Mine does this alot, usually at least 5 times a match. Needless to say, very annoying. The game runs perfectly fine at 50 FPS on custom (mostly medium and high)
My processor is a single core, but seriously it runs FINE in between the freezing. Video card is 9800GTX, 4 gigs dd2 ram, etc.
Quote from: Normalcy on March 21, 2010, 02:32:05 PM
Mine does this alot, usually at least 5 times a match. Needless to say, very annoying. The game runs perfectly fine at 50 FPS on custom (mostly medium and high)
My processor is a single core, but seriously it runs FINE in between the freezing. Video card is 9800GTX, 4 gigs dd2 ram, etc.
Try with lowered textures, and report back your results.
I have tried it with every setting, it still does it. Low high, medium, custom, only thing that changes is the look.
The same thing was happening on my wifes pc until I upgraded her Nbidia graphic drivers then now its much better. What Nvidia drivers you running ? maybe I can give u more advice then
I am running 196.21.
man..... I updated to the 196.21 drivers on my wifes pc and it worked fine. Does the freezing only happen in SC2 or does it happen in other games 2 ?
What im starting to think is that either 1.) the grpahics card is dieing, 2.) Your pc or graphics card is overheating. But these are both answered by the first question. If ur pc is not freezing in other games for a few seconds then it must be 1.) a beta issue 2.) some corruption on ur starctaft install. Reinstall starcraft 3,) ram or driver issue
Last suggestion if none of the above works is to try and run the game with 2gigs ram (i.e. take out a ram module and then try the game, if it freezes swap to the other ram module still running 2 gigs) if it still freezes and u followed the above steps. then make 100% sure u have done all ur pc updates and starcraft patches and give us more feedback.
Mine freezes too for a few seconds at random intervals during games. I think it has to do with the CPU. I use a single core AMD 3800. I recommend upgrading the processor if at all possible.
It should not make a difference. I play games like DA:O, 60 FPS consistently. Crysis on high, 40 FPS. Processor is fine, new games just are not putting any efforts in to support single cores anymore.
Quote from: Normalcy on March 21, 2010, 02:32:05 PM
Mine does this alot, usually at least 5 times a match. Needless to say, very annoying. The game runs perfectly fine at 50 FPS on custom (mostly medium and high)
My processor is a single core, but seriously it runs FINE in between the freezing. Video card is 9800GTX, 4 gigs dd2 ram, etc.
You can install some beta drivers (the game will it only look colorful, you might gain a lot of FPS!)
Or disable HID dispositives.
I will it post right now something about that!
same here like 5 or 6 times in a game...
i have an i7 920 2.67GHz
2,00 GB ram DDR3 1600
nvidia gts 250...last drivers
so i asumed that was game problem
I too am also having this problem. its very annoying. I really hope they address this before it comes out. It has to be a game problem. I have a single core and an 8800 gt and can run the game fine but every once in awhile i get random freezes where i can move the mouse but the action is frozen. I know its a game problem because i can run every other game and application flawlessly. Please does anyone know a solution for this it is driving me crazy!
SC2 is known to currently have compatibility issues with single core processors.
On a side note though... I have a quad core processor, and had it clocked from its original (1.8 or 2.1 or something), to a 2.4 ghz clock. This caused all my games to crash between 10-60 seconds in, and the problem ceased when I reverted to factory settings.
its so frustrating having a single core. I know i need to update, but, its not like they are obsolete. I really hope this gets patched. Heres hoping it does. On a side note I left my computer on last night and now when I start the beta i get massive fps lag and then crash. Sometimes on the loading screen. Ive tried reinstalling but get the same result. Im going to search the forums now I really want to play
It's not the processor , it's low memory problem , how much memory u have ?
I had 2 GB last month , SC2 lagged and like it had stops for 5 seconds at times , now i upgraded with another dominators , and have 4 GB , have win x64 and I disabled page file , SC2 loads fast , no lag at all nor temporary freezes.
I have quite high end PC , quad q9300 , gigabyte ga-p35-ds4 , enermax 620W liberty dxx , WD 500GB , HD 4870
And I had similar problems for 1 and a half years because i had only 2 GB ram.
Anyways , it's not your processor. And it's not SC2 compatability , it's a beta , but anyways , what a lot of people mistake , SC2 is a big game , it's just so hungry but you can still make good fps.
Lowering the graphics won't help much , since your GPU is good enough , has enough video ram , but it's the virtual memory that's making this pain in the ass, HDD is too slow obviously.
EDIT: Oh you have 4 GB
What operating system u have ?
Then just disable page file , win7=
- Right click on my computer and select properties , or go to control panel and click system
- click advanced system settings in top left side of the window , last button.
-select advanced tab in the new window if it's not already selected
-click setting in performance
-select advanced tab in new window
-click "change" button below in "virtual memory"
-select a drive in new window , then click the "no paging file" radio button , then click "Set"
-do that for all drives , no paging file , 0
-apply ok , restart pc.
-no more freezes, and the overall PC boost will be huge.
in xp u have the same process but u skip second step.
If you did it correctly you will notice the change immediately after restart.
thanks for the suggestion but I just tried that and it still plays like crap. I just got my beta key and this is killing me. Before when I played ai the game ran smooth it just stuttered every once in awhile. Now, online, it runs choppy, and it stutters. Its almost unplayable. Ive tried turning my graphics to low and setting a framerate cap of 30.
i had the same problem but my brother told me a fix and it worked for me and i have a nvidia graphics card if u have nvidia go to ur program files and find the nvidia folder and open it then click on display drivers and delete all of the drivers before the most updated one the problem is that the graphics cards r kinda dumb and try to use multiple versions of graphics drivers (this second part is optional ) go to nvidia.com and get the drivers 197.25 cause 197.13 is kinda messed up :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: tell me if this works out for u
I just deleted my old nvidia drivers and installed the latest ones. .45 I tried to install the .25 ones but i couldnt find any for windows xp only vista. Thanks for the suggestion but as it stands ive tried everything but defragging my hd and im going to do that before I go to bed. I can play every game but sc2 and full graphics and a decent fps. I have a feeling this has to do with my single core. I have 2 gigs of ram so that should be plenty memory right? Almost every single game that has been released in the last year it seems like has had major problems with my single core. Any game with a bink video file straight crashes my pc.
so last night i defragmented my hd. Exact same results, game is unplayable at high level. Micro is but impossible.
sigh. I know im not the only one with this problem please does anyone know if there is a fix? Not only does my game freeze and unfreeze about 15 times a match, it also runs choppy, even with the graphics turned down. This is very frustrating, totally unplayable. Im done for now. I think this is a problem on blizzards side? :bangshead:
I see those hangs about 4 or 5 times per game. They're at least 10 seconds long. I'm always afraid the game has crashed, but eventually it comes back. So far, no crashes.
I'm running Dual 3.2Ghz Xeons with hyperthreading(looks like 4 processors, actually about 2.5), 2GB ram,
and an old ATI 9800XT with 256MB of video ram. XP SP2 with latest patches.
As near as I can tell, the paging file is never hit. I've never used up the whole 2gb of phys ram.
I did notice something interesting just today. I was playing one of the bigger maps and had 16 protos carriers, so 128 fighters. When I landed on a zerg base and all my fighters were launched, the screen went into a mode where you'd see about 1 second of frames, then about a 2 second hang, then another second of action, hang, action, hang, etc, etc, until the battle was over and the screen got less complex. It's interesting that it didn't slow down to a slideshow, but appeared to be bursts of continuous frames, then a pause. Obviously something is running out of memory somewhere.