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Title: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: KrisiS on January 01, 2011, 12:35:26 PM
When I first started playing it, the PC lag was crazy & the game would crash every 2 or 3 maps.
Most of the lag would come when in a fire fight,

However, I have formated my computer and re-installed the game and it runs very smooth now.

Maxed out on graphics is a bit choppy so I am not on full graphics at the moment.
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Doodler on January 01, 2011, 09:19:03 PM
The game is really good.Multiplayer is the best I've ever played. :D But I have a lot of lags too.Sometimes the game crashes. :( I hope it will be better in some time
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Deathbringer on January 16, 2011, 09:00:17 PM
When i did pestige i couldn't make a new class!It was saying donwloading and fetch stats but nohting the same!After some time i was ok like it never happend!!!...
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: KrisiS on January 17, 2011, 12:10:20 AM
Runs fine for me now,but I have to restart my pc often to keep it running fresh... else I have a very choppy feeling, lots of cpu lag :(
 
My pc is intel running at 3.6ghz atm, 4gig of ram.. 8800 GT GTS 1gb ram gpu
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Deathbringer on January 20, 2011, 09:34:03 PM
When i open it and go to the server brower or somewhere else it freeze for a litle but it quickly runs normal again!
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Rooster! on March 05, 2011, 07:53:56 AM
I've never had any problems with it apart from I didnt like it at the start.

i7 920
GTX280
6GB
Win 7 Pro
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Julmust on March 05, 2011, 04:11:09 PM
It's laggy as fuck.
But I guess it will be better when I'll buy a quad core processor.
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: BornToDie on March 06, 2011, 11:35:45 AM
 :sad0049:I'm runing an ASUS ENGTX 480/  1.5 GB - GDDR5 SDRAM
AMD Phenom 9850 BLACK EDITION 2.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 Motherboard
4 GB OCZ Memory
Windows 7 Professional
and i still get loads of laggs. Even more if graphic setting are low
 :sad0049:
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: humanxlemming on March 19, 2011, 12:39:39 AM
:sad0049:I'm runing an ASUS ENGTX 480/  1.5 GB - GDDR5 SDRAM
AMD Phenom 9850 BLACK EDITION 2.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 Motherboard
4 GB OCZ Memory
Windows 7 Professional
and i still get loads of laggs. Even more if graphic setting are low
 :sad0049:
OS: Windows® Vista / XP / 7
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 or better
Memory: 2GB
Graphics: Shader 3.0 or better 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600GT / ATI Radeon® X1950Pro or better
DirectX®: DirectX® 9.0c
Hard Drive: 12GB*
Sound: DirectX® 9.0c-compatible

Either better graphics card or more ram for you my friend.
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: BornToDie on March 19, 2011, 04:26:51 PM
:sad0049:I'm runing an ASUS ENGTX 480/  1.5 GB - GDDR5 SDRAM
AMD Phenom 9850 BLACK EDITION 2.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 Motherboard
4 GB OCZ Memory
Windows 7 Professional
and i still get loads of laggs. Even more if graphic setting are low
 :sad0049:
OS: Windows® Vista / XP / 7
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 or better
Memory: 2GB
Graphics: Shader 3.0 or better 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600GT / ATI Radeon® X1950Pro or better
DirectX®: DirectX® 9.0c
Hard Drive: 12GB*
Sound: DirectX® 9.0c-compatible

Either better graphics card or more ram for you my friend.
I juts spend 300£ on my graph carp and it's still not good enough?  :'(
My memory about 2 years old and i think only 400 mHz.Or 800? ???
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Kirks on March 19, 2011, 09:02:11 PM
The GTX 480 is a good graphics card and 4gb of memory is more than enough to run black ops. I'd update all your drivers and see if that makes a difference.
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: DarkSlice on March 19, 2011, 11:03:30 PM
i get hugh 3-5 seconds timeouts, where the PC freezes.
Sometimes the PC will jam changing levels,
When it came out it always crashed every 3 - 4 maps, Then i turned of v-sync

Still get low fps....

and i dont have a slow PC....

