Frames skipping with no lag. Opinions?

tfw youre a god·8/27/2015, 4:52:05 AM·1 votes·593 views

At some point in every game I'll have a moment where my game freezes for an entire second and skips ahead to that point after. So I'll be autopathing to one point, freeze, and jump further down that autopath once I unfreeze.

I feel like this is a problem on my end. Too many processes open at once maybe? But my ping and framerate don't change when this happens. Not sure what to do.

1 Comments

Strat8/27/2015, 5:00:54 AM1 votes

First thing's first, go to your in-game settings and turn off "path prediction" or something along those lines. This may be what's causing the jumps since it'll try to predict your movement when you lag spike instead of just freezing you in place.

Now, the root cause of the problem is likely to be one or two things:

  1. Dropped packets that for some reason aren't showing on the ping indicator
  2. HDD failure.

Are you running the game on a HDD? If so, Google search how to check your HDD health. It's possible that the game is having trouble reading/writing to the HDD causing it to lock up.