Terrible stuttering in LAN games with AI

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Game Version:

  • Build (34397)
  • Platform Steam

Issue:

Hello,

Since the last hot fix was released (34397) I am experiencing stuttering in all my LAN games against AI.
My system specs are above recommended, internet speed is not an issue either. In fact, I want to make it very clear that I’ve been playing a lot before this hot fix without any kind of problem.

I uploaded a video with the symptoms here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvKbDu5a_U0

The game starts to become totally unresponsive after a coupe of minutes. I can’t move units around anymore, can’t queue up anything and there is an overall delay with almost every action (even pausing the game).

One more weird thing I noticed is that the AI falls behind as well when the stuttering makes the game unplayable. Watching one of the records of a lagging game I noticed that AI seems to be trying as well to perform same action over and over, but with nothing actually happening.

I tried re-installing the game, uninstalling latest windows updates, lowered all settings to minimum and I still can’t get it to a playable state.

Reproduction Steps:

  1. Create a lobby on the LAN server
  2. Play against any AI
  3. Enjoy the stuttering :frowning:

Video link with the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvKbDu5a_U0

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I also disconnected myself from the Xbox Live App and even stopped all the Xbox services on my machine.

That still doesn’t show any improvement.

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After the latest patch the problem is still there.

However I enabled V-Sync before starting the match and it seems I get more stable gameplay.

The game is no longer stuttering just moving a bit slow from time to time.

Without V-Sync the stuttering was happening when FPS dropped from 120+ to 60.

Now I just keep it running with 60 FPS