Hi guys, I think i've had a fair bit of success - early days but I've played a couple of games without the problem, so feeling pretty good.

I went to the Intel website and downloaded the latest chipset drivers for my motherboard and the network card driver on the intel site (which is actually an earlier version than directly from realtek).

I installed both of those and things seem to be working much better.

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect/?iid=dc_iduu

Obviously won't help if you have an amd processor, but maybe there are updated chipset drivers for you guys too?

Hope this helps.

ModernAgeShaman

Norway484 Posts

March 23 2011 22:19 GMT

#42

hey Clerseri - if you still wanna know, I don't have this problem either in single player. really does seem like a network issue

Clerseri

Australia150 Posts

March 24 2011 07:30 GMT

#43

Hi Sinep - did you do as I suggested in the post above? Or otherwise updated network card/chipset drivers?

We've got a good way to diagnose this particular problem, it'd be nice to have a surefire solution as well.

ModernAgeShaman

Norway484 Posts

March 24 2011 09:33 GMT

#44

I have a nvidia chipset and my drivers are up to date - However, I use a USB wireless reciever for my internet, I tried reinstalling it last night but no such luck. I'm also running vista -32bit; are you on W7?

I have a tournament coming up on saturday and my brother has offered me to buy his old computer off of him for cheap (mine is on it's last legs anyway) so I may just take over that instead and get W7 on it.

Clerseri

Australia150 Posts

March 24 2011 12:59 GMT

#45

Eeek, I think that wideless receiver might be a problem if the issue is a network/internet issue (and given you have the single player/multi player difference I assume it is.) I would test your brother's pC before you buy it because if it's an internet issue a new PC might not help.

I am on Win7 64-bit.

My motherboard is an Asus P6T but the drivers from Asus were quite old, older than the ones from the intel site. If you have an intel processor you could still check and see if you can find your motherboard in the site above, or if it's an amd processor they might have something similar? I don't know. I don't have much experience with USB wireless recievers for the internet.

Are you able to circumvent the connection? Like do a cable connect to the modem directly, just to test? Or does your modem wirelessly connect to the net?

ModernAgeShaman

Norway484 Posts

March 24 2011 14:39 GMT

#46

I don't think it's the wireless adapater that's the problem, both my brother and another roomate of mine use the exact same hardware and neither have problems with sc2. I could theoretically try a cable connect directly into my router, but I doubt it would help. My internet is otherwise very stabile and hiccup free :/

trips

United Kingdom107 Posts

March 24 2011 17:57 GMT

#47

Mine used to do the same thing and i stopped using router(even wired in) and plugged straight in to modem.Cured it instantly.
Didnt effect any other games just sc2.....try that.

Clerseri

Australia150 Posts

March 25 2011 05:36 GMT

#48

Troubleshooting is just slowly eliminating options. I'd definitely try it, and if it doesn't solve the issue that's one more thing you can cross off the list..

R3N

740 Posts

March 25 2011 16:07 GMT

#49

Also plagued by this problem. Just updated the network drivers and things got 10x worse. rolled back and now it's the usual stuttering every 5 mins or so
sometimes 1-2 seconds and sometimes 10 secs -_-

but anyways i definitely think it's a network issue for me at least as it only occurs in multiplayer

Detri

United Kingdom683 Posts

March 25 2011 16:22 GMT

#50

How long has it been since you guys formatted your pc's :O

Every 6 months dudes... love it or hate it its the best and only way to keep your pc running consistently.

You wouldn't skip going to mechanic if your car was misfiring. Bite the bullet and reformat and clean your fans. Rolling back drivers, and all that jazz is just a waste of time.

Deleted User 61629

1664 Posts

March 25 2011 16:54 GMT

#51

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ModernAgeShaman

Norway484 Posts

March 26 2011 08:58 GMT

#52

so I finally fixed this.

