get a response between 125 and 250 ms depending on when you clicked

if you clicked right before a sync point, you'll get 125 ms, if you clicked right after, you'll get 250 ms

average is then 187.5 ms which seems to fit the data - but remember, if your ping is MORE than 125 ms, you'll sometimes lag

TR12 would then be between 83.(3) and 166.(6) which averages to 125 ms, but you need less than 83 ms ping not to lag with that person

although for some reason my average is way faster on TR12 than I would have expected
TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10028 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-08-30 22:35:24
August 30 2017 22:33 GMT
#9
tec27 said TR8 is similar to #LL #L2 on 1.16 (albeit a bit slower) and TR12 on low is much faster than #LL (1.16 lan latency).

I wonder if TR9 // TR10 could be made available in the future, lat speeds would be closer to #LL on 1.16 and it might not lag as much as TR12.
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iopq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1068 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-08-30 22:43:16
August 30 2017 22:38 GMT
#10
On August 31 2017 07:33 TT1 wrote:
tec27 said TR8 is similar to #LL #L2 on 1.16 (albeit a bit slower) and TR12 on low is much faster than #LL (1.16 lan latency).

I wonder if TR9 // TR10 could be made available in the future, lat speeds would be closer to #LL on 1.16 and it might not lag as much as TR12.


he measured it wrong, it takes a few frames for a unit to respond, you need to look at the command card, not the unit moving

he's off by like 50 ms; it's completely wrong
CobaltBlu
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States919 Posts
August 30 2017 22:51 GMT
#11
You should show data for #L2. Everyone else I've seen test it has come out with TR8 being pretty close to #L2.
Liquid`Ret
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Netherlands4520 Posts
August 30 2017 22:53 GMT
#12
On August 31 2017 05:07 ProMeTheus112 wrote:
you know I think it would be great if turn rate 12 was set after a ping test before start of game on ladder, don't need turn rate 12 all the time on but having it on when possible would be great
so according to your data if ping test returns less than 100ms set to turn rate 12 :D?


The problem with turn rate being decided before each game is that as a player, I predict having a different turn rate each game will just be confusing for how to actually micro.

The clicks you have to make to execute micro tricks are quite different tr8, tr12, tr16, and playing on tr8 the brain automatically gets used to how to micro on tr8, so playing on different turn rates constantly might make consistency in micro really difficult.

But maybe it's possible for you to simply learn 3 different micro methods depending on what turn rate you're playing on...time will tell!
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ProMeTheus112
Profile Joined December 2009
France2027 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-08-30 23:24:10
August 30 2017 23:21 GMT
#13
On August 31 2017 07:53 Liquid`Ret wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 31 2017 05:07 ProMeTheus112 wrote:
you know I think it would be great if turn rate 12 was set after a ping test before start of game on ladder, don't need turn rate 12 all the time on but having it on when possible would be great
so according to your data if ping test returns less than 100ms set to turn rate 12 :D?


The problem with turn rate being decided before each game is that as a player, I predict having a different turn rate each game will just be confusing for how to actually micro.

The clicks you have to make to execute micro tricks are quite different tr8, tr12, tr16, and playing on tr8 the brain automatically gets used to how to micro on tr8, so playing on different turn rates constantly might make consistency in micro really difficult.

But maybe it's possible for you to simply learn 3 different micro methods depending on what turn rate you're playing on...time will tell!

makes sense for muta micro vs t, where if you miss your accuracy the difference is huge, but as P user I think I dont mind some slightly different lats;; tbh 8 feels good enough but better is great like luxury maybe^^
I found the difference annoying in the past between the high lat on public bnet and "lan latency", but between T8 or T12 I think it's closer just faster is better when possible~
in some rare cases, one might still play on actual LAN :O as they do in offline tourneys
tec27
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States3702 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-08-31 00:35:01
August 31 2017 00:31 GMT
#14
On August 31 2017 07:33 TT1 wrote:
tec27 said TR8 is similar to #LL #L2 on 1.16 (albeit a bit slower) and TR12 on low is much faster than #LL (1.16 lan latency).

I wonder if TR9 // TR10 could be made available in the future, lat speeds would be closer to #LL on 1.16 and it might not lag as much as TR12.

The data supports them being the same, not "a bit slower". There is not enough granularity in possible network turn sending rates to account for the differences between the various 1.16 lan latency tests and TR8, which leads to a few possible causes:

- Slightly higher input/graphical lag
- Variance (i.e. more data points would equalize them)

Neither indicates a difference between TR8 and 1.16 lan latency, but the former might help account for the "feeling" of higher latency.

