Call of Duty: Black Ops

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PC Patch out:

Hey PC community.

We are listening and have been working on updates. We have deployed a few already below, with more to come. Stay tuned here.

11/10

gameservers.com has bumped sv_maxrate to 25000 across all servers to reduce lag

gameservers.com continues to improve official server distribution

11/11

Friends fix for join in progress and Friends tab in server browser.

Performance improvement for dual and quad core.

Improved connectivity with Black Ops Rcon tool.

Regards,

-JD

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1578882

Patch did stop the major stuttering - but frame rates are still terrible for me. Annoying.

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Haha, this was so stupid - Guy just had to change his weapons for the hell of it, making noise. This is why you need patience and need to stay quiet at all times people :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufK4BlRuItk

Owned! :laugh: Do you use headphones?

I'm struggling to reach a K/D ratio of 2. I'm at 1.77 now (from 1.85) because of lag.

Anyway, add me if you have the X360 version. My gamertag is Anaron. (Y)

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Baines

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Is anyone else able to play SP on the PC? And if so what programs are you running in the background? Thanks.

I'm able to play SP fine.

I have (off the top of my head) running most of the time:

* Firefox

* AltBinz

* Foobar2000

* Windows Explorer

* TightVNC Server

* Steam

* Thunderbird

* Fraps

Edit: I haven't tried since the patch though, if that matters.

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Victor Rambo

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Just started playing and I am not getting more than 1-2 fps at 1024x768 low settings. WTF lol

My system:

Intel P4 3Ghz (lol i know its the worst cpu ever made)

XFX 9600GT 512mb

1.5gb RAM

Medal of Honor runs just fine at 1920x1080 at medium settings.

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rajputwarrior

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Is anyone else able to play SP on the PC? And if so what programs are you running in the background? Thanks.

i can play no problems. 1680x1050 everything maxed out as high as possible in the settings. runs butter smooth.

background i have logmein, microsoft security essentials, xfi stuff, daemon tools. maybe chrome will be open or winamp but that's about it. my windows box is usually pretty bare in terms of running programs.

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Is anyone else able to play SP on the PC? And if so what programs are you running in the background? Thanks.

Not able to correctly. Any resolution and it lags every minute or two. Not patched and no cfg tweaks. Running a few apps in the BG (no CPU usage on them), but CPU usage on CoD is nearly 100%, most of the time.

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RadishTM Veteran

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Is anyone else able to play SP on the PC? And if so what programs are you running in the background? Thanks.

Working great here at 1680 x 1050 with everything maxed out, Air Video and NIS 2010 are running in the background.

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I'm on the 4th level of campaign, on vet. Haven't really been impressed by anything nor has the difficulty been hard. People say the 3rd and 4th are one(s) of the toughest to play on Vet. 3rd was a breeze. 4th one however is ****ing me off. First part of the level, I didn't do ****. AI did it all, just sat back sniping fools. Get to the part where you have to push back the NVA (downhill). Infinite respawns and all of a sudden the said AI becomes garbage and can't kill a thing if there life depended on it. Using infinite respawns and setting AI to "dumb" is a cheap tactic to make a game hard. Hope there isn't much more parts like this, because that's just some BS.

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I'm on the 4th level of campaign, on vet. Haven't really been impressed by anything nor has the difficulty been hard. People say the 3rd and 4th are one(s) of the toughest to play on Vet. 3rd was a breeze. 4th one however is ****ing me off. First part of the level, I didn't do ****. AI did it all, just sat back sniping fools. Get to the part where you have to push back the NVA (downhill). Infinite respawns and all of a sudden the said AI becomes garbage and can't kill a thing if there life depended on it. Using infinite respawns and setting AI to "dumb" is a cheap tactic to make a game hard. Hope there isn't much more parts like this, because that's just some BS.

Yup, that is where I got stuck on veteran. Its crap, and that is why the SP campaign fails hard. I find it even more amusing that I see NVA in the background who are running to the right take random pop-shots like they are some thug gangster in a hollywood movie, hit me with one bullet, and either kill me or almost kill me. And then they run off to the right off screen. I especially love seeing the enemey just point the gun around or over cover and not even look where they are firing and still hit me with deadly accuracy.

MP is a whole other bag of ****. Absolutely the worst spawns of any COD and without a doubt worse than Halo. Matchmaking for 360 is a ****ing joke right now too and drops parties 75% of the time leading to 30-45 minutes of the party regrouping and then searching for a match again. This is a blatant prime example why matchmaking is a terrible idea and needs to go away.

I do however see potential in the games MP if they can work on the spawns and fix matchmaking to make it quit dropping parties in a very timely manner. Then they can work on the smaller things. This game has potential, it just needs work.

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I'm on the 4th level of campaign, on vet. Haven't really been impressed by anything nor has the difficulty been hard. People say the 3rd and 4th are one(s) of the toughest to play on Vet. 3rd was a breeze. 4th one however is ****ing me off. First part of the level, I didn't do ****. AI did it all, just sat back sniping fools. Get to the part where you have to push back the NVA (downhill). Infinite respawns and all of a sudden the said AI becomes garbage and can't kill a thing if there life depended on it. Using infinite respawns and setting AI to "dumb" is a cheap tactic to make a game hard. Hope there isn't much more parts like this, because that's just some BS.

I don't recall any other areas being as bad as that one part of the level, I got stuck there for ages with the infinite spawns as I wasn't pushing the barrels down, and at the time didn't know you could, so it took ages to get through on just normal, lol.

Though I know now for my Veteran run through, looks like it will be the same as MW2, just being careful and not rushing with only a few problem areas, unlike WaW, after doing that on veteran I'm never playing that game again. :p

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Is anyone else able to play SP on the PC? And if so what programs are you running in the background? Thanks.

Runs for me, has crashed twice since launch on SP but that was both on release day on level 1 - not done it since. I usually have firefox, maybe iTunes in the background. Apart from Steam of course and possibly Xfire that's it. Though it's still not as smooth as I'd like it in some combat situation even with some settings like anti-aliasing low.

I don't recall any other areas being as bad as that one part of the level, I got stuck there for ages with the infinite spawns as I wasn't pushing the barrels down, and at the time didn't know you could, so it took ages to get through on just normal, lol.

Though I know now for my Veteran run through, looks like it will be the same as MW2, just being careful and not rushing with only a few problem areas, unlike WaW, after doing that on veteran I'm never playing that game again. :p

EXACT same thing here, had a friend over while playing that level and we both had so many go's at that bit without realising you had to kick barrels. Only difference is I did it on Hardened. Managed to get down to the marker at the bottom a few times, last about 3 seconds then die. Fluke saved me as I dived next to a barrel for cover one time and whats-his-face ran up and kicked it over. It dawned on me then :p

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