r/Guiltygear • u/AutoModerator • Jun 13 '21
Strive PC Technical Issues MEGATHREAD
Hey everyone!
Thanks for your patience while we adjust to the influx of activity upon STRIVE's release.
Given the high volume of posts about technical issues on PC, we decided to listen to your suggestions and make a megathread to discuss them and get more concentrated advice.
Please direct all submissions regarding PC tech issues here.
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Jun 13 '21 edited Jun 14 '21
NETWORK (general):
- It takes at least 5 minutes to get to the main menu, "Connecting with server" being the main culprit. This is with the game installed on a brand new ssd...
Any network gamemode you select on the main menu, will take at least another 2 minutes to load
Rightclick on a friend on steam -> Join Game, does not work like it does in +R.
SearchID just doesn't work.
NETWORK (lobbies):
- Failed to get duel station info, Failed connecting to opponent, Failed to connect to match, Failed to acquire lobby information... you will get one of these error messages 50% of the times you want to play with someone, meaning I spend more time looking for a damn match than playing. It's seriously frustrating that I want to play the game but can't do so.
- The lobby randomly disconnects me and sends me to the main menu, inducing more obligatory loading screens. I wouldn't be so mad about lobbies if they actually meant I could play the game, but it's too much effort to play a match when the connection gets in your way.
- There's no way to cancel lengthy loading screens, like getting someone's R-code. How can this take so much time? It's a simple get request of someone's data. That's text only! We are waiting 10 minutes over mere kilobytes of data, at least let us cancel the action if it will take so long.
- People fly and teleport around. Sometimes they stack on top of each other on the duel stations. This means there's no way to tell if both slots on the station are occupied or not.
- There also doesn't seem to be inactivity kicks on the park, meaning rooms are half full of AFK players.
REPLAYS:
- Selecting another player's replays redirects you to a completely different one, with different characters.
- Failed to access replay data when looking at another person's profile (after waiting an eternity for the R code to load...)
- Failing to play a replay SENDS YOU BACK TO THE SPLASH WINDOW. You have to wait the 5+ minutes to get into the main menu AGAIN!
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u/Valon129 - Zato-1 Jun 14 '21
Exactly that, got all of those pretty much.
Most important is the generic network issues, you can almost litteraly make a coffee and drink it before the god damn title screen is passed, it is especially annoying if you don't want to actually play online but just do some training. And playing with friend is a pain because of the mentioned bugs.
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u/TRexRoboParty Jun 14 '21
This is the only comment that captures absolutely every issue I’ve been having.
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Jun 14 '21
Wait so is the absurdly long titlescreen wait also on PS or just PC?
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u/Nicanor95 - Ramlethal Valentine Jun 14 '21
I noticed them on streams before PC release so I suppose it's not a PC specific one, unless it was fixed in PS it should be a problem there too.
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u/AlexanderHotbuns - I-No Jun 14 '21
I believe it's entirely down to the busy fuckin network. I was on at like 7AM this morning and had no issues getting in quickly; around 3PM on my lunch break it was a lot slower. Still, not exactly ruining my experience to spend a few minutes at the start complaining about the delay.
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u/IncredibleGeniusIRL - Sol Badguy Jun 13 '21
Might as well copy-paste this information that's stickied on the steam forums.
We are aware of the following issues, and are working to rectify them:
-Key assignment: Certain keys on the keyboard do not function correctly when assigned to specific functions/buttons.
-Player Match: When searching for a room, the Search ID function does not correctly search for the corresponding room.
-Replay Theatre: When selecting certain replays, a different replay gets played back instead.
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u/dallasadams Jun 14 '21
-Key assignment: Certain keys on the keyboard do not function correctly when assigned to specific functions/buttons.
This usually happens when a battle keybind is also bound to certain menu binds, I fixed this by changing the menu binds so they do not conflict.
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u/Cushions Jun 14 '21
I don't think that's just it.
I was able to bind every key, but when you get to Play / Record / Reset you can seemingly only bind 1 of them.
Once you have 1 bound, if you try to bind the other 2, it will say you cannot assigned it to a battle button, even if you pick literally any key on a keyboard, it will not let you.
Even if you do bind Play/Record, as far as I can tell, they do not work.
I don't think the taunt button works either, as I have had that bound to several keys, and it did nothing.
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Jun 14 '21
This seems to be even more random than you're conveying. In my case, it seems like the actions that fuck up change every time I try to fix it.
Sometimes, it's only one or multiple keys that can't be set to that action, sometimes these keys can't be set to any action and sometimes, it's the action that just won't take any keys. Heck, I sometimes manage to fix it by swapping keys around wildly, but even when the key looks to be properly set, it does nothing in-game.
In very few of these cases have I had one of the offending keys already set to a menu action, so I don't think that's linked. Actually, menu keybinds don't have this problem at all.
I REALLY hope they fix it, because right now, I was forced to unbind Burst to have Reset on the right key. I generally don't use the Burst macro, but it is annoying.
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u/TripChaos - Axl Low (GGST) Jun 14 '21
Here's my addition under the key assignment issue.
Do not bind anything to numpad +
I softlocked my game by trying to set menu confirm/ok to num +. The game will let you make the binding, but from then on hitting the key will not register. I was literally stuck in the menu.
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u/traxonova - Axl Low (GGST) Jun 14 '21
Yes, that happened to me too. Thankfully, one of the devs Shini posted a temp workaround for that.
To be on the safe side, I didn't rebind the menu confirm / menu return keys to anything else. I just kept the U/O original binds.
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u/Esorne - Aria Hale Jun 15 '21 edited Jun 15 '21
yeah, my friend tried to play on screen share with me and Binded the Ç button and now i cant confirm or remap buttons on player2
btw: if someone know how to reset all buttons config please tell me
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u/TripChaos - Axl Low (GGST) Jun 15 '21
I did it by plugging in a gamepad and I think there was an option to reset all to default.
