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I'm working on a feature on Black Ops on PC, examining some of the issues with the game and trying to get some response from Activision and/or Treyarch.
I haven't really encountered issues myself; however, if you have, then please let me know about your issues + your specs, including internet connection speeds.
If you have already posted this somewhere else, or if there is a current thread of PC issues, please link me.
Thanks.
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I'm so confused as to how this game unpacks and installs. friends trying to help me troubleshoot, and we're totally stumped, and have essentially cleared my rig of any issues.
I had the .exe launch DX9 error, and a steam forum guy said to run the directx that the game unpacks. ok, ran that. the game WORKED at least. but it runs like crysis on a 386 with an isa video card. so then I went into the config_mp and totally started randomly fucking around. trying to turn off motion blur, increasing and decreasing packet flow, fucking around with the multicore flags for CPU and GPU, and then of course nuking the cfg entirely and letting it rebuild a stock one to see, after verifying my steam cache a 4th time.
hmm directx might be fucked up you say? could be! let's try metro 2033 in directx 11 mode! WOW that looks fuckin sharp at max res. no problems. hmmm maybe it's that fucked up lag and multiplayer in general. let's focus on BLOPS' single player. ok, nuke that config and rebuild it, relaunch and resetup. the instant you are in the game (not including the video sequences), it just stutters to hell. you can't even maintain a crosshair on a target.
hmmm. rig might be fucked up? let's play some BC2/MW2/TF2. no problems across the board.
so I have to conclude that BLOPS has some extreme memory leaks or something fucked up like forcing directx 9 or something where it just has no idea how to run.
specs:
C2D E8500
8GB RAM
lots of HDD space free
XFX 5850, 10.10 drivers
all updates applied
comcast cable modem, plenty fast as it preloaded the game averaging 2MB/s
did multiple reboots, steam cache verifications, played other games - NO other issues to report. BLOPS single and multiplayer are just stuttering to all hell and back, and looks extremely shitty, which leads to my theory the directx unpacker or whatever didn't work properly. I don't know what modes this game supports, so if it is limited to directx 9, so be it.
I would try to reinstall the game but I'm not really interested to redownload the whole thing since I'm probably halfway to my comcast 250GB cap already!!! haha.
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