Profile of Cyanara

I just played a game and the replay was fine, but there is a block of 10 replays in the center of my list that the game says are invalid.

Were they created during an earlier version of the game (i.e. a different patch)? Each patch can change the rule sets that determine how a replay 'plays out' (often in impossible ways). The game should warn you of this, but attempt to play them anyway (with lots of sync-errors).

Ok so here are the outputs from a 4v4 game

GPU load is the issue here. If you look at it, you'll see that it's up and down all over the place. This means that it's not being fully used. If it was maxed out, it would be a fairly flat line at around the 50% mark.

At this point your CPU is almost certainly the limiting factor, and there's little you can do about that (except overclock it, if you have the know-how). You should definitely have room to increase your graphics settings, even though image quality and texture quality are the most important ones for making the game look nice and you've already got them fairly high. It's unlikely you'd notice higher textures on a 1080 monitor unless you zoomed in a lot.

Turning down/off physics will slightly improve CPU performance. In-game AA is demanding, but if your GPU has that much room to spare it probably doesn't matter.

Can you plz make a .txt file of all the changelogs because the hyperlinks are very tedious. Or just one large spoiler

I'd like to second this, please. A consolidated version of the latest patch would be great.

What would you say is a great system for playing Coh2 then? I currently run
I usually play 3v3 and 4v4 games and sometimes (as of last few months I feel) the game slows down and then suddenly all units accelerate lots.

That is usually an Internet connectivity issue between you and the server. It loses connection briefly, and when it reconnects it has to play out all the 'steps' of the game to catch up with everyone else.

Obviously there's not much you can do about the line beyond your modem (besides call your ISP if you can prove connectivity issues), but you can update your modem's firmware if it's out of date. If you're playing over a wireless connection, there is also a lot of potential for interference and drop outs there. Check Google for guides on making sure your wireless signal isn't competing with your neighbours. You can also try updating any drivers for your wireless devices, and attempt to rule out wireless issues altogether by playing over a direct Ethernet cable for a while, if possible.

The issues discussed in this thread are more about a consistent decline in frames per second as a match progresses.

Are there any cost-effective upgrades that will bring significant improvement to my rig when playing CoH2? I did check on that single thread benchmark link and the i5-3570k seems to hold up really well so that doesn't seem to warrant a change. Does the GPU? Will it be Worth to go with GTX 960 Strix 4GB? I found a reasonable price for that card just today.

Based on the findings of this thread, you will almost certainly be limited by your CPU, and there doesn't seem to be anything any of us can do about it. There just aren't any CPUs out there that are as powerful as this game seems to require.

That said, more data is always good. Feel free to download a copy of either Process Explorer or GPU-Z and take a screenshot of your GPU's activity as you play, and copy it here for us to look at. If it is practically a flat line at 50% or 100%, then your GPU will be a limiting factor. If not, it's probably your CPU.

The one thing you will be limited by on your GPU is the VRAM. 2GB is definitely not enough to run maximum textures smoothly in 4v4, but it's hard to say if it really matters with the whole CPU issue already slowing things down. At any rate, Process Explorer will help you work out how much VRAM you are using at each texture setting.

Your RAM should be fine, as long as you're not really running anything else in the background (browsers are surprisingly bad).

Was anyone else viewing the Match? (in Observer Mode?).

I don't think so. I'm fairly confident the third player listed on our team was the player who dropped from theirs, and simply got displaced in CELO by the AI listing. It was likely just a matter of timing of their drop that confused the game on how to display it. I don't think the game was affected in any way, because it said they had dropped as soon as we got into the match.

I wouldn't worry too much about this bug, I mostly posted it for amusement. As far as bug priority goes in this game, I'd rank this one dead last