I played 4 hours of ranked and outside if a couple of matches, the quality was acceptable. A far cry from what it was when the transition happened that’s for sure.
This is the first patch that’s made a difference, and it’s basically completely fixed the game. Before, the training mode with fight request, matchmaking menus, ranked matches, and endless matches that were being pinged would freeze constantly. This is with all settings optimal. Now it’s practically perfect - I wager it’ll be perfect once the beta update goes stable. Can’t believe this actually happened, after all this time, and all those bogus patches.
Now all we have to whine about is the lack of GGPO 
I get a disconnect once in a while as well as a menu freeze very shortly and seldomly, most of the time though it’s terrific. Playing SFIV online is finally fun on PC again.
So the problem was on Valve’s end, then?
Yeah.
Menu freezes are gone. Frame Trapping is back on the menu.
Its like GFWL now for me. The PC version is the best version once again.
But it wont work miracles if your on a ghetto PC & ISP though.
what worked for Windows XP from the beginning, finally moved to the newer OS. With a few months delay
Played some ranked games and things were fine, had one match where there was a big lag spike and i couldn’t move but my opponent still could(cheater?)
Played a guy from Canada in endless(im from uk) and the connection was decent
Once they remove the quick fixes they implemented after the transition the game will probably be back to Gfwl quality.
From what I remember, it’s a desync issue. I had 2 people I know where I went through this situation, and while I wasn’t able to move and block due to such issues, he was doing a full blown Sakura cross-up into her Senpuukyaku loops with ease. Same happened for a Yang doing FADC combos during the spike. It’s likely a desync considering once the opponent is done, I think they also are in a pause too. What I don’t know is how is it like on their end. When talking to one person, he said nothing unusual came up during the combo (and I also think he said it lagged a bit after the combo was over, but I can’t recall though.)
Last patch broke the game, I can’t grab Gouken
Game still running great for me, just like Xbox live, this is a 3 week update too, my opinion still stands.
definitely not “superb” but much better now. no more lag on menus and ranked is much better. i still get those weird slowmo moments 1 in 5 matches but everything feels more responsive. something happened though for the first time and that was the game just crashing in the middle of a ranked match that i was hosting. i just got a new rig and this was the first time playing SF4 online with it. i’m using win8.1 (i fucking hate this tablet-like OS) and don’t know if it has anything to do with that. anybody else have random crashes with win8? i was using win7 before and this never happened.
It’s really great now. Gotta revise my review on Steam.
if anyone was on the fence about buying USF4 for PC you can worry no more. it’s not perfect but it’s definitely buyable now. it works like it should for the most part and those weird hang ups seem to be with certain people. i played a guy for like an hour (and he was really good) on endless and i don’t think it happened once.
I’ve been playing a lot, since they “Fixed it” and it’s better, but they made the input windows huge. Like if you do a 1 frame link, it feels like you have 4 or 5 frames to input it. I’ve pulled off absolutely silly links, links that I can’t do offline consistently but I seem to be 95% on online.
Its too late. I stayed off USF4 PC until they fixed it but they took so long to fix it that I gave up already.
same with me but i think i might slowly come back. it’s not such a frustrating experience anymore (netcode wise) so it might be worth checking it out if u have time.
I had some trouble but now it seems fine.
theres someone suing Capcom over its netcode on steam.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/45760/discussions/0/611702631246012426/
I don’t know if its real or not but I think if its real i’ll join in since USF4 causes my game to not only crash but to sign me out of steam…which is nuts since when I check I’m not signed out of steam at all. I know online friends that have reported it causes the pcs to crash and/or their steam app to crash and exit. the game has disgusting bugs.
There is no lawsuit. That guy is a moron. His posts make my brain hurt.
Complaining about lag as he streams? He’s uploading live video to the internet. That’s more than enough to nuke most home connections.
I’ve been playing since 2009, I have not run into a single instance of cheating, save for the rare player using turbo, who I bodied free. I think KenBot and ToolAssisted are the only exceptions, and their tags are clearly labeled.
Hex editing shouldn’t effect your opponent’s client, it would simply cause desyncs.
My connection bars are gone , WTF ! Does anybody had this problem before ? How to solve it ?