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Tachion
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada8573 Posts
March 21 2013 02:40 GMT
#21
On March 20 2013 19:43 CursivE wrote:
I have the exact same problem you had Tachion.. Looks like a fresh install it is. Annoying.

The fresh install didn't actually help. I think it may actually be my spyware doctor program? If i shut it down and restart I can play online fine. If I have it running SC lags really badly. The weird thing is though that if I shut it down SC won't stop lagging until I reboot. Telling it to shut down isn't shutting down all it's running processes?

I don't know if you're running this program as well, or if it is really the actual problem. All i know for now is that it's my temporary fix.
i was driving down the road this november eve and spotted a hitchhiker walking down the street. i pulled over and saw that it was only a tree. i uprooted it and put it in my trunk. do trees like marshmallow peeps? cause that's all i have and will have.
hXc_
Profile Joined May 2012
179 Posts
March 21 2013 15:13 GMT
#22
OK, so I had this problem myself - lag spikes unoccnected to intenet connection (checked on offline mode).
I've read somewhere that they are caused by resorce loading (or something similar), ie (my process thinking here) every model, everything is dynamically loaded from your hard drive when needed, which may cause lags when many programs are using this specific hdd. Since I had my client installed on a very old, 5200rpm hdd on which I had my music too (which could cause those lag spikes), I simply moved it to my ssd. Problem solved

So my solution would be - check if anything else is using the same hdd as your sc2 client, if it is try to close it, move your music, w/e so only sc2 will be using it.
Or if you are a lucky owner of an ssd, just install it there
dmaun
Profile Joined January 2013
Brazil3 Posts
March 26 2013 05:06 GMT
#23
End agent.exe worked for me too. I had lag spikes each 5 seconds and i had a 20/30 second freeze after going to options menu(f10) for the first time. Tried the other suggestions but that is the only one that helped.
Belha
Profile Joined December 2010
Italy2850 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-08 05:39:41
April 08 2013 05:31 GMT
#24
Same happening to me.

Gonna try the agent shutdown.

Edit: Not worked. Still have 1-2 spikes per minute. None of that happened before the last big patch
Chicken gank op
iiiob
Profile Joined May 2011
3 Posts
April 10 2013 11:23 GMT
#25
Hey

I've got the same problems with spikes. When im playing 1vs1 there are about 1-2 Spikes per Minute but 4vs4 is unplayable. Even droped out of a 1vs1 game a minute ago, just lost connection to Batlle.net.
I tried to shutdown agent.exe, also moved all my replays and have SC2 installed on a SSD but nothing workes for me. Any more solutions? Its really frustrating, never had lag in WoL...
afk_
Profile Joined April 2013
United States1 Post
April 11 2013 06:35 GMT
#26
I'm not quite sure if I'm getting the same issue, but I've been seeing numerous people experience this lag spike issue. I can say out of experience it is incredibly frustrating :/. Every time I try to play a game my game starts stuttering and becomes basically unplayable... I try the pre-loader as most people recommend. As zerg (and i'm sure for any race for that matter) I can barely do anything, the whole game is just stuttering and responding with a silly delay so micro and even macro gets hard. It's a shame, as I never had this problem when I played WoL, bleh. I constantly run 100+ fps, and my internet works perfectly fine in every other game I play.
-deLete-
Profile Joined May 2012
France8 Posts
May 21 2013 20:10 GMT
#27
Same problem here...
Spikes and Low fps, Internet connection is Ok,no virus, drivers OK, repair tools and reinstall w7 and Sc2 the problem is already here.

i5 2500k
Gtx 560 Ti
6 Gb Ram

Temperature is good, and my fps are ~30 average et down to 0-5 fps..
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