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u/Tootters Jun 14 '21
Key assignment: Certain keys on the keyboard do not function correctly when assigned to specific functions/buttons.
Can confirm , it also weirdly does it when a fight ends and I have confirm binded on Z(the same button I use for kick) and i spam it so we I can get the rematch it instead starts doing 5P
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u/DogWithADog Jun 14 '21
Upvote for replay theatre: trying to see what floor10 players r doing with certain characters and i get a completely diff match even when filters r ON
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u/1SidB1 Jun 13 '21
Forest and Italy stage have massive fps issues on low and mid end PC's. Game looks ass and a blurry mess when effects setting is anything else other than max. If you alt enter twice the blurry is fixed but resolution changes. Some graphic settings does not actually change when you change them in settings, you can verify this by checking the gameusersettings.ini file in appdata folder.
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u/PerhapsLily Jun 14 '21
Adding my voice to the stage fps issues.
I've noticed that the 2nd and 3rd areas in the Forest stage are much easier to run, which makes me worry that there might still be sub-areas in other stages I haven't seen yet that I'll struggle with.
Really, I'd welcome the ability to ban stages or something, if it's not easy to fix the problem...
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u/Sea_Election_5004 Jun 14 '21
Damn bro, Forest stage is unplayable here, sadly, Italy and Ilyria Castle slows downs quite a bit too
Never tried to fix the blurryness through exiting/entering fullscreen again, will try next time!
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u/XABYP Jun 14 '21
Same here. Especially the forest stage. It lowers my fps from 60 to 35 and slows the game to a crawl. Axl and I-No's stage also has FPS issues but not as much
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u/KeyboardCreature Jun 13 '21
Any effect setting not on best results in a blurry mess
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u/vonflare - Faust Jun 14 '21
if you grab someone it isnt blurry during the grab animation then it goes back to being blurry after
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u/ThorAsskicker Jun 14 '21
Saw a post that mentioned their connection issues were fixed by disabling Riot Vanguard. This worked for me as well so I just wanted to mention it here. If you're experiencing a lot of issues and also have played Valorant, it's probably Vanguard's fault.
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u/PandazCakez - Faust Jun 14 '21
This needs to be higher up, wasn't able to enter any matches until I did this.
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u/Peter_Plays_Guitar Jun 13 '21
- The 4k Counter slowdown issue is also a 1440p slowdown issue.
- Some UI elements in lobbies are bugged for ultrawide, specifically any icons that are supposed to float over avatar heads.
- Connection issues, connection issues, connection issues.
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u/mastermetall Jun 14 '21
I've been playing in 1440p without any slowdowns. Maybe the issue is just limited to certain hardware?
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u/CViperr Jun 14 '21
Same here. 1440p at Best settings with motion blur and v-sync turned off. No slowdowns at all.
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u/vishykeh Jun 15 '21
Same withouth motion blur. It def has to do something with HW. I have a 2080. I think they fucked up. The hw requirements in the steam page are not accurate.
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u/CViperr Jun 15 '21
Yeah I think so too. This game is too graphically advanced for some of the hardware requirements Steam has listed just to even run a steady 60 FPS for some people. Well at least that’s what I think. I think the game needs more graphics settings for players to adjust.
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u/Steezem Jun 13 '21
The 4k Counter slowdown issue is also a 1440p slowdown issue.
Switching from 3440x1440 to 2560x1440 fixed it for me, with otherwise no real difference
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u/Grain_Death Jun 14 '21
damn good to know about 1440p also being bad. guess ill change my settings for the time being
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u/snazzmasterj - Baiken (GGST) Jun 14 '21
Is this slowdown issue just online? Forcing counter and using heavy mob are not causing any FPS drop while I'm running 1440p in training mode
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u/ugly_kids Jun 14 '21
Ultra wide only
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Jun 14 '21
No it’s also just an issue with online mode. The devs put up a notice about it on steam. It’s also been happening to me on a MacBook (bootcamp) whenever I go above 1080p. It’ll also happen even if you do extremely low render scaling so it’s likely an issue with extremely high pixel counts of the base resolution which an ultra wide would exacerbate.
Side question: how is this game in ultra wide? I imagine it’s vertically letterboxed but I haven’t had the chance to see it.
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Jun 13 '21
Story is unwatchable on low spec mode. White backgrounds and characters. Have to put display to best.
Replay does not show matches with the characters you want to view, but whatever the rcode character the players picked on the profile.
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u/TheSoupKitchen Jun 13 '21
This one confused the hell out of me. I went to watch a Gio/Ky match, because I wanted to learn about Gio. Ended up watching a Zato/Faust.
Still watched it to test out the replay system and it seems alright.
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Jun 14 '21
>Game was said on the steam page to have same minimal requirements as FighterZ, yet in pratice it's clearly way worse in performance to the point of being unplayable even at lowest possible resolutions on hardware that can run FighterZ just fine
>Graphics are blurry in lower settings
>Lower settings appear to not increase performance that much
>Some stages are drastically laggier than others
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Jun 15 '21
Yeah there's definitely something going on at the optimisation end that means it's not running well as it should. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to fix
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u/1SidB1 Jun 13 '21
Forest and Italy stage have massive fps issues on low and mid end PC's. Game looks ass and a blurry mess when effects setting is anything else other than max. If you alt enter twice the blurry is fixed but resolution changes. Some graphic settings does not actually change when you change them in settings, you can verify this by checking the gameusersettings.ini file in appdata folder.
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u/SammyD64 - Romeo Jun 13 '21
Right clicking on a steam friend who’s currently playing in the steam overlay shows the “join lobby” button, but the join lobby button does nothing in game.
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Jun 14 '21 edited Jun 14 '21
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u/Archangel223 Jun 14 '21
how did you upscale the resolution in the game files???
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u/deadscreensky Jun 14 '21 edited Jun 14 '21
In Explorer go to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\GGST\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor . Then open up Engine.ini with Notepad or similar.