Eventually, I switched over to my brother's old computer (needed an upgrade anyway). only thing that I put in it from my old computer was my old harddrive (I did not use this to run starcraft on this new computer) and I STILL had this problem. Funny thing is that my brother ran this exact setup a few months ago and did not have the sc2 freezes.

Anyway, then I tried replacing my wireless reciever with a different model.
Bam. Solved. I get sometimes a VERY tiny frame skip but its almost unnoticeable now. Really weird, but I'm happy.

Clerseri

Australia150 Posts

March 27 2011 10:06 GMT

#53

Anyway, then I tried replacing my wireless reciever with a different model.
Bam. Solved

Mine used to do the same thing and i stopped using router(even wired in) and plugged straight in to modem.Cured it instantly.

I went to the Intel website and downloaded the latest chipset drivers for my motherboard and the network card driver on the intel site (which is actually an earlier version than directly from realtek).

I installed both of those and things seem to be working much better.

I finally figured it out last night, my ethernet drivers were out of date. Once I updated those the skipping stopped and now happens maybe once a game, but that happened on my old PC too.

Ok - so I think it's safe to say that if you are experiencing this stutter in multiplayer but not in singleplayer, it is a network issue of some kind. Your best bet is looking at your networking - either cutting out or replacing things like routers or wireless connections or updating drivers on anything internet or network related.

Hope this helps anyone still with the problem.

FloTheSheep

Austria5 Posts

March 27 2011 10:58 GMT

#54

I have the same stuttering problem described here. It started to happen during the last few days. Both my PCs have the exact same problem, which would imply that its somehow connected to my network. I will take my laptop to a friend today and see if the problem remains or not. If not, then imho its definitly a network problem.

Speight

Australia152 Posts

March 27 2011 11:10 GMT

#55

These type of momentary freezing problems are, from my experience, almost always related to network/internet connection issues.

SeleCT

United States106 Posts

March 27 2011 23:06 GMT

#56

We usually call this "Spikes" it is internet issue

try open CMD

type ping google.com -t or ping yahoo.com -t and see if u get any "request timed out" msg

or see if the numbers are stable

Kwon

Brunei Darussalam41 Posts

March 31 2011 12:17 GMT

#57

I'm having this problem too but its not network related because it happens offline and to other games too.
Any idea what is causing it?

R3N

740 Posts

April 13 2011 12:55 GMT

#58

hey guys I got a new (pci x1) network card and the problem doesn't occur nearly as often now. And when it does, it's only a second hiccup -or even less. also far in between

still happens but game is now very playable for me. try replacing your card and see if it works.

xaeiu

432 Posts

April 13 2011 15:07 GMT

#59

ok....i may have a solution for some of you guys here
it worked for me, some ppl in my team and some ppl from another forum too.
it does although not work for everyone...
i also have to add i wasn't the one who found it out! i just got told and it works for me after i changed it...
originally i got told to turn of the whole sound and it worked from there on fine but i wasn't really happy with that, as you can imagine.
here his op:

i had this lagspikes and stuff especially when i had apm-intensive moments or when the game had apm intensive phases.
checked my hardware, drivers, other software, space on harddisk, internet connection...EVERYTHING!
i also have to add that i had no problem before 1.3 came out...
what was new with 1.3 are the unit responses. they way their sound output works after a click got changed. the thing is that the more units (also buildings and stuff have a responses) you click, the more units respond and since 1.3 they start immediately with the new clicked one. the key here is that even though the response gets cut off as soon as you click another one but it still runs in the background. and with the way bnet works this effects not only the one who clicks the units but all in the game.
however the solution is as simple as the problem: uncheck the "unit response" in the sound options. should be the 2nd last point on the left side of the sound properties
.as i said, it doesn't work for everyone but it might help some ppl here. it's also not really an elegant way to solve it but hey..as long as it works

+ Show Spoiler [btw...is that really true?] +

"and with the way bnet works this effects not only the one who clicks the units but all in the game" - i still don't really believe that