(http://www.stephen-walsh.com/misc_hosting_files/ugn/8core.jpg)
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Prinny Dood on March 20, 2011, 11:07:13 AM
my black ops is weird i put all my graphics on low and it lags really bad,
 but then i put the graphics on max including 16x anti-alias and it doesn't lag.
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: KrisiS on March 20, 2011, 11:12:28 AM
I read an article where if you increase the load onto your graphics card, by raising the graphic settings etc... in turn this will free up some of the CPU, making it run smoother..
 
I guess this works for some and not for others!
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Prinny Dood on March 20, 2011, 04:16:33 PM
I read an article where if you increase the load onto your graphics card, by raising the graphic settings etc... in turn this will free up some of the CPU, making it run smoother..
 
I guess this works for some and not for others!

yes i read that article, that's why i decided to change all the setting to high.
i still cant believe it actually works   :P
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Kirks on March 20, 2011, 05:23:41 PM
Yes I saw this too, and tried it and it works ?! Bizzare
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: humanxlemming on March 20, 2011, 07:04:34 PM
:sad0049:I'm runing an ASUS ENGTX 480/  1.5 GB - GDDR5 SDRAM
AMD Phenom 9850 BLACK EDITION 2.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 Motherboard
4 GB OCZ Memory
Windows 7 Professional
and i still get loads of laggs. Even more if graphic setting are low
 :sad0049:
OS: Windows® Vista / XP / 7
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 or better
Memory: 2GB
Graphics: Shader 3.0 or better 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600GT / ATI Radeon® X1950Pro or better
DirectX®: DirectX® 9.0c
Hard Drive: 12GB*
Sound: DirectX® 9.0c-compatible

Either better graphics card or more ram for you my friend.
I juts spend 300£ on my graph carp and it's still not good enough?  :'(
My memory about 2 years old and i think only 400 mHz.Or 800? ???
Also it is not listed there but it is reccamended you have a 3ghz dual core and yes it can run on that.
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Kirks on March 20, 2011, 08:01:05 PM
a quad core 2.5ghz is faster than a dual core 3.0ghz
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: humanxlemming on March 23, 2011, 11:52:46 AM
Yeah but it could still cause a problem this is terriblearch remember.
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: BornToDie on March 23, 2011, 04:50:26 PM
The GTX 480 is a good graphics card and 4gb of memory is more than enough to run black ops. I'd update all your drivers and see if that makes a difference.

Yea i just reinstalled the windows and got all the latest drivers.
Still have low fps and lag.
Loading screen freeze gone thought
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: humanxlemming on March 24, 2011, 10:42:35 AM
The GTX 480 is a good graphics card and 4gb of memory is more than enough to run black ops. I'd update all your drivers and see if that makes a difference.

Yea i just reinstalled the windows and got all the latest drivers.
Still have low fps and lag.
Loading screen freeze gone thought
Why not try changing the black ops settings to low and see how it runs then.
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: BornToDie on March 24, 2011, 06:17:04 PM
The GTX 480 is a good graphics card and 4gb of memory is more than enough to run black ops. I'd update all your drivers and see if that makes a difference.

Yea i just reinstalled the windows and got all the latest drivers.
Still have low fps and lag.
Loading screen freeze gone thought
Why not try changing the black ops settings to low and see how it runs then.

In my first post I said I'm getting more lag with low settings  :(
So that's not help
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Kirks on March 25, 2011, 12:05:20 AM
Yeah, it was the same with me low settings were worse ???

I did find there were a few settings that made a difference:

1) Turn shadows off.
2) In your game config file find the value the game has chosen for seta snd_khz and then in Windows/Control Panel/Sounds change your Windows sound device to use that same KHz value. For example, if your config file says seta snd-khz "48" then in Windows/Control Panel/Sounds set your sound device to always do 48 KHz.
3) Do the following config file tweaks:
* snd_losOcclusion to "0" - turns off the way sound changes coming through walls, boosts performance
* seta sm_enable "0" - this value disables shadows, boosts performance
* seta r_blur_allowed "0"- this value disables visual blurring effect, boosts performance
* seta r_motionblur_enable "0" - this value disables visual blurring effect, boosts performance
* seta com_maxfps "125" - sets your max fps.
* seta cl_maxpackets "100" (or alternately use one of these specific values: 91, 84, 77, 72, 67, or 63. Choose the highest one of those that makes game run the smoothest on your machine. Game engine is programmed to send a certain amount of packets to server at any moment based on your fps at that moment. These specific numbers for maxpackets are optimal for that relationship.