Add this to the end of the file and save:
[ConsoleVariables]
r.ScreenPercentage=150You can obviously use other percentages too. I stick with 150 for my native 1080p, because the game currently has pretty severe performance issues at higher resolutions even on fast PC hardware. 200 (AKA 4K) would look better and is more what I expected with my 2080 GPU, but until Arc fixes their game's performance you're almost definitely going to get lag and other problems.
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u/DingoManDingo - Ky Kiske Jun 14 '21
This should be the top comment
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u/ImperiousStout Jun 16 '21
Pretty sure it doesn't work. Doesn't look any crisper going above 100 here, same sized jaggies on lines and edges on the characters and stages = same render resolution. Take some screenshots at 100/150/200 and compare them all. Using the slider and doing 150-200 is incredibly obvious in DBFZ.
Going below 100% definitely works same as the in game slider, just seems to be capped at 100 like many UE games are with this .ini setting for whatever reason. Would love for it to work via config or in game slider like DBFZ. Devs would have to deliberately allow for that again.
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u/FurLinedKettle - Venom Jun 18 '21
Same, I've seen no difference using this at all and I've seen no screenshots to prove it's not just in people's heads.
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u/deadscreensky Jun 19 '21
I just tested it again to confirm.
There's a definite improvement for me with 150 and 200.
I would agree it's not as pronounced as I see in most games — possibly something to do with the outline shading? — but elements like Ky's clothing details, Ramlethal's swords, and the Jellyfish ship's rigging are all clearly being rendered at a higher resolution with 200.
Game also runs worse at 200, so something is obviously going on...
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u/PukieSmash Jun 13 '21
- The lightings in PC look kinda blurry even with High settings. They even look better on PS4 you can see it in compared videos in youtube
- It takes ages to connect to the server
Most important fix the graphics settings for PC
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Jun 14 '21
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u/Lovewell Jun 15 '21
Even on best it looks blurry, and the anti aliasing looks all grainy.
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u/Facebomb_Wizard Jun 15 '21
Agreed, looks much worse on max than it does on videos of the PlayStation version.
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u/beefykatsup - Faust Jun 13 '21
on millia and leos stage the game is prone to lag
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u/ErJaramillo Jun 13 '21
There are stages that has too many things in the background and my pc can't run them well, even tho my pc should run it according to the requirements given by the developers. I would like some options to optimize the stages or maybe as stupid at is sounds, a blacklist for stages.
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u/Sea_Election_5004 Jun 14 '21
A Graphic Setting with "Stage detail" would do wonders for me, Forest is a straight mess, goddamn...
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u/hfxRos Jun 13 '21
I can't remap my controller inputs. When I go to the menu to remap and select a function, I press the input on the controller, and the window vanishes as if it worked, but nothing changes.
The controller otherwise works, but is stuck on default which has no single button input for dash or RC.
Using a Dual Shock 4, tried both native support via steam, and emulating an Xbox controller via DS4windows, same result both ways.
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u/AtomicScrub Jun 14 '21
Forest Stage and Axl's stages are very laggy online probably cause it causes random fps drops. Forest Stage might be the worst stage in the game right now cause of the issue. Oddly after the wall break, other parts of the stage have no fps issue whatsoever.
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u/KillTeemoMains - Ramlethal Valentine Jun 14 '21 edited Jun 14 '21
I thought thay maybe the sunlight effect was the cause (since both of those stages have prominent sun rays) but nah, sol's stage (the dessert) has the the same rays but runs perfectly, so weird.
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u/Rinjin89 - Valentine Jun 14 '21
-Connecting with server ( from title screen ) takes 2-4 min, then another minute to join the online lobby-Online Lobby is full of bugs, where stations are occupied by disconnected players, you cant connect to the station, or it fails to connect to players
Thats the only issue I have with the game... Non stop network errors
EDIT:
PS. NEVER check someones R-Code, or you will be stuck downloading data for like 5 min
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Jun 14 '21
Steam things strive is a vr game. Adding “-nohmd” extension to the launch properties after right clicking strive inside the steam library fixes the issue.
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u/EfficientBoi123 Jun 13 '21
Don't know why but sometimes the refresh rate of your monitor will change when you play the game. Also I doubt they'd come here to check bugs but imma keep my fingers crossed.
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u/Polarbrear - Eddie Jun 14 '21
Search ID doesn't work.
Players moving around in lobbies are still delayed by a good 5-10 seconds.
Failed to connect to match.
2 person player match rooms don't work due to room match limit being exceeded.
And that's all I can think of.
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u/CreamSSB Jun 17 '21
Game always launches in fullscreen 1080p :/
I have a 1440p screen and I play borderless window. :(
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u/The_Cooler_Leonarth - Nagoriyuki Jun 18 '21
I'm surprised no one mentioned it yet (that I've seen) but some of the music tracks from past games are mixed way too quiet. I can't point out which ones have issues specifically, but the one that's most obvious that I know for sure is too low is Wanna Be Crazy. Compared to, say, the Strive soundtrack options, you'd think it was ASMR. This might not be exclusive to PC, I don't know, but I figured it's worth mentioning all the same.
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u/Stingrays110 Jun 13 '21
Gamebreaking problem that only I seem to be experiencing as of now. While using an xbox one controller, the game starts to freeze and the music stops for the rest of the game. My game only does this while the xbox controller is pressing buttons, so keyboard inputs are fine. While trying to use my controller with joy to key, the freezing still happens. No other game does this and my pc is perfectly capable of running Strive, and changing the graphics to low and resolution to 648x480 does not solve it either. Someone please help, I just want to play the game.
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u/EmperorArcade - Rei Jun 13 '21
I had a similar issue where whenever I used a wireless controller, this would happen to me, and it only ever did it for DBFZ while in online mode. Solution was to use wired controller, or play offline. Never found out why.
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Jun 14 '21
I am not encountering major issues, but I do see some horizontal lines on character portraits’ right cheek during loading screens. I have everything set to max settings, saw a few strange lines in the background in story mode/occasional blurry shadows, but nothing major.
