[D] 1.5 FPS Problems

On August 03 2012 04:08 sotaporo wrote:
my screen frozes pretty much everytime something "new" comes to the screen. i thought this patch was suppose to eliminate that but made it worse for me atleast but overall my late game fps is better and i like most of the changes in this patch

On August 03 2012 04:23 Agro_Z wrote:


Same here. There's sometimes a stutter whenever the first queen or first pair of lings spawn.

On August 03 2012 02:45 Grapefruit wrote:
So, there seem to be quite a lot of people who have problems with their FPS performance after the patch and some who don't.

Let's post our current situations, maybe we can see a pattern in who is affected and who is not.

Specs:

CPU: i7 -2670 running at 2,20 GHz

GPU: Nvidea GT 540M

RAM: 8 GB

FPS before: Could run the game flawlessly on all low with ultra textures. No drops, not even in 4v4.

FPS now: Getting drops to ~30 FPS in mid-game situations and far lower in the end game, almost impossible to micro with the same settings. Also the game feels very "spongy" now.

On August 03 2012 06:27 CounterOrder wrote:
Major lag spikes. Screen completely freezes for up to 4-5 seconds. Ran way smoother before even though im using a lower resolution now.

On August 04 2012 02:42 Atlasy wrote:
Dual core 2 GHz Intel

2 GB RAM

256MB ATI GPU

FPS: ~60 for 1,5 years from beta to 2011 november then my fps dropped to 10 when the game is starting, because my computer has crashed or god knows, now it's a bit more like 20 when it starts but then it drops to 1-3 and it's unplayable. I haven't been able to play since 2011 november so sad.

On August 03 2012 06:45 pallad wrote:


You know that fps drops have nothing to do with your computer configuration ?

Its because of new sc2 straming system. This thread make no sense.

On August 04 2012 02:31 BelleNOiR wrote:
A repost of my solution to the problem from http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/5058396145?page=4

"Possible fix to the lags. I am no expert but I think the problem is shader generation. Shaders are generated anew with every new version of the client. Try to follow these steps:

1. Delete the folder c:\Program Data\Blizzard Entertainment\Starcraft II. (Win 7/Vista users)
2. Start SCII and set everything on max (will ensure the most complex stuff gets rendered)
3. Find some sort of "UnitTestMap" in arcade and run it.
4. Create every unit and building of every race at least once. If you can, use every ability of every unit for every race at least once. This should (I hope) generate shaders files for those units/buildings/abilities and save them to HDD. (You should get minor client freeze every time you generate a unit for the first time, but not after that)
5. You can now revert the settings to low.
6. Play some open public games to see if this fixed the problem.

It kinda fixed it for me. I no longer have laggs whenever something new appears in a match. Let me know pls if this works for you guys.

Addendum: I firmly believe that the concept of this is utterly wrong. It requires the user to play games until every possible game element was rendered at least once, only then does the client become stable.
The prettier the gfx, the more complex, the more problems this is going to cause in the future and for lower end users I cant imagine how this feels. Cant you programmers figure out a way pre-make the shaders files and have them streamed to the user on update? "

After I did this, I no longer have huge FPS drops/freezes. Still minor lag here and there, but that is only miliseconds and I can micro once more!

Let me know if this works for some of you.

On August 04 2012 04:14 xAiKitsune wrote:
I am having FPS that varies massively in game.

System: Windows 7
CPU: i7 2500k
GFX: 560Ti
8GB RAM

I play all settings on low (don't like the shiny look on ultra). At the start of the game I get a constant 300+fps, by the stage of the game with 3 bases I am down to about 150fps constantly and mid battle I am getting only 80fps >.<

On August 04 2012 04:18 BelleNOiR wrote:


LOL I am sorry??? Unless you have less than 40 FPS the game is totally playable. We have ppl here that are dropping down to 5 FPS at times for no reason and you come in here complaining that you have only 80 FPS during a battle??? Seriously dude. You just made my blood boil

On August 03 2012 04:03 StarcraftNerd1547 wrote:
I had that in the first few games, but in the third game or so it stopped being a problem.
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On August 04 2012 04:54 Pseudoku wrote:
After I patched my graphics settings were reset, so check those.

On August 04 2012 04:58 FeelTHeBluEZ wrote:


I checked those and configured them already, my computer doesn't like low shaders (with them it crashes all the time, still don't know why) so that's usually the first thing I look for.

