I'm having a lot of trouble with screen lag since I updated to the new patch. I'm not talking about server lag (ie: delay between commanding an action, and seeing the action take place on screen), but more like performance lag, low frames per second (abnormally low-- basically unplayable), and choppy graphics. This has NEVER happened to me before.

I play on all the lowest settings, and I admittedly don't use a benchmark-setting laptop (Athlon X2 2.1Ghz dual core, Radeon 4250, 4GB DDR RAM), but I've never ever had even small amounts of FPS issues except on monobattle maps when everyone is maxed and running around. Now my computer lags to a point of being unplayable even early game in 1v1 when I've only got a few units on screen at a time.

Has anyone else had any similar issues, or is my computer just randomly broken or something?

Warlock40

601 Posts

September 20 2011 23:29 GMT

You know, the same thing happened to me today. Before, I would only lag in 4v4, but now I'm lagging in 2v2 as well. I thought it was just my computer overheating, but hmm.... let's see if it's not just us.

ElusoryX

Singapore2047 Posts

September 20 2011 23:29 GMT

did you on your vertical sync or something?

McGuire72

Canada140 Posts

September 20 2011 23:31 GMT

No I haven't messed with my graphics settings at all. I've reset my laptop, closed ALL unnecessary background apps, tried playing single-player to make sure it's not a server thing... Nothing seems to be working for me.

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

September 20 2011 23:32 GMT

I actually got it a fucking lot in several ladder matches. Makes my game hitch and really choppy sometimes. It just freezes in place.

Corrosive

Canada3741 Posts

September 20 2011 23:33 GMT

I don't know if this is related but, every time i start a game on ladder the screen is frozen for the first 4-5 seconds. It was never like this before 1.4

Golgotha

Korea (South)8418 Posts

September 20 2011 23:38 GMT

On September 21 2011 08:33 Corrosive wrote:
I don't know if this is related but, every time i start a game on ladder the screen is frozen for the first 4-5 seconds. It was never like this before 1.4

i thought i was the only one...im getting lag and overall slowness.

sunman1g

United States334 Posts

September 20 2011 23:42 GMT

the graphic screens have been really really laggy for a long time.. at least for me
this new patch somehow made it even worst

McGuire72

Canada140 Posts

September 20 2011 23:42 GMT

I posted this same thread on the Bnet forums (...I know) and it seems there are a myriad of graphical and audio issues with this new patch.

Moochlol

United States456 Posts

September 20 2011 23:45 GMT

#10

Me, my brother and a friend are all experiencing lag. The screen freezes then speeds up. During high user activity this seems to happen from time to time, even before the patch. If i had to guess its because all the noobs are coming out of the woodwork to play the new patch.

Utter failure of battle net 2.0 in my opinion.

edit; Why do people assume vertical sync has anything to do with poor performance. I mean where does this come from. Never in all my life, playing multiple games across multiple computers has vertical sync ever been the direct cause of performance issues. Besides even some of the best monitors still show screen tearing with vertical sync off, why anyone would want to play without it boggles my mind.

kituatembo

United States39 Posts

September 20 2011 23:51 GMT

#11

same with me. glad im not the only one. hopefully blizz will fix soon

fdsdfg

United States1251 Posts

September 20 2011 23:52 GMT

#12

I had these same issues with my old HDD - it was most severe in the first games of the day I'd play. The screen would freeze for a couple seconds, and then everything would happen quickly as if the display is 'catching up' to the correct game state. I tracked this down to my PC struggling to load the SC2 data files.

I had a pretty good workaround by going x8 through a couple replays after I load SC2 so I can preload the objects. This has served me well up until now.

SC2 puts a whole mess of graphic and sound data in large single files... I suspect if this patch rebuilt that file, it may have done so badly. If you know how File Systems work, then you know the absolute worst thing you can do is create a small file, and then increase the size of it... it's why if you ever download anything from a P2P client like Limewire that doesn't create the files at their 'finished' size initially, then your file will be EXTREMELY fragmented and will run like garbage.

If the SC2 data files are fragmented, loading data from it will be much slower than normal and create the same 'hiccups' that it would on a bad hard drive. I analyzed my disk after the install and my SC2 files were fragmented.

I reccomend defragging your hard drive to resolve the slowness patch 1.4 causes.

MonkSEA

Australia1227 Posts

September 20 2011 23:54 GMT

#13

Yup, started sc2 today.. first match I usually experience lag for some reason so I disregarded it.. second and third game I kept freezing, kept freezing, and kept freezing. I have a intel quad core 2.4ghz, 460gtx and 4gb ram running w7... I play on low too, ultra is too distracting.

fdsdfg

United States1251 Posts

September 20 2011 23:59 GMT

#14

On September 21 2011 08:45 Moochlol wrote:
Me, my brother and a friend are all experiencing lag. The screen freezes then speeds up. During high user activity this seems to happen from time to time, even before the patch. If i had to guess its because all the noobs are coming out of the woodwork to play the new patch.

Utter failure of battle net 2.0 in my opinion.

If your screen slows down and then speeds up, that's 100% your PC, it has nothing to do with anything happening over the network.

blindsniper

United States143 Posts

September 21 2011 00:02 GMT

#15

My gaming's been pretty smooth, not sure what's going on with you guys. Though I did notice that my "reduce mouse lag" option was unchecked, even though I had always made sure it was checked before. I recommend checking your settings to make sure nothing's changed by itself. Other than that, no problems here.

devPLEASE

Kenya605 Posts

September 21 2011 00:05 GMT

#16

both my and my smurf accounts on three different computers are all lagging using all the same graphic options. and all my computers can max out these games. i even get lag on the lowest settings on all my computers and accounts. same for my friends and cousins.

ROOTheognis

United States4482 Posts

September 21 2011 00:06 GMT

#17

I'm getting alot of delay in my games. This happened before in a patch like 8 months ago as well. I have no clue what's going on

Rocco605

United States19 Posts

September 21 2011 00:07 GMT

#18

yeah - The lag is bad. I'm glad someone started this thread because I was about to post the same thing. I quit a coupld games in a row because it was so aggravating.

Moochlol

United States456 Posts

September 21 2011 00:09 GMT

#19

Hmmm, Let me see core I7, GTX 560, 6 gig ram. Yea I think my computer can handle sc2 on low settings. Also explain to me why when in team games, If someone in the game is laggy as shit, everyone lags and chops all day. And its the exact same lag I described above, the game freezes and speeds back up, Its not the normal lag you would think of where frames are not affected. It has to be the way battle.net deals with lag.

Gnial

Canada907 Posts

September 21 2011 00:09 GMT

#20

This thread seems to be drawing laggers of all types, even from before 1.4. You guys should make sure that your lag is 1.4 specific before posting.

I have played a bunch, 2's, 3's and Sotis, and there has been no new lag with me or my partners - so it is not universal new lag. If it is a problem with bnet or the new patch, good luck to those of you affected.