I've been having lag issues too. Never had any problems before 1.4...

I get the similar problems discussed in this thread--lag in game and on the load screen.

Meatex

Australia285 Posts

September 21 2011 02:35 GMT

#62

To clear up things I have read thus far
V sync can cause problems - dead space anyone?
Though its unlikely to be the cause of any problems unless its constant.

Secondly lag does affect performance. As in bad connection will look and feel like your pc having problems displaying stuff. This is because of the way bnet is constructed so you might have a boss computer but if your connection isn't perfect you will experience hitching

Lastly blizzard are known for being less than adept at technicalities. They have bad coders (comparing to other large teams) so don't rely on blizzard giving an F enough to fix things. I have had problems that required me just to wait for the next patch

Even had a tools update break the game for me on my laptop. Speaking of make sure you update your drivers to latest numbered version you can find. There is a good chance this will involve installing unsupported modded drivers so do some googling and grab one but beware of overheating so I hear.

anxiouspanda

United States56 Posts

September 21 2011 02:36 GMT

#63

i've had this same issue. i never lag and at the start of 3 of my games it threw me into the game at the 5 second marker

Neb1000

United States183 Posts

September 21 2011 02:38 GMT

#64

I noticed this today while playing. I have never had this problem so I turned down some setting but it didn't fix anything. I hope they fix it soon, it's screwing up my micro.

Sc2ttyl

United States245 Posts

September 21 2011 02:39 GMT

#65

I swear that nothing like this has happened to me before 1.4. This JUST STARTED today for me so now iam just glad i know its the patch and not my computer.

Sbuiko

Switzerland56 Posts

September 21 2011 02:39 GMT

#66

Some settings in sounds have been modified by this patch. For example, it started fading out playing warnings when a new warning pops up for me. I had to set a slider to 100% to get the old behaviour back, and i don't remember that slider from the last patch. I think the default used to be a hard cut off of playing sounds when a new one is issued.

Maybe that has something to do with it?

Reithan

United States360 Posts

September 21 2011 02:41 GMT

#67

On September 21 2011 11:12 Soluhwin wrote:
What I don't understand is why this didn't happen in the PTR, they clearly released something without testing it first which is just sloppy.

No! :O

THEY WOULD NEVER.

/SARCASM

eNtitY~

United States1293 Posts

September 21 2011 02:45 GMT

#68

My friend lags at the start of every game now.

Also their skype gets RLY loud in the beginning of the game for some reason...

It also seems to lag in even small battles now for no reason, it never did that before. It's so annoying.

Bro_Stone

United States510 Posts

September 21 2011 02:51 GMT

#69

Wow the lag from the PTR carried over... I can't play with the sounds all blurred and the fps choppy:K

oZe

Sweden492 Posts

September 21 2011 02:52 GMT

#70

Why don't they use the effin countdown to load shit. Lag problems started with the merge (patch 1.3 I think). Haven't had the pleasure of seeing their latest screwup since I'm on EU. It's kinda funny they haven't worked out the realtek soundcard issue yet, loooool. Works in all other programs...

Netherlands12045 Posts

September 21 2011 02:55 GMT

#71

everytime blizzard implement new UI in BNet 2.0, there is always memory leaked and lag. Currently the memory of idle Bnet is still increase despite the patch since beta. i keep track of it because i thought it was my firefox consuming ram.

Bro_Stone

United States510 Posts

September 21 2011 03:14 GMT

#72

On September 21 2011 11:41 Reithan wrote:

Show nested quote +

No! :O

THEY WOULD NEVER.

/SARCASM

I played PTR and Blizzard did have this lag, it starts when you run sc II for around 20-30 minutes where the sound becomes choppy and the gameplay lags... I stopped playing PTR because of this and I thought they would surely fix it for the actual patch... Apparently NOT...

theherder2

United States538 Posts

September 21 2011 04:59 GMT

#73

I just started lagging in games tonight after I patched this afternoon. I thought it was my connection but apparently not =(.

MnMCounTer

Canada27 Posts

September 21 2011 05:29 GMT

#74

I bought a new laptop today just to run sc2 smoothly in medium settings. Everything is smooth during the first 3-5 minutes then FPS drops drastically to a point you cannot micro at all. Also audio becomes a pain to listen to, at first I thought it was the laptop but thank god its not. It shouldn't be the laptop anyway. 6GB ram, i5 2410M, GT540M. It should definitely run SC2 in medium settings smoothly with no problem. I hope they fix it asap.

EDIT: Tried SC2 on a mac and it was perfectly fine, even though I had a spectre mouse.

AirbladeOrange

United States2573 Posts

September 21 2011 05:31 GMT

#75

I had lag today as well. At one of the worst times - when defending a 1-1-1. I was so mad when I couldn't micro anything and ended up losing.

Corrosive

Canada3741 Posts

September 21 2011 06:02 GMT

#76

On September 21 2011 11:36 anxiouspanda wrote:
i've had this same issue. i never lag and at the start of 3 of my games it threw me into the game at the 5 second marker

This is what is happening to me and i can be sure that its not my PC or internet connection. They are both fine.

Aftershock912

United States15 Posts

September 21 2011 07:09 GMT

#77

Yeah, this is ridiculous, the screen lag and the audio lag is just soo bad its unplayable. I hope blizz fixes this bc its horrible. it does it on all video settings and on 1's 2's 3, and 4's.... Ive never had a problem with anything pre-patch so i suspect and bad code in the patch.. Before posted i also check to make sure every driver is up to date..

Ganseng

Russian Federation473 Posts

September 21 2011 07:18 GMT

#78

lol i knew it. my bet was, it won't be until 1.4.3 that they fix all the new bugs =)

edit: so what do they always make a month of ptr for?..
just a rhetorical question.

KWik-E

United States72 Posts

September 21 2011 07:22 GMT

#79

On September 21 2011 11:51 Bro_Stone wrote:
Wow the lag from the PTR carried over... I can't play with the sounds all blurred and the fps choppy:K

Yeah its unplayable for me, everything is already on low too v.v

figq

12519 Posts

September 21 2011 07:24 GMT

#80

I noticed my computer basically dies, while SC2 is on now; it wasn't like that before the patch. I mean - inside SC2 it's okay so far, but anything else running becomes pretty much dead or lagging.