#Heroes of the storm keeps freezing update

During this time your game is trying to collect all of the actions it’s missing and simulate them at an accelerated internal rate until it comes back into sync with the server and the rest of the clients. If this happens for long enough, your client is effectively no longer in sync with the game and you get the “Server is xx:xx ahead” message. It can’t render anything new and so it freezes until it has something to work with. If a client doesn’t get any updates from the server or any acknowledgement that its own updates have been received for each action frame, the game effectively halts until any necessary information is received. This is effectively the replay file, which is a recording of player actions during the game, being played back to show the data contained within the action frames.

A good way to actually witness this is via the new HotsLogs in-browser match replays. When a player initiates an action, that action is displayed immediately on screen, but is actually performed server-side (and on all synchronized clients) during the next possible action frame.

#Heroes of the storm keeps freezing update

UPDATE 2: barrett777 (owner of HotsLogs and coder of the system that reads replay files) has confirmed the HotS engine indeed still runs at 16 FPS. The engine ticks every 1/16th of a game second.”. UPDATE: TyaArcade says that “…assuming it’s the same as SC2, it’s 62.5ms. I don’t know what this rate is, but in many lockstep games I’ve read that it’s around 10 fps, or 100ms. The server and the clients run in lockstep, or absolute sync, at an internal “frame rate” for player actions. What this means is that as the game is played, all that is exchanged between game clients and the server are player inputs. HotS is based upon the SC2 engine, and thus uses the deterministic lockstep netcode model common to RTS games (and some MOBAs, in fact). Seriously though, if this is hurting your game, it’s worth it to read through, isolate the cause, and investigate your options. Try to bear with me, or you can skip through to the TL DR at the end.

Ping times are usually over 100ms when this is happening. This is the stutter that occurs usually when you’re connected to specific servers like ORD1 or US8 (press Ctrl-Alt-F in-game to see the server and your ping times) and is usually accompanied by a flashing Ethernet port symbol in the upper-left. Heroes of the Storm Stuttering Explanation and Fix by Electr0freakįirst, I want to clarify the scenario we’re talking about here.