Call of Duty: Black Ops Plagued by Lag and Glitches on PC

game is * , should not have bought it

not true, game is awsome, and im sure they will fix this issues, game is awsome

It's HORRIBLE! I'm using an E8500 dual core (nothing special) overclocked at 4.27ghz. I'm also using an ATi 5970 graphics card... Single Player is full of horrendous lag/locking up even when I'm not moving.. and Multiplayer is the same. I've had the game for 48 hours and still, I'm unable to play it yet. And what's with the 30fps most of the time? I know that's not right.. I play MW2 Single Player with a constant 200 frames per second... and to see THIS from Black Ops? Absolutely ridiculous. This NEEDS to be fixed asap.

i agree game is super ****,
why can't they sort this out before they sell, ooo ok because they cant wait to get there hands on the money to pay for ***** and **** ,
loooooooooooooossssssseeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrs

Indeed. I can't believe they released such a bad game. I can play COD MWF 2 with all its graphics at the maximum. This game even lags with its graphics on the lowest settings. Again Treyarch releases a game wich isnt tested well.

why are you listing your specs if you are under requirement thats your own fault, i know you arent but i guess you didnt read the article THERE IS A PROBLEM they are looking into your performance issues should be fixed when they figure out whats wrong, they know it exsists they will fix it, stop being retarded

topclass, unlimit your FPS, it comes limited to 30fps if i think correctly.

I am running an intel core i5 overclocked to 3.8ghz with 4gb of 1600mhz ram and a ati 1gb 5850 on MW2 i could happly play multi player and video capture with FRAPS at between 80 and 91 frames but black ops fails to even get close to this. i get hit by a short lag spike once every two games or so and when film capturing i get 30 frames at best. but it seems if i limit my prossesor to a single core at 3.8ghz i never get a spiek and can cap fine. It seems black ops fails to deliver on multi cores but single core it will run fine

#dog
i agree

I WANT MY MONEY BACK PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!! for me it's all about game play and performance. this game lacks the ability to please. if for some reason, you do like this game its because you have no experienced with fps gaming. Every experience FPS gamer knows it is about hand to eye coordination, and if anything renders your progress other then your own mind, body, and solo it's just cheap. put it this way. Your doing everything right but you dont get any rewards for you precession play.

When I installed it, I too experienced 'the directx error message' so I updated that first, (through Microsoft's website) but I didn't change the other thing included with Black ops, the Microsoft visual C option to change/remove). True, I also experienced the lag in sp (do mostly the sp only, not so mp inclined) The frame rate was too low to really enjoy.
BUT, when I installed the newly arrived patch 1.03, all problems disappeared! I'm now halfway through the game, and everything goes just fine, frame rates perfect...everything is smoothed out. graphics practically maxed out (play in 1680 x 1050)...

Intel E6850 dual core
4gb memory
Nvidea GTX 260 (896mb)
Windows XP prof. 32bits, servicepack 2 installed
2 harddisks, 320gb each, 1 external 500gb

I see many Microsoft Visiual C programs under add/remove programs, but there is no choice to upgrade upon right-clicking any of them. Do you have to uninstall and then reinstall the updated ones, and if so which ones? im hesitant to start uninstalling and reinstalling things.

I think the game is awsome and have 2 days, so i think is to soon to start talking bad about the pc version and give it a fail image, of course is not good but im sure this issues will be fixed soon

I agree... I have the E8600 with a 295 GTX and Im having ridiculous lag spikes and freezing... Im * .

I managed in single play to run the opening video then it all freezes up. On multi player it won't run properly at all. Waiting for the patches.

wot a massive let down:( and we gave infin/ward stick not so sure at least game was solid

Its not just the PC version, its the same on the PS3 and that's with an 11mbps connection, then there's constant 'Lost connection' messages popping up game after game. Infinity Ward did a great job adding Host Migration, looks like Treyarch have binned it...

I have "Phenom 965 Black Edition @ 3.7Ghz" 4GB DDR2 1066Mhz and 3450 HD Radeon Card.

When I check this on Runit website it says my PC is very fast. However, when I play it slow and lags. I even changed the graphic settings to minimal.

Still slow !!!

You have a terrible graphics card, it beats integrated, but a low end card such as that gives you no excuse to complain about a current game such as this, especially if you're playing under DX10.1.
3450's are one of the lowest, pre-gen dedicated cards.

This is not rendering in DX10.1 though. 9.0

yeah, the 3450 is a big time fail :\ i ran the 3650 hd for about 2 weeks then switched back to my ole geforce 6600 oc :) that card was bulletproof, one of the best, most reliable cards i ever owned, ran EVERY GAME up until gta 4

Tryarch made WaW and I knew they would f**k this game up. RAGE

i disabled aa and now i'm solid at 60 fps on extra at hd res
it's great and i'm really enjoying it
give treyarch a go, they'll have a patch out soon

they have 1 week to fix this or it will go down as one of the biggest fails in gaming history since ACTIVISION said no dedicated servers for MW2..

BO at the moment is 10x worse than the worst p2p hosted game i have ever played in a whole year.

I already had the steam installed , tried installing Call of duty Black ops ,
It reads waiting time to play 22 Hours, Its disgusting , I have no idea what the game look like as Even though I have a High spec PC the game is unable to run. It absolute Rubbish this is all dawn to Treyarch to stop piracy , at that same time they continuously bombard you with meaningless advertising , I’m taking the game back , it is obviously full of problems, we should not have to wait for the developers to fix obvious errors , I left Steam on overnight and this morning I just wanted to see if it was able to work the game started and Froze its Rubbish

it is a real shame and the controller for windows int right

It's unforgiveable that they released a game in this state. Im sure that they haven't even tested it out! The game needs a lot of patches and fixes, it's unplayable. I hope they will fix it soon. And by the way, whats with that singleplayer? Is it possible to run the game with a processor under 16 cores?!?!

No you need 32 cores for no lag.

The game sucks. I rather play MOH then this. With all the hype I thoght it would be a great game. what a let down.

Lag lag lag !!! Treyarch sucks !!!!

i say my internet is fine i have really good broadband etc whatever its called dunno but it is top range net. anyway i cant connect to games for long, i get intensive amounts of lag in game nd when i connect to even australian servers (i live in australia), it will be for a quick 2 mintues then it will say connection interupted and my ping would instantly raise to 999, nd it will say cannot connect to host or connection lost or something. i have checked out my interenet done reaserch about interent issues however my problem is still not fixed and on the rare chance that it dosnt happen i still have intensive amounts of lag online and offline. i believe that treyarch are idiots and should of made sure this was fixed before it was brought out -.-

that is also my problem i have 999 ping in the first 5 min of the match then it goes down to 40 ping in 1 min and then it goes up to 999 ping the rest of the match

Takes years to connect to a server! Wtf is this?!

