I also didn’t mention, I got raytracing working in at least one API the game supports. It works in the real time 3D rendered movies and the UI between campaign missions. Looks awesome. Unfortunately its happy to destroy your performance making calculations (GPU bottleneck) with my current set up, but you cant actually see any difference in actual game. I assume the reasoning is when nvidia had ambient occlusion injection working, it might have been adjustable to render on cloaked units. The result was an unfair situation arising from them not adopting the technology, as easy as it is to adopt, natively into their code, so it was removed at some point quietly.
I am assuming the game uses 2 APIs from its behavior, but I cant actually confirm it. Im uncertain if its just features being turned off in the same one, or if the rumors about DX10 were true, but in special scenarios. I doubt the latter however highly. It wouldnt surprise me if though.
You come across almost like a former employee or someone closer to the inside in some sort of abstract way. Youd never admit it, but thats perfectly understandable. The point is, this video I linked is 4 days old. This dude is bringing this stuff more, mainstream. Hes even showed up on gamers nexus’ channel. So he has some traction. Intel might be dragged through this one kicking and screaming if necessary.
I dont suspect they are in any real danger considering 10nm desktop lithography is probably around the corner, and whats stopping them from pulling the EDRAM game? They did it in their 5th generation. It just, like he said, had terrible optics.
So I ran StarCraft 2 with virtual studios alongside, and attached the SCIIX64.EXE process to each of the 3 patches that come from the link he showed in his video. If im not mistaken it worked.
In fact each time I did this, the game crashed, which is what you would expect if the code was being changed in some way.
I will have to do more testing however. Hopefully it saved me 250$ but I might get the software eventually anyway because its better than windows PRO version of virtual machinery.
Its definitely behaving differently. That must have been the fix! Now instead of massively lagging if I flip through the menu tabs one after the other without much pause, it would stutter.
Now it still will have a single pause, but instead will go into the loading screen where it will have the bar fill up again. Originally it wouldnt do this as often, which would be a compiler based change. It does appear more fluid, and my framerate might even be higher in game.
So the fix is at 11 mins in this video he shows the website, and you can go there and download the patches. Get visual studios 2017, run the game, and run all 3 patches by attaching them to the game from the attach menu. You will have to restart the game each time as it will crash, but AMD systems will run the game faster.
My in menu framerate went from 60-62 to 62-63 funnily enough. It was and is super stable at those numbers. That to me is proof enough. Thank you random YouTube tech guy.
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1: Download the link that he shows in the video I linked above on YouTube around 11 minutes.
2: Google visual studios 2017 and download that too.
3: Open the game followed by opening the patch. The green “attach…” area click and locate the game instance in the menu.
4: Run intel_mkl_cpuid_patch.c. The game will crash as a result of being patched. That’s all there is to it.
It worked for StarCraft 2. Im wrestling with trying to get it to work in the witcher 3. For some reason despite being administrator windows 10 can be cute sometimes and I have to run the program with elevated permissions. If you have to do this with any application simply open a new project when it offers to reboot it under admin, and look for c#, then go to open file and find intel_mkl_cpuid_patch.c. From there go to “debug” and find “attach to process”. From there do the same thing and it will work.
4 vs 4 with large armies on the map I saw a minimum of 70 fps. Its more consistent too and less valleyed so to speak. I guess as long as a work around exists, ryzen or older AMD users can run this game as the developer would have probably intended. But dont expect them to change it natively. It might be too much on the radar now, and that will eventually be ok.
Edit: For some reason the latest driver from nvidia im guessing is causing 90fps to be around the avg in fullscreen mode. Fullscreen windowed mode however is 110ish. The games age probably isn’t helping matters.
Driver 441.66. Windows 10 is retarded and despite me turning off the auto driver update crap, it continues to use this older driver.
I can also report substantial improvements in other applications like carnivores reborn with the LOD one tick from max with advanced grass 1080p SMAA raytracing injected is now playable. Before I had to scale back about 3 or 4 notches on the LOD slider. That’s super blatant optics there intel.
StarCraft 2 I tested all night, and its WAY faster on this ryzen. 100% confirmed. Eventually I might make a before and after video externally so you can see im not full of it. It was effecting my muscle memory literally by being more consistent. Ive never seen the game this smooth before. It was historically a stutterfest. Ryzen is really showing how powerful it is, and ive tested many binned intel higher end CPUs with this game to know how it compares.
Intel will eventually have to fix this as its finally coming out of that closet and that means we may see StarCraft 2s code be leveraged more intelligently without the complicated fiscally based politics as its now open season for discussion.
Great job Lucifer. This is exactly what I was looking for. Even running at 4.9ghz on an I-7700 I want to squeeze more performance out of it, specifically for this game.
Hi, Lucifer. I didnt understant the instructions quite well. I am suposed to open the game file sc264 using the Visual Studios 2017? The patch has 3 files that none aplication is able to open (.c extension?) Please. I really want to improve my sc2 on my fx-8350, thank you so much.
So i have wooden computer Athlon 2.5 Ghz 2 cores, then i won’t be able to do anything ? Pity, on ladder, campaign performance is quite acceptable (unless there is huge amount of units). In coop however i experience often fps dropping to 1 (Yes i have ONE FPS at some stages of the game)
I installed the Visual Studio 17 professional and the enterprise and there is no “Attach” option in the menu, there must be another thing to be installed.
In Visual Studio 2019, it would be in the Debug menu, and be also triggered by the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+P.
Maybe one of those at least was already true in 2017?
That is just weird. Even 2019 lacks the debug menu. I think i should not install the Visual alone, there must be some other thing like workload or add on.
I had to install the C++ as well in order to have the attachment option. The only downside is that it didn’t work with my AMD FX8350. The fps is still the same. Thank you tho.
Going from fx8350 to ryzen 5800x made all the difference in the world to me, so much so that the rx580 is a bottleneck now.
I use to maybe only see 50% gpu utilization on fx8350 due to it bottlenecking, now with the new cpu gpu is 100%, and I see around 85% utilization on 1 core, and 35-45% on another core. I read this game supports 4 cores now? Is this false? It doesnt look like SC2 is effectively using past 2 cores for me.
Prior to cpu upgrade I averaged 70fps and in intense scenes and dipped to as low as 18-23fps. Now with the new cpu I see 180fps maxed out in 1080P and 120fps being roughly the lowest I see.
between the two computers I went from 16gb ddr3 1866mhz memory to 32gb ddr4 3600mhz memory.
I skimmed the topic but didn’t understand what to do.
Tell me, if I have a xeon with a low clock speed, how do I get starcraft 2 to use at least 4 cores?
I tryed set cores and high priority but it isnt help.
What helped - graphics setting effects and physics to low. Now it is more fps even on dead nights.
