Is anyone else getting a ~0.5 second delay on all unit commands? I really would have hoped this wasn't necessary, but that's how it feels for me at the moment. Also I cannot find any options for reducing latency.

Sorry if this has been posted somewhere else, but considering what LAN latency meant for SC:BW I felt like this deserves it's own thread >.< Hopefully it's just something wrong on my end, or at least they'll probably improve on it in time for retail.

Once again, no reason to freak out about it yet. I just want to make sure I'm not the only one feeling this :S

IskatuMesk

Canada969 Posts

February 18 2010 07:35 GMT

I get a 0.5sec to 1 sec delay on every command I do. But a few of the people I play with claim to have no delay. It could just be the servers not being tested and such.

Motiva

United States1774 Posts

February 18 2010 07:37 GMT

No delay for me.

X3N0N

United States78 Posts

February 18 2010 07:42 GMT

It felt like there was a pretty serious delay on my machine, but I bumped the resolution down to 16 bit colors, and it felt more responsive overall. Maybe give that a shot?

Tropics

United Kingdom1132 Posts

February 18 2010 07:57 GMT

Ugh, this is terrible news for me. You'd really think they'd find a way to have it lower than what the community managed to tweak a 10 year old game to do, you know?

mahnini

United States6862 Posts

February 18 2010 08:04 GMT

i'd suggest turning down your graphics settings. i was playing at 1680x1050 Ultra everything and it felt like high latency. i turned a couple settings down and it became much mroe responsive.

Tsagacity

United States2124 Posts

February 18 2010 08:29 GMT

Unfortunately I still have the same response delay after nuking all of my settings from ultra to low

SirNeb

United States243 Posts

February 18 2010 08:38 GMT

I played a cpu game once and the delay was TERRIBLE.. if the game was anything like that, i'd give up on it instantly but I lowered down the display quality, it was day and night. Try that.

Nightmarjoo

United States3360 Posts

February 18 2010 08:40 GMT

Yeah my first game lagged a lot at start, with 32 bit colour, and everything at ultra, I turned it down to 16 bit and everything on medium and it got a lot better. Initially the game even told me "you're slowing the game down, please lower your graphics settings" or something like that ~~

SirNeb

United States243 Posts

February 18 2010 08:55 GMT

#10

oh, another thing I turned on was that option that makes the mouse for responsive but might slow down framerate.. u guys might try that, the mouse feels really smooth now.

Tsagacity

United States2124 Posts

February 18 2010 10:04 GMT

#11

Changing video settings didn't affect the delay at all for me in games vs. AI. I meant to check again in a real game but kind of got distracted

I *THINK* It was still there.

SiDX

New Zealand1975 Posts

February 18 2010 10:05 GMT

#12

If you guys get 0.5-1 i'm prolly gonna be getting 2+ zzzz

Railz

United States1449 Posts

February 18 2010 10:08 GMT

#13

On February 18 2010 19:05 SiDX wrote:
If you guys get 0.5-1 i'm prolly gonna be getting 2+ zzzz

They were getting FPS lag which can lead to what seems like Command lag because of CPU draw and reaction time as the client can't keep up with the server. There is as of right now 0 lag on Bnet.

semantics

10040 Posts

February 18 2010 10:17 GMT

#14

Very low delay out of the games i've played so far you sure you're just not expecting the units to be more reactive over all play a few games against a computer to be sure.

Zelniq

United States7166 Posts

February 18 2010 10:50 GMT

#15

please only vote if you know for sure, this is a serious poll to me.

Poll: Do you notice all your actions respond after a noticeable delay?
(Vote): Yes, but in Custom Games only
(Vote): Yes in both Custom and Ladder games
(Vote): Yes, but Ladder only (doubtful)
(Vote): No, I've tried both and my actions feel like Lan Latency is enabled

Roxen000

1226 Posts

February 18 2010 10:52 GMT

#16

I get a pretty big delay in both custom and ladder. :X

milly9

Canada325 Posts

February 18 2010 11:27 GMT

#17

No delay here.

EchOne

United States2906 Posts

February 19 2010 09:08 GMT

#18

A .5 sec delay on unit orders is pretty noticeable in all game modes, even with low settings. I hope this is reduced in the future since it will hamper the perfection of new micro.