Bottom line is every PC is different so there is no generic solution. I have also found with each patch different tweeks work.
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: BornToDie on March 25, 2011, 05:39:53 AM
Yeah, it was the same with me low settings were worse ???

I did find there were a few settings that made a difference:

1) Turn shadows off.
2) In your game config file find the value the game has chosen for seta snd_khz and then in Windows/Control Panel/Sounds change your Windows sound device to use that same KHz value. For example, if your config file says seta snd-khz "48" then in Windows/Control Panel/Sounds set your sound device to always do 48 KHz.
3) Do the following config file tweaks:
* snd_losOcclusion to "0" - turns off the way sound changes coming through walls, boosts performance
* seta sm_enable "0" - this value disables shadows, boosts performance
* seta r_blur_allowed "0"- this value disables visual blurring effect, boosts performance
* seta r_motionblur_enable "0" - this value disables visual blurring effect, boosts performance
* seta com_maxfps "125" - sets your max fps.
* seta cl_maxpackets "100" (or alternately use one of these specific values: 91, 84, 77, 72, 67, or 63. Choose the highest one of those that makes game run the smoothest on your machine. Game engine is programmed to send a certain amount of packets to server at any moment based on your fps at that moment. These specific numbers for maxpackets are optimal for that relationship.

Bottom line is every PC is different so there is no generic solution. I have also found with each patch different tweeks work.

I was reading about the sound thing but didn't try but if it helped for you I'll give it a try after work :S
So see you all later and thanks for helping me out
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: humanxlemming on March 29, 2011, 01:19:59 AM
Yeah, it was the same with me low settings were worse ???

I did find there were a few settings that made a difference:

1) Turn shadows off.
2) In your game config file find the value the game has chosen for seta snd_khz and then in Windows/Control Panel/Sounds change your Windows sound device to use that same KHz value. For example, if your config file says seta snd-khz "48" then in Windows/Control Panel/Sounds set your sound device to always do 48 KHz.
3) Do the following config file tweaks:
* snd_losOcclusion to "0" - turns off the way sound changes coming through walls, boosts performance
* seta sm_enable "0" - this value disables shadows, boosts performance
* seta r_blur_allowed "0"- this value disables visual blurring effect, boosts performance
* seta r_motionblur_enable "0" - this value disables visual blurring effect, boosts performance
* seta com_maxfps "125" - sets your max fps.
* seta cl_maxpackets "100" (or alternately use one of these specific values: 91, 84, 77, 72, 67, or 63. Choose the highest one of those that makes game run the smoothest on your machine. Game engine is programmed to send a certain amount of packets to server at any moment based on your fps at that moment. These specific numbers for maxpackets are optimal for that relationship.

Bottom line is every PC is different so there is no generic solution. I have also found with each patch different tweeks work.

I was reading about the sound thing but didn't try but if it helped for you I'll give it a try after work :S
So see you all later and thanks for helping me out
Did it work?
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: BornToDie on March 30, 2011, 04:06:13 PM
Yeah, it was the same with me low settings were worse ???

I did find there were a few settings that made a difference:

1) Turn shadows off.
2) In your game config file find the value the game has chosen for seta snd_khz and then in Windows/Control Panel/Sounds change your Windows sound device to use that same KHz value. For example, if your config file says seta snd-khz "48" then in Windows/Control Panel/Sounds set your sound device to always do 48 KHz.
3) Do the following config file tweaks:
* snd_losOcclusion to "0" - turns off the way sound changes coming through walls, boosts performance
* seta sm_enable "0" - this value disables shadows, boosts performance
* seta r_blur_allowed "0"- this value disables visual blurring effect, boosts performance
* seta r_motionblur_enable "0" - this value disables visual blurring effect, boosts performance
* seta com_maxfps "125" - sets your max fps.
* seta cl_maxpackets "100" (or alternately use one of these specific values: 91, 84, 77, 72, 67, or 63. Choose the highest one of those that makes game run the smoothest on your machine. Game engine is programmed to send a certain amount of packets to server at any moment based on your fps at that moment. These specific numbers for maxpackets are optimal for that relationship.