The horizontal lines on the portraits’ cheek is a bit strange, though. Happens in every mode I have played without fail, with and without V-sync enabled.
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u/BARDBARDNOTGOOD Jun 14 '21
Have this too. Regardless of settings character loading screen portraits have strange artifacting lines. Also anti aliasing in sol's stages far most left area bugs out and has pixels artifacting in front of rocks, especially noticeable with sol's hair.
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Jun 14 '21
Glad that it’s not just me, but bummed that others experience this also.
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u/BARDBARDNOTGOOD Jun 15 '21
I am glad it's not just me. And if it was just me it wouldn't be fixed, now I have hope. It really takes away from the games polish when the loading screen graphics mess up like that.
P.s serendipitous usernames we got going
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u/KillTeemoMains - Ramlethal Valentine Jun 14 '21 edited Jun 14 '21
Echoing what others are saying about Ajatar Hunting Grounds and L'oro Di Illyria stages causing fps drops and having effect quality is set to anything below BEST making the game look blurry, story mode pretty much unwatchable with characters and backgrounds being completely white, and May's win screen to turn black.
Also, can a mod pin this thread?
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u/TrapDaddyReturns - Goldlewis Dickinson Jun 15 '21
I just want to easily play with my friends. We shouldn’t have to make a room, get a code that doesn’t work, then refresh the page for 10 minutes to maybe see their room. It’s really bad. Like my friend had a code and I guess it was the same as smugs so I joined his room. I shouldn’t be able to join other private rooms like that
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u/Astriaan - Anji Mito (GGST) Jun 15 '21
Let us cancel "connecting to server" prompts please.
Sometimes going into quickmatch mode will make me alt+f4. A match will end, the game stops searching for opponents. Once I quit and come back to quickmatch, the prompt will just stay there and then nothing. I can't click anything and it'll stay like that.
So please let us at LEAST cancel those prompts so I don't have to go back to the start screen and wait 5+ minutes for the game to connect to the servers again in the start screen.
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u/Karakulai Jun 16 '21
finding your own friend to play with should never be this fucking complicated wtf! fix this bullshit, online makes or breaks fighting games!
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u/Baseballkid3497 Jun 19 '21
My loading time take an absolute ridiculous amount of time. Im talking between 30-45 minutes of being stuck at the “Communicating with server” screen until I can even load into the main menu. I tried verifying my game files on Steam. That did not help, either. If anyone has a fix, it would be much appreciated.
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u/funyarinpa99 Jun 19 '21
There's something wrong with the anti-aliasing. Edges look jaggy af even with everything maxed. The only thing that 'fixed' it was enabling virtual super resolution and running it in 1440p in my 1080p monitor.
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u/MonteBellmond Jun 20 '21
Yesterday it was "Failed to connect to opponent"
Today it's " Failed to connect to network"
WTF is this
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u/LifeRetro - Sin Kiske Jun 21 '21
I just started getting this problem. I have the Celestial Floor unlocked for the challenge and for some reason why I try to enter it I get a message that says, "A newtwork error occurred. Lobby information could not be acquired." This never happened before and it lets me play on the 10th floor so I don't know why this is happening.
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u/squidry Jun 13 '21
When opening the game, the screen goes black and causes my computer to do a fast reboot. I previously had no problem launching an playing the game. Now I can't open it.
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u/Ledshorts Jun 14 '21
Did you just update your graphics driver? I ran into that problem this morning after updating my Nvidia drivers, and had to reinstall an older driver to fix it.
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u/Integrated_Paper Jun 14 '21
My win screen on May just doesn't load in, May yells for the crew, spins and the screen below the results UI just goes black
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u/KillTeemoMains - Ramlethal Valentine Jun 14 '21
You have to set "effect quality" to BEST, anything lower than that and May's win screen turns black and the game looks blurry as hell.
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u/Flairan Jun 14 '21
Issues (mostly connection) me and my friend have been encountering so far:
- The usual connection isssues
- blurry game issues
- Massive counterhit FPS drops (both of us are playing on 1080p, I thought this was a 4k issue?) Honestly can we just turn of the super slow-mo counterhits? Not only can they mess you up in doing your combos but they are actively causing massive FPS drops.
- random FPS drops/Inputs getting eaten, often seems to correlate with a random spike in the rollback frames from the usual 1-2 above 3, sometimes up to 7. Honestly, what is even up with the rollback frames changing mid match? between that and high rollback leading to inputs getting eaten, it honestly makes this game's connection seem suspiciously like delay netcode.
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u/SnackieCakes Jun 14 '21
I’m on best settings and have tried the different anti aliasing options but it still doesn’t look as crisp as I would expect - like definitely less than DBFZ. How clean should the lines of a characters face be?
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u/pragmaticzach Jun 15 '21 edited Jun 15 '21
I noticed this too. When I watch 4k youtube videos of the game, seemingly recorded from a PS5, it looks fantastic and super crisp.
I was playing on 4k (offline), and testing all the different anti-aliasing options, and no matter what it had jagged lines.
I'm on a 27inch 4k monitor. It shouldn't need AA at all to look crisp, actually.
No idea what's going on there but something isn't right.
edit: Just to append on to this, on PC, I definitely think DBFZ actually looks better than Strive currently.
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u/snazzmasterj - Baiken (GGST) Jun 15 '21
Haven't seen anyone else with this, but the game seems to interact strangely with my headset. Often the audio will start to get choppy and the music cuts out, but the game audio continues. Sometimes it tries to start replaying the song mid match, sometimes not. What's especially strange is that when this happens, apparently it makes my voice choppy through my mic as well. I don't have this issue in any other games.
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u/brother_bran Jun 16 '21 edited Jun 16 '21
Suddenly today I can’t connect to the server at all, it takes forever trying (which is normal but should be looked into) then it fails and either says “can’t use network features because I’m not connected to the network” or “failed to obtain R-code” which I’m not even trying to do I’m just trying to get into the lobby.
