EPTMy specs are:
Core 2 Duo E8400 @3GHZ
6GB RAM
ATI HD 5770 series
Windows 7 64-bit
It skips a little then at 0:26 is when it turns unplayable. I lost a whole control group a mutas in that 1 second before lol.
Please help! Thanks :D
SC2 keeps frame skipping
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aeyr
United States60 Posts
My specs are: Core 2 Duo E8400 @3GHZ 6GB RAM ATI HD 5770 series Windows 7 64-bit It skips a little then at 0:26 is when it turns unplayable. I lost a whole control group a mutas in that 1 second before lol. Please help! Thanks :D | ||
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6wolfy9
Australia10 Posts
maybe it was the last patch? | ||
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dagoodstuff
New Zealand3 Posts
Blizzard has a system where when your Internet is not keeping up with the upstream/downstream of the game it buffers you like this. | ||
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Blardy
United States290 Posts
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6wolfy9
Australia10 Posts
It was smooth as just 2 days ago, and im not capped or anything. | ||
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Alex)
Scotland263 Posts
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rizzla
United States45 Posts
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CingCoCo
Germany20 Posts
Core I7 920 2x GTX 285 6 GB Ram HDD is fine (datatransfer rate seems to be normal). 60% free disc space on my Windows partition 35% on the SC2 partitition. Just started happening about 1 week ago. All other games run just fine. Updated Graphicsdriver today. Didnt help. Since the FPS is so high I didnt even bother trying to lower graphics settings (running on medium). BTW the framerate stays at the former level during the freezes (just like in the vid of OP) - so there is no framerate drop. If anybody had a suggestion how to solve this problem Id be so gratefull. Impossible to play the game atm =/ | ||
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Blardy
United States290 Posts
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deathserv
United States228 Posts
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6wolfy9
Australia10 Posts
I have a 6950 and the latest 11.4 drivers, this shouldnt be happening technically. | ||
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Blasts
Netherlands99 Posts
1. Check for any programs you installed that run on the background. 2. Defragment your hard disk. SC II is kind of heavy on hd use, and this may cause problems sometimes. 3. Try playing a single player game. Is the lag only in multiplayer or singleplayer? If it's only multiplayer, it's probably a network issue. If it's in both, your pc is most likely the problem. 4. Try turning your graphical settings lower. If it helps, it means that something is running on the background, decreasing performance. 5. Test your internet connection. There is tons of sites where you can test the speed of your connection. Just a few things I did when I had lag  | ||
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CingCoCo
Germany20 Posts
2: Didnt try that but since I still have a lotta free disk space and didnt move any big amounts of data before the problems started this is an unlikely reason. 3: Also happening in single player. 4: Did that no change. 5: Did that - 14900 up 1000 down and 32 ms ping (which is obv. all "good"). | ||
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MontagneBleu
Canada70 Posts
Here what's result i have - frame @ ~ 55 - 6 Mbps download - 0.6 Mbps upload - ping @ 115 * i've just upgrade my internet connection ( since this week-end ), got new modem/routor and that change nothig..... | ||
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FeiLing
Germany428 Posts
Plus: Overheating/dust; crappy WLAN; you or other people downloading over your connection. All checked you say? Then you better check it again. And again. And again. Just the same with these thing as with the drivers. People always say they have them installed. And as soon as they finally post a dxdiag you see what was obvious the whole time: no damn drivers were installed. | ||
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CingCoCo
Germany20 Posts
Also I think that given a constant temperature of ~ 57°C for my graphicscards and about 44 for my CPU heat is not an issue. Further its gonna be hard to have a dust issue with a watercooling (besides I clean the radiator every time i refill the cooling). If the issue was that trivial I wouldnt have had to ask for help. | ||
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6wolfy9
Australia10 Posts
wonder what the heck is going on, this has only started happening very recently. | ||
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Phayze
Canada2029 Posts
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6wolfy9
Australia10 Posts
I dont have a secondary drive...but it shouldnt be my hdd speed. | ||
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CingCoCo
Germany20 Posts
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6wolfy9
Australia10 Posts
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ArminvB
Netherlands50 Posts
On March 16 2011 04:39 CingCoCo wrote: Same thing happens to me although skips are longer but not as often. Core I7 920 2x GTX 285 6 GB Ram HDD is fine (datatransfer rate seems to be normal). 60% free disc space on my Windows partition 35% on the SC2 partitition. Just started happening about 1 week ago. All other games run just fine. Updated Graphicsdriver today. Didnt help. Since the FPS is so high I didnt even bother trying to lower graphics settings (running on medium). BTW the framerate stays at the former level during the freezes (just like in the vid of OP) - so there is no framerate drop. If anybody had a suggestion how to solve this problem Id be so gratefull. Impossible to play the game atm =/ Same for me; FPS around 75~ and every like 5/10 minutes it just happens. Sometimes i even have to alt tab and retab in the game to make the freeze stop. Q9550 GTX 295 8 GB ram SSD drive for windows and 2x 1 TB HDD in RAID for starcraft I can't for the life of me find where it is; as others here i updated drivers, reinstalled stuff n everything but so far no luck.. | ||
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ModernAgeShaman
Norway484 Posts
this happened to me throughout beta and every single version up until now where it still happens | ||
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Clerseri
Australia150 Posts