The lag is horrendous, and I can't help but feel mad at Treyarch for releasing the game in this state. Waste of a few days off of work to play this game that is currently unplayable.

aparently it was ready for the origional sept 11 release date, but they pushed it to be "politically correct".. activision = fail :\

I feel really let down. Unplayable last night. The initial install > 1h and mp a waste of time. Good machine with 10Mb internet.

How about we all go back to ET and RTCW? lol At least those games are solid! You'd think games made by gamers would be far less problematic than this. Have to say tho, I ran the single player fine except for 3 times I had to restart missions again coz it froze.

Really, the game devs and producers need to get a grip and sort this.

Neilly

I was extremely disappointed when I had to spend hours searching to understand why despite having a retail DVD the game insisted on downloading the full 8Gb via Steam.

Now I am further disappointed that the game is virtually unplayable with an extremely low FPS rate... this is not good, especially given so much hype! Activision really should test in the 'real world' before releasing.

you should of delete the content on steam and loaded from the disc, it takes ages to download from steam especially when every one else is doing the same

if treyarch don't fix this in the next few days i am sure that nobody will buy it and it will be the worst game in the history of call of duty series ...

Absolute ************, dont buy dont recommend, this is how they catch us everytime, bloody moneywolfs

If your on a windows machine go to the task manager (ctrl shift esc) and go to the processes tab. Find BlackOps.exe and right click it, go to priorities and give blackops a High Priority.

Then go back to processes and find Steam32.exe or steam.exe and right click it, go to priority and give steam a low priority.

This won't fix the problems but it makes multiplayer bareable.

thanks i will try that tonight when i'm home from class.

Its sux. I cant't play because of lag! Just waisted my money on preorder!

Is this because PC versions aren't getting properly tested while the console versions are tested all the time? Once again it seems that PC users are left out in the cold.

Dumb *.... -.-
The console games have the same problems as said ABOVE.

i think its actually a lot of the anti piracy software they use, creates a lot of bugs, and memory holes

Same issue in single player mode. The came lags so bad it is not playable.

mee 2 plz give me a solution

I'm loving it, I run on a Core 2 Quad, @ 2.4, 4gb ram, and a OGC 250 on Win7 Ultimate 64bit.

Game has spikes of lags now and again, some graphical glitches, but it's very playable, and VERY Fun. The online play is very intense and fast paced compared to Mw2, I loved it.

I can't believe the amount of expectiations you guys have. Chill out. So maybe you can't play online on day one, or could be up to day 7. The single player is fun. And....BRRRAAAAIIIIIINNNSSSSS

I had lag on the PS3. It was playable, but annoying.

I had this problem aswell on WaW. After a patch everything was alright for me, so i say, treyarch what you waiting for.

why did they mess with the good working mechanics of the MW2? I cannot join buddies via steam, graphics look sub-par and the glitches/freezes. This was a game i was looking forward to, i don't even know if a patch will cure this disappointment

Ive had nothing but lag and slow down on my pc and i have a high end computer. Makes online play terrible, and single player is no better... it was using dang near 100% of my processor... will wait for a patch or something. MOH wasnt all that but it least it ran good, and looked nice, it just suffered from good online mode gameplay....

I have a Q6600 at 3.4ghz and a hd5870. I can play the single player no problem. Just passed it on veteran. (theres a bit in Vietnam that was insane.) Went to try multi player and it was a joke. Was quite excited for a cod with dedicated servers after the mess that was mw2 multi player. I connected and found it un playable. Massive lag spikes where I would accelerate or slow down then get shot. I understand it has just been released and may need a patch but has it been tested at all? Honestly don't buy it for multiplayer untill it gets fixed, If you do like me your waisting your money.

not worth the money

Yes it is a good but game, buts its pathetic how they overlooked all these issues, i mean they didn't even beta test the pc version...

when i first tried multiplayer, i couldnt even join a server, my ping was 999 and got booted right away. i finally got the game to run smoothly after hours of changing settings and cussing out the game. i had no issues with single player, but multiplayer was horrible. i am still not as impressed as when i first played MW2. if something doesnt happen soon, im going back to MW2!

they should have had a beta version just like MOH to test the servers and fix issues before it was released.

I'm running an i7 930 (overclocked to 4Ghz) with a GTX 460 FTW with 6GB of DDR3 corsair dominator memory on a rampage 3 mobo (obviously on a Win 7 x64 platform) with a striped SSD setup.

No problems - although I did have to defragment and verify the integrity of the game files as the first time I played it the game's intro into single player was a little choppy.

single player now runs very smoothly using pretty good settings (everything enabled, AA x4,
AF at about 50%, 1080p... you get the picture). FRAPS shows a minimum of 50 fps with a max of around 90.

multiplayer; using similar settings is pretty rough at best. even on official treyarch servers hosting at ~70 ping, i'm chugging around with an average ping of 120. yes, my internet isn't great (BT's idea of "20 meg broadband" only pulls in 7mbps for me) but i'll be getting Virgin's 50meg fibre set up soon so who knows about that.

as the article says, treyarch knows about the issues and fixes will be rolled out soon. so keep your pants on guys :)

if it helps, try tweaking your settings. close background apps, tie off other network connections when playing online (limewire, torrents etc). graphically, lower your resolution a little or turn off AA or AF or even shadows/bullet impacts/smoke edges. this will lower the stress on your G/CPU and improve your gaming speeds. yes, it wont look the nuts, but when treyarch sort out their resources issue you can stick the settings back up again.

all the best and frag the rest,

drebin

Its ok saying switch things down but you shouldnt have to, I can play any other game at full resolutions, even had Medal of honor up at 32x AA and it runs fine on my overclocked 460GTX 8GB RAM and Q6660, but soon as I start this pile of crap its as laggy as hell.

At the end of they day they are getting enough money from us so it should be right from the start. If you bought a TV and it didnt work properly you would get a replacement not have to wait 2 weeks for it to be sorted.

All it is, is a tarted up version of World at War with MW2 trimmings. Not the game we were anticipating.

I have a rather old machine (C2D E6750@ 3 GHz, HD3870 OC) but Black Ops runs quite fluently, except for those little annoying lags occuring every few seconds for like a third of a second.

