Lightblade Gaming: (World of Warcraft) Fix WoW Input Lag or Latency

Have you ever felt like, when pressing a spell or ability, it doesn’t feel like it’s going off instantly like if the keys were stuck to the keyboard, well, its not your imagination, as that’s a real thing and it’s called WoW input lag or input latency, and in this post you’ll see how you can fix it.

So first of all input lag is not the regular lag you get in game that shows in the bottom right corner:

This is just the normal latency in game it will vary depending on your distance with the server, but this will help us get the correct settings to fix your input lag so now lets follow some steps to do that:

STEP 1 - CHECK INITIAL VALUE

Type the following in game and press enter:

/dump GetCVar("SpellQueueWindow")

If done correctly you should see a number like this:

That number is your SpellQueueWindow if you never done this before it should be 400 thats the default value, The SpellQueueWindow is the amount of time you have to press to prepare a spell before your global cooldown ends that way as soon as it does your next spell will go off, the problem is when this is too high or too low, if its too high your keys will feel slow and sticky but if too low youll have to button mash to get spells to go off.

STEP 2 - CHANGE VALUE

The value you want there will depend on your world ms latency that we saw at the start, in my case it was 157 so you want to add a number between 80 to 150 to that, you do have to do a bit of testing to figure out what feels best for you in my case I started adding 150 and then lowered my way down to 83 just to get a nice round number at 240

To change the value you have to do the following command, for this example we will add 143 to my base latency of 157 that will give us the value of 300

/console SpellQueueWindow 300

You press enter and now the value has changed although no confirmation message will apear.

STEP 3 - CHECK IF IT CHANGED

So to check if it changed we have to use this command again:

/dump GetCVar("SpellQueueWindow")