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"In computing and especially computer networks, a lag is a symptom where result of an action appears later than expected. While different kinds of latency are well defined technical terms, lag is the symptom, not the cause."

In games it appears as fraction of a second delay between moving your mouse/keyboard/joystick and the actual game moving.

Some games like FPS (First Person Shooters) which require very fast reactions can become unplayable if the lag is too great.

StreamMyGame uses many technioques to reduce lag.

Lag can be created by one of the following,

1) Graphics card (GPU)
The less strain on your graphics the more power it has to play and capture the game. To improve lag caused by graphics cards you can lower the game resolutiuon or get a faster graphics card.

If you are streaming at 640x480 it's best to reduce the monitor resolution and games resolution to 640x480. This reduces the strain on your graphics card.

2) CPU
Your CPU is used by StreamMyGame to encode video along with your GPU. To improve lag caused by the CPU you can close any other applications that are not being used, overclock your CPU or get a faster CPU.

3) Bus
The coputer interconnect between the CPU and the GPU is called a bus. The latest bus is called PCIE (PCI Express) which is fast in both directions. The older bus is called APG (Accelerated Graphic Port). THe new bus is faster at sending video from the GPU to the CPU. To serve games at hi resolutions you should get PCIE.

4) Wired and Wireless Networking
The lowest lag is acheived by using wired networking at present. 100Mb wired network will achieve full HDTV 1080p with StreamMyGame. 1Gbit is even better.
SOME wireless networks say they can achieve network speeds of XXXMb, in the real world they dont get even close. If your using wireless networking try to get the latest 11n or at least 11g. We have found that there are massize variations in good and bad wireless networking router even though they all say they are 11g.