I was very looking forward for this game, but now when i am playing, ehm i am not even playing, like moving thru the screenshots xD I have Athlon dual on 3,8 Mhz and 4850 ati radeon with 4GB ram. No other game is laging or freezing to me on high details, but this... Even when i am playing on lowest graphic, game cant be playing... especialy its laging when i am moving forward. If i am staying on one place or going back in game, game is smooth, but when I push forward to move on next place, it just start laging like a hell. It´s unplayable. Sadly waiting for patch

CoD: Black Ops works flawlessly at maximum settings with no glitches lag or extreme loading like some people say. Maybe you should test it on more than one computers?

honestly, i am satisfied with the game content. once they fix the lag issues, there wont be any problems. this is really just like when STALKER CLEAR SKY was released in america, it had really bad problems the first week that crashed the game, once they fixed it there was nothing wrong. just a few files were corrupted or something.

The game is extremely laggy, there is no way to enjoy this game with the way it is right now!

lag lag lag

Hi all i dont have the best gaming setup in the world
GT 8800 X 2 SLI
Q6600 QUAD CORE
4 GIG GEAL RAM
MSI MOTHER BOARD NOT TO SURE WHAT IT IS.

I cant play black ops on it :( its jerky and locks up etc
I can play mw2 full settings
i can play crisis nearly full
can anyone help ? I have reformated my pc last night and got latest drivers but still the same :(

£3000 gaming rig and it still hogs all my CPU load. This is Bulls**t!

Just goes to show that the old crappy console tech in use on xbox takes priority (again).
Im not happy with this game there was no beta testing and im having to wait for a patch for play it.

epic bad game.i not will buy more cods.

Well i have had mine 2 days and to be honest i am not impressed , first of all i had major issues with my graphics card, being an ATI EAH5670 HD with 1gig gddr5 was not even letting me load it in i did the usual look on the net see what issues other people were having and this graphics card seems to have major issues, this shouldn't make any difference normally i find included in my system is 8 gig of ddr2 system ram ( only 3gig shows) a quad core Intel Pentium processor all running on an MSI mobo, you would really think with all that power i would get a good crack at the whip but no major lagg and major freezes, i even went as far to change my operating system to windows 7 ultimate, from xp pro, for some strange reason it now runs, but badly it still freezes, still lag's and really its unplayable, not if you can bear the lag that is..i must say i am very disappointed in the game that i had been waiting for with baited breath only to be let down by glitches, why was this not tested correctly, we paid £45 for a game realy that is just good for a rather large coffee mug...

It is a joke they spend all this time working on the game with betas ect and they dont relise something like this ! i mean did they even try to run the game themselves before they released it utter muck up !

I'm also wishing that I had never bought this game. it's almost unplayable with all the stutter/lag. massive disappointment, absolutely unacceptable to put something this horribly flawed on the market.

Great game, if they only could fix the * lag in-game and buggs for the PC!!!

Lots of lags and freezes after every 20 min of game play. Knowing its not my PC. Played COD Modern Warfare 2 and Bad Company 2 with no issues.

my xbox 360 appears to make the screen lag or twitch during multiplayer...i have a brand new samsung hooked up so i know its not the tv.....still need to upgrade to hdmi tho, wonder if thatd help.. besides that, the game is great, altho i dont care for the points system

here in uk i had the game more or less on release, some had the daybefore through pre-order and installed it on midnight (it wouldnt let you do it earlier) i had install issue's with errors through steam client? when i went into single player the game crashed with a FATAL SYSTEM ERROR. my rig is more than capable of playing it. went through my system setup for conflicts nothing! run gaming mode for my keyboard and black ops screen popped up telling me to plug in my XB360 controller WTF!!!! de-installed game and installed it in safemode with networking and had no problems on install restarted and could enter single player without any problem whilst playing it was imediatly notice of the FPS spike went into task manager and opened up my GPU monitor and both are at 100% my core temps went skyhigh and my fans begun to spin at 100%. this pc version is not worthy of beta test! and in the uk we have something called the sales of goods act
where by if a product is not as described or fit for purpose you can legally take it back for a refund!! and will be doing so MEDAL OF HONOUR HERE I COME!!

I noticed the lag in multiplayer, but not so much in single player. MP was REALLY BAD.

I am still able to pull 40-60fps in multiplayer, but man in the Killcam you can see the lag..its really bad..but that is to be expected in a new release...

My setup

amd phenom ii x4 955 @3.4ghz
xfx ati radeon 5770
gigabyte 790xta-ud4
windows 7 pro x64
4gb ddr3, kingston hyperX 1333mhz
1tb wd black 64mb cache hdd

yeah kina annoying... specially when i paid $60 on it and its unplayanle

Black ops RULEs but The graphics are to low though And it IS to laggy And connection problems I would have xpected better form this game o and if i know u hi if i dont ......hi

Currently about to complete the last mission on the game and when the CIA agent catches upto me and punches me to the ground, and points his pistol at me, he changes to the CIA agent with an AK and sun glasses, then back to the pistol with no sunglasses then he just freezes while the tele still flickers... anyone got this?

I have this too, fed up with them releasing unfinished games!

Same here. I even turned the graphics settings down. Have you had any luck with this?

i'm also having this error...
i'm very sory for not having a solution but PLEASE,if you have got the solution,
please,please,post it to my email: (bavliii@yahoo.com),
and i will be veryyyyyyyyyyyyyy thankful.........
THANKS..

pc specs...xps 630i..intel core 2 duo 3ghz..4gb ram..geforce 9800gtx 512mb.. 500gb hdd..700 watt psu.

this game is really really bad in multiplayer and the single player is as bad. the single player stutters so much that this game is definately unplayable as you cannot get the feel for the action with the stuttering glitches. I got a refund back from the store because of this. will never buy another pc game again until i read all comment reviews and i would suggest you all do the same. i was lucky to get the refund but some will not. 0/10 for this game.

After The assasination the game lagged so bad in the campaign mode it was slow motion to move forward and to arm myself to fire reload or change weapons. Left to right movements were normal speed. This lasted the rest of this section of the campaign, very frustrating. What is the answer to this problem Blizzard?

Time for a class action lawsuit--it is the only way companies do their job properly before the game is released.

I agree.

this happened to me too. I am extremely annoyed right now!

NOT HAPPY AT ALL!!!!!!!!
DAVO
Australia

This Blows! So much lag in Multiplayer I can't play. I will return this game if issues aren't fixed in 1 Week, unacceptable when trying to follow up a still relevant Infinity Ward MW2.

i get the same lag issues as most of these comments as well. fairly high system, i have no problem running the other mw games on same high settings. turning the settings down didnt seem to help either though.

COD Black Ops looks great but runs like crap, one word PATCHES!!

I am running a very high end custom gaming machine and experiencing the exact same lag. I hope there is a patch soon!

I found the game to be a waste of money. PC MP is one of the worst games I have played for a long time . The vids they posted on the internet and on TV look great but I dont see that in the game. this is nothing more then COD with new maps. I thing they mislead the PC gamers with their ad's. It is the last COD game I will buy.

