COD: Black Ops Terrible PC Performance

[ElMonoDelMar]

You must live in a large city or something. Around here, the starter package is usually 1.5Mbit or 2Mbit, and the highest that you can get is 20Mbit.

That's good to hear. I just pulled the trigger and bought it, so hopefully my 20Mbit connection will help the game run smoothly for me also.

I have a 20Meg comcast connection and I am still getting stuttering in SP and MP. My CPU is pegged an my GPU works under 50%.

I really hope this fixes your issues. Unfortunately I am still convinced this is a coding issue with CPU/GPU usage and not a network problem.

 

[CVSiN]

I dont think this is the case..

my i7 is not even close to pegged running at less than 50% during MP
I dont understand why some people have issues and others dont..

 

[Carmen813]

Some of my friends who were having performance issues found that increasing detail levels and anti-aliasing as high as possible actually removed a lot of the stuttering. Try that out.

 

[BeauJangles]

Weird, I just logged in to play today and the game seems choppier than it was before. The choppiness is more consistent -- it's present no matter what I'm doing -- but it's really annoying.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I've only played SP so far, and am currently heading up some hill in Vietnam. I haven't had a single stutter (so far?) or crash and I am running it pretty much maxed out on my lappy.

Performance is good but the linearity of this game blows.

Yea the game is completely linear. I remember when MoH came out and some guys were complaining that there were invulnerable targets that you couldnt kill so the story could go the way they wanted. I think BO had like 10 of those moments when I played.

Although, I still believe is one of the best stories for a CoD game so far even though the levels could be meh. Especially the chopper level. The controls are retarded.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

should i pick this game up? or wait for the patches

 

[dpodblood]

should i pick this game up? or wait for the patches

I would wait. The last patch improved it a lot for me, but other people are saying it's just as bad or even worse. If you haven't put your money into the game already I would wait on another patch at least.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

I would wait. The last patch improved it a lot for me, but other people are saying it's just as bad or even worse. If you haven't put your money into the game already I would wait on another patch at least.

thanks for convincing me, i was planning on waiting for another patch. it will make my gf happy since we don't have the money right now anyway.

 

[minmaster]

should i pick this game up? or wait for the patches

it depends how good your internet connection is.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

it depends how good your internet connection is.

i have basic comcast...so like 4megs, if that?

 

[minmaster]

might not be good enough. i have 3MB and it stutters. someone who said they had 8MB here said they don't stutter though.

however, i expect them to fix this issue soon.

 

[llee]

I've had micro-stuttering during the campaign.

Intel Core i7-860
Corsair 4GB DDR3-1333
Palit GTX 460 1GB
OCZ Vertex 120GB
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

 

[spacelord]

I have Comcast and had stuttering a few days ago when I played, but I played at least an hours worth today with no stuttering.. or it was very subtle if anything.

 

[fortega]

stuttering like mad here, patch helped but didn't fix it for me.

 

[ElMonoDelMar]

might not be good enough. i have 3MB and it stutters. someone who said they had 8MB here said they don't stutter though.

however, i expect them to fix this issue soon.

How do you explain stuttering during SP on a 20meg comcast connection? I think it's silly to say that 100% of the stuttering is caused by net traffic and that it has nothing to do with specific hardware configurations.

 

[minmaster]

uplink. what's your upload speeds on your cable? i know cable is good for downloading but sucks for uploading. if you read what i posted earlier, the guy who figured it out had like a 30MB uplink.

 

[ElMonoDelMar]

I've got 3 up and I've heard of people playing with no lag on similar connections.

3meg up would be enough to communicate with steam on SP so that doesn't explain my stuttering.

 

[pontifex]

turning on vsync and disabling shadows seems to have helped a bit. not nearly as much stutter

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Patch has definately made my laptop performance worse but my desktop better. I can barely even run it on low now on my desktop.

 

[Xzz]

vsync on helped a bit, but it's still feel very choppy.
I'd wait for a proper patch and see how to goes.

 

[x-alki]

I haven't had any stuttering problems but I do get an occasional lock up. I traced the problem to a crappy internet connection. Every time my connection would lose sync the game would freeze. This is in single player only. Other than that the game has run smoothly.

 

[simonizor]

Been playing a while now and no real problems with stuttering or lock ups on my 20Mbit connection. I was having issues with the server browser loading. I bypassed my router and it fixed the issue, so I decided to buy a second network card and use it to share my connection to the router so I can still have wireless internet. I now have no issues with the server browser loading. I get 4k+ servers in ~15 seconds; I would have 500 if I was lucky going through the router in that amount of time.

The main reason I decided to bypass the router was because I was having similar issues with the COD4 server browser, even with all of the ports forwarded. I read up on it and it seemed to be an issue with the router being overwhelmed with too much information and locking up temporarily. I fixed the problem at the time by installing DD-WRT on my router, but it's been acing up lately.

 

[Childs]

Is there a problem with accepting game invites? Accepted one and the game locked up.

 

[Smartazz]

After the patch and updating graphics drivers, there's virtually no stuttering anymore on a 20mb connection. It's a really fun game when it's not stuttering.

 

[pontifex]

i'm having issues where i try to join a game from the server browser and nothing happens. doesn't even try to connect, no errors, etc.

just have to go down the list until i find one that works.