How to Reduce Lag on Genshin Impact Mobile
Genshin Impact has made waves in the gaming world through its wide-open exploration and countless playable characters.
Unlike some older games, Genshin was designed from the ground up to be perfect for both console, PC, and mobile devices. Despite being free to play, it is consistently on the list of top-grossing games month after month. The game’s fast-based action makes it a delight to play, but it loses its luster when lag creeps in.
Lag is never good for your gaming experience, but it can be an especially stressful issue with performance-intensive games. Genshin Impact’s gorgeous anime visuals and action-filled combat can be a problem for some systems and connections, especially on mobile. Even high-end phones can struggle to optimize the game for the best experience possible.
Thankfully, we’re here to ensure everyone can continue enjoying Genshin Impact and any other game they set their heart on. With WTFast’s help, we can collectively make lag a thing of the past.
Why Is Lag an Issue?
Online games require a constant stream of data from your device to the game server. The average length of time it takes data packets to transfer from yourself to the server and back again is called latency. Ping occurs when there is a delay between the game player’s action and the server’s response, often causing lag — meaning a spike in your latency.
Lag is primarily caused by a weakness in either your connection, your software, or your hardware. If data is not relayed consistently or accurately from your phone to the server, it will naturally cause lag.
Hardware and software issues come into play when the demands on your system exceed its capabilities. Every little detail in how you utilize your system comes into play to impact how it operates.
In-Game Ways To Reduce Lag
There are many ways to approach and counteract lag. We’re going to start simply by tackling ways to solve lag in the game itself and covering the basic system requirements to play Genshin Impact Mobile.
Genshin Impact requires 4GB of RAM in order to operate. For some Android devices, this may exceed available RAM or utilize an extremely high quantity. If it does, you may be able to use a microSD card to expand your RAM, depending on your device.
For iPhone users, most phones from the iPhone 8 and beyond are supported. The iPad Pro from 2nd generation onward, 3rd generation iPad Air, and 5th generation iPad Mini are also supported.
If your issue is hardware-related, there may be no easy fix other than an upgrade. The scale of mobile devices makes at-home upgrading a complex and risky process compared to PC assembly.
Instead, the first thing you should try is navigating to the graphics menu within the game. Reducing visual effect and shadow quality helps, as these have the biggest impact on processing demand.
Turning down all the options here helps as a last resort, but it can cause a less fluid gaming experience. In all our solutions, we’re going to do our best to keep your experience as high-quality as possible.
Keeping Genshin Impact Mobile itself updated can also help, as outdated software is going to be inferior to the updated version. MiHoYa is fairly responsive to community feedback, so hopefully updates year-over-year result in streamlined gameplay.
This summarizes everything that can be done within Genshin Impact itself. If you still have lag, it might be time to turn to your phone for your solution.
Ways to Reduce Lag on Your Phone
We’re going to begin our listing with the simplest of phone-based solutions: Close out your other tabs. Especially if 4GB of RAM is a big ask for your device, you’ll want every advantage you can get. This means decluttering your phone by closing out unnecessary apps.
Sometimes, restarting your phone is also the solution. This can reset currently-used memory and free up resources for your games.
You may also want to reduce your time spent per session if you want to maximize your performance. Genshin Impact Mobile is a processor-heavy game, and it can cause your phone to overheat over lengthy playtimes. While your phone is heated this way, it will naturally become less efficient until it eventually cools down.
To reduce the possibility or rate at which your phone overheats, lower the game settings as stated above. Show your phone some mercy by also switching to 60FPS rather than the gorgeous but highly intense 120FPS.
In technology, a choice often has to be made between efficiency and quality of performance. Most people have to make a choice between the best graphics or the best speed their system can muster.
Many phones have built-in systems to reduce performance in exchange for enhanced battery life. This is referred to as low-battery mode in Apple devices and power saver on Android ones. Go into your phone’s settings to find the given battery saver, and turn it off. Your system will run faster, but be aware these processes will take more power.
All these fixes serve to improve the way your phone is operating. If you are still experiencing lag on Genshin Impact, the next step is to enhance your internet connection.
Eliminating Lag at Home
Taking care of lag at the source has everything to do with your router. This forms the connection between yourself and the server at large.
To start with the simplest router fix, you should restart it. Hold the reset button for 30 seconds to perform a hard reset. If you are unplugging it, leave it unplugged for 30 seconds to allow a full reset.
You should also consider the placement of your router in your home. Every barrier between you and the router — especially electronic objects — slightly distorts the connection. Fortunately, being near your router should be a fairly easy achievement, thanks to the nature of mobile devices. If you want to seriously enhance your gaming, you can even opt for a wired connection.
Ethernet adaptors exist for both iOS and Android devices to provide a pristine connection. This makes for a faster and more stable connection than is afforded by wi-fi. The one downside of a wired connection is the immediate proximity to your router that’s required for gaming. With a few accessories, you can easily deal with this issue.
A Bluetooth controller can connect to your phone while you connect to your router. Mix in a stand to hold the phone upright and steady, and you’ll be perfectly situated to begin your journey.
If lag is a sudden problem and not an ongoing one, you may want to check with your internet provider. It may be that there is a service outage or that there are incidental problems. If you are in a household with numerous devices, increasing your bandwidth may also help.
Regardless, at this point, you will have done most of what you personally can to improve lag. If it still persists, there is one final action you can take to eliminate lag.
Seamless Gaming With WTFast
The only portion of your gaming you can realistically control is the client-side transmission. You can take measures to improve your hardware and your internet connection. Beyond this, you can’t directly control what happens as your data is transferred to the Genshin Impact Mobile servers.
Data transmission pathways rely on your network. Public networks operate as a massive nexus of information. Your data will be transferred, but there’s no sense of priority and no sense of anonymity.
You might think Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) would be better. After all, these limit the number of users on your network. However, VPNs primarily function to mask your data by creating an anonymous data pathway. This actually results in slower than normal transmission speeds (and can even be flagged as hacking by certain game servers).
The solution to both these issues is a Gamers Private Network (GPN). Unlike public networks, your data isn’t shunted and forced to wait its turn while other users are processed — and unlike VPNs, your data isn’t confusingly bounced around to create increased privacy. Your data takes the fastest route from client to server, tracked and controlled in real-time.
This isn’t for all your data in general. As the name suggests, the GPN exclusively enhances the speed of data for games like Genshin Impact. This allows us — and you — to prioritize what really matters.
The route your data takes is traced, meticulously analyzed, and controlled so that we can offer the fastest service possible. We then provide you with that data yourself so that you can see the results, optimized route, and reduced ping yourself.
No More Lag
WTFast is devoted to providing gamers with the best online experience possible. The Gamers Private Network supports over 1000 online games, with new ones added regularly. Genshin Impact is supported on both PC and Mobile.
Every little detail compounds to add up to your latency. In the same vein, every step you take to end ping adds up. With all the fixes above, you can eliminate your lag, and get back to enjoying the game.
Sources:
Genshin Impact Official Launch Time and Recommended Device Specs I Genshin Impact