Bottom line is every PC is different so there is no generic solution. I have also found with each patch different tweeks work.

I was reading about the sound thing but didn't try but if it helped for you I'll give it a try after work :S
So see you all later and thanks for helping me out
Did it work?

No it dod not!
But what helped is I found a not important update in windows updater for network
And another thing is when the game start my GPU doesn't work on full power and i getting like 10 fps then it goes up slowly
Now why is that?
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: BornToDie on April 01, 2011, 04:50:08 AM
BlackOpsMP 2011-03-31 21-10-23-28.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0gtK4wBEo#ws)

Here is a little video
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: mrmanq on April 05, 2011, 07:10:47 PM
oidd.   anyway, Im running an i5 3.2 with 8gb of DDR 3 corsair extreme II with a 275GTX 1.7Gb Gfx card and the only thing i have on this PC are windows, voice comms and COD.

Oh and all on a littel 80gb HDD.

Game runs like shit off a slippery stick !

In my experience, always best to set your screen res at the native for your monitor, even if it is a huge fker.   e.g. my game is running on 1600x1050 on full gfx.

check this for your sweet spot and consider adjustments due to blackops having a shitty fps : http://bashandslash.com/index.php?Itemid=63&id=51&option=com_content&task=view (http://bashandslash.com/index.php?Itemid=63&id=51&option=com_content&task=view)
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Kirks on April 05, 2011, 07:28:22 PM
Jock Yitch FTW! :)
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: mrmanq on April 05, 2011, 08:26:43 PM
:D
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Joker on April 17, 2011, 04:26:11 PM
I can run the game in the best quality and with no lags.

Love it♥
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: BornToDie on April 17, 2011, 05:47:00 PM
Could you post your PC Spec in the System Spec topic for me please?
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: Joker on April 18, 2011, 10:11:23 AM
Me ?  :) I don't know how to figure it out :/
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: CrUD on August 15, 2011, 09:59:12 PM
hello guys,
i think we all read about the same opinions on the web about the BO port on PC and different tweaks and tips to run it smooth.

since i moved from MW2 (which run perfect for me at max settings) to BO i experienced several stutterings, graphic lags and sometimes slow downs, enough to annoy me and lower the experience..

computer specs then:
C2D 2.6ghz (oc 3.2ghz) on a DFI blood iron board,
3 Gb of ddr2 at 800mhz, 96 gb OCZ ssd,
Sapphire 4850 w. 512 mb vram.


running no AA, no AF, normal texture settings, 1920x1080, everything else at max., usual tweaks like no glow, no water, no shadow, multithreading, etc.

current config that runs it totally smooth:
i5 3.3ghz (oc 4ghz) on a gigabyte z68xp-ud3p board,
4 Gb ddr3 at 1600mhz, same ssd,
same video card.


1920x1080, 8x AA, 16 AF, high texture settings, tweaks..

despite the fact that it runs excellent now, i cannot push the only setting to max, the texture quality to EXTRA, since BO eats all memory available to Vista, and begins to swap which.. kills everything.

so i guess i will have to buy a W7 home premium 64bit and 4 more gigs of ram to see it run totally maxed out.

also i plan to get a 6870 radeon and a faster ssd.

until then i dont have any more problems playing and i enjoy it on the ugn server :)
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: BornToDie on August 16, 2011, 05:37:49 AM
You don't need faster ssd unless you want to do loads of recording from BO
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: CrUD on August 16, 2011, 12:02:49 PM
You don't need faster ssd unless you want to do loads of recording from BO

if you look at my youtube page ( http://www.youtube.com/daniaroundpaindotro (http://www.youtube.com/daniaroundpaindotro) ) you will notice a lot of stutterings and lags in my videos due to hdd write issues..

