For me, I have found that the chat channels increase lag by a great amount, but when i close all the chat windows within HotS, I have greatly reduced lag and I have even gone so far as closing all the outside programs that I normally have had on while playing HotS, i.e. Google Chrome, Itunes etc. and my lag has nearly diminished all the way. So this may be the cause of some problems but not all. These things could be worth considering however...

Steglich

Denmark282 Posts

January 27 2013 23:57 GMT

#104

Same, playing from Denmark. Got latency and random stutters.

KovuTalli

United Kingdom325 Posts

January 28 2013 01:06 GMT

#105

It was fine before the "replay" patch, and the beta has always been global play there is only one client.

benthekid

United States132 Posts

January 28 2013 02:32 GMT

#106

I've had this BS for about a week now...I thought it was fixed after I re-downloaded but it's back today. It's like playing in slowmotion and there's no reason for it no my end. Internet is fine I've been able to play fine before the last week or so. If it's going to be bad like this no reason to waste money on it.

ApBuLLet

United States604 Posts

January 28 2013 04:51 GMT

#107

So I live in the United States and I am experiencing some pretty bad lag. Not lag like FPS lag that some people are experiencing, but just simply a low ping. When I connect to WoL I have about 200 ping which is pretty normal for SC2 I believe, but when I connect to HOTS I have 500 ping. Why this is, I do not know. Just figured I'd share my experiences to maybe help figure out what is going on.

AstroPegnuin

293 Posts

January 28 2013 05:58 GMT

#108

For me it's not so much I'm getting lag spikes or anything (although I do get the occasional ones), it's much more so a delay when I'm playing. It's so bad that I get better latency playing on the WoL KR or Eu server (being from NA), my units take like 3 seconds to respond to any command I issue. To put it better in perspective when I'm putting one of my workers on the closest patch he will go to the other patch he was already heading to and mine for a second or so before responding.

xJonesy

United Kingdom40 Posts

January 29 2013 03:04 GMT

#109

i think it is shocking bad =/ feels just slow and bad *even when FPS are 60+*

Ramiz1989

12124 Posts

January 29 2013 08:45 GMT

#110

Yes, I have the same issue as OP, the constant spikes every few seconds, then it runs smoothly, then it starts again. The problem is, I have the same issue in WoL from the day that they introduced 1.5.0 patch(was it 1.5.0?), with arcade and other things. Before that patch, everything was really good and was running quite smoothly.

RimJaynor

Canada145 Posts

January 29 2013 09:12 GMT

#111

if you are zerg you can honestly win at a much higher rate with early pools. bc of the latency its MUCH harder to micro drones to get a proper surround on the lings.

Drake

Germany6146 Posts

January 29 2013 17:18 GMT

#112

today it was a joke
all my games was like dia shows ....
fps drops to like 2 every few seconds ? every other game is fine i never had lags in hots before and internet is running smothly

ApBuLLet

United States604 Posts

January 30 2013 04:55 GMT

#113

On January 28 2013 14:58 AstroPegnuin wrote:
For me it's not so much I'm getting lag spikes or anything (although I do get the occasional ones), it's much more so a delay when I'm playing. It's so bad that I get better latency playing on the WoL KR or Eu server (being from NA), my units take like 3 seconds to respond to any command I issue. To put it better in perspective when I'm putting one of my workers on the closest patch he will go to the other patch he was already heading to and mine for a second or so before responding.

Yeah its the same for me. It seems to be worse at night, which normally my campus internet is worse at night so that might just be me... but the delay is so severe that it isn't even worth playing. During the day it isn't too bad for me though, so I think part of my problem is the campus internet sucks, and it isn't all on Blizzard. However, that doesn't change the fact that the ping in WoL is significantly lower than in HotS no matter what time of day it is or whether it is playable or not.

intense555

United States474 Posts

January 30 2013 06:45 GMT

#114

I have stutter step lag, it got so bad I can't even connect to battle net servers anymore. Not on HoTS nor WoL....... I hope they fix this.

doggy

Germany306 Posts

February 02 2013 15:38 GMT

#115

this laggs are fucking retarded, i cant count to how many allins ive lost because i cant micro

Housemd

United States1407 Posts

February 03 2013 05:17 GMT

#116

Please fix this lag Blizzard. Losing games i really shouldnt because i cant even micro.

Doublemint

Austria8440 Posts

February 04 2013 13:56 GMT

#117

suffering terrible terrible damage because of terrible terrible lag -_-

DeathScythe

United States15 Posts

February 04 2013 13:58 GMT

#118

Bad lag here today as well, we're just moving closer towards launch :-).

Tosster

Poland299 Posts

February 04 2013 15:43 GMT

#119

To addition of spikes/lags/gamespeedinglowing/laggingwhileboxingprobes i hate hots graphics settings, why the fuck cant i have high models without stupid shaders.. in WOL you can have high models settings while shaders set on low, which give you a nice "unshiny" "notlookinglikebulb" game graphics. In HOTS when you turn set low shaders you have plastic models... and you cant change it.

JazVM

Germany1196 Posts

February 04 2013 19:13 GMT

#120

Has anyone experieced a significant increase in lag/stuttering over the last few days? Last Wednesday I was playing almost lag free but since then its almost unplayable. Really sad