Desktop Operating System : Vista CPU 9550 amd phenom 4gb Power Supply Unit : Don't know, its not the issue RAM : don't know Motherboard: amd Harddrive : I have enough memory Video Card : ATI 3650 After about 2 minutes of playing anything (campaign, online, even sitting in the menu screen and lobbies) my SC2 will delay for about a sec every once and awhile. Makes it unplayable. I was playing for a couple days with many more programs running in the backround and played for much longer and this never happened. So I doubt it is a hardware issue because it worked before. I did mess around with my graphics card a little but A. this shouldnt have caused this and B. nothing changed after I reverted to default. I've uninstalled and reinstalled and searched online. I see some other people having the same issues, anyone have a fix? I read the FAQ but my issue is still a prob. Any help would be appreciated. EDIT: I now get a blue screen that says Driver_IRQL_not_less_or_equal
I don't know about the IRQ error you have. But what is your framerate when you're in the game menus? If it is exceptionally high, it may be that your hardware is overheating, and what you're experiencing as stuttering could be your hardware down-clocking itself to prevent burnout. Some people have mentioned adding the following two lines to the "Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt" file to fix this: Code: frameratecapglue=30 frameratecap=60
This suggest that an important operating system file or a part of your (video card) driver was corrupted. This can happen when a harddisc sector becomes unreadable (which is not uncommon and basically no problem) and cannot be restored by the hard drive's self repair capabilities. You might have to re-install your AMD/ATi catalyst driver, or even do a repair install of your Windows system. (Repair install will not delete your data and settings.) As for the game not running smoothly: Your Radeon HD 3650 is not really a fast card. It should be sufficient for medium details @1280x1024 pixels, but not much more. So please check your graphics settings and try to lower them.
Last time I saw that error I had a bad AGP port... but you clearly don't have AGP. It could be any number of issues, but it most likely related the video card itself freezing up. I would run chkdsk as recommended above to check for bad sectors, and also try updating your Catalyst drivers to something newer. In rare cases, I have seen bad bios setup's that cause crashing like this, but again those were all AGP cases, not PCI-Express. Most importantly, does this occur in other 3D games, or just StarCraft II?
This is what happened. I played with my ATI graphic settings while I was in a game, and I guess it corrupted my video/graphics. So I had to remove and reconfigure my ATI. So lesson learned, don;t mess with graphics while you're in a game. I'm so dumb sumtimes.
No, it still delays but my computer isn't shutting down randomly playing War3 now. But I can't play SC2. I was able to 2 days ago, what happened?
Do you have an OTHER 3D games to try this with, something more intensive, even 3DMark would do. If the problem occurs in something intensive like that, I'd wager its your video card.
I'll try other games. But how would my video card be fine with the game and then randomly decide it won't work after 2-3 days of being fine? I can play spore, if thats intensive enough. It's getting really annoying, SC2 is unplayable for me and it was just 2 days ago, I got pretty far into the campaign and did some online play so I don't think its part of my system being insufficient. It would have to be a driver or something like that. The game lags in the menu screen, its like a timed delay that happens in all parts of SC2, even outside of game in lobbies. I don't see how my game can stop working after 10-20 hours of fine play with no issues AND being able to run at higher than recommended.
Its easy... if its an overheating issue of some kind, then 2 days it what it would take for your videocard to heatup enough to burn away the thermal paste between the GPU and heatsink. Also, I was reading online that may ATI 3650 are passivly cooled (meaning, there is no fan on it). This would add evidence to support my theory. Check to see if there is a fan on your videocard, or if its just a solid heatsink with no fan. Apparently Everest can read the temperatures from your card. Find out how hot it is at idle (before SC2) and then how hot under load (SC2 running). Imo, anything above 50C is too hot.
