The latest patch

[baldie]

SgtHarryWeezer

DeeJay, you nailed it. I don't think there's any question that it's a memory leak. The proof is that when BO completely stalls on my computer (it takes a few days but it eventually will reach this point) and I close it through Task Manager, if I then launch COD4 it, now, also stops dead in its tracks. The only thing that would affect other games on my system like that is a memory leak from BO.

 So how do we sort this guy's if we cant that is, Because thats whats happening to me. But more often maybe every 9 or 10 rounds it locks up then black screen cant do nothing, So I reboot my comp and perfect again for 9 or 10 rounds then same again and the only cure is restart my comp

 

And today I tested my comp to make sure it was not any issues with that. Played BBC2, Modern warfare 2, Sniper ghost warrior, Assassins creed 2  no problems at all in the highest res..

[Unchileno]

COD BO..LMAO...COD BS..I THINK..

[hardcore]

My system more then meets the minimum specs.  I am not having any problems now.  Other then servers crashing and that is server side.  You can argue all you want.  The issues are in the systems.  You can meet the min specs and still have issues.  A game is not just based on its software.  It works with other systems too.  Net framework and so forth.  Or the problems can be that the game is sharing a port with a nother program on your system.  I would almost garentee that if you have a fresh loaded o.s. and all the updates.  You probably would not have any problems.  Some of the peeps I talked to did not even meet the min specs.  They did not understand the game need  a 2 core processor or higher. 

[baldie]

well my system handles the game but i am still getting problems every 9th round or so so if my system works ok for that many rounds how can it be a system problem also I have tested my comp all day today on various other games untill an hour ago. Then I went into BO MP and again after 8 rounds black screen lock up had to restart my comp to solve it....

Also on single mode no problems at all ... Any suggestions ??

[hardcore]

Not sure.  But for it to work great for some and other to have issues.  It has to be system issues.  Or everyone would have the same problem.

[IronXI]

although there are bench marks showing that ATI cards may have been used. all of the problems that I can see is for the people that have them. I have no problems with this game as a matter of Fact I have great game play. I have also have a very old computer compaired to some of the people in this clan.

 

Intel 2.13 duel core (overclocked to 2.4)

Nvida GTX260

2g of corsair Ram

and my personal favorite is my OS

Windows XP SP2

and just to make it worse it is 32-bit

 

so to say that the game is at fault it "doesn't hold water"

you guys with issues need to look in other places to see where your issue is becuase its not the game.

[PrimalFear]

DEEJAYKEG

Primalfear, as you say if it isn't the way the game has been coded that is causing the many thousands of us to have enduring problems, you clearly have a better idea as to what the problem could be?

 

I agree with SOB's view that assuming a problem is being caused by a system running the program is entirely erroneous when that system exceeds the published minimum specs, has up to date drivers and, in the case here, one of Intel's most recent and most powerful quad core processors (for which the game was supposedly optimised by the first disastrous patch).

 

Your assertion that it is a Radeon problem specifically doesn't hold water when there are benchmark test results on the web showing comparative performance scores.  If ATI cards could not run the game properly, the testing could not have occurred (I have seen no mention of Radeons falling over at the high resolutions and settings used for these tests, either).

 

It isn't acceptable to release a game for the PC market that is so poorly coded that it won't run properly on thousands of machines and then to dismiss valid customer criticisms with ridiculous advice such as to turn off ones antivirus.  If the game won't run properly alongside a massively popular security suite with a special gaming mode, it hasn't been tested properly.

 

I remain convinced that CoD BO has a memory leak as the freeze-ups are so regular and predictable.  Similar quantities of resources are being eaten away every session.  Imagine a toilet that is never flushed - eventually it fills up and overflows and has us crying "Shit!" again...

 

Deejay what I am suggesting is that if you have 31,000 players online playing the game with no problems, the game itself is not the only factor.  My mention of Radeon issues is only related to the fact that if you look at page one and two of this thread the people having problems also have Radeon cards, which could be a coincidence, but we do know that in terms of performance Nvidia and Intel have the market cornered, and has for quite some time now.  There are plenty of Radeon cards that will outperform my Nvidia card however, as I stated it is old and outdated, and yet I have no issues with performance at all.

 

With regard to the antivirus issue, there are entire programs (not just games) that won't even install properly with a virus program up and running, and some can not be installed at all.  Many times I have had to completely uninstall Commodo or Avast antivirus to get programs to run and this is the fault of the virus program not the program being installed. Virus programs eat your resources and completely shut down some functions of the OS, as Hardcore pointed out this includes ports or or even other resources or conflicts with resources (like directx), a program that is optimized for multicore, or in this case, "requires" multicore is going to be even more reliant on those resources being available.