The thing is, I get about 40-60 fps while playing, which is normal for my setup (even before the patch), but everytime something spawns, or something happens it just freezes for literally 3-5 seconds (0 fps), which is... quite unplayable ...

I'm now trying the solution someone made a few posts before... but still, it's just stupid ..

On August 04 2012 04:51 RoxYi wrote:
I am getting generally lower fps, and im getting lag spikes for a few seconds where it drops to 5 fps for no reason. Its not totally unplayable for me but its obviously not what i want. Anyone got a solution?

Also i play on low-mid settings even though i dont need to

My system:

i7 2600k
16gb corsair vengence
6870 black edition
windows 7 etc etc

On August 04 2012 05:02 CraZyWayne wrote:


I experience the exact same thing. It's indeed quite annoying. Could you please post whether the "solution" helped?

On August 04 2012 05:30 FeelTHeBluEZ wrote:


I played one custom with terran, and it seemed to work. But it's a pain in the ass to do, because you have to basically do EVERY action there is in the game to load the shaders, took me like 20 minutes to do this in Unit Test Map ...

On August 03 2012 06:27 CounterOrder wrote:
Major lag spikes. Screen completely freezes for up to 4-5 seconds. Ran way smoother before even though im using a lower resolution now.

On August 04 2012 02:31 BelleNOiR wrote:
A repost of my solution to the problem from http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/5058396145?page=4

"Possible fix to the lags. I am no expert but I think the problem is shader generation. Shaders are generated anew with every new version of the client. Try to follow these steps:

1. Delete the folder c:\Program Data\Blizzard Entertainment\Starcraft II. (Win 7/Vista users)
2. Start SCII and set everything on max (will ensure the most complex stuff gets rendered)
3. Find some sort of "UnitTestMap" in arcade and run it.
4. Create every unit and building of every race at least once. If you can, use every ability of every unit for every race at least once. This should (I hope) generate shaders files for those units/buildings/abilities and save them to HDD. (You should get minor client freeze every time you generate a unit for the first time, but not after that)
5. You can now revert the settings to low.
6. Play some open public games to see if this fixed the problem.

It kinda fixed it for me. I no longer have laggs whenever something new appears in a match. Let me know pls if this works for you guys.

Addendum: I firmly believe that the concept of this is utterly wrong. It requires the user to play games until every possible game element was rendered at least once, only then does the client become stable.
The prettier the gfx, the more complex, the more problems this is going to cause in the future and for lower end users I cant imagine how this feels. Cant you programmers figure out a way pre-make the shaders files and have them streamed to the user on update? "

After I did this, I no longer have huge FPS drops/freezes. Still minor lag here and there, but that is only miliseconds and I can micro once more!

Let me know if this works for some of you.

On August 04 2012 02:31 BelleNOiR wrote:
A repost of my solution to the problem from http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/5058396145?page=4

"Possible fix to the lags. I am no expert but I think the problem is shader generation. Shaders are generated anew with every new version of the client. Try to follow these steps:

1. Delete the folder c:\Program Data\Blizzard Entertainment\Starcraft II. (Win 7/Vista users)
2. Start SCII and set everything on max (will ensure the most complex stuff gets rendered)
3. Find some sort of "UnitTestMap" in arcade and run it.
4. Create every unit and building of every race at least once. If you can, use every ability of every unit for every race at least once. This should (I hope) generate shaders files for those units/buildings/abilities and save them to HDD. (You should get minor client freeze every time you generate a unit for the first time, but not after that)
5. You can now revert the settings to low.
6. Play some open public games to see if this fixed the problem.

It kinda fixed it for me. I no longer have laggs whenever something new appears in a match. Let me know pls if this works for you guys.

Addendum: I firmly believe that the concept of this is utterly wrong. It requires the user to play games until every possible game element was rendered at least once, only then does the client become stable.
The prettier the gfx, the more complex, the more problems this is going to cause in the future and for lower end users I cant imagine how this feels. Cant you programmers figure out a way pre-make the shaders files and have them streamed to the user on update? "

After I did this, I no longer have huge FPS drops/freezes. Still minor lag here and there, but that is only miliseconds and I can micro once more!

Let me know if this works for some of you.

On September 03 2012 04:22 Arghmyliver wrote:


There is an Arcade Map called "Unit Preloader" or something to that effect which comprehensively creates all units/effects without you having to do so manually. Map takes about 15-25 seconds to run discounting load time.

Much much much much much easier than creating all units manually and also much more effective since you don't have to remember what units/effects to create. Run once when you start SC2.