I always get more bugs and desync on the US servers...compared to the EU servers, for me at any rate. Most of my sessions are relatively boring and playable...with the odd bug here and there to brighten up my day. I usually switch servers a fair bit though, I can tell when the server is getting old and when the desync is going to get a lot worse. A couple of hours...change servers...which is maybe why I don't get hit too often by the silly ones. Streamers don't have that option I suppose, meaning they get stuck on tired servers with the desync reaching stupid levels. 95% of all issues and bugs in SC are caused by the servers crapping out...and we can't do a lot about fixing it. Making SC work within those limitations, we can.
You're right about veteran players suffering less though. It's not got a lot to do with PC builds from what I see...unless there's an issue with Ryzen CPU's or AMD graphics cards I'm not aware of. One of my mates, a new guy I met during the Xeno threat thing, runs an old gen4 i5 CPU with 16GB of DDR 3 and a GTX 1060. He does have a SATA SSD though...he's running fairly smoothly, albeit at 15-30fps where as I'm in the 40's to 60's but he's since set up SC with my recommended settings plus a custom USER.cfg file I had him add. I also suggested he increased his Windows pagefile size to help compensate for the 16GB of fairly slow RAM. He rarely has any issues when we're playing...so I'd comfortably say it's definitely tied in to making SC work with what you've got and avoiding doing things that cause problems rather than just load it up and play...like normal games
There's still debate on whether a custom user.cfg file actually does anything, especially since OCS was implemented...but I still use it anyway...simple console command related settings like graphics memory pool, antialiasing settings( r_AntialiasingMode = 0), shader cache size etc. My mates Bronze age PC running SC seems to benefit from it at any rate...according to him...since I had him set the .cfg file up with common settings relative to his GPU and PC. This is all old school stuff we had to do to get SC working decently for ETF builds back when it was in the 2.5 to 2.6 patches...there's certainly a list of do's and don'ts I've always stuck to with SC since evocati...maybe that experience helps make the game run with less issues for us veterans of that era, I've no idea.
And what's this with the double posting? I only clicked the button once then edited it
You're right about veteran players suffering less though. It's not got a lot to do with PC builds from what I see...unless there's an issue with Ryzen CPU's or AMD graphics cards I'm not aware of. One of my mates, a new guy I met during the Xeno threat thing, runs an old gen4 i5 CPU with 16GB of DDR 3 and a GTX 1060. He does have a SATA SSD though...he's running fairly smoothly, albeit at 15-30fps where as I'm in the 40's to 60's but he's since set up SC with my recommended settings plus a custom USER.cfg file I had him add. I also suggested he increased his Windows pagefile size to help compensate for the 16GB of fairly slow RAM. He rarely has any issues when we're playing...so I'd comfortably say it's definitely tied in to making SC work with what you've got and avoiding doing things that cause problems rather than just load it up and play...like normal games
There's still debate on whether a custom user.cfg file actually does anything, especially since OCS was implemented...but I still use it anyway...simple console command related settings like graphics memory pool, antialiasing settings( r_AntialiasingMode = 0), shader cache size etc. My mates Bronze age PC running SC seems to benefit from it at any rate...according to him...since I had him set the .cfg file up with common settings relative to his GPU and PC. This is all old school stuff we had to do to get SC working decently for ETF builds back when it was in the 2.5 to 2.6 patches...there's certainly a list of do's and don'ts I've always stuck to with SC since evocati...maybe that experience helps make the game run with less issues for us veterans of that era, I've no idea.
And what's this with the double posting? I only clicked the button once then edited it
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