Most of the time when I try to play this game, I get insane lag and other applications start working poorly (skype calls crash, google searches take 15+ seconds, etc.)
http://i.imgur.com/TqcbXKH.png
Rarely, I will get perfectly normal ping and the game will be playable.
I would like to know why this is, and how I can remove this insane ping, as it really ruins my gameplay experience. (note: it’s not a problem with my computer alone, as I can connect to a different PC game shortly after closing the unplayably laggy SC client.)
Here are the results for the connection tester:
— Date: 2013-03-03 (Sun Mar 2013)
16:37:56.808 | //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
16:37:56.809 | //
16:37:56.809 | // Connection Tester 0.7.8.26087 (Feb 28 2013 15:33:48)
16:37:56.809 | //
16:37:56.809 | //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
16:37:56.809 |
16:37:56.809 | Preloaded 1 SStrings
16:37:56.811 CONSOLE| executing ‘connection_tester.cfg’
16:37:56.812 | There are total of 4 hosts to check
16:37:56.812 | ConnectionTester: new state ‘CTS_INITIALIZED’
16:37:56.812 | ConnectionTester: new state ‘CTS_RESOLVING’
16:37:56.816 | Resolving ‘localhost’ …
16:37:56.821 | ‘localhost’ is 127.0.0.1
16:37:56.821 | Resolving ‘main.star-conflict.com’ …
16:37:56.822 | ‘main.star-conflict.com’ is 91.230.60.102
16:37:56.822 | Resolving ‘node2.star-conflict.com’ …
16:37:56.822 | ‘node2.star-conflict.com’ is 91.230.60.100
16:37:56.822 | Resolving ‘web.star-conflict.com’ …
16:37:56.822 | ‘web.star-conflict.com’ is 91.230.60.104
16:37:56.822 | ConnectionTester: new state ‘CTS_PINGING’
16:37:56.822 ERROR| Pinger: Failed to create ICPM socket (err: 10013)
16:37:56.823 ERROR| Pinger: Failed to create ICPM socket (err: 10013)
16:37:56.823 ERROR| Pinger: Failed to create ICPM socket (err: 10013)
16:37:56.823 ERROR| Pinger: Failed to create ICPM socket (err: 10013)
16:37:58.607 | Caught application terminal signal 21
16:37:58.614 | ConnectionTester::Shutdown
If I need more information, please tell me. Any help is greatly appreciated.