Creating Controlled Lag

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Hello

Often people ask how to prevent lag or minimize it, but for my project I want to create lag in a controlled way. I want this to be an event for a mysterious game called “The Void” where the game lags out (for the client) and then stuff visually changes after the lag subsides. How could I do this without crashing the client?

Thank you in advance
Grytix

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I’m not exactly sure what type of lag you’re looking for, but you can create an artificial FPS cap with something like this:

local runService = game:GetService('RunService')
local maxFPS = 1

while true do
	local t = tick()
	runService.RenderStepped:Wait()
	repeat until (t + 1/maxFPS) <= tick()
end

I wouldn’t go lower than 1 though.

Source:

Alternatively, you could simply freeze the game until a certain time:

function freeze(time:number)
	local t = os.time() + time
	repeat until os.time() >= t
end

freeze(5)
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Thank you for your kind help! I’ll definetely try both

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You could do something like this:

game.RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
   for i=1,10 do -- change 10 to your lag intensity
      task.spawn(function() math.sqrt(i*100) end)
   end
end)

This would cause a lot of lag. To disable it you could just connect it to a connection and then just disconnect it when you would like do. e.g. connection:Disconnect() or connection = nil.
I’m pretty sure both of these would work.
This is a very strong lag so watch out and dont set the number more than 4 because you do not want to lag very much.

Hope this helps :slight_smile: