While I had issues in the past, its now on each single attempted multiplayer game (i.e., versus). I don’t understand what happened or what changed. I note that I updated my video game driver. Does anyone know what’s new/what’s up?
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Are you playing a custom game? And there are more than 10 participating players? I have encountered multiple crashes on standard melee maps, many people say it’s due to the map itself, but I don’t think so. The low FPS obtained in the recently updated 2.0.1 version may be the main reason, but not all. If you can’t tolerate such crashes, don’t hesitate to choose a specific game to relax like me, after all, Blizzard seems to have given up on this game now? Who knows 
Not everyone “obtained” low FPS in this patch. And many of the people who did, it was due to the game now preferring to run on integrated graphics if present.
If you are getting VERY low FPS (like <30 at all times in any map) and crashing, there’s a very good chance it’s due to the game running on integrated graphics. Disable them in the BIOS on your PC, or in Windows Device Manager. I’ve seen at least one person claim they don’t have integrated graphics, but later said they were using a CPU which does have it.
Need more info to help troubleshoot that’s not enough esp since they have had ddos attacks this week that have kicked people alot in custom games at least
Dont know what else to say. Game just crashes an awful lot. It got really bad this past week… had always happened before. I’ve switched graphics to lowest and it didnt matter. Uninstalling and reinstalling worked for a bit. But it went back to crashing.
it doesn’t crash “an awful lot” for everyone. there’s usually a reason for it. I know of several easily reproducable crashes that can easily be fixed or avoided.
ITs been bad this last few weeks I would wait and make sure its not just their servers sucking bum. When this happens I notice the ping on the servers goes up for hosted games etc mostly bnet is a laggy hunk of junk sometimes it sucky. Try playing on w3c server and see if you still get the lag. If not then its the servers
Servers generally don’t make your client crash. If the servers derp you get errors or disconnects. Not crashes, unless a game is actually programmed to terminate after a network error.
Interesting well I play a lot of direct strike and when I described the crashes that I only got during their ddos attacks the programer who edits the game msp from discord seemed to be convinced it was not his map and in fact the lag i have no idea what this guys issue is but for me it was mid game i would crash to score screen all my customs would be bugged out and I would need to rejoin bnet and sometimes it had a que when it happened.
Maps cause crashes all the times, just because a map maker doesnt think their map crashed, doesn’t mean it can’t. But it could be almost anything.
You can’t “crash to the score screen” either. Crashes kill the game entirely, not just make you leave a match in progress. That would be a connection issue. There seems to be some terminology confusion here. But if you went to the score screen… you didn’t crash. A crash is if the game completely disappears and (normally) you get a box on the screen saying the game crashed, and gives an error code.
Even if every other game works fine, that doesn’t mean you don’t have a connection issue. You could have an overly restrictive firewall, or your connection could just be taking a bad route to get to the server- in which case using a VPN could resolve that, as VPNs allow you to change the path your connection takes to reach its destination, avoding bad routers or infrastructure failiures.
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I deffo can I crashed to score screen all week that’s why he thought was servers. It would lag and freeze in game then crash to score screen then still logged in but cannot see any hosted games and must restart client. And of note my daughter never sees any internet issue but my son on WOW during one of them also lagged out that’s why I think DDOS. it throws a fatal error whenever you close the game after crashing to the score screen. SO no i don’t have a vpn my connection comes in at 800 down i monitor the connection and have many devices connected and the lags and kicks line up with multiple games at the same time but only on blizzard service. Not only that but both ym son and me after being kicked on wow and wc3 had a que and at the time blizzard said they were getting ddosed so i don’t know what else you would want but to me clear as day. Maybe this guy another issue but its deffo server crap for me
You can’t CRASH to the score screen. You can get kicked out of a game due to a connection problem, but that is not a crash. Please don’t use “crash” to refer to anything other than the entire program terminating. Which wouldn’t take you to the score screen. Booted from a match in progress != crash.
Regardless, that sort of thing is generally a connection problem and not a fault of the game directly.
Your download speed is irrelevant. VPNs generally server two useful purposes:
- In some cases, they can reduce your ping by taking a better route to the server that reduces the physical distance or number of routers that your connection travels through
- They change your route to a server, so they can be used to route your connection around a failing backbone internet router or other infrastructure issue that is occuring between you and the server.
