I have this wierd problem when I'm running Starcraft Broodwar: everything feels a bit laggy and slow. It's not usuall internet lag because it remains when i'm playing single player and on other computers it works just fine. My windows is kinda a slow in general and i guess i should format the hard drive sooner or later. Still sc bw isn't a very demanding game and i don't get why it's lagging (other games seems to work fine but it's hard to say since i almost only play sc bw and minor issues can really distract me compared to when im playing other games). Has anyone else had the same problem?

btw I just defragmented my harddrive and removed any stupid programs that shouldnt be on it (and tried killing programs that i'm not using before playing sc bw) and it doesn't matter.

My specs are:

Windows Xp

Intel T2300 1.66 Ghz
1,99 gb ram
80 gb hardrive of some sort
some kind of intergrated graphics card.

So frustrating playing a game from 98 and still get the feeling that my computer can't manage it =p

TheNessman

United States4158 Posts

January 15 2012 01:00 GMT

What server are you playing on?

Loffeman

Sweden105 Posts

January 15 2012 01:21 GMT

Iccup, doesn't feel like internet lag and is it's the same when i play vs comps

2Pacalypse-

Croatia9497 Posts

January 15 2012 01:23 GMT

Try turning off color cycling in Video options while in game.

J.Dong

United States102 Posts

January 15 2012 02:03 GMT

Are you sure you are playing on "fastest" settings?
Check to be sure.

Loffeman

Sweden105 Posts

January 15 2012 02:24 GMT

J.dong: Haha, yes I'm sure

. Tried to turn off colo cycling. Seemed to work better that game hard to say because it sometimes it seems ok then the day after it doesn't work. Thx for the tip anyway

zickoray

United States366 Posts

January 15 2012 02:31 GMT

how full is your harddrive? that tends to happen when hardrives become full and you said you had a tiny HDD so im assuming it could be this?

might have better posted int the tech support forums

konadora

Singapore66158 Posts

January 15 2012 03:50 GMT

Lol hardware shouldn't affect BW tbh, it runs on my shitty 9 year old laptop that didn't get its HDD replaced.

phosphorylation

United States2935 Posts

January 15 2012 03:52 GMT

Before playing:

Task manager -> explorer.exe (end process) -> play

THank me later

keyStorm

Canada316 Posts

January 15 2012 04:53 GMT

#10

Hardware have nothing to do with it, the server on iccup ive heard are in russia so you get some lag, much like in sc2 na players on KR servers

keyStorm

Canada316 Posts

January 15 2012 04:54 GMT

#11

the command /ping shows the lag btw

WeedY

Canada21 Posts

January 15 2012 05:09 GMT

#12

Get C cleaner for your windows Xp, clean the trash and your regedit file.
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

Ps: dont use choas luncher on iccup.
If you cant fix it., you will have to go play on brain server.

Good luck.

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

January 15 2012 07:57 GMT

#13

Why are you all talking about server lag and ping and such? He clearly stated he has the problem in single player against computers as well -_-.

It's not an internet problem and it's not that his hardware can't handle it. Does it run any differently in windowed mode?

zilav

Russian Federation32 Posts

January 15 2012 08:49 GMT

#14

When BW starts to lag open task manager and sort all processes by CPU usage, looks like some background process is consuming your CPU. Can be some autoupdater, antivirus or virus itself.

Cyber_Cheese

Australia3615 Posts

January 15 2012 09:42 GMT

#15

Can integrated graphics cards handle BW? I know the requirements are low, but...

Rick Roy

United States59 Posts

January 15 2012 10:12 GMT

#16

It is likely that you have spyware or something hogging up the computers resources. You said windows is kinda slow too so I'd say just give it the good ol reformat and all will be well.

hydrogg

United States377 Posts

January 15 2012 10:41 GMT

#17

On January 15 2012 18:42 Cyber_Cheese wrote:
Can integrated graphics cards handle BW? I know the requirements are low, but...

I've played it on a 5 year old computer with integrated graphics and it runs fine.

shaggles

Poland108 Posts

January 15 2012 10:49 GMT

#18

On January 15 2012 18:42 Cyber_Cheese wrote:
Can integrated graphics cards handle BW? I know the requirements are low, but...

Of course, yes, tested. We even did run BW on some old shitty machines with 256MB RAM and integrated graphics and it worked well (in LAN environment, so no net lag issues). Since this is XP, killing explorer will not solve the problem. Windows should be fast enough on that machine, so I too recommend reinstalling from the scratch. Apart from the likely virus (or anti-virus software that is WAAAY to suspicious), it might be just system trying to execute some strange activities for a lost and forgotten files and registry entries that ceased to exist (as Windows habit is to do so INFINITELY)

figq

12519 Posts

January 15 2012 15:13 GMT

#19

Could it be something from the sound? I've seen similar issue with lag spikes (and even complete hang sometimes) in offline mode - so not from network - which turns out to be from the sound. Some sounds just lag out to execute and the game freezes for a couple of seconds when that happens, and might even hang the whole computer fatally (for restart). Suspect the solution is tweaking the audio settings from dxdiag to lower, which usually helps with older games.