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 US East- No official Funcom/G-Portal servers in South America — players must use community servers or connect to US East at 100-200ms
- Brazilian ISPs often route São Paulo → Miami → Virginia adding multiple hops
- Community SA servers exist but quality varies significantly
Middle East / North Africa
60-160ms to EU- No dedicated MENA servers — players split between EU (60-120ms) and SEA servers
- EU servers from Turkey and Egypt typically 60-90ms but highly variable by ISP routing
- Saudi Arabia and UAE players often see 120-160ms to EU servers
What players commonly report
- Server-side lag on official servers from too many active building pieces and entities (entity spam)
- Rubber-banding when entering densely built player fortresses
- High-ping players degrading PvP experience on official servers — community requests max-ping enforcement
- Inventory desync and item duplication bugs triggered by lag spikes
- Long server load times when logging into dense servers
- Lag spikes during mass combat events (purge waves, large PvP raids)
How to Fix It
Try these first — they're free and solve the problem for most people.
01 Pick a server in your region sorted by ping
1. From the main menu, open the server browser 2. Click the 'Ping' column header to sort servers lowest-first 3. Servers under 80ms are geographically close — prefer these 4. Filter by your region: EU, North America, Oceania tabs in the browser 5. For official Funcom servers, type 'Official' in the name filter 6. Check server population — servers over 35/40 players often have server-side lag regardless of your ping
Going from a 200ms cross-continental server to a 30ms regional one eliminates rubber-banding immediately and is more effective than any network optimization tool.
02 Switch to wired Ethernet
1. Connect a Cat5e or Cat6 Ethernet cable from your PC to your router 2. In Windows: Settings → Network & Internet → Wi-Fi → turn off 3. Your PC automatically switches to the wired connection 4. Check ToggleDebugHUD in-game — jitter (ping variation) should drop noticeably 5. In Conan Exiles, jitter causes intermittent rubber-banding and inventory desync even when average ping looks acceptable
WiFi adds 5-30ms of unpredictable jitter. In a server-authoritative game with no lag compensation, jitter creates the same rubber-banding as high average ping. Wired connection is the best free hardware fix.
03 Close background bandwidth consumers before raid windows
1. Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc → Task Manager → Performance → Open Resource Monitor 2. Click the Network tab, sort by 'Total (B/sec)' 3. Common culprits: Windows Update (Settings → Update → Pause 7 days), torrents, OneDrive sync, cloud backups, Spotify, Discord video 4. Close or pause all non-game applications before a scheduled raid window 5. On your router, check if other household members are streaming 4K or doing large downloads during your play session
Burst downloads and sync operations can create 50-200ms ping spikes. Eliminating them before a raid window removes a controllable source of in-game lag. This matters most during the 1-2 hour PvP windows on official servers.
04 Choose low-population community servers if official servers lag
1. In the server browser, sort by player count (lowest first) to find less-loaded servers 2. Official servers with 38-40/40 players often have severe server-side lag because Conan's entity system is CPU-intensive 3. Community servers with lower population caps (20-30 max) often deliver smoother performance 4. Check ToggleDebugHUD SFPS — a server running at 20+ FPS is healthy; under 15 SFPS means server overload 5. Consider migrating your clan to a stable community server if official lag is persistent
Official Funcom servers are sometimes chronically overloaded on popular rulesets. A less-populated community server with a good host often provides dramatically better performance than an official server.
General network tips (not Conan Exiles-specific)
05 Check your actual ping with ToggleDebugHUD
1. Join any server 2. Press the tilde key (~) or the Insert key to open the console 3. Type: ToggleDebugHUD and press Enter 4. A small overlay appears in the top-right corner showing your ping, player count, and server FPS (SFPS) 5. Watch ping during building in dense areas or PvP — if it spikes by 50ms+ or server FPS drops below 15, you've found your problem 6. Type ToggleDebugHUD again to hide the overlay
Tells you whether your issue is network (your ping is high or spiking) or server-side (server FPS is low). If server FPS is 10 and everyone is rubber-banding, no client-side fix will help — that's server hardware. If your ping is 200ms but others are fine, it's your connection.
Regions with good connectivity
Players in these regions likely won't benefit much from a network optimizer.
- Western Europe — Multiple official EU servers on G-Portal infrastructure in Frankfurt/Amsterdam. Most EU players achieve 15-60ms to official servers.
- US East Coast — Well-served with multiple official Funcom servers. East Coast players typically 10-50ms to official US East servers.
Still lagging? The problem is likely your ISP's routing to the game servers.
PingAim detects Conan Exiles automatically
No manual config. PingAim identifies Conan Exiles by process name and routes it through your fastest connection using a kernel-level WFP driver.