They better fix this, I bought 16 copies on pc for my games center and it's screwed.

ouch! if they dont DEFFINATLY open a class action suit!

I'm running an extremely high-end Alienware. I have yet to play the single player campaign at all due to freeze ups and the multiplayer keeps freezing at the "waiting for more players" screen then suddenly a "lost connection to the host" message.....LAME! $60 for a game I can't even play

Game has a flaw in the config files. f cntrl "threaded" and change it to a 1 if u have a multicore processor. then f cntrl "gpu" and change it to a 1 if u have dual cards. you must change the config files for both single AND multi player. this isnt the only change needed to be made by Treyarch, but at least it is playable.

I am experiencing the hesitation, lag, slowdown in multiplayer and singleplayer as well. I am running on Core 2 E8400 3Ghz, 8800GTX and w/4GB RAM that runs CODMW2 smoothly even with settings cranked up. I thought buying this game was a no brainer but now it is the waiting game as we wait for the first patch and hopefully this will be fixed asap. If not, there s/b a class action suit against these greedy ba$tards for taking our $ and running all the way to the bank laughing. They should have postponed the release of this game to get it smoothed out. I can't believe how awful it runs.

Medal of Honor ZERO Issues. This POS "Black Ops" lag and studder even on the lowest settings. Now by all means i dont have the greatest comp anymore but medal of honor i was able to play on high settings.
Wish I could get a refund.

It is so bad i cant even play it and i have one of the best rigs money can buy. What a joke.

I have a q8400 quad core 2.66 with an NVIDIA 9800gt and my experience with the single player mode has been fine, with the occasional slowdown from 90fps to about 45 or so, but multiplayer is HORRIBLE! I don't know if you need a super-computer to run it or what, but it's pretty awful for me, no matter what resolution. I checked my performance data while in-game and saw that each of my 4 processors were at 85% and up. The whole thing is odd since MW2's multiplayer seemed to look a lot more clear and crisp, and this one comes out looking muddy and indistinct. Hopefully a patch clears up this whole ordeal.

PLEASE FIX THIS LAG ISSUE .. I HAVE A VERY GOOD INTERNET CONECTION.. I NEVER HAD PROBLEMS WITH LAG ON PS3 BUT THIS GAME -BLACK OPS- IS UNPLAYBLE WITH SO MUCH LAG.....................

I got a ping of 18/21 on almost all USA servers, but still the game is chocking, lagging, hanging, crawling to a unplayable crap

The game obviously has issues WHATEVER the computer specification.
I got a Geforce 460GTX 1024mb, phenom 2 x3 720 overclocked to 3.4ghz and other games fly, this one, even with vsync off, no anisotropic or antialiasing and billenear filter and no shadows, STILL slows down at various places.
a patch is definitely needed to fix this crap!

Same for me_ E8400 8800gtx 4gbram having horrible lag issues with average 60-90 FPS, for example in MW2 i have smoother picture even with lower FPS, and no sudden frame drops with high FPS???

Same Here,,,,,,,
i Had Downloaded game from tpb it little bit laggs when i record with Fraps...
with out recording its FPS is 45 avg
my rig:
core i3 540
2gb ram
windows 7 32 bit
dell inspiron 580
ati hd 4650 1 gb

It runs so perfectly for me it's not funny. So i can't knock the game in any way. I thinks it's awesome. Sorry guys?

Dont bother reading after you've seen 2 posts or so. ALL of the users whine about the same problem. Why don't you guys just chill out and give it a few days? Seems like many of you guys are PC game addicts that NEEDs' the game NOW!!!! CAN'T....WAIT....FOR.....PATCH, MUST.......PLAY......

This game is totally unplayable,the game seems like a lot of fun,and if it wasn't for these problems i would have a lot of fun playing it.I exceed the minimum and recommended req and i can't play it.Hope a patch/fix will be out and take care of this major if not critical problem.

I'm not getting any lag spikes or freezes in the single player but the freezes in multilayer seem to be more a server connection problem than a pc problem coz it looks like the server is not maintaining a constant connection to the clients causing packet loss or something to that effect.if it was a server lag spike everyone would lash but it seems to favor someone at some point of time coz I have noticed in some kill cams I'm suck but the person killing is able to move just fine.also none of the kill cams have shown proper kills all of them are choppy its really terrible the game also seems to look a lot worse than mw2
-arioch

This sucks really... I can either join the game and get disconnected or 'The game crash or the even computer is crashing

* pc -.-

Bugs aside, this game is enthralling and has improved on multiplayer in every way i wanted. it'll be fun in a week or two when my computer than can run crysis warhead and world of warcraft at the SAME TIME doesnt lag like crazy randomly.

Playing multiplayer is like a monkey takes the game in every server,spins it round and blows it's load all over it.

I have a Core2 Duo E6850 @3Ghz, 8gb ram, GeForce 470 and this * game is glitching in multiplayer like a * . What the * have activision done? How can they release this crap * game when they know this * is going on???

just got black ops for PC and was extremely disappointed, the game is unplayable for me in single player or multi due to the lag. Back to MW2 for me.

Treyarch is * !!! * noobs

that is such a bad exploit for treyarch... Bunch of losers....

Not only is there lag on the multiplayer matches, but there are also lag issues concerning the Zombie survival mini games.

It's really disappointing because I would be playing right now, instead I'm searching the web for a fix.

I've played this game on two of my desktops, one is an e8400 Wolfdale with 4 gigs of ddr2 800 and a gtx 470, other is an i5 (quad) Lynnfield at ~4ghz with 4 gigs of ddr3 1600 with a gtx 470, the wolfdale machine tends to lag, but the i5 machine runs between 90-120fps
(Acer GD235HZbid monitor for 3D vision.) and never has lag spikes or other issues regarding gameplay. The engine just relies more on newer cpu architechture versus MW2/W@W/etc which were very similar games.

I finished the single player campaign last night and played through the entire thing on PC without a single moment of lag. >_>

I'm really not sure what everyone is talking about lol.

getting the game to start without freezing is bad enough, let alone trying to play online.

Medal of Honor runs very smooth on PC with no lag at all. I set my gatway FX to 1920x1080 resolution and it still runs great.

