STUTTER FIX FOR BLACK OPS

[Rhelic]

Here is a fix for the stuttering, it seems the game is not standard set on to use multiple cores if you have them!

Go into steam/common/call of duty black ops/players and edit the config.cfg and config_mp.cfg

Search for the following strings

seta r_multiGpu
seta r_multithreaded_device

if you have multigpu, set the number after multigpu to 1 (although for some reason, its set to this by default, change it back to 0 if you only have one card)

if you have a multicore cpu (who doesnt in this day and age), set the number after multithreaded_device to 1 (god knows why it was disabled to begin with)

If you don't have the Steam version, just find Config.cfg in Players

If any of you need help or walked through it let me know via steam or teamspeak, hope it helped.

Another quick look the max packets are kinda low. if you want to change them here it is:

same place as before, look for

seta cl_maxpackets

its set for 30, change it to 100 (what most games run)

-Rhelic

[WarhammerTX]

Thanks seems to help

[York]

MORE TWEAKS along with what Rhelic posted...

http://gamedrone.net/2010/11/10/how-to-improve-your-black-ops-experience/

Multiplayer Stuttering

This is really the main problem that all players are suffering from in Black Ops. There are actually numerous small tweaks you can employ to greatly reduce, but not eliminate, the stuttering in multiplayer. It’s important to understand that these tweaks tackle either the massive CPU load caused by Steam or the improper networking configuration settings shipped with the game, but those are likely mere side-effects of an underlying problem and thus these tweaks can only do so much.

The key change here comes in the form of another tweak to the multiplayer configuration file:

  1. Navigate to the C:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/call of duty black ops/players folder on your PC.
  2. Open the config_mp.cfg file with notepad.
  3. Press Ctrl+F and type in the phrase “maxpackets” then search for that phrase.
  4. Set the value for cl_maxpackets to 100.
  5. Save the config_mp file.

But you definitely also want to employ better process utilization in Task Manager to greatly reduce CPU load. This also works for singleplayer performance as an alternative to putting Steam in offline mode:

  1. After starting the game press Alt + Tab or Alt + Esc to get back to your desktop.
  2. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to open your Task Manager and navigate to the Processes tab.
  3. Find the Steam.exe process, right click and set the priority to Low.
  4. While you’re at it set the Steam.exe process’ affinity to a single core.
  5. Find the Black Ops process, right click and set the priority to Higher than Normal.
  6. Exit Task Manager and Alt + Tab back into your game.

Some people also claim that disabling Steam Community In-Game or Steam Cloud Synchronization for Black Ops can greatly reduce this stuttering, but in my experience these changes have had no effect other than being very inconvenient. Should you wish to try it then you can access these settings in the properties menu found by right clicking on Call of Duty: Black Ops in your Steam game library.

Similarly people have claimed to fix the stuttering issue by setting their sound card to 24 bits, 48KHz or by going into their Nvidia Driver 3D settings and turning pre-rendered frames down from 3 to 0. Again these fixes seem to work for a very small percentage of people, whereas a majority (myself included) see no or very little effect. They’re still well worth giving a go in the name of stutter reduction. Who knows, you might get lucky.



Performance Update!

GameServers.com has just deployed a new update for its dedicated servers which sets the rate value on these servers to the correct value of 25000. This results in much smoother gameplay with only minimal stuttering for most players, but the servers need to be restarted before the changes take effect so only a few servers actually benefit from this update thus far.

I’ve also stumbled across another major performance improvement workaround in the game’s configuration files. This works for both single- and multiplayer, but requires that you know your system specifications. This will greatly improve your performance and can slightly reduce stuttering:

  1. Navigate to the C:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/call of duty black ops/players folder on your PC.
  2. Open the config_mp.cfg file with notepad. You can also open the config.cfg file to apply these changes for singleplayer.
  3. Press Ctrl + F and search for “configureGHz”.
  4. Set the value of configureGHz to your processor’s clock speed in GHz.
  5. Set the value of sys_sysMB to your system’s total RAM in MB.
  6. Save the file.
  7. Right click on the config_mp.cfg file and open Properties.
  8. Set the file to Read Only and apply changes.

[nECrO]

Thanks Rhelic and York. I've made the changes and I will check ASAP

[nECrO]

No good. Game starts but hangs at menu and can't click on anything

[Devmonta]

I hade the same problem like you, don't do the task manager till you in the game and when you are done playing make sore you put it back to the default setting in the task manager or you get that problem like you had.

[York]

MORE HERE!!!!

http://segmentnext.com/2010/11/09/call-of-duty-black-ops-crashes-freezes-errors-sound-fixes/