Dota 2
Racoon Sep 29, 2013 @ 5:18pm
Dota 2 Lagging a LOT in the game first minutes after the last update
Really Valve, what did you do to my game on this update?
Before it my dota ran smoothly with no lag or stutters, now, in every game I play after hero picking, the game gets REALLY LAGGY, and stuttering al the time, I can barely move, I have to wait at least 2 minutes for the game to normalize (once I only could play after it has passed 7 minutes of the game), I already tried lowering the video settings and it didn't work.
Please help me, and if is there someone who has this problem too leave the comment down there so more people can see it.

I would appreciate if you could help with this
Last edited by Racoon; Sep 29, 2013 @ 5:38pm
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Racoon Sep 30, 2013 @ 10:34am 
Bump
Delu Sep 30, 2013 @ 10:36am 
Try -cl_forcepreload 1 in the config and/ or as a launch parameter.
76561198108714185 Sep 30, 2013 @ 10:53am 
heelp mee . i cant find any lobby . how can i join a game ? BTW my dota 2 is new . i just finished downloading it yesterday :3
VgMister Sep 30, 2013 @ 10:53am 
Lag OP
Racoon Sep 30, 2013 @ 10:54am 
you dont need to find lobbies to play, just click on the play button then "find match"
76561198108714185 Sep 30, 2013 @ 10:55am 
does it load that long to find a match ?
76561198108714185 Sep 30, 2013 @ 10:59am 
do i need to always matchmake ?
Sugar Rush Sep 30, 2013 @ 11:15am 
rigby i have same issue to you.when the update finnish and i start to play i got laggy while ill played
Racoon Sep 30, 2013 @ 11:40am 
Fixed it, the problem was not that the preload was off, it on was what was causing it.

And yeah it take like 2 or 3 minutes to find a match depending on the server you pick
Delu Sep 30, 2013 @ 12:05pm 
So either you had enabled preload before or Valve enabled it. On my system preload always helped, without it there would be random stutters/ lag every now and then, with preload on only for a few seconds at start of a round. I prefer the latter.
Racoon Oct 1, 2013 @ 11:54am 
nope, it only worked on one game, then it went back to as it was .-. and I didn"t even change any settings ._.
Jukes of Hazard Oct 1, 2013 @ 12:19pm 
Same issue but sometimes I abandon games while I'm still in the fountain. I literally cannot access my hero, the shop...nothing. And I too never had this problem before the last update.
ChubbNutt Oct 1, 2013 @ 1:03pm 
But this even happens in offline games, it's not as bad but you still are frozen in place for a while.
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Date Posted: Sep 29, 2013 @ 5:18pm
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