New player here, almost 2 weeks in on a wizard for HC seasonal, I chose HC because I prefer the challenge but I’m currently on GR115 and am unable to do any content where mobs don’t die in the first few seconds anymore because of the massive lag. I’ve tried turning all my settings down, optimizing through geforce experience, trying different settings from google and bnet forums, etc, but this problem will not go away.
I’m running 32GB of corsair vengeance 3200 ram, i7 9700k, gtx 1080 ti gaming trio.
Sometimes it feels like lag, sometimes it’s a straight up freeze for a few second and my character rips across the map and my gcd’s get sped up like 20 times, sometimes its a straight up game freeze for 10-15 seconds and I get control back after having proc’d my enchantress cheat death, sometimes I also proc firebird cheat death, which almost would be game over for me if I froze any longer. If that wasn’t enough, sometimes I just randomly blink and the game crashes and gives some random error report, and then D3 is closed but it’s still technically running somehow so I can’t even “Play D3” from the bnet launcher or end the task, I have to restart my PC just to click “Play D3” because when it crashes it’s stuck on “Playing now”.
What exactly is going on? Every game I play runs more than smooth, no fps or ms issues at all, I play with about 12-20 MS in WoW and over 150 FPS in both wow and d3, and I’ve never had any issues with any other game other than D3.
Also, D3 has some separate issues where it changed the resolution of my actual PC so high that I couldnt see any icons on my screen or even the task manager text, couldn’t navigate chrome or anything else until resetting my PC several times, and sometimes it zooms in so close on the D3 window that my entire 28" monitor is just showing my characters feet and I can’t alt tab, can’t alt f4, can’t do anything but reset again.
The game has become unplayable for me unless I’m farming a neph rift where even if i lag out, I will likely still survive, or farming GR90 for items and paragon, and the minute it becomes too laggy or I don’t feel safe, I tp out and restart the game and waste my keystone because I don’t want to risk dying. Is this how D3 was designed to be played?
Adding an edit here because I forgot to include it but it just happened again to me so it’s also been a recurring issue. When I get the “Impervious to damage” buff, I’ll purposefully look for groups of 2 elite mobs and chain them together and stand in the middle to explosive blast them down, but sometimes I just get 1 shot and die which procs my enchantress or firebird 2pc again. What exactly is happening to me if I’m supposed to be “Impervious to ALL damage”? The buff wasn’t worn off either.