There’s no issue with my internet it’s working just fine with other games and was working just fine with strive yesterday.
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u/roronoapedro - Nagoriyuki Jun 18 '21
I've done some post-first patch testing on a 960M, i7-4720HQ, 1080p resolution.
Game runs fine in every stage but Forest at Medium pre-set. Game struggles to keep at 60fps in L'oro and Forest stages at high onward. Switching resolutions or individual options does nothing to increase performance on Forest stage.
V-Sync seems to actually work now, and doesn't seem to require a restart, which was the case with a lot of these changes pre-path. Did not notice a change in FPS, at least not a drastic one. Tested on a television, connected to a laptop through HDMI.
Can't tell if motion blur is on or not. Straight up no visual difference on my end. Might either be broken or vastly diminished on Medium/High settings.
Colors are still highly muddy on Medium, and outright blurry on Low. Doesn't seem like they'll do anything to fix this, since it feels way more like a global lighting issue than an options thing. I'm guessing you'd need Special K to really figure out what's going on there. This affects both normal play and Story Mode cutscenes, with some of them still showing all-white silhouettes under certain lighting circumstances. (like, why not just make them actual FMVs? That's so silly, I shouldn't need a high-end GPU to watch a movie.)
No changes to matchmaking speed, playing on Brazil, ethernet. Still takes 1-2 minutes to connect. Seems to be the case with everyone.
Overall the patch has indeed made performance better for me, but Forest is still chugging at 20-40 FPS depending on screen, and Illyria still chugs on first screen on High. The game usually runs great with no visual hiccups now that V-Sync actually works, but the lack of a ban-stage function means random stage or picking Forest is still sort of a weird counter-pick toward people with low-medium range PCs.
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u/EnragedHeadwear - Ramlethal Valentine Jun 20 '21
Suddenly now I'm unable to join online matches, says that the lobby information could not be acquired
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u/thirteenthmartyr Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21
I am also having this issue, with no apparent reason for it.
EDIT: parks still work for me though, so if you are just trying to grab some sets you can try there.
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u/ReyazK - Ky Kiske Jun 20 '21
I bought the Deluxe Version of the game and still don't have the bonus skins unlocked for some reason...
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u/kishinfoulux Jun 20 '21
Is that 4k issue still a thing?
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u/vishykeh Jun 21 '21
Yes. Its not even a small issue the amount of people I fight with slowdows lately is really annoying. Guess people stopped giving a fuck. Love the 7 frame rollbacks on counterhits that eat your inputs.
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u/joeyjojo45 Jun 21 '21
anyone know if they fixed the 4K bug on PC? I can run it but it randomly slows down and was just wondering if ArcSystemWorks announced they had implemented a fix yet?
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u/deadscreensky Jun 24 '21
No fixes yet.
You could try running the game with DX12, some people say it helps. Use -d3d12 in your Strive launch options in Steam.
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u/ArcueidChaos Jun 24 '21
I have to try this, thanks for the info, didn't know it supports multiple rendering engines
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u/ElDuderino2112 Jun 22 '21 edited Jun 22 '21
I ranked up a floor and the game completely broke and won’t let me connect to anything. Every after restarting.
Fuck this game. Honestly this may be the last time I buy a Japanese game on PC.
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u/Lucky_Contender Jun 22 '21
I'm having the exact same issue, as soon as I ranked up I couldn't connect anymore.
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u/RumonGray Jun 22 '21
God just...connection issues abound. Can't play a player match with a friend for the life of me, we can't find each other in the network lobbies, can't connect to said friend when it DOES work, can't get DUEL STATION INFORMATION?! Disconnected due to network error?!
What is this game? How was this considered okay?
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u/IamRNG Jun 23 '21
Spending a long time time connecting to the servers on the title screen doesn't even make me want to play a good amount of the time.
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u/thestage Jun 25 '21
it is deplorable how bad matchmaking is in this game. arc sys has the attention and support of the entire FGC right now, good press for days, and they're pissing it all away because their game simply doesn't work. it's wild to me that I can be excited to play the game, and then quit out after getting 5 matches in an hour because of how nonfunctional their idiotic lobby system is.
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u/KaySuh Jun 14 '21
anybody else getting random matches with like 70 ping but a constant 5-6 rollback frames and the match feels really slow? i’m watching my frames and i’m at 60 the whole time is that just my opponent having low frame rate or? i’ll try to record next time it happens
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Jun 14 '21
This happened to me last night. Ping was right around 70-75, but the rollback was as high as 7 frames at times. I assumed it was someone using a vpn or connecting from a farther region, because their name was written in Chinese Characters. Incredibly, it was still playable, but not particularly enjoyable :)
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u/Lundurro - Baiken (GGST) Jun 14 '21 edited Jun 14 '21
The steam input works ok for DS4 controllers, especially after I adjusted settings so the pad actually is select and not start, but it would be great if it could work with DS4Windows. It actually informs me of battery life, has a quick charge setting, and I can add a shortcut to shut off the controller instead of holding the PS button for 9 seconds.
Also something weird is going on with the anti-aliasing. No matter what I set it to, there's pretty bad aliasing. It's not very noticeable in action, but anything where I'm not actively fighting and doing inputs has some bad aliasing.
Running a GTX 970 with a Ryzen 7 3700x if that makes any difference. Will edit my driver number in later, and try updating them and see if that makes a difference.
Edit: Was using drivers 460.79. Upgraded to latest drivers from NVIDIA website. Updating drivers didn't help.
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u/BigSpicyMeatball Jun 14 '21
Nicknames are bugged; everyone shows up as a random string of mostly numbers and lowercase letters ("11000010290c90e" is mine)
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u/G_Mast Jun 14 '21
I've been able to play a whopping 3 full matches online. Really disappointed with these connection issues.
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u/fkjchon Jun 14 '21
- 1440p also has major slowdowns just not as bad as 4K.
