So when I am running Hearthstone the game plays fine other than one small strange thing that happens. When I am loading into a match the bar that fills and says “Starting Match” above it will start and then the game will stop responding for a few seconds. Usually about 2-4 seconds. It does go through and I can play matches though. I did notice that both my GPU and CPU drop to near or 0% usage for those seconds though.
Is there a particular reason this would happen?
HDD or network waiting. You can improve the former but the latter is almost unavoidable without complete redesign of code.
What do you mean by HDD or network waiting? Never heard of that before. Also, how would you fix it?
HDD stay for “Hard Drive Device”.
Network is (mostly) Internet.
Waiting is process of doing nothing until something happen.