World of Warships — Wireless versus wired headsets at the same price

Not sure if this is the right board, move me if needed. The default settings are clearly tuned for a different setup than mine.

Half the advice online is a year out of date, which is why I wanted a current thread. Hopefully this saves someone else the afternoon it cost me.

Short version: you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

The usual fix here is this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.

In my testing, nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

Worth checking first: measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

I went through this last month. give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

Quick correction to the above: this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.

That fixed it for me, at least.

From experience, region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

Short version: it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

Worth checking first: region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

Agreed on most of this, except that behaviour is intentional, even though it is poorly explained in-game.

From experience, this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.

Quick correction to the above: do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.