Ultra Street Fighter IV - Page 502

On June 07 2011 03:43 Aylear wrote:
Latest news

      Steam has fixed netplay issues on PC!
      Opt-in to the Steam beta client to reap the rewards of the updated netplay API
      April 1, 2015 [No, this is not an April Fools joke -- reddit thread on this topic]

Ever since May of last year, Street Fighter on PC has been pretty miserable. Frame stops, freezing, disconnects, and all kinds of latency problems almost killed the USF4 scene on PC. This was a result of migrating the game away from Games For Windows Live. Granted, GFWL was a titanic piece of shit whose demise was long overdue, but this forced Capcom to move over to Steam's API for peer-to-peer play.

This did not work out too well.

Turns out the netcode was not set up properly on Capcom's side to work with Steam's API. The problem was a combination of the Steam matchmaking system causing long blocks on the process thread that handled it, and Capcom letting the main game thread handle the matchmaking. Capcom could have solved it by putting the matchmaking in a separate thread, but reworking the system would supposedly have been a major hassle. Capcom made a few tweaks to try and improve things, but it never actually helped.

However, an employee at Valve recently took a look at it, and basically put together a quick fix on their side of things done specifically for USF4.

It worked. Netplay is now as good on PC as it was back in the AE 2012 days, meaning it's the best netplay you are likely to get across all platforms and versions of the game. The PC version is the ultimate version of the game in all but player count right now, but hopefully the player count will rise a bit once word gets out that the netplay has been fixed.

Currently the changes are only in the Steam beta client, and you will only notice a difference if both you and your opponent are using the latest Steam beta. Click below to see how to opt in to the Steam beta program -- it's fast and updates are automatic once you've done it.

+ Show Spoiler [How to sign up for the Steam beta client] +

On April 05 2015 01:01 Aylear wrote:
WELL NEVER FUCKING MIND.

On April 05 2015 01:03 Unattended Cake wrote:

Edit: Yeah my mind was getting blown away too. One of the few times bad organization created hype

On April 05 2015 01:07 Aylear wrote:
Looks like Ryan still isn't sure what character he wants to be using. He was doing Evil Ryu in the team tournament, Decapre now against Louffy. I know he's been working on like five different ones but he really should pick one...