5 years ago
Network interference?
Product: Command & Conquer Remastered Platform:Steam-PC Summarize your bug Network interference? How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Alt-Tab ...
Ok, I may have discovered what's wrong and how to fix it. I found the YouTube video skipping even when I wasn't playing the game. It was doing this even in MS Edge, in Chrome with all extensions disabled, after a reboot, and with my antivirus software temporarily disabled. This pretty much told me that it's not the game causing the issue. I tested the video out on another PC in the house on the same network and it was fine, so that seemed to tell me it had to do with my PC. I did a quick Google search (as I usually do when I run into a technical issue) and I found a video that showed that it's frame skipping. This is pretty much resolved by disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome's settings. It's still dropping some frames regardless of whether or not the game is running, but it's not noticeable. It may still be dropping a few frames in part because of the applications I have open like Libre Office, MSI Afterburner, Avast Antivirus, Chrome, and Steam. I believe Steam has a similar setting, which is probably why playback didn't suffer when watching a video via the Steam overlay web browser while playing the game. In case anyone else runs into this issue, I've included a link to the video below that will help show you how to eliminate at least most of the frame skipping. At first I thought this was the game's fault, because I hadn't experienced it before when playing other games, but I now doubt it's an issue pertaining to the game.