Lagging and stuttering when player ages up

CarvedPen792400 · February 20, 2021, 7:28pm

GAME INFORMATION

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**GAME BUILD: 39515
GAME PLATFORM: Steam
OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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When either myself or my opponent clicks age up the game stutters and freezes for a few seconds.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

Play multiplayer 1v1 Arabia
Click up to feudal or wait for opponent to click up to feudal
You will know when opponent has clocked up because the game lags for a few seconds

EXPECTED RESULT

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It is expected that the game would not lag

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GoldenSpheres · February 20, 2021, 11:17pm

I’m dealing with the exact same thing.

BubblyMango3400 · February 20, 2021, 11:54pm

same here, and its also seen in twitch streams, even for the casters.
however, its not 100% of the times. seems random.

pedroysb · February 21, 2021, 12:26am

I have AoE2 installed on my windows and also on a Linux (using Proton DB). When playing on Linux, it’s more noticeable and and happen 100% of the times.
Before the previous patch, this sttutering used to happen when the update is complete. Now it happens exactly when the player clicks up. I think now it became a sort of vulnerability, because someone can know for sure when the opponent clicks up.

TyRaNTF1Re · February 21, 2021, 3:27am

Same thing happening here + game is closing out of nowhere when the stutter happens and also midgame

TroubledCow83 · February 21, 2021, 1:24pm

This happened to me for 3-4 month. But they fixed this issue on dlc patch for me. now i can’t know my oppenent clicked age or not my advantage gone

dknight2112 · February 21, 2021, 7:06pm

I can report that the same thing is happening. Random. Not typical when age-ing. But it’s certainly the lag-stutter effect.

FinalBucket3743 · February 22, 2021, 1:28pm

For me its not when someone clicks up, but as soon as the reasearch is going in (as soon as the message in chat is displayed)

CarvedPen792400 · February 27, 2021, 6:59pm

I’m seeing it on the HC4 streaming platforms.

andae235436 · March 9, 2021, 6:18pm

I wanted to bump this topic. This bug has been in the game since a few patches ago when the stutter when a player reaches the next age was “fixed”. I want to stress that this is a game-breaking bug, knowing when your opponent is clicking up is information that can strongly decide the outcome of the game. I don’t know if the upcoming patch addresses this bug, but if it is not the case I won’t be playing multiplayer until it is fixed.

CarvedPen792400 · March 28, 2021, 12:05pm

Bumping this topic again

Goncal7 · March 28, 2021, 3:52pm

For the past couple months, when either me or my opponent age up, my game COMPLETELY freezes for 1 entire minute (particularly bad when going from Feudal to Castle age). I assumed this would be fixed but it’s been a while. Anyone knows why it’s so bad for me? I have seen it for pro players but it’s just a 1-3 seconds lag, not a minute…

CarvedPen792400 · April 12, 2021, 11:32am

Anyone else still finding this as an issue?

KingPupka · April 13, 2021, 1:21am

Yes, of course. Just check MBL stream, Survivalist as well, Daniel as well… Nothing has changed…

ChristheCo · April 13, 2021, 9:57am

Hello,
thanks for bringing our attention to this bug. Ill fwd it to our team so they can take a look at it!

Cromaso · April 15, 2021, 10:23pm

For the record, i still have this issue. Whenever me or any of my opponents click up to the next age, the game freezes for less than a second, giving me the advantage of knowing exactly when did someone click up. Let it be noted, in a 4v4 game I can only percieve it for the first 3 or 4 click-ups to the next age, meaning that it somehow manages not to freeze after those.

xagarino · May 9, 2021, 7:26am

For the record, I’m still having the same issue.

Biz5985 · May 15, 2021, 9:23am

this is still bugged

CarvedPen792400 · May 16, 2021, 9:28am

Please try disabling Steam Overlay and let me know if that fixed the issue?

Go Steam >Settings >In-game > Uncheck Enable the steam overlay while in-game

xagarino · May 20, 2021, 2:36pm

The issue is not fix with your tip.

I have a AMD CPU (Ryzen 2700X) and an Nvidia GPU (RTX 2070). With the task manager, I notice that, when someone clicks to age up, the GPU ressources taken by AoE 2 go to 0%.