How to fix New World server lag: Players discover simple solution
Amazon’s New World MMO has opened to the public and, after bypassing brutal queue times, people are struggling with lag issues. Fortunately, players have figured out how to fix New World’s server lag and input delays.
If you’ve purchased New World, you’ve very likely run into some obstacles while trying to level up and enjoy the game’s content. The developers are knee-deep in efforts tosolve the queue time problems, but players have become frustrated by in-game issues as well.
While the game itselfappears to be a jolly timewhen functioning properly, players and streamers alike noticed an increase in server lag, input delay, chat problems, and just general “bugginess.”
Fortunately, they’ve also discovered what appears to be a surprisingly simple (albeit potentially annoying) fix for the problems. And it’s all about your chat feed.
New World server lag & “bugginess” issues
It kinda feels like New World is slowly getting buggier with every day. Anyone else experiencing that? My input delay was especially horrific today but a lot of new issues popped up. That said…I am obsessed and played 14 hours 🤣
— Clint “Maven” Evans (@Maven)August 11, 2025
As mentioned by Call of Duty League caster and impromptu New World streamer Maven, the MMO has had some in-game complaints accompany the wider queue time annoyances.
And he wasn’t the only one to experience “bugginess” and “input delay,” as the New World subreddit complained as well. But they also investigated potential fixes and seem to have found an answer.
How to fix New World server lag & input delay
So@Mavenwas having a few issues with the game and the fix was to leave everything open on the feed and not mute your feed. There is a post on reddit about it as well.
Just wanted to give people a heads up if you happen to have this same issue.https://t.co/8ldFfu3XG3pic.twitter.com/RyOkl1jwAz
— PowerGPU (@PowerGPU)August 16, 2025
As discussed by Maven in the clip above, in which he references the aforementionedReddit solution, the fix is easy but unideal:
This fixes lag issues because, as Maven explains, muted chat backs up in your game because of how “this dumbass game is designed.”
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So you can either stop and un-mute everything briefly when you feel lagginess or just leave everything unmuted until Amazon decide to deploy a fix. For now, though, that’s the simplest solution people have come up with: unmuting and briefly welcoming the spam.