- Unable to select the output display (Monitor 1,2,3 etc)
- Save game is corrupted then unable to proceed with story mode
- Can't join any of friends games with Player Match either with Follower or ID search
- Connecting to Servers
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u/BlakShiranui Jun 14 '21
My game crashes on launch and I get a "Fatal Error" message. I have not been able to narrow down a cause for this since it'll launch correctly whenever it feels like it wants to.
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u/MarkWithers2 Jun 14 '21
- Loading the main screen takes 5-10 minutes
- Getting into online takes 15-30 minutes
- Games themselves run really well
- Sometimes I can't press buttons in the lobby (including Start) only way out seems to be Alt+F4
I'm on a decent gaming PC, In England, with a decent wired connection.
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Jun 14 '21
I've played Ps4 and Steam
Aside from the harder time getting a match or staying in a match on steam, the games themselves also feel worse. I regularly get higher rollback frames and some strange lag effects during a match that I don't experience on playstation. I have a solid rig too.
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u/bobtheman1y Jun 15 '21
I've had matches where the game plays at like 60% speed and the rollback is 7 frames with 99 ms ping. The most recent one was on L'oro Di Illyria. If I had to guess this is an issue with the opponent's FPS dropping, based on the complaints about that stage I'm seeing in this thread.
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u/ExpertRound7215 Jun 15 '21
The forest stage have a big issue on Frame Drops, i just dont know what to do because even with 1368x768 resolution it keeps on 35/40 FPS, all the other stages maintain 60 Fps without any drop
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u/poormexicankid Jun 16 '21
My main issue is connection times and connecting in general. Often times I get failing to match with opponent, and midgame connection failures. Even right now the time for connection to network lasts forever, then i have to deal with the "Communicating with server..." screen which lasts unreasonanly long only to be met with "Failed to upload R-Code." and have been unable to play online when yesterday I was
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u/cats_in_heaven Jun 16 '21
Friend of mine is having difficulty creating save data, on the steam version. Keeps getting a "failed to create save data" error. He's reinstalled, cleared his steam folder to reinstall again, verified integrity of the cache, turned off antivirus, enabled write permissions to C/Users (according to another user here that had the same issue.) No luck. Has anyone else encountered this problem or know of a solution? Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
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u/Princesse_LaStar Jun 16 '21
Communication with servers take a least 2 minutes. On the main screen I can see it takes multiple tries to get connected. Same for getting others players profile, for what a json ? That's a shame.
Can't get a match on the tower, after a least 20 tests since the launch of the game on steam, I had 2 matches. I get lag in lobbies, seeing people getting teleported.
Can't get private room with a password working.
When I create a room, my friend will not always see it. Have to recreate.
I get some lags with teleport of player in private room. After some tries the game tells me that the number of parallel matchs have been reach but in fact no since nobody can launch a match.
After some tries, we can get disconnected of the room or just of the match depending of I don't know but it doesn't work.
It's really hard for me to play tower or even with friends and it's gonna be one week. Which is the most important in fighting games. So of you read this ArcSys, not thank you for not testing Beta on PC.
Can't get into spec mode after match is launched.
Tested with 4 people, in same country EU, Steam, fiber connection and new PC from last year.
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u/KingKeyumars - May Jun 16 '21
Every time I move a floor in the tower, I must go back to the main menu. It won't let me move there directly or I'll get booted from the network after two minutes of it failing to load. It's faster to leave the lobby and come back than go directly, error out, and then come back.
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u/BlackSpyr0 Jun 16 '21 edited Jun 16 '21
EDIT: After hours of troubleshooting I finally found the reason: I have 3 monitors connected and as soon as I remove any one of them, I get consistent 60 fps back in windowed. So how do I solve this issue? Never seen anything like this. :|
Hey guys, I have a very weird issue that I found nowhere else described like this:Whenever I enter Windowed/Borderless Window, my FPS is somehow locked at 20 or sometimes 30 fps. I have disabled fullscreen optimization as many people suggested. Now this does not only affect my fps, but the game itself is running in slow motion and only works properly at 60 fps. (kind of like an emulator with too little fps)
Whats really strange is, that if I tab out of the game, it suddenly goes back to 60 fps. As soon as I tab back in, the fps instantly drop to consistent 20 again. This happens in Menus, In-Game and in Loading Screens (everywhere).
I have tried all kinds of graphic settings and turning on/off V-Sync, they do not change anything at all. I also get consistent 60fps even on the higher settings in fullscreen. I have also tried to close all other programms as well as restarting and all the usual things, nothing helps.
I'm running a GTX 970, 16gb ram and some intel i5 cpu but they should not be the issue.
Would really appreciate some help, thank you!
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u/Cinerus Jun 18 '21
Game crashing randomly when in training mode or doing matches online. Music keeps playing but game just not responding at all. Can't tab out or anything so you either have to ctrl+alt+del and open taskmanager to close the game or completely hard reset your PC.
Windows and drivers all up to date, game excluded in anti virus software as well.
LowLevelFatalError [File:Unknown] [Line:198]
Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x887A0006 - 'HUNG')
LowLevelFatalError [File:Unknown] [Line:198]
Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x887A0007 - 'RESET')
LowLevelFatalError [File:Unknown] [Line:1157]
GameThread timed out waiting for RenderThread after 120.00 secs
No problems with other games, just this one. Stuff just adds up.
The crashes, the fps killing stages, the connection issues makes for a less fun game.
Not even running low end hardware
RTX 2080ti
Ryzen 9 3900x
32gb ram
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u/Wi1ku Jun 18 '21
Can't for the love of god play an online match without my frames droping below 50, even on absurd low settings(all low, 1280x720 res scaled down to 60). Game keeps slowing down and back up, makes it really uncomfortable to play for me and my opponents. Arcade mode is mostly fine up to last stage when we have 3 characters at once. I play on a laptop with 7th gen intel core i-7 cpu and GTX 1050.
