• Call of Duty: Black Ops riddled with performance issues

    Published on 09-11-10 at 11:54 AM AEST by
    rec
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    Update: the problem is now being reported in Europe, as well. MayDay on the official Black Ops forums says "I'm getting lag spikes on all servers in europe, everyone i have talked to seem to have the same problem."

    Australians felt somewhat lucky to have a Steam unlock schedule that favored us, being the first in the world to get our hands on some Call of Duty: Black Ops action. Unfortunately, very few are having any success. It turns out that we've been forcibly made beta testers, whether we like it or not.

    Single player is reportedly putting tremendous load on the CPU, even in menus, rendering the game unplayable for many. Those who can play are suffering poor frame rates. On the multiplayer front, pings to locally hosted servers vary from 80ms to 350ms, and looking at my Remote Console, regularly spike to 999ms - usually before dropping players. It's unclear if this issue is a problem at Gameservers.com, Internode, Steam, the dedicated server files or even the way our local multiplayer clients run.

    Packet loss and choke aside, there's the bigger issue of intermittent stuttering and freezing, which looks to be another hardware performance issue. Whatever the cause of these numerous PC issues, it doesn't look like anyone, anywhere will be having any real fun with Black Ops any time soon.

    No official statement has been made by Treyarch, Valve or Gameservers, but hopefully we'll have some answers sometime very soon. Steam's USA and UK unlocks for Black Ops are just hours away, so one would assume they'll want to have these problems resolved before that happens.
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    1. ResLo's Avatar
      ResLo - 09-11-10, 12:19 PM
      FFS.
    1. Mungus's Avatar
      Mungus - 09-11-10, 12:25 PM
      some guys on steam forums claiming that starting steam in offline mode fixes the singleplayer stuttering issues.

      although the short play i had this morning before work was perfectly fine, so shrug.
    1. Aegis's Avatar
      Aegis - 09-11-10, 12:32 PM
      Harb just resolved an issue with his SP game crashing out on map 2 load by shifting the game off his RAID array.
    1. Harbinger's Avatar
      Harbinger - 09-11-10, 12:40 PM
      Also activision forums are currently experiencing "myfuckinggamedoesn'tworkDDOS"


      for clarity, my issue with crashing on map 2 was "fastfile for zone 'vorkut' appears corrupt or unreadable (code 107)."

      when I moved it off my raid 0 pair to a standard drive using "/mklink /j [source] [target]" (windows 7) I could play with only occasional video/audio hitches in the cutscenes.
    1. ResLo's Avatar
      ResLo - 09-11-10, 12:44 PM
      D2D keys don't get issues until Wed 1am AEST anyway so this is something I wont have to worry about until tomorrow night when I get back from work.
    1. rec's Avatar
      rec - 09-11-10, 12:56 PM
      All this chaos, and the USA haven't even got it yet. The internet will explode.
    1. Edwood's Avatar
      Edwood - 09-11-10, 01:12 PM
      I'm going to explode!
    1. psyave's Avatar
      psyave - 09-11-10, 01:19 PM
      Meh doesnt matter to me rec. Still gotta earn them dollars tomorrow
    1. Barbwire's Avatar
      Barbwire - 09-11-10, 01:32 PM
      What a let down - my single player runs fine, multiplayer wouldnt even run until servers were active today

      Now they are up, lag and jittery play is all you experience - the online games are simply unplayable

      I thought it was impossible to have a worse online game experience them MW2... apparantly i was wrong

      This may very well have been the last installment of the COD series I will ever purchase

      What a shame, because it had such high potential
    1. Aegis's Avatar
      Aegis - 09-11-10, 02:27 PM
      ahh give it a few days - always teething problems now, as shitful as it is.
    1. rec's Avatar
      rec - 09-11-10, 02:42 PM
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    1. BU][ET REMEDY's Avatar
      BU][ET REMEDY - 09-11-10, 02:59 PM
      Got my copy at the EB launch, fkn connection problems for MP connects last 3sec, connects last 8min, doesnt connect.
      It just tells you to go to callofduty.com/blackops/status....WTF status site for PC is 404 not found.

      Is it just me or do games these day feel wors than game from the 90's?

      My single player is OK.

      SYSTEM SPEC:

      i7 920 @3.3 GHz
      EVGA X58 Classified
      G-Skill Trident ram @ 2000Mhz
      3x GTX260's + 1x PPU GTX9600.
    1. Aegis's Avatar
      Aegis - 09-11-10, 03:08 PM
      nah they are indeed far worse.

      the laggy MP is affecting everyone (except, obviously, Treyarch's beta testers who CLEARLY only played the thing on a LAN).
    1. Joshuayu101's Avatar
      Joshuayu101 - 09-11-10, 03:34 PM
      hahahahah music to my ears
    1. Sean's Avatar
      Sean - 09-11-10, 03:48 PM
      IT is so so so annoying i just want to play without lag, i have good fps and then it spikes down massively! plus server lag ontop of that makes for a fun experience, lucklly i get decent ping, but other people are from australia playing on our servers with 400plus ping sooo annoying
    1. Taipan's Avatar
      Taipan - 09-11-10, 04:04 PM
      YAYA I spent $90 on this. If they dont end up fixing it soon then I can see some lawsuits coming.
    1. OzButcher's Avatar
      OzButcher - 09-11-10, 04:30 PM
      I was looking forward to my day off playing this game, I even built a high end gaming machine last week for it. I've attempted to play for the last 3-4 hours however LAG has probably only allowed me to play for about 2 hours considering all the server disconnections and frozen screens. I've been killed numerous times because my screen was frozen or watched the enemy run past me.

      I can't believe I got suckered into buying a BETA version of this game!
    1. Aegis's Avatar
      Aegis - 09-11-10, 04:33 PM
      quick note too, for the stat whores - dunno if this was true in MW2 as well, but if you quit out of the game in anything but the end round score screen - it registers a loss on your stats. Which means you get about 2 seconds to look at your stats and quit out if you dont want to play the next round - it even registers the loss if you quit out during the prematch countdown...
    1. cannon fodder's Avatar
      cannon fodder - 09-11-10, 05:19 PM
      they have to be kidding???
      got me to part with the cash and the game is unplayable...
    1. rec's Avatar
      rec - 09-11-10, 05:29 PM
      We've started a tweaks thread here: Call of Duty: Black Ops tweaks and fixes

      At this stage though, there's no fix for the stuttering and freezing.
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