Hello everyone, i search the forums and i cant come up with a reason why i am having choppy game play. My Processor is a AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core 2.2GHz i currently have 8 Gigs of Ram And my current Video Card is a ATi Radeon HD 5700 Series. When i play Single player game it is fine. However when i play online and when there are a lot of units on the map my game gets very choppy. I have the latest driver, and i have updated my direct X also. I event went as far as reformatting my computer with still no luck. Whenever i run Starcraft 2 i don't have any other programs running at the same time. The settings suggested for my computer set up is ultra. However even when i put lowest and there are a lot of units on the map it is unplayable. i get a message prompting me to lower my settings as it might help with the game play. however it is already at the lowest! Please help! ime of this report: 8/11/2010, 17:59:06 Machine name: HI Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.longhorn_rtm.080118-1840) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: Gateway System Model: LX6200-01 BIOS: Default System BIOS Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 9500 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs), ~2.2GHz Memory: 7934MB RAM Page File: 2204MB used, 13896MB available Windows Dir: C:\Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 10 DX Setup Parameters: Not found DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 64bit Unicode
How much ram does your video card have? I would also try installing DirectX 11. As for the settings, you can try what I did on my buddies, put the textures on high, but the rest on ultra. That worked great on his 9800GTX+, so I would hope that would help you. (if you have only 512MBs of video ram, i would run textures in high, if you have 1GB you should be able to do ultra with little trouble). What resolution are you running SC2 at? That is important too.
Hello thanks for the reply i will download direct x 11 and try the settings that you suggested. I checked and i do have 1 gig worth of Ram for the video card
Hello, Thank you for your reply That is the website i downloaded the latest driver from. and i am currently running it at 1440X900
Due to various bugs, and slow copy protection, SCII runs way slower than it should on a lot of computers. Try lowering your resolution, 1024x (whatever) might help.
Hello, I have reduced my settings to the small resolution and it helped a bit. It will get laggy later, but now the game looks like a game from super nintendo.
I really haven no clue why your game is going so slow. My buddy has no problem running at 1050p on his GeForce 9800GTX+ at a smooth 30fps. I just can't fathom your machine having these problems.
I am experiencing a very similar problem, and I say very similar because even though the problem sounds EXACTLY the same, my system specs are a tiny bit different. Athlon Quad Core 2.8 GHz Windows 7 64 bit 6 GB of RAM Geforce 9800 GTX I have all the latest drivers and I too have to scale down to super nintendo graphics to get a decent framerate. It happens with offline skirmishes, but the problem is compounded in online co-op (DSL + Gigabit ethernet is not the bottleneck.) I play tons of other online games with high graphics settings that run as smooth as silk--BFBC2, MW2, Splinter Cell Conviction, L4D2, etc. etc. The bottom line is starcraft 2 is WAY choppier than it should be. I have reinstalled and repaired Starcraft 2. I have installed SC2 on my solid state drive and on a regular 7200 RPM HD. I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled my nvidia drivers and that actually seemed to help for 1 match and then it was back to count choppula at 1 FPS, no joke. I have been a systems admin for 10 years so I can tell you this is no easy fix. I have disabled sound and have even removed my x-fi card in favor of onboard to completely rule out sound issues. The only thing I can think of is somehow the SC2 beta left some residue or the nvidia drivers relationship to SC2 are somehow causing this issue. Either that or it's buggy blizzard code and I can only hope for a patch that will address my issue.
Please post a dxdiag dump here. To run dxdiag=> Windows_logo_key+r, dxdiag. If you have 64-bit windows, click the button at the button that says "Run 64-bit DxDiag," Then save all the data by clicking "Save All Information..." zip/rar the text file and attach it to the post. Instructions on how to zip here. To create a rar file, first download and install winRAR then read this guide here. After seeing how your drivers shape up, I may be able to offer some advice. Do not post it like the user above has. My skills digging have improved tremendously since then, so I need the entire report, zipped and attached to a post.
