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Tekken 6 came out a week ago and Namco still has not addressed a patch to fix the lag issue that everyone is complaining about.

Over the weekend, I did a little experiment and I was able to play every round of Tekken 6 lag free. Here’s a few things you can try on your own to ensure a lag free experience with Tekken 6 online.

Before I begin, let me tell you about my setup so that you can compare it with yours:

• Playstation 3
• Linksys Router WRT54GL
• High Speed DSL Internet Connection

Here are some general tips to reduce lag in online Tekken 6 matches

• Make sure your computers are not downloading
• Turn off idle computers on the network (background services and programs can sometimes hog bandwidth)
• Use wired connection to you PS3
• You can try to open the ports that Tekken 6 uses: 80, 443, 5223, 3478, 3479, 3658

The online lag issue in Tekken 6 is definitely a matter that Namco has to look into. For the time being, I have been able to discover the best way to play online without any lag. However, keep in mind that there is a lot of limitation in this method (no ranked matches).

The method to play Tekken 6 with no lag is to:

Create a Custom Game with the following settings:

• Any number of matches
• Any time limit
• 2 Players
• Private slot is optional
• Mic off

Only play people with full Green Bar.

With the above method, 90% of your matches will be lag free.

As simple as this method may sound, most of the players online have not tried to create a custom game (stop creating games with 4 players if you don’t need to) and opt to play Quick Matches instead.

I have a feeling that the main reason why Tekken 6 lags for everybody is because the matchmaking system fails to match players up from the same region. I also believe that having more than 2 players in a room will greatly increase the latency. Especially when a player joins or leaves the game. During rank matches, I noticed that the connection symbol is often misleading. Sometimes a player with green bar in ranked matches can still have 1 second delays.

Hopefully Namco will iron these bugs real soon. It’s a shame to see such a polished fighting game go down because of the online mode being unplayable.

If you have any other suggestions to share with the community about reducing lag in Tekken 6, feel free to add your comments below.

Feel free to add me on PSN (nickname: tokyosan). I usually play Steve.