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Screen blinking / Heavy lag : Hack or Me?

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 Husnan   France. August 10 2012 06:33. Posts 271
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Hey TL !

Tried to search for something similar, but couldn't find anything, so here I am...

I've had a couple games on ladder (one today, one yesterday) that were really weird. Both games, I was playing vs Toss (I'm zerg), and the games were pretty long, and by the end, we got into sort of a base-trade scenario, with me looking for their last buildings and them trying to kill everything with a few Void Rays.

Anyway, the thing is by the time it became clear that I had won those games, my computer (more exactly, my SC2 window) started to lag like fucking hell, screen was blinking (2 seconds black, 1 second normal, 2 seconds black, 1 second normal, etc...) and I almost couldn't do a thing.

I left that first game, but the second one, I managed anyway and won it.

Onto my question now : is this a REALLY weird coincidence that these things happened only in such cases, and it was just a genuine bug with the game, the new patch, my graphic driver, what have you..? or, as I suspect, is this some kind of Battlenet Hack that some players use in ladder to win lost-causes games?

Didn't find anything on the subject on Google, or on BNet support forums, if someone's got an idea, I'd be glad to hear it.

Thanks in advance
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 prowala   United States. August 10 2012 17:47. Posts 147
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I don't think any hack has the capability to make your screen blink mate.
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 Malpractice.248   United States. August 10 2012 17:50. Posts 698
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Sounds like a bad HDMI cord; or you had it trying to switch to a 2nd monitor, when the 2nd monitor is off.
It happens to me, rarely.
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 Yorbon   Netherlands. August 10 2012 17:53. Posts 1371
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I'm no expert, but to be honest, especially if it occured twice in a row or something, i think it will be on your end. Try to find similarities: same map, same player and other things that may clarify. Do you see anything weird in the replay?
Check your hardware, are you sure everything is alright?
Also, like what prowala said, most hacks are presumed to edit files on the computer they're acting on, so you should be out of range.
Last edit: 2012-08-10 17:54:41
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 Slakkoo   Sweden. August 10 2012 17:54. Posts 979
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I dont understand why people, as quick as something weird happens, blame it on a hack. It might just be your cord isnt fully plugged in or something simple as that. Check the cords first.
 
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 Targe   United Kingdom. August 10 2012 18:06. Posts 1761
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That just isn't a hack. So many people don't realise the limitations of hacks and are quick to blame them without considering their own computer might be at fault.
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 SKDN   Sweden. August 10 2012 18:14. Posts 241
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On August 10 2012 18:06 Targe wrote:
That just isn't a hack. So many people don't realise the limitations of hacks and are quick to blame them without considering their own computer might be at fault.

We have to respect that everyone on TL arent Computer experts like most of us some of them just like to play games
As someone above posted maybe you should update your graphics card drivers? or maybe just get a new HDMI cable I dunno.
 
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  Tom Cruise   Denmark. August 10 2012 18:20. Posts 476Profile # 

On August 10 2012 18:14 SKDN wrote:

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We have to respect that everyone on TL arent Computer experts like most of us some of them just like to play games
As someone above posted maybe you should update your graphics card drivers? or maybe just get a new HDMI cable I dunno.


it's not a question about whether or not you're a computer expert, but whether or not "hack" should be your first guess whenever something happens
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 skn   Sweden. August 10 2012 18:27. Posts 9
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This is actually something that has started happening to me too, just a few days ago. I do not think a hack is causing it, but maybe a bug, drivers, or something along those lines? So far it has only happened when I've been in the game - Starcraft.
I'll let you know if I fix the problem.
 
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 Azera   Singapore. August 10 2012 18:29. Posts 3376
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No hack can do such a thing.
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  Tom Cruise   Denmark. August 10 2012 18:38. Posts 476Profile # 

On August 10 2012 18:27 skn wrote:
This is actually something that has started happening to me too, just a few days ago. I do not think a hack is causing it, but maybe a bug, drivers, or something along those lines? So far it has only happened when I've been in the game - Starcraft.
I'll let you know if I fix the problem.


it literally could be anything on your computer that is causing the issue. it happens to me 10 times a year or so

edit: experience tells me that if you play games with sli that doesnt quite support sli, it tends to happen more often. assuming that could be one of the explanations

it could also be due to your monitor going "hey dude, i'm feeling a bit weird so i'll just turn myself off for a second, heh." honestly though, it sounds like a bad plugin somewhere, though that shouldnt explain the lag. it could be severe overheating or a seriously messed up driver glitch. could even be the game itself.
Last edit: 2012-08-10 18:47:17
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 comabreaded   United States. August 11 2012 02:37. Posts 2086
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I was having a similar problem with patch 1.5. The whole screen would go black like the video card driver was failing and resetting (but I was not getting any notification from Windows). This would happen every 5-10 seconds. I was also seeing graphic artifacts in game. This was not a problem in prior patches. I was running a 2 card SLI setup with 2 GTX 570s. The GPUs' temps were about 59 C for both.