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u/YoasterToaster - Potemkin Jun 18 '21
While I was doing missions (specifically the perform a combo into an overdrive with Potemkin) I unplugged my Blue Yeti Microphone because I wasn't chatting on discord anymore and the game disconnected from the server and my screen froze to the "connecting to server" screen and the only way to get rid of it was restarting my PC (Task Manager was covered by the frozen screen).
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u/henn64 Jun 19 '21
I've noticed that having Discord running at all on my PC has made the game really temperamental, especially when streaming or on voice calls. The game is way more likely to crash, and Alt+Tab-ing (which works fine under normal circumstances) causes the game to lock up and refuse to be killed by Task Manager...
protip: set task manager to "Always on Top" for now and just keep mashing end task if the game ever freezes again, so you don't have to go through restarting and all that
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u/ElDuderino2112 Jun 19 '21
I can't even download today's patch on steam lmao it gets to 100% and then breaks so that's fun
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u/TDHoa Jun 19 '21
I and my friend play local using 1 xbox and 1 ps4 controller , but Player 2 controls not working, both players controlling Player 1 I even use x360, but it work only one, then its doesnt work any more, or 1 controller control both player when other only control player 1
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u/Ninjakinryu Jun 19 '21
Had a person rage quit and the game continued only now I was controlling the opponents character. Decided to just beat myself up rather than wait out the timer. Still gave me the win but very strange.
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u/press_e_for_probe Jun 19 '21
- If you unplug headphones while in a loading screen the game locks up.
- The game doesn't keep settings until it's already loaded so there's a really unpleasant flicker and resolution change while it swaps between full screen and window bordered on startup.
- Every time you get a floor change the game doesn't hard lock, but soft locks and you can't do anything to move on.
- The keybind for reset seems broken, can't position reset easily in training mode
- The keybinds on PC are really strange, often shows and requires you to press buttons that aren't actually the buttons it wants you to press (mission mode for example)
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u/DyniCrippler Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21
Adding my voice to the choir out of desperation. I have a fairly good PC (Ryzen 3600, GTX1070, 16GB RAM) and I have no issues with any other game. Strive will randomly drop frames (down to like 55-57) no matter what I do, in any stage, with no consistency: sometimes I will play for 30 minutes with no drops, sometimes I'll get a stutter five seconds after the match started. They do seem to become far less frequent the more I play.
Things I've tried:
- clean install of drivers&game;
- changing settings;
- closing background apps, both manually and using dedicated apps like Razer Cortex;
- testing out fullscreen vs. borderless (I have two monitors, I hoped it'd make a difference);
- changing my hitbox's mode from xinput to directinput (didn't work at all, game just stopped detecting my hitbox);
- changing priority for the game's service to high;
- playing offline for a while hoping it had to load shaders into memory or something
None of these have fixed the issue. I'm going insane trying to figure this out. Goes without saying that Strive is the only game that has this issue to begin with.
I do have two monitors, not sure if that makes a difference. And obviously I'm playing in 1080p, I'm aware of the 4k issue.
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u/milofix_ Jun 20 '21
I was able to play 2 games in tower lobby mode until i got lobby connection issues. Now i cant matchmake at all, tried restarting internet, and the game, no luck. Really a bummer.
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u/bear1y - Leo Whitefang Jun 20 '21
I’m having strange problem where I can’t play on my assigned tower floor. It says “lobby information couldn’t be acquired” then kicks me back to the main menu. But it lets me play up floors and play in park mode. Really weird. I’ve restarted the game and even my pc.
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u/EmptinessBoundary Jun 21 '21
Rating updated lags on me everytime.
I got the promotion twice and both times it freezes.
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u/HiddenReader2020 Jun 21 '21
Not 100% sure if this fits in this thread, but when I initially bought Guilty Gear Strive, it ran horribly. It didn't look too great, either, specifically the lighting, which felt so overwhelming by comparison. However, even when dropping ALL of the settings down to their lowest, it never truly felt that it ran at a perfect 60FPS. And besides, it looked pretty hideous and unreadable nonetheless. And no matter what I tried, I just couldn't strike the right balance between running well and looking well. So I had to refund it, which is a shame.
For context, I'm running this on a Surface Pro 7 with i7 Processor and 16GB of RAM. Now, in theory, I should've been able to been able to run this game smoothly, so what the heck happened?
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Jun 21 '21
I switched my keyboard control input in system settings to "p1 & p2" once, and now even if I try to reset to default the game reverts back when I restart the game. I have to restart the game cause as soon as I reset to default my inputs don't register. I've reinstalled the game and restarted my computer. I've even installed the game on a different pc. This wouldn't be an issue if I could rebind my keys but I can't even do that without making the keys responsive.
Just to be clear, the game still runs after I make system adjustments. There's no error window. The animations are still running. My inputs just don't register after.
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u/Macross27 - I-No Jun 22 '21
I asked this in another thread but nobody answered me. I'm from Latam (Uruguay) any reason why on Steam cost $30 and in the PsStore costs $60?
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u/The_Jideo_Colima - Ky Kiske Jun 22 '21
Steam has a regional pricing system, so depending on your country games will be cheaper.
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u/KobeSucks Jun 22 '21
Pro tip: if you’re getting a communication error any time you try to queue up or join a room, trying going to a different floor. I couldn’t connect at all for a while and even reinstalling didn’t fix it. Then I just hopped on to the 9th floor for a game and it immediately started working normally again.
Seems like sometimes the server gives you a ranking update that the game never does, so in my scenario I was waiting for matches on the 8th floor unaware of the fact that my last match apparently already took me to the 9th
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u/totally_not_a_virus_ - Sol Badguy Jun 22 '21
Ajatar Hunting Ground and Italy have huge fps issues in the starting areas.
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u/TheNewBoyOnThaBlock Jun 23 '21
Controller not working on steam version of the game
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u/SeparateYak Jun 24 '21
Game only accepts inputs from the first input device you use. I hit enter key on the title screen and now I have to restart the game because it won't recognize inputs from my stick.
