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Best Optimization Tips and Tricks for Fortnite with your XR500!
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Best Optimization Tips and Tricks for Fortnite with your XR500!
Hey Nighthawks,
ZarduBen here with a few simple tips and tricks to help you optimize your XR500 for Fortnite. Take a look, let us know what other tips we may have missed and how you set up your XR500 to get that Victory Royale!!
Best,
Ben
Fortnite
Chasing that Victory Royale in Fortnite? Then here's some quick tips to get the best Fortnite connection possible:
- Minimize server lag
The further a server is from your home, the slower the game will play. It’s just like real life; the further you must travel, the longer it takes to make that trip. Same for your game traffic.
In your game settings: make sure you have selected your region in Fortnite. Here’s how:
- From the main menu of the game, select the gear icon to open settings and then again click the gear icon at the top to open game settings.
- Under Region, change your Matchmaking Region to the one with the lowest ping
Using your Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR500 Router:
- Add your console or PC to the Geo-Filter
- Set your Geo-Filter to 'Spectating Mode'
- Make sure Auto-Ping Host is enabled in the Geo-Filter Map Option
- Set the Geo-Filter distance to the closest server near you. For reference, see the image below of Fortnite Servers.
Clean up your console
Making sure your hardware is capable of running Fortnite is crucial to a smooth gaming experience. When possible, have your console or PC wired up to the XR500’s ethernet ports.
Console gamers: delete unneeded games/applications from your hard drive to free up space. On Xbox One if you’re experiencing occasional stuttering then clearing your local saved games can also help.
- Check your PC’s specs
PC gamers: Keep your FPS high by ensuring your hardware meets these minimum requirements:
Processor |
Core i5 2.8Ghz |
Memory |
8GB |
Graphics |
Nvidia GTX 970 / AMD R9 390 or above |
Storage |
20GB |
OS |
Windows 10 64-bit |
- Prioritize your console or PC
The last thing you want when chasing that Victory Royale is someone in your home hogging all the bandwidth with videos or other traffic and causing your game to lag.
The Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR500 has the world’s best QoS to completely solve this problem. Here’s how:
- Set Anti-Bufferbloat to 70% for both Download and Upload and set the mode to High Priority Traffic Detected
- In Bandwidth Allocation give extra bandwidth to your gaming device
- Make sure ‘DumaOS Classified Games’ is checked in Traffic Prioritization
- Make sure ‘Unreal Engine’ is prioritized in Traffic Priorization
Now everyone in your home can download and upload whatever they want without affecting your gaming because the XR500 is prioritizing Fortnite.
- Wired Controller beats a Wireless Controllers
Whenever possible, try to play wired. Wireless controllers and mice and keyboards can be affected by other wireless devices around them which is why most eSports pros play wired.
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Re: Tips and Tricks for Fortnite with your XR500!
The only part I am missing for my wired gaming PC is #4 in the Traffic Prioritization.
I have ‘DumaOS Classified Games' checked, but I do not have Unreal Engine listed in that section, and I am unclear how to add it.
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Re: Tips and Tricks for Fortnite with your XR500!
Hi Dru - click 'Add Device' then select your PC or console you want to prioritize. Then click 'Next'. Unreal Engine should be listed there. Click on it once and then click 'Done'
For what it's worth though, Fortnite is already in DumaOS classified games so it is automatically prioritized for you
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Re: Best Optimization Tips and Tricks for Fortnite with your XR500!
Hi there bacevedo, nice guide first of all.
I have an issue with geofiltering, i have selected my region and added distance according catch France and Londo servers but can´t see anyone, just the red area like a sonar.
Also i can´t activate the autoping because DumaOs says: There is currently no host or server to ping.
How can i add fortnite servers or any other game and make DumaOs be able to detect them? Thanks a lot beforehand for your time
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