I hope Steam and Treyarch go bankrupt and all the creators go homeless.

it will be an absolutely amazing game when the issues are corrected with patches. Poor CPU performance dose cause some really bad playing conditions, but after doing a lot of testing, i have come the conclusion that there is some issue with the net code or the actual server program not being very well coded. maybe even some thing to do with the fact the the whole time you play the servers are collecting data about the game that you can in some cases download later watch as a film and record it. That could be the reason behind the change in lag
(using the in game Lag-o-Meter)
you can see the transfer spikes and loss of packets happen as the bad lag dose. Anyway, enough of that there is also the Low FPS issue, caused (at leaste in my case) by the lack of Crossfire/Sli support (multiGPU) as when i disabled my second GPU i got 3 times as many fps going from 15-30 up to 85-100 still with some heavy frops due to high resolution and only a single GPU active. All in all once the problems have been fixed the customisation and well paced multiplayer action will make this a brilliant game.

yeah i have quad core proc and a 9800gtx graphics card as well as 4 gb ram and this game crashes my pc. i play modern warfare 2 easily and even crysis (the first one) runs good but this game for some reason lags like crap there was an update to it today but seemed to make it worse. changed controls and still lagged.

the game is a huge let down, it's unplayable as of now and if it doesn't get fixed so where my more then capable PC can run it i will not be pre-ordering a game again, and not ever buying a treyarch game. black ops is pure rubbish until properly fixed

heh moh seems like a much better choice

I have a HP Quad Core with a Nvidia 285 Graphics Card, and it lags seriously bad now also my pc has 8 gigs of ram and black ops seems it uses everything to it's Max, hopefully they will find a patch to help this.

Code Name : Wolf, COD 2

I rather play MOH then this. With all the hype I thoght it would be a great game. what a let down

check with systemrequirement lab ok very fast indeed have a core 2 duo 2.93 1 gig video card 9800gtx 3 gig memory stil having lag try to minimize graphics in option still same LAG

No its horrible. The only map that will load is nuketown. If i try to connect to any server not on this map I get the "lost connection to host" message. Yet I can pick all the servers in the world that are on Nuketown and get right in. After the match I am kicked again with the same message. 2 days in a row now!

game sucks.. waste of money

they have to fix it , the last patch didnt help jack , got very badd lags on singleplayer and multi

Cod black ops. I feel like I have been mugged and urinated on. THIS GAME SHOULD NOT BE ON SALE. It's rubbish

yea i have been getting so much lag even though its says only 70 ping. I used to be so good at mw2 but i keep getting **** scores on black ops because of all the lag

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME UNTIL THEY FIX IT! THE LAG MAKES THE MP UNPLAYABLE!

i really surpressed, this is a bad game in history

When I bought BO I was sure, that dedicated servers will save me from lags, disconnects in the middle of the match and cheaters (because of bans). Well I didn't meet any cheaters so far, but lags and dcs are like a normal feature to PC edition. There are moments when I can play fluently, but sometimes I have enormous lags.
By the way: do anyone of you tried to play with steam friends? Connecting wiht them to the one server is very hard. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. Team system in mw2 was good feature and I hope Treyarch and Activison will also do something about this.

I have definitely seen aimbots in use by a user with the name loopy

i have just a little lag in multiplayer at times, and i am sure this problem will be resolved soon, spect= amd940 phenomx4 3.0g black edition, 4gs of ddr2 800mhz blalistic ram, ATI5770x2 crossfire

This game LOOKS amazing. I say looks because it's a mission to even play the game without it lagging and generally running like a slideshow. Even with everything on the bare minimum my performance still suffers. This really pisses me off after waiting for this game for weeks. Really hope they bring out a patch to fix everything pretty soon.

im laggin when i shuting and moveing what can i do

Another reason not to have closed testing. It should have been a public beta, than these glitches wouldn't be released at launch. I got the patch but while more playable, the audio threw HDMI suddenly had a high squeel continued to play the game another 5 min than locked up my system and had to reboot. For a $70 game and such hype the fell on their a$$ releasing this junk without proper testing.

Oh yeah.. Glitch city in single player! I haven't played multi yet.. but when it glitches.. so does the sound. REAL ANNOYING

can u plz upload a file names "hue_city.ff"..... plzzzzzz m stuck in dis game bcoz dis file is missin

ive got a Dual Cre 2.93 and a GTX 460 i struggle to play Multiplayer/singleplayer.. ITS so laggy They Hav FU**ED this gmae ... They should hav FIXED the game b 4 Selling it.. -Trearch-> ( we will flog it off as soon as possible and then make em use there Net dwnload to dnwload heaps of Patches Oh well me still made 360 Mill so who cares WERE HAPPY.) ,,,, Stupid....

same here to

Wow, what a waste of time. Have recieved two fatal error messages and loads of lag during the few m/p games that did not crash. THink I will go back to BF.BC until they find a solution.

dissapointing !!!

The lag issue has been somewhat fixed, it is a lot better then when the game came out, tho still not perfect. My biggest issue is the fps which randomly drops to approx 20-30 for no apparent reason. Anyone else with the same issue?

Specs: core i7 930 2.8GHz
GTX 470
X58A UD3R
HyperX 6GB ram
GS 600 pwer supply

I'm running on a Q6600, 4870 x2 with 6gig RAM. Just played single player all the way through at 1920 x 1200 with all candy and it ran like a dream. Tried running the multi player and that's where I had problems.

Just in poor taste to release a game with serious bug issues. Have these corporations such little respect for gamers nowadays that they dump their unfinished product at a premium price in our laps and we just need to cope with these issues. My copy is already on the shelf.

why do i keep getting timed out when trying to mlay multiy player cant get in a game

it costs heaps and lags like crazy very dissapointing

I have an asus g73 with an ati radeon 5870 using 1g ddr5 and this game is unplayable at lowest settings and everything turned down and the graphics arent even as good as mw2, I cant believe i paid 60 dollars to get a freaking glitched and buggy game. If i could get a refund i would this is a huge let down as i am a huge fan of Cod games

Its the same on the ps3, its pure crap.

what in ps3 lag too????
black ops is wonderfulll with lag..
my pc is using card gtx 480 is stiillllll lag.

The game will load and get to the main menu screen fairly often but every single time without fail it will freeze on either that screen for either multi-player or single-player. It's almost like the game is running in the background because the cursor still moves (when not frozen) but the cursor is covered up by the "busy" cursor. I have done everything I can yet still cannot get it to work. What do I do?

