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[Sam Ramirez]

The core problem everyone gets wrong here is treating jitter buffering and input latency as independent levers—they’re fundamentally coupled. In my benchmarking across Valorant and CS2, I found that a static jitter buffer anywhere above 30ms of headroom starts adding perceptible input lag, and below ~10ms you start seeing interpolation stalls on any connection with more than 15-20ms of jitter. The trick is that dynamic smoothing algorithms only work if your game client actually exposes the interpolation window; most competitive shooters cap extrapolation at 100-150ms by design to prevent “ghost” positioning, so a smoothing layer that pushes past that just makes you rubber-band. I measure this by running continuous ping sweeps with injected jitter (10, 20, 40, 60ms variance) while logging both aim-down-sights latency via a frame-timing tool and visible stutter events—raw ping numbers alone lie to you about the actual feel.

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