Known Lag Problems
These problems are reported by real players. If your region or ISP is listed, a network optimizer is likely to help.
South America
100-200ms to NA servers- No dedicated SA server cluster confirmed — SA players route to NA servers, adding 100-200ms
Middle East / Africa
60-150ms to EU servers- No dedicated ME/Africa cluster — players route to EU servers with elevated latency
Australia / Oceania
80-150ms to Singapore SEA servers- No dedicated AU cluster confirmed — players in AU/NZ route to SEA (Singapore) servers
How to Fix It
Try these first — they're free and solve the problem for most people.
01 Disable AutoMatch to stay in your home region
1. Open Arena Breakout: Infinite settings 2. Navigate to the matchmaking or server region settings 3. Disable AutoMatch (cross-region matchmaking) 4. The game will restrict you to your local regional cluster 5. If you play in squads, have all squad members in the same region and have the host be the player closest to the target server
Cross-region matchmaking is the most common cause of unexpected high ping in Arena Breakout: Infinite. If AutoMatch is on and your squad leader is in a different region, the server may be assigned thousands of kilometers from your location. Disabling AutoMatch for solo play locks you to the regional cluster closest to you.
02 Switch to a wired Ethernet connection
1. Connect a Cat5e or Cat6 Ethernet cable from your PC to your router 2. In Windows: open Settings → Network & Internet → Wi-Fi → turn off Wi-Fi 3. Your PC switches to the wired connection automatically 4. Rejoin a raid and check in-raid ping — jitter should decrease noticeably
WiFi adds 5–30ms of random jitter. In an extraction shooter with server-authoritative hit validation, jitter creates ghost shots and desync deaths even at acceptable average ping. A wired connection is the cheapest upgrade that directly reduces desync-related gear loss.
03 Close background bandwidth consumers before raiding
1. Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc → Task Manager → Performance → Open Resource Monitor 2. Click the Network tab and sort by 'Total (B/sec)' 3. Identify and close: Windows Update (Settings → Update → Pause 7 days), torrents, cloud backups (OneDrive, Google Drive), Discord video, Spotify 4. Launch Arena Breakout only after clearing background traffic
Background downloads create burst bandwidth spikes that temporarily push ping 50–200ms above baseline. A single Windows Update download mid-raid can cause the kind of desync that loses you an entire kit. Eliminating background traffic before valuable raids is a zero-cost protection.
General network tips (not Arena Breakout: Infinite-specific)
04 Check your actual in-raid ping
1. Launch Arena Breakout: Infinite and start a raid 2. The ping counter is displayed in the top-right corner of the HUD during a raid (shown as a number in milliseconds) 3. Note: the ping shown in lobby and inventory screens connects to Tencent's Singapore backend server — this is NOT your in-raid ping and will often read higher than your actual match latency 4. Compare your lobby ping to your in-raid ping — if in-raid ping is significantly higher than expected, your ISP route to the regional game server is congested 5. If in-raid ping spikes above 100ms during firefights, this is a network problem worth addressing
Distinguishes between the known-high Singapore lobby ping and your actual game server ping. Many players believe they have a network problem based on lobby numbers that are misleading. Verifying real in-raid ping is the essential first diagnostic step.
05 Set your router's QoS to prioritize game UDP traffic
1. Open your router admin panel (usually 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 — check your router's label) 2. Find QoS or Traffic Priority settings 3. Add your gaming PC's local IP address (find it: run cmd → ipconfig → look for IPv4 address) as highest priority 4. If your router supports application QoS, prioritize UDP traffic 5. Save settings and test in-raid — ping spikes from other household devices should reduce
On shared home networks, QoS prevents household devices from starving the game of bandwidth during raids. Particularly effective when other household members stream video or video call simultaneously.
Still lagging? The problem is likely your ISP's routing to the game servers.
PingAim detects Arena Breakout: Infinite automatically
No manual config. PingAim identifies Arena Breakout: Infinite by process name and routes it through your fastest connection using a kernel-level WFP driver.