i'll prolly move my current SSD as non system for fraps and other stuff and get a sata3 faster drive with around 400 mb/sec rw this autumn..
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: BornToDie on August 16, 2011, 03:47:07 PM
Hmmm I have a 1 TB WD GREEN HDD but I don't have probs at all
There are see some audio sync problem as well.
What software do you use to render you clips?
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: CrUD on August 16, 2011, 03:50:38 PM
Hmmm I have a 1 TB WD GREEN HDD but I don't have probs at all

maybe if you can test the speeds with crystal disk mark or smth.. sorry if this gets too offtopic, fraps is the best tool to show our kills and failures :)
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: BornToDie on August 16, 2011, 03:56:41 PM
I think its about 90 MB/s write speed


Check out my clips http://www.youtube.com/user/BornToDieCCCP?feature=mhee (http://www.youtube.com/user/BornToDieCCCP?feature=mhee)
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: KriS on August 16, 2011, 08:03:03 PM
BLACK OPS LAG FIX. So, like several Black Ops gamers out there I had serious issues with lag, while playing online and offline. I did a test with the Combat training that comes with the game and it was a horrible experience, not playable at all!

To solve the lag problem I checked the contents of the actual disc. There is often a folder from the disk referred to as Resources. In that folder is often a folder Redist.
To solve the lag problem i started with checking the disc, there’s often a folder from the disc with Resources and in that folder a “Redist”.

I ran the first vcredist_x86.exe file that i found followed by going to the DirectX-folder where i ran dxsetup.exe. Then rebooted the computer and went back to battle training. At the same time i had my eye on my CPU usage. I currently have a Phenom x2 Dual II Core clocked at 3.1ghz and CPU-usage was 95% most of the time… :/

So i decided to use the magic on my motherboard and turning it into a quad (don’t like running it as a quad due to the fact that it builds so much heat up). Then back to Windows, load up Black Ops, go to Combat Training and what the… it was now smooooooth as silk.
No stutter, no lag.  CPU utilization was now a more manageable 80% on core two and about 60% from the other three cores. Next was the big test on the net multiplayer. NO delays or stutter at all!

(http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/leak.jpg)

*** UPDATE ***
Here are some other stuff to fix lag, stutter etc:

Black Ops Lag Fix #2
1. Make sure you run steam in Offline Mode
2. Start Black Ops
3. Go back to Windows, press ctrl+alt+delete and end the steam.exe process.

Black Ops Lag Fix #3
1. Make sure you run steam in Offline Mode
2. Start Black Ops
3. Go back to Windows, press ctrl+alt+delete and end the steam.exe process.

Black Ops Lag / Stutter Fix #4
1. Open windows taskmanger (ctrl+alt+delete)
2. Set Black Ops to HIGH priority
3. Set steam.exe to LOW priority

Stutter / Lag Fix #5
1. Close “Steam Cloud” (right click the game in Steam Library then goto; properties > updates and uncheck “Enable Steam Cloud Sync”
Black Ops crash after resolution change
If you choose to change the resolution in Black Ops it can crash the game. Same thing can happen if you do an alt+tab from the game. It was an update from steam though that i think solved this problem. Make sure you have gotten that download fix.
Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: CrUD on August 20, 2011, 02:43:54 PM
ok, so since my last reply here i upgraded the OS to a separate ssd , Corsair Force 3 60 gb with Windows7 H.P. 64 bit instead of Vista Basic 32bit , i replaced the radeon 4850 with a 6870 and doubled the ram to 8 gb.
played since i rebuilded the pc yesterday until this hour and still got some "interface lag" especially during close encounters..
opened the config again and revised it for the 1000th time again, then it strucked me so i modified from:

seta r_rendererPreference "Default"

to:

seta r_rendererPreference "Shader model 5.0"

since my radeon supports shader model 5.0 and dx11 in hardware..

so now i am playing at max AA, max AF, max texture settings, at 1920x1080 with around 200 dps without and lag or stuttering..  8)

Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: BornToDie on August 20, 2011, 03:51:39 PM
nice :)

Title: Re: COD: Black Ops - How does it run for you?
Post by: KriS on August 20, 2011, 05:59:39 PM
i can run black ops on FULL settings with /com_maxfps 0 and i run about 300 to 400 no problems with /cl_maxpackets 100 but the other lag i get is from the server its only every now n then like lag spike it lasts for about atleast 3 to 5 seconds