Started happening to me after updating drivers as well 5850 here. Edit: Tried installing 10.12 drivers rather than the 11 series with no luck. I have win7 64bit. I get exactly the same small stutters you showed in the youtube video. I'm going to rollback drivers further and see if any sneaky windows updates happened in the last couple of days that may have affected it. (I tried the sound thing to no avail - seemed unlikely given it was smooth as you like prior to a couple of days ago and no, it didn't help me )Edit 2: So I did that - I uninstalled drivers, used Driversweeper in safe mode to get rid of them, restarted (you can't use the catalyst installer in safe mode, some conflict with the C++ redist) and then installed Catalyst 10.6 which can be gotten here. 10.6 was an arbitrary choice, I just knew they'd been stable before. I also removed and didn't reinstall the HDMI audio driver or the SDK driver from the package, just the display driver and the catalyst software. After a reboot, SC2 had gone back to normal without the stuttering. Hope this helps, OP and anyone else having the same problem. | ||
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ArminvB
Netherlands50 Posts
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6wolfy9
Australia10 Posts
will let you know how it goes. | ||
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Onioncookie
Germany624 Posts
I have those frameskips like once a game or within a few game once (but always on first game first sek) Not rly that anoying , but can be rly bad in micro intensive battles if it likes to happen at that point Having the issue with low - extreme settings ... frames just drop at a random points to 0 then the game "catches up" Amd x4 965 @3,65 4GB Ram HD 5850 @ stock Windows 7 64bit All latest drivers PS : Or is it just lag? o.O | ||
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Clerseri
Australia150 Posts
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Nytefish
United Kingdom4282 Posts
Going to play a game and see if it's still happening. | ||
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Marcus420
Canada1923 Posts
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Onioncookie
Germany624 Posts
On March 21 2011 22:07 Marcus420 wrote: Its shitty AMD drivers. Try rolling back to 10.6 like clerseri. He just wrote it doesnt change it :O | ||
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mikesaysno
United States85 Posts
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. There is a pretty long thread on the bnet forums about it too: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/1126996964 | ||
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Onioncookie
Germany624 Posts
Or is it related to the lag of the internetz `?! Windows said my network driver is on the newest version. | ||
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mikesaysno
United States85 Posts
That is definitely what fixed it for me. I spent all last week trying every different possible combination of things and it happened just like the video in the OP during every game until I updated those drivers. | ||
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Clerseri
Australia150 Posts
If you click on the single player tab, then play a game against AI - do you stutter? If you then click on the multi player tab, and play a custom game against same AI, same map - do you stutter? For me, I do not stutter at all when playing against AI in Single Player, but stutter regularly playing against AI in Multi Player. Thanks for the tip about the network card, I was actually doing exactly that in between posts. I've had a look around on the bnet forums, it's cropping up quite a bit. I can only assume it's something network or internet related because of the above-mentioned singleplayer vs multipler difference. So I've tried updating the drivers of the network card, setting power settings to always on, port forwarded - literally everything network related i can think of to no avail. I'll continue to update with my experiences. If you find that the stuttering is in multi but not in single, let me know. FWIW, I'm running Win7 64bit without SP1, a HD5850, i7 processor, 6gb ram, a ssd for windows driver and plenty of space on a 1tb HD where SC2 is installed. | ||
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nVusPip
United Kingdom260 Posts
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6wolfy9
Australia10 Posts
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methematics
United States392 Posts
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Clerseri
Australia150 Posts
We might be able to narrow it down if we can be sure it's a network/internet issue. | ||
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South
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Clerseri
Australia150 Posts
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. | ||
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ModernAgeShaman
Norway484 Posts
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Clerseri
Australia150 Posts
We've got a good way to diagnose this particular problem, it'd be nice to have a surefire solution as well. | ||
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ModernAgeShaman
Norway484 Posts
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. | ||
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Clerseri
Australia150 Posts
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? | ||
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ModernAgeShaman
Norway484 Posts
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trips
United Kingdom107 Posts
Didnt effect any other games just sc2.....try that. | ||
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Clerseri
Australia150 Posts
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R3N
740 Posts
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 | ||
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Detri
United Kingdom683 Posts
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. | ||
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ModernAgeShaman
Norway484 Posts
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. | ||
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Clerseri
Australia150 Posts
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. | ||
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FloTheSheep
Austria5 Posts
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Speight
Australia152 Posts
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SeleCT
United States106 Posts
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 | ||
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Kwon
Brunei Darussalam41 Posts
Any idea what is causing it? | ||
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R3N
740 Posts
still happens but game is now very playable for me. try replacing your card and see if it works. | ||
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xaeiu
432 Posts
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 | ||
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