So I’ve figured what the problems was with my Call of Duty Black Ops MP graphics stuttering.
My current setup
Windows 7 64bit
I7 920 stock clock
GTX 480 latest w/GTS 250 phsyx, nvidia 260.99 drivers
6gb ddr3
X-fi Titanium Fatil1ty soundcard PCI-e
Before and after the patch I was still experiencing what seemed to be mix of lag and stuttering performance problems. I’ve tried the a variety of supposed tweaks from .cfg edits of multi-thread, multi-gpu etc…but none have made a difference.
I’ve tried setting my primary(GTX480) to handle Physx(in the nvidia control panel and had GTS250 neutral) AND reverting back to the 2nd gpu(GTS250) as physx and still no luck.
I decided to remove my GTX 480 for power saving reasons and moved up the GTS250 as the primary video adapter. Fired up COD Black Ops(exact same ingame graphical settings) and played on the same server and to my surprise I was having no stuttering/lag effect issues. At first I was afraid there maybe something wrong with the gtx480 so I installed it(did not install the GTS250 as 2nd gpu) and even that everything was fine. Decided to install the GTS250, started up the game and the problems came back. I even swapped the cards around making the GTS250 as primary and 480 as second gpu and same stuttering problems again. So thru this observation can I confirm atleast with my system that running multiple gpus caused my system to render unfavorable gaming experience even after the patch installed thru Steam. I’m no expert but I hope this helps with anyone else to troubleshoot with their systems with multi-gpus.

you guys are * , my high end rig runs it peachy, dont blame your suck on the lag. blame it on the boogie.

game is a turd, patches so far have made ZERO difference to this monetary heist. Abysmal testing and lurched out on an unsuspecting and overhyped audience. Greyfart et al marching to the bank. Ronnie Biggs eat your heart out.

I am running amd 6000 3.1ghz 4gb ram
radion hd4870 and the game lags in sp and mp min settings on steam so i tried a different version of black ops that doesent use steam witch i would not normaly do.
Got game running on max settings except textures are on high no lag on single player still some on multiplayer so i wonder if steam is contributing to the problems we are having

i've almost given up and may be going back to mw2 until they fix the multiplayer pc lag - it ruins it - i feel like i wasted 60 bucks

my cod black ops keeps freezing right in the middle of action. It happens every 2 or 3 games and sometimes i have to reboot my pc. this so sux

Gona send them an email and post my game back for a refund.

Gamers must revolt against these actions; companies send the games out half finished for a quick profit, because they know that is gona sell.

Gona keep playing CoD MW2

Sooo much hipe! So went out and spent $60 on a game I can't even play because it's so laggy thanks for robbing me, Treyarch sucks.

i hate this game because of the lag and spikes i can play all other pc games sweet as in my rig plays them all fine, but black ops. its an overated, hyped up mw2

Fully loaded NEW Alienware Area-51 ALX Desktop

I have an Alienware M17x laptop with an Intel i7 920XM with 8GB DDR1333, 2 x 256Gb SSD's in RAID 0 and 2 x 4870's in crossfire and Win7 x64. I also have a 20MBit DSL 2 and its still happening even after flashing BIOS, VBIOS and formating windows and making sure all my drivers are up to date. I spent the better part of 24hrs trying to fix it. (I got the game the second it was released and was home in less than 2 mins lol) Can we get a refund?

ita a great game BUT: its not like activition to release a game thats so buggy or glitchy. im using an intel core 2 duo 2.9 ghz. GeForce gtx 260 overclocked. 4 gigs of ddr3 ram.

in single player or multiplayer it lags horribly no matter the pc or ingame settings. set it to full graphics (which ran mw2 completely lag free) or lowest graphics and no change what so ever in lag. this game is very gripping in the sense that its action packed, always leaving you wanting more but the lag is just way to big of a problem to continue playing. i hope they release a fix soon.....

This is the worst game ever. Slowdown in single player, lag in multiplayer and cost me $60 for unplayble game.

I bought the game today i heard that MP has Lag,hope they fix it with some sort of patch cause it will be a shame to waste money on a game which is great but unplayable =(

I waited over a week after release day just to ensure that the issues would be worked out. Bought it today. Installed it. Can't play it at all. This is not a game, it is a salad chopper.

Come on, Activision. When are you going to STOP BLAMING THE PLAYERS, our video drivers, our sound drivers, and just fix your game?

lol, to this day they still haven't fixed it. Learn how to make a game, this is just pathetic.

the only fault of infinity ward is giving it to treyarch. why are people talking about I/W?

worse lag ever-- software manufacture should be taken to court

I had the same problem, bad lag updated to the newest Ati driver and same lag.
It became much better when i installed catalyst 10-10 driver. (10-9 and 10-11 was worse)

Buy a decent computer.
Problem solved

All these retards posting * at how they cant play BO. Activision is awesome. Works fine on my comp, full graphics. Stop whining.

some people love the new black ops. i hate it. i was really a pro in mwf2 and now the game play blows

Call of duty Black ops has a very bad lag time when shooting multiple enemies. What a let down

this is f--k up,money hungry corperations

this game is * horrible they better fix it soon

It's already 2 weeks still no patch.

lag lag and lag, and pc freeze

Yes the game lags whenever you fire your weapon and does not matter about graphic configurations.

FYI
I upgraded my hardware in anticipation of Black Ops. I now have the following:
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
ASUS AM3 Motherboard Nvidia SLi
Phenom II X4 965 Quad Core Processor 3.40 GHz
6 gigs DDR3 RAM
2 EVGA Nvidia G-Force GTX260 896mb video cards with SLi bridge installed.
Western Digital 640GB 7200 rpm hard drive
I definitely get lag in Multiplayer but the most annoying is the total and complete "vapor lock" which freezes my screen. I then have to use Ctrl-Alt-Del to access the "Task Manager" and shutdown the game process. This happens several times a day or at least once every time I sit down to play the game.
If Treyarch is aware of the problems then great. I just wanted to chime in with my experience so far. I like the game but I am not happy with the friend interface compared to MW2 or the choice of weapons and I am definitely not happy with the performance.

You can fix the lag. For some reason the configs were set wrong by default.

you need to alter
seta r_multiGpu "0"
seta r_multithreaded_device "1"

They had it the other way round like we all have multi GPU and single processors lol

The config file is in steam apps, black ops, players, called config for single player and config_mp for multiplayer

Cheers,

Barn!e

The game should not have been released while such an obvious issue (lag and freezing) was occurring. They should have found a fix before letting customers buy their product. OK, I know they cannot fix every possible bug before a release, but seriously the lag problem is a game killer, and it is so blatant how could they have possibly overlooked it?

Hopefully they will learn from the bad reputation, that this game will give them. All the earlier games have been epic. This lack of testing is a huge let down.

So.. i am not really having a problem with the lag in multiplayer i am having problem with random freezeS its STRANGE

ur absolutely rite i had such a huge smile on my face while playing this title out of nowhere the game hangd during the vietnam mission and it always hangs in that mission after 7 or 8 or 9 minutes im really bumd.never though something like this would happen in COD series

True, also experience lags in sp...with a gtx260 card that should'nt be the case, am playing full screen (1680 x 1050). world of war (from the same maker) runs very smooth. Also, 1st first mission (kill castro) can't help but the AR-16 rifle (fore-runner of the m16) should'nt be there; in april '61 this rifle had hardly left the testing procedure (let alone the grenade launcher underneath) Only in '65 the m16 appeared on the scene.

was working great over last five days nov.30th now they update steam again 2nd december and its freezing up again wtf?

would also like to add i have i5 processor 4gb gtx 216..nothing else craps out like this game.But yes we're all suckers and fall for it everytime filling the gravy train that is activision...or should i say the moneypit..?

