• Call of Duty: Black Ops has been patched

    Published on 12-11-10 at 08:43 AM AEST by
    rec
    Treyarch community manager, JD_2020, has posted on the Steam forums notifying us that Black Ops has just been graced with a client-side update, hopefully resolving the stuttering issues that have been such a hot topic over past days. The patch claims to fix the non-operational "friends" tab in the server browser, improve performance for dual and quad core computers, as improve the connectivity of the Black Ops Remote Console.

    But, has it worked? Results seem varied. Some people are claiming it has removed the lag-like stutters and freezes entirely, while others say they see no difference what-so-ever and that all cores are still firing at 100%. Let us know if the problem is now resolved for you.

    Steam will need to re-complete the installation, and some people are receiving "Incomplete Installation" errors. It is suggested by Steam support that you do do not submit support tickets for this issue, rather that you wait 10-15 and try again.
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    1. ResLo's Avatar
      ResLo - 12-11-10, 09:08 AM
      I played MP for the first time last night about three maps and an hours worth of play. Had no issues whatsoever. I bet this patch will fix that.
    1. craZy C's Avatar
      craZy C - 12-11-10, 09:09 AM
      Well it seems to have removed most of the freezing and stuttering, however it locked when i first tried to enter . Some were saying that not all servers have rebooted after the server side patch so once that happens it should be better.. I wonder also if we need to revert any tweaks we did before hand.
    1. BamaBoom's Avatar
      BamaBoom - 12-11-10, 09:15 AM
      When is the server browser going to be fixed so I can see all servers?
    1. Aegis's Avatar
      Aegis - 12-11-10, 10:31 AM
      probably never Bama - that was one of the issues - clients polling the master servers for lists of 8000+ servers
    1. rec's Avatar
      rec - 12-11-10, 10:40 AM
      It shouldn't matter as much as it did now that the friends area is fixed. I'd rather they fix the gameplay lag before the server browser.

      Besides, you can favorite servers you see in the list or have been in, and the ones you've been in show up in your recents list.

      If that's still not enough, friends can invite you to the servers their playing on, and now hopefully you can just check that 'friends' tab to see where everyone is playing, regardless of whether that server is visible in the main list.
    1. Frixion's Avatar
      Frixion - 12-11-10, 11:48 AM
      Game's patched, but still having the same random stuttering issue. Even after server restart.

      Setup:
      Q740 i7 1.73GHz
      GTX 640 1.5BG
      8GB RAM
      Windows 7 64bit
    1. Funksdidally's Avatar
      Funksdidally - 12-11-10, 12:10 PM
      I grabbed this patch about 2 mins after release as I have been following the thread (the one with over 500K views hah) and tested instantly. as I said on the forums, fixed all my issues. was and is fantastic.
    1. Scarekrow's Avatar
      Scarekrow - 12-11-10, 01:38 PM
      This is good news, I will test this out this evening. Thanks for Posting Robocop.

      Cheers
      Scarekrow
      KIMB Gaming Group
    1. eric's Avatar
      eric - 12-11-10, 02:29 PM
      i tried playing earlier. the patch helped but my game still lags out and i get crap for fps.
    1. craZy C's Avatar
      craZy C - 12-11-10, 02:56 PM
      seems like two more patches (minor) are coming down. Both single and multi
    1. Harbinger's Avatar
      Harbinger - 12-11-10, 06:04 PM
      Patch does not solve my multi problem, still hitches constantly.
    1. rec's Avatar
      rec - 12-11-10, 06:06 PM
      Yeah no joy for me either. The big freezes have stopped, but the frequent stuttering remains.
    1. Milenko's Avatar
      Milenko - 12-11-10, 09:13 PM
      I'm currently in the process of installing. It's updating about another 1.6gb combined between the SP and MP components.
    1. Aegis's Avatar
      Aegis - 12-11-10, 10:54 PM
      you srsly picked the furthest mainland server farm from Darwin on purpose didn't you rec? ;P
    1. sepirioth's Avatar
      sepirioth - 13-11-10, 04:58 AM
      Quote Originally Posted by rec View Post
      Yeah no joy for me either. The big freezes have stopped, but the frequent stuttering remains.
      Same for me. It helped with the big freezes but the game still lags, and stutters in single and multiplayer..
    1. KEvin's Avatar
      KEvin - 13-11-10, 05:50 AM
      Guys just put the ''auto-download'' option in the multiplayer options off and the weird lag issues are gone... Proven by: me. It really helped. I've got a nice gamersrig and good internet and ping so I couldn't figure it out, but this destroyed all issues.
    1. ResLo's Avatar
      ResLo - 13-11-10, 06:37 AM
      My Multiplayer got updated again this morning.
    1. Joshuayu101's Avatar
      Joshuayu101 - 13-11-10, 11:13 AM
      Hey PC gamers:

      We are listening to you and we?ve been busy working on updates based on feedback from the community. We have already deployed a number of updates, and there will be many more to come. Stay tuned right here for all the latest info.

      LIVE FIXES
      11/10
      - GameServers.com has bumped sv_maxrate to 25000 across all servers to reduce lag.
      - GameServers.com continues to improve official server distribution in various worldwide regions.

      11/11
      - Friends fix for join in progress and Friends tab in server browser.
      - Performance improvement for dual and quad core.
      - Improved connectivity with Black Ops Rcon tool.

      IN PROGRESS
      - GPU hitching on certain graphics cards.
      - Incomplete server browser results.
      - Improvements to Quickmatch joins (results with better ping and reduced lag).
      - Zombies "The game session is no longer available" error.

      Regards,
      -JD
      Call of Duty: Black Ops
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