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Leonix
Profile Joined June 2019
161 Posts
December 12 2023 19:35 GMT
#1
I found some methods to take care of the freezes you get while joining custom games.

LUCKY_NOOB
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Bulgaria1407 Posts
December 12 2023 19:50 GMT
#2
You need to free some disk space. You are in the red.

I will try all of those! Thanks. Is this cuz of the latest patch? Cuz it seems to me it's very laggy. I thought it's cuz of my old ass PC but a few months back there were no issues like these. Maybe just when starting the game itself.
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Leonix
Profile Joined June 2019
161 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-12-12 20:28:29
December 12 2023 20:24 GMT
#3
I am not sure, if it is because of the latest patch, though the timelines cross between my lag spikes problem the last patch. Though, in general i think you need to just get clear most of the useless stuff in the folders that starcraft accesses when joining a lobby. My theory is starcraft looks for every file, if you already have the map and stuff, so if those folders are full it looks and looks. Until it decides that you have it or not, one of the reasons for the lagg may well be that your computer is looking through these folders, once i got rid of them i had a night and day difference, both gave me a massive boost. You would think it is only the download folder, but in my case it was not.
And no it has nothing to do with my actual disk space, i actually had it clean with large space avaible and Lagcraft while joining lobbies was still annoying...
LUCKY_NOOB
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Bulgaria1407 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-12-12 21:01:13
December 12 2023 20:45 GMT
#4
On December 13 2023 05:24 Leonix wrote:
I am not sure, if it is because of the latest patch, though the timelines cross between my lag spikes problem the last patch. Though, in general i think you need to just get clear most of the useless stuff in the folders that starcraft accesses when joining a lobby. My theory is starcraft looks for every file, if you already have the map and stuff, so if those folders are full it looks and looks. Until it decides that you have it or not, one of the reasons for the lagg may well be that your computer is looking through these folders, once i got rid of them i had a night and day difference, both gave me a massive boost. You would think it is only the download folder, but in my case it was not.
And no it has nothing to do with my actual disk space, i actually had it clean with large space avaible and Lagcraft while joining lobbies was still annoying...


I think you are right. I know back in the day for the color fix there was a file that we use which allowed to close explorer.exe while playing the game. That was a fix... ^_._^

I also had Cosmonarchy installed.. Almost forgot about it.
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tec27
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States3696 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-12-12 21:16:32
December 12 2023 21:16 GMT
#5
Yes, a couple patches back they added something to "deduplicate maps". The method by which they decided to do this was to compare the map you are potentially downloading to every map on your system. Every time you join a lobby.

As you might imagine, when you're a developer at Blizzard tasked with touching the StarCraft codebase for the first time, this probably works pretty quickly: you don't have very many maps/replays. For someone that has played StarCraft for a decade plus and has tons of maps and replays, this works... a lot less quickly.
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Leonix
Profile Joined June 2019
161 Posts
December 12 2023 21:24 GMT
#6
interesting
[sc1f]eonzerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Belgium6505 Posts
December 12 2023 21:26 GMT
#7
I fixed this issue by removing starcraft maps folder from windows onedrive.
MeSaber
Profile Joined December 2009
Sweden1235 Posts
December 12 2023 22:32 GMT
#8
Blizzard "fixed" it again, hah...
-.-
sM.Zik
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada2544 Posts
December 12 2023 22:36 GMT
#9
But wouldnt this 'fix' deletes all of your maps..? Thats not desirable.
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MeSaber
Profile Joined December 2009
Sweden1235 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-12-12 22:49:15
December 12 2023 22:38 GMT
#10
On December 13 2023 07:36 sM.Zik wrote:
But wouldnt this 'fix' deletes all of your maps..? Thats not desirable.


You can rename 'maps' and copy over the ones you want. Basically its the million dupes in dl folder thats the problem.
-.-
Leonix
Profile Joined June 2019
161 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-12-13 10:43:58
December 13 2023 10:29 GMT
#11
On December 13 2023 07:36 sM.Zik wrote:
But wouldnt this 'fix' deletes all of your maps..? Thats not desirable.

You can always copy the whole folder to somewhere else, and copy some map or, replay, or whatever back into the new folder created by the game. Even copy the whole folder back, if necessary. I mean even delete the new one that will be created by the game and put the old one back. It is radical, but in every aspect of life you need to do a clean up at some point.
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