I'm playing black ops on PC and it freezes when i'm firing at a guy with something like a ballistic knife or something. Although sometimes(like it said) it does it randomly like when im just runing down a corrider... When mine freezes it has picture of a clock face and then i have to do task manager and "end task". If anyone wants to add me on steam its: ..{DG}..Mr.Tactical

ok after lag fix,played for about 1 week no probs,got patched again since then im lucky if i get to play for 6minutes before freeze/directXerror/out of memory have to reboot my system after that as it wont run after killing it with task manager,my specs:-i5,4gb,xp pro,gtx216 latest drivers...gutted

its terrible

thats why they should have released a beta for the pc -.-

own a monster of a puter and still crashes, and sp storyline will glitch for no reason.

the game is awsome if they fix the problems

mp lag is so bad and my proccesor is hardly breaking a sweat

Over clocked....hundreds...and hundreds of dollars in upgrades....Thousands of different games to choose from, and SOMEHOW, Black ops cant run for * ....any time...any setting...and place. I used to play CS1.6 and the smoothness is INCOMPARABLE! Black ops pc failed and is only a money revenue for treyarch... the giant * SCAM.

This game is horrible for lag in both multiplayer and single player...waste of money,

Single player works just ok for me, but the multiplayer is a biggest joke!!!!
The graphic sux and gameplay is probably the wrost i even played.
Dont you blame it on my alienware, mw2 and crysis ran smoothly in the highest settings.
So much for a score of 9.0...........if anyone out there hear me, please dont buy black ops!!! waste of your money!!

There is too much concern on making quick $$$ instead of pleasing the good old fashion gamer... where's the balance??

I hv 9500GT but game still lag lot..
even on minimal graphics...
need patches .... asap...

I like CoD Black OPS, but the lag is indeed a problem, just played a game and the screen kept freezing and people were warping around.

I also have a problem with the spawning system and the way they decided to "Nerfed" the sniper rifles so people can't quickscope anymore, now the sniper rifles are almost as good as useless, they might as well take them out of the game.

It's junk for on-line play.
I have now spent about $500 on the game and hardware and it's still unplayable in multi player guise.
Also, Steam must think everybody in the world has unlimited download speed and data. I could have cried when I saw yet another title muddled by Steam. Urrg!

To put it short... It locks up when you stop to save the game. You have to go to "Task Manager" in order to end the frozen screen. And in "Revelations" it has only one out of dozens of attempts made it past Agent Hudson holding a gun at Mason. Words continue for a while then stop. I feel this is a rip off, ruins the story line and the creators cheat the consumer of a full enjoyable experience, and lets not forget the part in Hue City where Woods and Mason push to door open and the screen goes blank. I've tried everything when it very often happens like shoot my gun all over and start throwing Grenades! Nothing short of a fully functional game will do or pay consumers their money back. After all Automobil makers are required to fix faulty mechanisms and tainted food recalled and consumers refunded!

* black ops keeps lagging

we should all never to buy a cod game off steam ever again. i know im not going to buy another cod game again cause of this. i'm also letting all my conceal friends know. this game is nothing but errors. great concept but unplayable to its customers satisfaction. how can i like a game that cant play right. its just plane stupid

i hate cod black ops i bought it thinking "o ya baby i get to play the latest game" but it seems that the co. that made this game is ether a novice at makeing games or just suck so bad that im actually doing this!

i have a high en pc and the game lags almost every 3secs, this is pretty anoying cuz im able to run other games flawlessly with max res and video options set to high.

same stupid Lagg with (Few) like 3 Or More enemies shooting at me, Im lucky sum times to Spray N Pray cos of the lag I cant even aim cos it Glitches and im dead.. Its o k from long Distance like Sniping. But Hmmm, Need patch Reaalllllllly BAD... Treyarch Shoulda Made Game to Run smooth on MINIMUM specs NOT OOOBA specs. n even then NOT smooth.... (SPECS) intel CORE 2 DUO 2.93., 8gig ddr2., GTX460 1gig., Should RUN FINE BUT hMMMM . doesnt IM 1 OF many unhappy ppl that play * OPS... MWF1 2 * ova SHITOPS (black ops) cos of PROBS .,,,, soz treyarch Do * propperly

STILL BAD ON PS3.DONT RECOMEND! NOTHING LIKE MODERNWARFARE. FELLSORRY FOR GAMERS IN PUERTO RICO AND OTHER ISLANDS OR CONTRIES NOT WORTH WASTING MONEY EVEN MODERNWARFARE WAS A BETTTER GAME PLAY!

Black ops SUCKS.

It LAGS LIKE HELL.

I have to shoot a guy 4 times for him to die, and yet I die before the guy even * shoots at me.

And it is not my computer that is bad, I can run Mass Effect 2, Minecraft, and several other games.

But not * LAG OPS.

COD BO is horrible on all systems, and no it is not harder to play than MW2 is actually easier to play, the game is just slow, boring, dull and lifeless. There's no color, the weapons are awfully bad and the recoil is sidewards and up, and the customizations are just a gimmick that adds nothing to the gameplay.

ive owned this game for roughly 3 months worked perfect on multiplayer..which is entirely why i bought for. and one day it just decided not to work and hasnt for about a further month.. formatted my computer upgraded drivers etc etc and still * ... wtf mate

The only major lag issues I suffer from is in the menu screen in multiplayer after you hit start or (left mouse button) in my case. It will randomly freeze for about 5 seconds only when going into Create a Class. It also usually freezes for 20 seconds when I go to modify my killstreaks, and on rare occasions I've had to restart my system simply because it freezes for way longer.

In game my ping at most has been 35 playing intensive domination matches. I don't lag and I can't tell my FPS but everything runs smooth, except occasional network connections on the servers side.

System:
Intel Celeron E3300 Wolfdale 2.5GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor (OC'ed to 3.12GHz)

4 GB RAM

Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5

Needless to say my system is cheap yes but it runs Black Ops S/MP smoothly on max settings with no lag and a low ping. and I've never seen it go above 35% CPU usage even running Internet for music off playlist.com and using CoD.

The last and most annoying part is the game does not save my control settings forcing me to change controls while in game. Very annoying, also it doesn't save past the 3rd chapter of single player thus when I want to play anything but kin dor koten or w/e I have to beat the game each time.