I removed one of my 2 video cards and the problem went away. I also had problems with SLI in SC2 only on a previous motherboard, but using the same 2 video cards. When having only 1 of EITHER video card installed, there was no problem. Other games worked fine with SLI (Max Payne 3, NFS Hot Pursuit, Dota 2). I had to physically remove one card. Disabling SLI alone did not solve the problem.
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 inn5013orecl   United States. August 11 2012 04:35. Posts 195
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On August 10 2012 06:33 Husnan wrote:
Anyway, the thing is by the time it became clear that I had won those games, my computer (more exactly, my SC2 window) started to lag like fucking hell, screen was blinking (2 seconds black, 1 second normal, 2 seconds black, 1 second normal, etc...) and I almost couldn't do a thing.

Thanks in advance


This sounds like a graphic card issue. I've experienced the same thing at random times where the graphics driver stops working and resets itself, resulting in a freezing-like screen, then black, then reset. Then a bubble popup notifications from taskbar appears saying your graphics card has reset. I've also had it at times where the card 1/2 way "farts" and only experience the lag, but not blackout and no popup, but very similar symptoms to the full driver stop.

Not sure why it happens...only happens very sparsely to me, and driver updates don't seem to help. But seems to exhibit no long term damages. I just grew to ignore it

edit: both my gts 250 and my gtx 560 ti on two different comps had this issue

Last edit: 2012-08-11 04:35:56
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 NeonFox   August 11 2012 04:43. Posts 2355
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"Hacking" in sc2 is a program being executed on the hacker's side. There is no way it can influence your own computer, as there is no way for your opponent to gain access to your computer.
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 BAHRAM   Canada. August 11 2012 04:44. Posts 15
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Seems like the moment anything odd happens the first thing people think of are HAX HAX HAX EVERYWHERE
Mea Culpa!
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 Heh_   Singapore. August 11 2012 04:51. Posts 2245
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On August 10 2012 18:14 SKDN wrote:

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We have to respect that everyone on TL arent Computer experts like most of us some of them just like to play games
As someone above posted maybe you should update your graphics card drivers? or maybe just get a new HDMI cable I dunno.

But some common sense should be exercised. For example, if my mouse cursor suddenly stopped moving or my keyboard doesn't respond, do I blame hacks for that? No. The first thing I do is pause the game then check my hardware.
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 HansK   August 11 2012 05:02. Posts 249
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On August 10 2012 18:29 Azera wrote:
No hack can do such a thing.


I would not go as far as to say that. There has been a "flash" hack in more than one blizzard game in the past as well as exploits that would allow you to freeze/lag the other persons game client.

Example:+ Show Spoiler +
There have been several buffer over-flow freezes that could be caused by your enemy in other blizzard games as well.
Last edit: 2012-08-11 05:02:49
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 Halogen   Cuba. August 11 2012 05:03. Posts 1
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I came here to say that "screen blinking" is possible. It was done in diablo 2. They called it flash hacking.
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 PanN   United States. August 11 2012 05:04. Posts 2603
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On August 11 2012 04:51 Heh_ wrote:

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But some common sense should be exercised. For example, if my mouse cursor suddenly stopped moving or my keyboard doesn't respond, do I blame hacks for that? No. The first thing I do is pause the game then check my hardware.


Common sense is not computer knowledge. Common sense would tell you that. Like the guy said, some people just play games and don't know ANYTHING about computers. You think they automatically lack common sense just because they're unsure? Thats what you jump to here? You're a mean person.
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 Heh_   Singapore. August 11 2012 05:17. Posts 2245
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On August 11 2012 05:04 PanN wrote:

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Common sense is not computer knowledge. Common sense would tell you that. Like the guy said, some people just play games and don't know ANYTHING about computers. You think they automatically lack common sense just because they're unsure? Thats what you jump to here? You're a mean person.

If you moved your mouse around and found that the cursor wasn't moving, the first thing you'll do is to check if it's plugged in properly. That's common sense. If you suddenly disconnected while surfing the internet, the first thing that you'll check is your router/modem. That's common sense. The first thought that comes to mind shouldn't be "omg I'm getting hacked".
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