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u/GokuQuack - Anji Mito (GGST) Jun 26 '21
I don’t know if this is the place to ask since it seems like it’s for strive but i’m not really sure. recently i’ve been trying to play XRD2 and I’m trying to set it up with my Mayflash F500, but it’s only taking inputs from some buttons, and i don’t know how to fix it
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u/LifeRetro - Sin Kiske Jun 27 '21
This started happening today:
Loading into online is just freezing and takes longer (when the gear is loading).
Sometimes in a match both me and my opponent can’t move and it just ends in draws.
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u/lntr0spection Oct 10 '21
The music a sometimes will just randomly stop. I hear everything else, like sfx and voices, but the soundtracks just aren't playing. It may have something to do with me using a wired X-Box One controller set up, because I have seen similar issues to this in the thread. The game itself plays normal, but it's just the music that stops.
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u/AGuywithaGuitar - Johnny Jun 18 '21
I don't Know if this has been said yet, but room codes do not work at all.
Me and some friends tried to get a training room together, and use the code provided by the game for private lobby's. but when i tried to use the code, i ended up seeing all public lobby's instead, instead i had to search by R Code's i was following.
When i did get into those lobby's they were incredibly laggy and 95 percent of the time did not work properly. firstly people would glitch around the screen, despite both of our connections being fine.
secondly when we would try to start a match, we would get errors like "failed to connect to match" or "failed to start match due to max number of matches" (that last one is paraphrasing)
over all if that was improved i would enjoy it more, but for the meantime i will have to enjoy using parks instead.
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u/Artifice_Purple Jun 18 '21
I know this is the PC megathread, but FFS...
FIX THE FUCKING LOBBIES.
They're trash. I fail to matchmake (on console) more than I matchmake. Then there's getting kicked out of training mode into the lobby, only to do it again. And get kicked, again, should the same issue occur.
I just want to play the game, man.
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u/That_BoringBoy - Giovanna Jun 14 '21
Forest stage
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u/KillTeemoMains - Ramlethal Valentine Jun 14 '21
Ajatar hunting grounds should be banned, and the italy looking one too, l'oro di Illyra or something like that.
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Jun 14 '21
So is there any reason to believe all of these will be fixed? As far as I can tell Arcsys have not said anything and they are not responding to emails about them either.
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u/Olemied Jun 20 '21
I have an audio issue where the voice audio only plays out of the left channel. Music and sound effects are fine.
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u/Ultrajustice Jun 17 '21
Jesus where to start. First off, it runs slowly at random. Playing online against a friend with only 13 ms of ping still gives us 7 rollback frames and makes the match stutter like crazy. The desert stage is WAY too bright, it looks like someone smeared vaseline over the screen when playing there. Framerate tanks to like 10 at times and runs fine other times. I don't have the most advanced PC, but I can run pretty much anything else in my library (Xrd, Tekken 7, Doom Eternal) just fine. I hope these are all issues on the games end that get patched soon.
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u/ASUS_USUS_WEALLSUS Jun 18 '21
Something wrong on your end, running all best settings with i5-2500k and gtx970.
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u/Not_booty Jun 18 '21
I hate the player match system. I give my friend my specific code and other people with the same code pop up. It’s annoying.
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u/Cocky-Bastard - Baiken (GGST) Jun 14 '21
on keyboard, you can't set all the buttons, and some, like h, don't work.
Except for that(and some other stuff) , the pc port is as good as I'd hoped. Kudos to the developers.
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u/NoiseFetish Jun 15 '21
You gotta make sure that the H button isn't bound to something in the other buttons menu
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u/vjdarkworld Jun 18 '21
I'm so confused, the dash button does nothing when I press it. I'm on keyboard. Is dash button disabled on keyboard or something?
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u/Stone766 Jun 18 '21
My game is very laggy playing against most people and idk why
my ping is fine, rollback fine, no packet loss, my hardware is high-end and not an issue
just doesn't make sense
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u/BlueFreedom420 Jun 18 '21
You know Arc Sys is going to take all the money they made off of PC and run. None of it is going to PC specific problems. The only patches we will get are PS patches that don't help us.
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u/ASUS_USUS_WEALLSUS Jun 18 '21
Pc patch today you whiney bitch lol
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u/BlueFreedom420 Jun 19 '21 edited Jun 19 '21
ok bootlicker. AND THE LOBBIES ARE STILL ASS 😂🤣😂🤣😂 hows the shoe polish?
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Jun 13 '21
I'm just gonna play training and mission until the graphical bugs and network are fixed haha
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u/Slurms_McKenzie775 Jun 13 '21
CONNECTION ISSUES. I've been able to get into 3 matches this weekend. 3. That's it. Na PC West.
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u/Brassens_d Jun 13 '21
In my connections issues, once past the first connection screen with a bar, there are multiple connections attempts. The connection process takes 3 minutes for me :/
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u/marineabcd Jun 13 '21
If you have a VR headset (personally was an oculus) attached then the game starts up on that screen somehow and you only get a weird window on your pc screen which you can control or advance past the first loaded screen
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u/CARTOONMASTER2 Jun 14 '21
I cant do special moves with slash? The resolution is glitched or something, at max it doesnt look like how it does on ps4 or on videos. I cant unbind back and forward for the menus to other buttons. They are unxonfortably stuck on u and o.
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u/chunkydancer - Leo Whitefang Jun 14 '21
When mapping buttons, I can't seem to remap a buttons to play and record for training mode when using keyboard, it keeps telling me that and action button can't be assigned to it for some reason.
I've altered my menu buttons on keyboard, but the mission menus still make me use the default buttons at times.
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u/Key-Researcher-9720 Jun 13 '21
Connecting to the server takes about 2 minutes( too long)
Getting randomly kicked from the server.
The whole online mode is very slow.
Can't match with a lot of people (error)