On August 31 2017 07:38 iopq wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 31 2017 07:33 TT1 wrote:
tec27 said TR8 is similar to #LL #L2 on 1.16 (albeit a bit slower) and TR12 on low is much faster than #LL (1.16 lan latency).

I wonder if TR9 // TR10 could be made available in the future, lat speeds would be closer to #LL on 1.16 and it might not lag as much as TR12.


he measured it wrong, it takes a few frames for a unit to respond, you need to look at the command card, not the unit moving

he's off by like 50 ms; it's completely wrong

Literally doesn't matter, since I measured it the same way across all turn rates and game versions. Yes, the command card will respond sooner, but at no point was I trying to measure the exact "to-the-millisecond" latency of the command card. We wanted a relative measurement of 1.18+ turn rates to 1.16 lan latency, and my method gives that (as would yours, most likely, if you had also tested on 1.16, but I somewhat mistrust the command card as it has known issues that cause it to desync from game state).

On August 31 2017 07:53 Liquid`Ret wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 31 2017 05:07 ProMeTheus112 wrote:
you know I think it would be great if turn rate 12 was set after a ping test before start of game on ladder, don't need turn rate 12 all the time on but having it on when possible would be great
so according to your data if ping test returns less than 100ms set to turn rate 12 :D?


The problem with turn rate being decided before each game is that as a player, I predict having a different turn rate each game will just be confusing for how to actually micro.

The clicks you have to make to execute micro tricks are quite different tr8, tr12, tr16, and playing on tr8 the brain automatically gets used to how to micro on tr8, so playing on different turn rates constantly might make consistency in micro really difficult.

But maybe it's possible for you to simply learn 3 different micro methods depending on what turn rate you're playing on...time will tell!

Agreed on it being difficult to transition between the 3 rates. I generally think it's a bad thing that Blizzard exposed this as an option to users, and I think its an even worse thing that they made LAN enforce TR16 now. Do they just expect pros to get used to that? To only play TR16 on bnet from now on? I *really* don't understand the thinking there.
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Heyjoray
Profile Joined September 2015
240 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-08-31 01:05:01
August 31 2017 01:04 GMT
#15
Has there even been a single word on Server instead of p2p? Could this still be a thing?
iopq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1068 Posts
August 31 2017 01:44 GMT
#16
On August 31 2017 09:31 tec27 wrote:
Literally doesn't matter, since I measured it the same way across all turn rates and game versions.

You had like 4 data points and you had high latency being faster than low, which from my data is absolutely false.
tec27
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States3702 Posts
August 31 2017 03:52 GMT
#17
On August 31 2017 10:44 iopq wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 31 2017 09:31 tec27 wrote:
Literally doesn't matter, since I measured it the same way across all turn rates and game versions.

You had like 4 data points and you had high latency being faster than low, which from my data is absolutely false.

Only the case of the average, which should be a good indication to you that average is *not* actually a good way to measure these things since the measurements are pretty noisy. The min/max's all line up as you'd expect (and the deltas between those basically match what you have here)
Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?
iopq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1068 Posts
August 31 2017 22:15 GMT
#18
Actually, the average is pretty stable. Take the L8 numbers.

The average is 11.6 - but if you take only the first 10 numbers the average is 11.4
for L12 it's 5.75 and 5.6 respectively
for high latency it's 8.45 and 8.5
for extra high latency it's 11.4 and 12

this is why I bothered to sample twenty times so that I get pretty accurate numbers, instead of only sampling 4 times


numbers for iccup:
11, 7, 12, 12, 14, 11, 13, 9, 8, 13,
13, 12, 14, 11, 9, 15, 9, 13, 13, 10

average is 11.45 which is 191ms

this corresponds to 8 Turn Rate low latency or 12 turn rate extra high latency
iopq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1068 Posts
September 18 2017 08:33 GMT
#19
I think with the TR12 ladder latency change I need to bump this because there are a lot of people who don't understand what TR12 actually means.
Cryoc
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany912 Posts
September 18 2017 09:15 GMT
#20
Since it seems like the delays are indeed the same for 1.16 and 1.20 on tr8, is it possible that the input delay increased with the patches so it overall feels like the combined delay is higher than before? Is it possible to measure the input delay for both cases?
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