You can have the best internet in the world and still have these kinds of problems, and it’s not a server side problem. It’s not directly on your end either, but using a VPN to route your connection is about the only thing you can do to change anything if something like this happens.
If the servers went down or some other big server issue happened, it would be happening to everyone, not just one or a few people or people playing a particular map, and we’d see a lot more people complaining about it. And it does happen- Sometimes one or more of the matchmaking queues will fail and you’ll see 100 people post here that they can’t play all around the same time. That’s clearly not what’s happening right now.
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Your a bit too fixated on verbiage I think. We did see lots of people complain about it just not here have you seen the hardcore wow forums recently? they lost more players in the last few weeks than in months to dc issues and are begging for free respawns. So crash disconnect potato tomato there have been server issues with ddos they literally said there was XD.
The terminology here is important. Calling a disconnect a “crash” misrepresents the problem and distracts from the possibility of finding a solution. How do I know this? Because I actually thought we were talking about crashes before it became clear from the responses that they really meant disconnects- Two different kinds of problems with different kinds of solutions. “Verbiage” is important in this case- It actually gets in the way of getting the correct help.
On to the rest of this which I had already written.
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This forum represents a small percentage of the userbase. And one of the principal reasons people come to forums to complain. It’s not unreasonable to assume that people not posting here probably don’t have this problem.
You don’t have any evidence of players being “lost” to anything. Let’s keep the hypotheticals (and the thinly veiled personal attacks) out of this discussion and focus on what we know and what can be determined, as well as what is logical.
Firstly: At least one person here is conflating “crashes” with “disconnects,” which are not the same thing. Second, there are many reasons for disconnects. Third, 95% of the time, people here assume that there is no way anything but Blizzard could be the problem and ignore actual potential solutions because of it, assuming that only Lord Blizzard can and/or should fix their problem. Sometimes, this is actually the case, but rather frequently people post problems that are not (directly at least) their fault and demand them to fix it anyway.
I’m well aware of the matchmaking queue failures, which ARE Blizzard’s fault and can only be fixed by them. But being disconnected from a game has a wide range of casues, and very few of them are “the server decided to disconnect you.”
If you actually want a resolution to the problem, you should explore all the ways you could potentially solve this problem before brandishing the pitchforks (and hating on anyone suggesting there might be a user-solveable problemn here)
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Agree to disagree I understand your the programmer type and they are all like this you should have seen how the guy on discord acted when I described the same thing as a “desync” he wrote me a similarly large paragraph on why it was a disconnect not a desync I think you two would get along XD. Or maybe not and argue in circles all day he was convinced it was their servers XD.
There’s nothing to agree to disagree on. There are facts, and there are not facts.
Correct terminology is needed to avoid ambiguity and confusion. If someone says “crashes,” my assumption is the program entirely blew up and they were back at the Windows desktop. If you said “disconnect,” which is what actually happened, I would understand immediately and would be able to respond appropriately, rather than spending a few posts believing one thing to be the case only to later determine they’re talking about something else.
When one such as yourself says something, of course you know what you’re talking about- but if the words you put out don’t match what you’re thinking, it is going to cause problems. It’s really that simple.
And before anyone says it, I realize many people here may not be using English as their native language and may not know all the terminology. But all of these terms are technical jargon that I would expect people to know the meaning of before they use it. If this was casual conversation about random stuff, I wouldn’t have that expectation.
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Captain, if you can’t solve the problem, don’t refute the person who raised it and then go into a long speech. Who would carefully ponder your logic that cannot be understood on this planet? Ha ha ha
Except I might be able to solve the problem, if we’re on the same page and talking about the same thing. My logic is not the problem here.
And that was the whole point. People were using incorrect terminology, making it hard to identify the actual issue and offer the appropriate response.
And your response certainly wasn’t an appropriate one either. You should certainly carefully ponder whether or not you should take stabs at people in a thread where people are trying to get help to solve a problem. Maybe consider helping the people who need it instead.
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He said something just like this its a progammers thing XD. This is how normal chaps talk about things XD.
Not really. I’m a normal chap and I’d never use “crash” and “disconnect” interchangeably. Nor do I ever see the vast majority using them interchangeably.
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