Hi everyone, i'm playing Starcraft 2 and i want better FPS (i have 60-70, i'd want at twice that amount cause it gets laggy)

bought my rig 6 years ago : i have the following:
i7 2600k
GTX 650
asus P8P67
OCZ vertex 3
some G skill DDR3 8GB


should i buy a new PC or upgrade these?
thanks

This post was edited by Runner33 on Mar 4 2017 09:31am

Just get a new vid card, the 2600K should get you all the fps you could want, in SC2.

There are like 3-4 different versions of asus P8P67, so a Speccy screenshot would help.




Get SPECCY here: http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download
...get the FREE version from the: Piriform Link
...Speccy is a really nice system hardware/temperature, information Utility.
...simply install it...and run the program...then post a screen shot of the main page of the program, when posting a problem/question on these forums.



/e Might wanna list make/model of power supply and case, also. Speccy does not show those.

This post was edited by Ghot on Mar 4 2017 10:07am

What monitor do you have?

60fps isnt going yo cause lag in sc2....

input lag

there's a reason why i play osu at 2000+fps

http://i.imgur.com/qPtq7tK.png

power supply is PC Corsair AX - 850W

people generally say that SC2 is a game thats very demanding for the cpu, what video card would u advice ? i'm playing with medium settings ( when i use low settings i have 150 fps all the time, when i keep everything low except the shaders, then it goes back to 70ish)

edit : its not ''lags'' but its stuttering a little bit, dunno how to explain - my monitor is BenQ XL2411Z (144hz)

This post was edited by Runner33 on Mar 4 2017 11:15am

that's screen tearing

u need to display the game at 144fps+ for it to not tear

I would love to hear an explanation of this.

input lag

i mean it's that simple tbh

anything under 120 (i changed my xl2411z to 120 instead of 144) causes screen tearing but anything above that including 1000-2000+fps doesn't

perhaps i don't need to be running it at that high of framerates but anything below it feels slower, and osu is a game that demands as little input lag as possible

streamed example: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/126374761

near the end ( 2:35 ) it gets increasingly obvious that it helps

This post was edited by t_y_k_o on Mar 4 2017 12:25pm

Input lag is the time it takes from the moment the GPU sends out the image, Till the Monitor puts it up to display.

I'm still unsure how added framerate is going to change input lag when its typically a constant.

you don't know why nobody plays with vsync on?