[Need Info] SC2 editor low fps and freezing when placing units

[Foxace]

SC2 game itself works fine but editor just works very slow and freezes when placing units and doodads etc. Generally editor freezes if I move mouse and freeze ends when I stop moving mouse.

When I tried editor last time it worked fine, but now it doesnt work well after reinstalling.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Try deleting the "StarCraft II" folder under my documents. It might be you have some how set one of the editor frame limits to a very low value so it can no longer render smoothly. It could also be that you have insufficient memory for the editor (which uses more than the game).

 

[Statharas]

In addition to the above, check to see if your antivirus is being active and open up the task manager to see if something is consuming CPU power that should have been used for the GE.

 

[Foxace]

The fps is normal if i dont move mouse in editor, but as long as I move mouse (not dragging the mouse) the fps drops to zero, also the the windows mouse cursor is flickering on top of the editor mouse cursor.

 

[Dr Super Good]

What is your system specifications? It sounds like some driver problem so I am guessing AMD/Intel integrated? Are you using Windows 7 or better?

 

[Foxace]

I tried 11.4 amd drivers because someone fixed the issue with those but for me i couldnt even get it working because the installation had some error. And latest beta drivers didnt help at all.

Editor worked fine last time I tried with this same computer so hardware itself is not problem.

Windows 7 64 bit

 

[Statharas]

Try a clean driver installation

 

[OutsiderXE]

Do you have the Overview Manager (Observer icon) open? Close it.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Also close the cinematic editor when not using it as it has heavy render overhead.

 

[Foxace]

The editor freezes when I move mouse, and I dont even have overview manager open or cinematic editor.

Clean driver installation doesnt help.

 

[Statharas]

Give us a screenshot of its resource usages on the task manager.

 

[Dr Super Good]

And the GPU you are using. I mean it should not give any such frame problems with reasonable views on a gaming card.

 

[Statharas]

Also, hit space to avoid chugging GPU power to render a model and CPU power to calculate pathing.
It could also be an HDD issue. If you're using Windows 8, give us a screenshot of your HDD response time while you're having low FPS in the editor.

 

[FUJI]

Maybe you can go to preferences and go to video then set everything to low.

 

[Statharas]

There's also something else I thought of. Does your computer have two graphics cards? It might be the case that you need to change the GPU you're running the editor with.

 

[Glorn2]

Alright, this is pretty comical. It is something I have been observing for a while now in my own editor.

try this:

Go into your control panel, and get into your mouse cursor options. In your mouse cursor options; ENABLE a mouse tail on your mouse.

Go back into your editor and be amazed that something so stupid was causing your lag problem.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Go back into your editor and be amazed that something so stupid was causing your lag problem.

So it is a problem with the mouse update preventing the editor from rendering frames? I mean it makes no sense otherwise.

 

[Glorn2]

uhhh; I guess? My mouse auto changes back to "no tail" pretty frequently too (daily at least) and when it happens; my editor lags like hell and drops FPS from 200 to quite literally 0. When I move the mouse and I do not have a tail; the entire screen will freeze until I stop moving the mouse. I go back and enable the tail; and my FPS is back at 200 while moving the mouse, dragging units, painting terrain, you name it.