 

In terms of coding, how do you code out a third party resource hog, like a virus program or windows vista? There are also firewall issues that is simply impossible to code out. 

 

In terms of a memory leak, I can tell you this, you are on my friends list Deejay if you look at any time day or night you will see that I am online 24/7 in Black Ops.  I leave it on literally all the time, during the day my son will use the computer for learning and my wife will use it in the evening for websurfing, I simply alt+tab at night and jump right into a game, again with no problems. If there was a memory leak, would this be possible? I don't think it would, but I suppose I could be wrong. I play for a few hours and then my son will simply alt+tab the next morning and the whole process repeats itself with no need for a reboot or need to re-open the game.

 

Logic would dictate to me that if anyone having problems were to build the same system I have, they would also have no problems at all.  I am not suggesting anyone should do this, but I posted everything I did and my hardware specs for people to compare the circumstances in hope that people will be able to figure out what their problem is, at the same time I am suggesting blame should not be placed on the game itself as a first resort.  Weigh all factors, completely uninstall antivirus and firewall, update drivers, shut down un-needed resources, edit the config file, consider the hardware performance, and read what others have done to correct their problems.  Whatever it is that is causing some people to have problems, there is an answer.  To many people are playing the game with minimal issues to just blame the game. I am not saying the entire system is perfect, it certainly isn't, but I am expecting this game will receive multiple "Game of the Year" awards, it's really that good.  The answer is there and I believe it can be found.

[Sonovabich]

I'v always had N-Videa cards but recently bought a Radeon, i won't be going back to N-Videa anytime soon, only last week someone was saying it was N-Videa cards causing problems with this game, make your minds up, or just admit it you don't know what it is, the same as the rest of us.

[HarryWeezer]

Well, it ACTS like a memory leak but maybe not. Baldie, what video card are you running?

I have dual Geforce GTX 460 cards. When I play Black Ops, the system, at some point, will grind to a halt. Then, if I play any other COD game, they do the same thing. I have to reboot to fix it.

I played only one map of BO on Saturday and got a phone call so just closed the game and didn't touch it again. Later, I got into COD4 and my video was screwed - tearing, and wierd pieces of buildings stretched across the horizon, etc. When I closed COD4, I got a warning message from Windows7 that the GeForce driver had recovered from a problem. So, I checked the drivers and found they were slightly out of date, so I updated them. Then, I rebooted, and went into COD2, and had the same problem. When I closed COD2, I got a message that DirectX had recovered from an error. I ran the DX diagnostic (DX 11) and it found no problems. Shut the system down, came back up, and everything seems fine.

   Thing is, I have had no problems on this system until I installed BO, and it seems that every time I run BO, my video gets screwed. It may be a problem only with the 400 series of GeForce cards - I don't know. But what I can tell you is that I will not run BO again on my system anytime soon. We'll see how/if it gets sorted out.

[hardcore]

Orginianally I and a few others was having issues to with nvidia cards.  Sun Tzu post in the forums about a setting in the to nvidia control panel under 3d setting under global settings.  Change the threaded optimization from auto to off.  It fixed I remaing issues with lag and console crashes so far.  Been 4 days and no crashes other the ci's.  Most problems I have heard has be under min spec systems or systems who not really up to date on drivers.  Most of them dont even think to check for updated drivers for there mother boards.  Or there chipsets on motherboard.  Like most of the other games.  After a while, either the user found a fix or the game maker.  Most of the time the user first.  The only thing else I can say is give it time.

[Sweatnbullets]

Well My game worked today, and I didnt have a Freeze, just a server crash, and a crash between games. I did update nearly everything, but dont know how to update mother board.. is that in devices, or a DOS fix   tips???   Also is anyone having luck running this game with 3 G of RAM?   thats all I got

[Unchileno]

Isnt BO..stand for ..Bad Odour ..this game stinks..lmao

[ukildme]

The only problem i'm having with this game is when the server crashes. That's got noting to do with my comp or graphics card. I'm running a GTX 275 for crying out loud. I've seen the server crash issue (connection disconnect) on a couple of other servers, but nothing like what's happening on our servers.

[CplMOFO]

Running a XFX Radeon HD5870 with the latest Catalyst drivers. I get NO game crashes, lag or ANY other issues BUT the connection interrupt annoyance....