In general, the scale that I have used that has helped a lot of people feel like their setup replicates CRT is : 8 if you have a very high end gaming monitor(144hz, 1ms), 6 if you have a good monitor (60hz, 1-2ms, usual brands are BenQ, Asus, Acer), 4 if you have a standard monitor(60hz, but unsure of ms and probably most users out there, usually made by HP, Dell, etc.). This is a difficult question to answer since there is a wide variety of equipment people use when netplaying. What buffer should I set my monitor/laptop at to match CRT to play offline?.Until there is a way for each person to set their own individual buffer to match CRT, these are the basic guidelines people should follow. Due to the improvements in polling for FM 5, there are slight differences in what the buffer should be set as in each version. In fact, buffer should always be kept at a static number, unless it surpasses 6 which is then when you can apply buffer = ping/8. A lot of users incorrectly believe that if their ping is 30, they should set buffer at 4. Unfortunately, the wording on Smashladder and Discord makes it seem that you scale buffer based on ping. For FM 5.7, Buffer should always be 6 when ping is under 48 ms.Some basic ways to improve your Netplay experience: Updated for Faster Melee/Smashladder V5.7 (August 2017) I've just added a quick guide to start Netplaying if you've never done it before at the bottom. The FM Discord has a lot of good players on it, including many of the top 100. I really recommend that everyone who uses Netplay join both Smashladder and the Faster Melee Discord. This post is targeted to users of FM 5 on Smashladder and FM 5.7 on Discord.