It never happened to me before, but since the ladder reset this problem has occurred in about half a dozen games for me. Its so fucking frustrating when you are in the middle of an intense match.

Marradron

Netherlands1586 Posts

April 01 2010 23:17 GMT

#82

Hmmm weird. then i got no clue at all what it might be. Could be something as stupid as a firewall. Or a router

BG1

Canada1550 Posts

April 01 2010 23:31 GMT

#83

Starcraft is very GPU intensive, check your video card temps while you're playing to make sure your shit is not overheating.

-orb-

United States5770 Posts

April 02 2010 00:08 GMT

#84

On April 02 2010 08:31 BG1 wrote:
Starcraft is very GPU intensive, check your video card temps while you're playing to make sure your shit is not overheating.

It should be shamefully obvious by now that this is not the problem...

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

April 02 2010 00:15 GMT

#85

This is just an idea, but it's possible that the connection between peers is causing it. It's possible that it isn't drop hack, but rather just incompatible connections, which is an alternate theory as to why you drop when playing the same people.

tertle

Australia328 Posts

April 02 2010 00:30 GMT

#86

I haven't dropped once... but I had 2 people in a row drop against me yesterday... all within 2min of game start (and they were both zerg so I avoided 2 boring mirror matches!)

stockton

United States128 Posts

April 02 2010 00:31 GMT

#87

It has happened to me before. but not lately.

edit: did someone on page 1 say they were using dial up???

wtf??? dial up still even exists???

that guy just blew my mind.

NeV

Italy370 Posts

April 02 2010 00:42 GMT

#88

I had several disconnections but I know for sure it's a problem of my ISP.
Still I don't understand why the game crashes every time I get dropped

avich

Philippines11 Posts

April 02 2010 04:41 GMT

#89

I just want to point out that there is a hack that could drop your opponent to win

Slurgi

United States118 Posts

April 02 2010 06:42 GMT

#90

Random observation looking at the location people are from...

Judging from comments/locations, it looks like this isn't happening for the most part on the North American servers, but IS happening on the European servers. I know it hasn't happened to me...

So maybe there's some sort of problem with the European game client, or the European battle.net servers... maybe? Maybe there's some sort of underground drop hack that found its way into a portion of the European community?

Or maybe my survey of location and whether it's happened to people is coincidence.

TerranUp16

United States88 Posts

April 02 2010 07:32 GMT

#91

Probably coincidence, Slurgi. Myself and multiple friends in the beta are having similar issues. Haven't had the stat reset issue yet, although the misinformed post-game screen (which I've even seen happen during Zotac and etc on Day[9]'s streams, but I think that's a very different issue) that uses data from a previous game I have encountered.

Anyway, our issues are a bit more persistent and aren't fully new- always the beta has lagged between ~2pm and ~2am and that's not due to our computers or anything as all of us have run fine with zero lag when home for a weekend or spring break or whatever- it is an issue between here and Blizzard's server farm that involves packet loss along the route (from what and why, all we've been able to figure out from traceroutes is that it's not because of the university network- packets are fine until they are well outside of there). We've tried R1CH's advice to no avail and whatever else we could think of- it's pretty odd as SC2 Beta is the only game where we have this issue as our internet is 20+mbps down and 12+mbps up and works amazingly in pretty much every other game known to man (and earlier iterations of Bnet; duly noted Bnet 2.0 is different from most other games although Heroes of Newarth and Demigod, two other games that leverage dedicated servers for a strategy game to a hefty degree, work perfectly fine).

But anyway, for the above, usually it would just be lag that kept building up and causing the lag timer to tick down to zero (generally in one, long, ~30 second burst). Since ~patch 6 though, there is a new, somewhat disturbing trend of the game just randomly dropping players (myself, friends, etc...) in lag bursts with the counter still well, well above zero. Also, the lag on the whole seems worse and more permeating than it previously was.

I know pretty much for a fact that this goes well beyond drop hacks as this has occurred multiple times when I and my roommate have been practicing with each other (not to mention against computers too).

Anyway, I'll pop my friends this link tomorrow morning so they can speak for themselves, but this definitely seems to cross 32-bit and 64-bit boundaries.

My specs- Windows 7 Pro x64, Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700, nVidia GeForce GTX 280, and 8GB of 1066MHz Corsair DDR2 RAM

Zzoram

Canada7115 Posts

April 02 2010 08:59 GMT

#92

E8400
HD4870 512MB
4GB DDR2
Vista x64
wifi G

North American server

I've had this happen 3 times. There seems to be no obvious cause.

wo0py

Netherlands922 Posts

April 02 2010 09:38 GMT

#93

my first game ever was very short. i thought it was a leave but it might have been a drop. never had such a game after that one.

Tommylew

Wales2717 Posts

April 02 2010 13:38 GMT

#94

ive dropped a few times on my odl computer, but since I got a new one, I havent dropped once and lots of people have dropped vs me.

DeathAngel[ro]

Romania79 Posts

April 02 2010 13:48 GMT

#95

happened to me like 3 times in 10 games , in platinum (for the guy that said that must be something outside platinum league) , then i deactivated FireWall and now it seems ok , anyone tried that ?

Geo.Rion

7377 Posts

April 02 2010 13:53 GMT

#96

it happened to me, lost 5 games in a short period of time.
Reinstalled the game shortly after that

marconi

Croatia220 Posts

April 03 2010 17:11 GMT

#97

Can someone please post this topic on blizz forums with a link at tlnet, I don't see this problem listed in the confirmed bugs section and for some strange reason i can't post on the forums with my bnet account that has a beta key...

This problem is getting really annoying and as far as I can tell,all the people who experience this problem are running windows 7.

Infernus

Norway222 Posts

April 03 2010 20:21 GMT

#98

Only happend to me once or twice, not really an issue for me. I run a 64 bit system.

guitarizt

United States1492 Posts

April 04 2010 01:18 GMT

#99

On April 04 2010 05:21 Infernus wrote:
Only happend to me once or twice, not really an issue for me. I run a 64 bit system.

Same with me and I don't think it's happened once since the ladder reset and I've played 100+ games since then.

Deathfate

Spain555 Posts

April 04 2010 01:27 GMT

#100

It happened to me also,

W7 64b
C2D 8500
Ati 5770 XXX

I used High Shader, now i have changed to low graphics and it hasnt happened anymore, but maybe its just a coincidence and tomorrow it will happen again, i will edit if it crashes using low settings.