Starcraft 2 CPU Bottleneck?

[mitchelljpatato2]

Hello, recently I've been getting into Starcraft 2 again. I understand that this game is single-threaded and is more than likely a CPU bottleneck. I run everything on lowest settings and I still drop to 2-5fps in big battles.
I understand that Intel is better at running this game because it's single-threaded but I can't afford a new motherboard and CPU for a while, and this current system should be able to play it.

My specs :
8GB DDR3 RAM @ 1866MHz
AMD FX 8320 (8 core) @ 3.6GHz
ASUS NVIDIA GTX 770 OC'D @ 1.3GHz GPU 8GHZ

Help would be really helpful, I'm finding this unplayable.

 

[Gam3r01]

There is something else wrong here. Its not hardware.
Im running a Phenom II and a 760, and I run SC2 on ultra 60+ FPS, dropping to 25 in battles.

 

[mitchelljpatato2]

There is something else wrong here. Its not hardware.
Im running a Phenom II and a 760, and I run SC2 on ultra 60+ FPS, dropping to 25 in battles.

Well I've got a clean install of Windows 8.1 fully up to date legit copy running off one of my SSDs and it still lags, I can run DayZ and other intensive games no problem but this is an issue.

 

[Gam3r01]

Have you tried a re install or a different drive?
If its not either of those, blizzard support might offer better help.

 

[James Mason]

There is something else wrong here. Its not hardware.
Im running a Phenom II and a 760, and I run SC2 on ultra 60+ FPS, dropping to 25 in battles.

Your phenom 2 is probably better suited to starcraft.

Starcraft can't use more 1 core I feel, so 7 of your cores are completely useless 2 it.

Have you maybe tried to not overclock your parts?

Is there ANYTHING else that this is happening in? or only starcraft?

 

[Rationale]

A 4Ghz Phenom II 965 is actually much stronger in Starcraft 2 than an FX-8320. It's a CPU bottleneck. The FX CPUs are pretty bad for anything that AMD doesn't shove money into.

 

[cats_Paw]

SC2 has many issues with CPUs. Unfortnatelly, there is little to be done here to improve withouth getting a CPU that handles better the game.

There are a few small tweaks that might help a bit:

First, set sc2 game to use a different core than your Windows 8.1 uses (google it if not sure how), second set priority to sc2 as high as possible.

THese two might help a bit.

 

[mitchelljpatato2]

I've tried those before and I do that for most games, I also tried overclocking to 4.7GHz with only 4 cores earlier but I still think I shouldn't have to run it lowest settings (other than textures) to make it playable.

 

[cats_Paw]

WEll, I cant be sure due to the fact that I have an Intel CPU.
Also, are we talking 1on1 or 3on3 games?
In 3on3 I never saw a lagless fight (its much more than just the CPU bottlenecking there).
I assume you did use Pre-loader before the game? (its a unit preloader for the ram, basicly a use map settings).

 

[mitchelljpatato2]

Well I can't test anything now, I tried updating to the latest NVIDIA drivers and now it's using the default Microsoft driver and reports error 43 and says that my GPU is reporting problems :I

 

[James Mason]

You may have damaged your GPU when you overclocked it possibly.

 

[mitchelljpatato2]

You may have damaged your GPU when you overclocked it possibly.

I'm not sure, it still works it's just NVIDIA drivers won't start. I've sent a technical support request thing will they take a return if it's damaged from overclocking?

 

[Adam McMahan]

want good fps in starcraft 2? either overclock the hell outta ur AMD cpu or go intel. it's as simple as that