[War Thunder] Introduce yourself — where are you joining from?

Finally worked this out, so here is the write-up I wish I had found. Everything I read suggests it should just work, and for me it very much does not.

Let me know if more detail would help.

I went through this last month. do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

This comes up a lot, so: that behaviour is intentional, even though it is poorly explained in-game.

Adding to the above: check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

This is the bit people miss — verify the files before anything else; it catches more problems than people expect.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

This is the bit people miss — region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

The usual fix here is the averages hide the problem; look at the one percent lows instead.

Depends on your setup, but broadly you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

Depends on your setup, but broadly ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Had the exact same issue. it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Agreed on most of this, except keep a note of what you changed, otherwise you cannot undo it cleanly later.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

Only partly related, but this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Depends on your setup, but broadly worth testing on a second account to rule out something profile-specific.

In my testing, measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.