Black Ops is further away from being a PC game than Modern Warfare 2 was. Even with the lack of dedicated servers, MW2 was at least not overrun by bad performance and played exceptionally well on most PC's -just like MW1. Black Ops was touted to have everything MW2 lacked, which on certain levels it did, but not performance wise. This is an obvious port that even high end PC's suffer on.

I like the game, but am tired of all the lagging

well i bought the game and well it still lags on my pc and it needs to stop

unless i find a fix im deeming this game not worth my time as it appearantly isnt worth it to the developers either.

i have a amd 965 cpu and 2 6970's 8 gig ddr3 1333mhz 8-8-8-24 timing and i cannot play on all max settings and mataine 125fps in a fraps benchmark..they spent to much time on the console's ..as a pc is more powerful than the console there should be no reason why we cannot play without any lag and there are alot more things as well that need to be fix like the theater mode i have not seen the dolly cam on the pc yet,there is text overlaying and not just in theater mode and its not a resolution problem,they need to fix the way they did it..and trying cut out snipers still went south for em lol its a good thing 60% of the people who play COD mostly use the sniper cas its fun the game play and the gun class's,exp.etc is all very well done but at the same time there is no reason to upgrade yyour pc and spend 2 grand on parts this game wont get any smoother and in MP smoothness and not having the feeling like your 1 secon behind is a key factor ,i love the game latly all i been playing but most the time its just annoying to play
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sorry if i double posted but not sure if it went threw the first time and i added in how much mem i have witch black ops only use's like a gig witch is retarted they should have made it use 3 since thats the max of 32bit OS's "i think"

Treyarch = lame

My spec tho...
5870 HD
Core 2 Duo [E8400] 3.00GHz
8GB RAM
Thermaltake 600W
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

After all, I CANNOT be too harsh on the 'Archs'.
They DO make awesome games and Black Ops is no exception... Story is too испуганный!
They should have tested the game properly under more strict (PC) conditions and then released. Besides, consoles have strict limitations and releasing a game for one is after all "limited". (Whatever the console requirements, the game is given a minimum restriction and published.

PC enthusiats will always try different combinations of hardware to play the latest games in maximum graphics.

:)

Single or multi I can't get past 3 rounds and it locks up. I am not a techie so if anyone knows if Activision made a patch for this problem, post it for me. Thanks......

Strange.I have meet black ops requirement but still lag.I hope the game fix out asap.

the lag in this game is ridiculous. call of duty mw 2 servers are way better, also why fix something that is not broken? the fitst modern warfare never had a lag

The on line lag on this game is horrendously bad. It is totally not worth playing because of it.

i like black ops wach saw 6 scay

when i clicked on blackops.exe, the screen turned black, then i waited about 5 mins, then a message popped up saying fatal error, is this a computer specs problem? cAN PLZ TELL ME A SOLUTION

gams good but lags on multiplayer and single player

worst pc game i have ever played

game right now ant worth * but if they fix the lag then it would be great
but right now wish i wouldent of bought it

I just purchased this game for pc JULY 12 2011 it seams to still have these lag issues..I have no other games that run like this on my computer

dead space 2 is new and runs very smooth on the highest video settings , Fear 3 runs with minor lag.

black ops is almost unplayable even in single player.

The game is fun but had to buy it for PS3 too! which runs way better.

bought the game today and they STILL seem to have these lag issues I've been reading about. I absolutely wish i had never bought the game, it's completely unplayable. if the lag issues were fixed then without a doubt it would be one of the best games i would've ever played, but so far, it's just a big FAIL.

They sold the title and made money, unfortunately thats the only good thing we bought with this game.

When i'm playing zombies or campain i move slow

Screen lag is sooo bad. Don't think I'll buy another COD ever again after wasting money on this!

ive been experiencing alot of lag durring gameplay;doesnt matter what im doing,the game lags while the computer acts like its not even running anything as in its lightning fast the whole time and its like almost like i get a 2 min lag interval every round to two rounds,im thuroughly dissapointed with this as i used to own a copy 4 ps3 (and a ps3) and it never glitched this bad its almost unplayable,my ping 4 css is usually around 36 and black ops it generally 170 to 279....this needs to be addressed as ive set EVERYTHING to preformance rather qualityand it acting like im running on windows 98 or something,i have vista premium home edition w/ quad core prossesor,8 gigs or ram,568 hard disk,and nvidia visual prossesor,so preformance shouldnt be an issue.....i mean my base score is 5.1 with my gaming graphics at a 5.4 so yeah game developers,there IS a problem,so plz fix this asap

The Lag is shocking on my Q8300 with GTX460 & 4gb RAM, making the game utterly unplayable. For me this can only ber down to Lazy progrmming, looks like Treyarch concentrated all their efforts on the XBOX360 version.

single player never worked properly, on the river section the boat shoots of left & thats it end of that, multiplayer loads of lag & even worse when you get the new maps, not that they are free i might add! come on treyarch don't f**k up a good title after all these years

I have an above average laptop, definately not the greatest but in no way is it a poor system for gaming, and I have horrible lag playing only the CoD: Black OPs and CoD: Black OPs - Multiplayer. My system runs a 2.5GHz processor, 4 GB RAM, 1024 MB dedicated memory to video card (translates as decent for gaming), and an intel core duo cpu on a 64-bit operating system for vista. I also have an NVIDIA GT 130M video card. I originally thought the problem was my graphics card, as I had recently updated the driver before purchasing Black OPs, but I have tried everything, system restore to point before update, uninstalling driver and reinstalling from NVIDIA.com, putting all my settings on low, unclicking steam cloud sync, typing /cl_maxlimit 100 or w/e it is in the console, nothing works. My PC works with no lag on many games that others struggle with lag on, and I am convinced now that it is the game and not my computer or settings. If anyone could help me with this, i would appreciate it because I paid quite a bit of money for a game I can't really play...

GOOD LUCK FRIEND. NOTHING I READ AND TRIED HAS WORKED.

Hello brothers and sisters!

I have quite a strange error in my black ops game. The thing is that when I play PC Single Player campaign the players who are with me suddenly stop moving forward in any of the missions. This results in not being able to accomplish the mission and having to reset the mission.
Anybody knows a solution for this?
My e-mail is:
khatibiamir85@hotmail.se
Thanks,
/Amir

I HAVE ALL THE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND BETTER FOR BLACK OPS PC. THE BIGGEST WASTE OF MONEY I EVER SPENT ON A GAME. LAG IS SUPPER BAD. IF MW3 IS LIKE THIS, I WILL SKIP. THANKS ACTIVISION FOR JUNK. ONCE FOOLED!

Never had this problem before, but suddenly it started happening, i even rolled back a driver for my 250GTS but didn't work, also happened with ACII