"Downloading Additional Content"

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is this the answer? i switch computers all the time.

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I will be honest. I fully expected the old gaming system to have this issue, since its still running on Windows 7. But it downloaded the huge update and worked fine.

So that makes me wonder if its internet related in some fashion.

I’m going to test this again from some different ISP options I have. I normally use Starlink and that one was fine, but I also have Brightspeed(formally Centurylink) and FirstNet.

Will let you know if that makes a difference.

Okay:

  • Brightspeed (10MB DSL) worked fine
  • FirstNet (was about 90MB, cell hotspot) worked fine
  • Starlink (varies between 75-200MB) was also working fine

I have no idea. So far, I have tried it from 4 machines. All work fine.

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Now it’s back lol, it wasn’t earlier

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I meant switching it on/starting it for the 1st time on a day. Then at first D3 play, the message appears, if I quit and start another game later (compu not switched off), no message. Shut down compu, start, message is there etc.

45

All I know is that I started getting this message 5 days ago, and haven’t seen an Pertrified Scream since.

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46

Have you tried allowing it to finish downloading?

After that, you may want to turn it off, and then back on again.

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You do know that this has been causing people problems for like 2 weeks right? And waiting it out, or whatever is not fixing it? Right? You do know that?

If you didn’t know that, you might want to review the thread fully. Just putting it out there.

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What does that have to do with the problem some are getting with downloading additional content messages?

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I literally thought this was the first person to ever have experienced this problem and that this was the literal only post in the entire internet about this problem.

Naturally, if the program wants to download additional content, I figured it prudent to allow it to download. Then, I asked myself, “self, what is the most sensible thing to do when a program downloads additional content?” To which myself answered “let it install.”

And then I asked myself, “self, what do we do once programs have finished installing?” To which myself answered “self, the best thing to do is restart the computer so that registry keys can be properly established.”

To which I patted myself on the proverbial back and said “good job self, surely this advice will be seen as genuine, and not sarcastic by any measure. After all, we wouldn’t want established regulars with thousands of posts who’ve interacted with me on a regular basis, to assume I’m a literal idiot who literally takes literally everything literally literally.”

I guess I’m just lucky you were here, to ensure I knew the problem’s entire scope. What would we ever do without you?

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53

Wow. Touched a nerve I’m guessing.

But seriously. You posted as if no one else had thought of any of those things already, so yeah, you got a bit of a snark from me I guess. *shrug

What can I say? You have been on these forums long enough to know better. lol

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Your fault for not using the sarcasm font. It is between bold and italicized.

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No longer getting the message saying “Downloading Additional Content”. After running the repair tool, I switched over to the EU Server, opened the game, did the Challenge Rift, exited the game, switch back to NA Server, and logged in without any messages or issues.
Note: 6 Days now without finding a Scream. Hope my luck changes today.

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When I was subtle, you missed it. I learn from my mistakes, sir and/or madam.

You could have said nothing…

If this were two decades ago I’d agree with you on that one. As it stands, this is the year of our spaghetti monster two thousand and twenty five. People really should presume snark until proven serious.

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57

The majority of people are wound so tight nowadays, expect everyone to take everything seriously.

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58

I’m beginning to wonder if the common denominator here would be having recently updated graphics drivers, as that will always cause a game to redownload and then recompile shaders. Ideally after a few minutes it no longer needs to do this unless you visit a zone that has textures not in the current zone. It’s like going to different parts of the world in WoW or D4 - each area has its own set of textures and will therefore incur a small period where it recompiles shaders as a result. Once you’ve been to each zone, all should be good until you update your driver or the game receives an update.

If anyone here has Wireshark they might want to see how much data is being downloaded during the time the game shows that message and for a few minutes afterward. If it’s not a lot, then it’s likely shaders. If it’s a lot, you’ve got corruption going on somewhere that the game is picking up on (erroneously or otherwise).

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Not sure about that.

For about 10 days straight I was updating my GPU driver each day to the next incremental version, as I was doing some troubleshooting with Diablo IV, trying to break the system from playing the game so well.

Sadly, all that did was force Diablo IV to re-cache the shaders for the GPU each first time I launched the game after updating the driver. For the first couple minutes, huge impact to the FPS, but it would settle down and be fine and back to running smoothly in short order.

Sadly, I never saw the additional content message once during all that when I would play Diablo III. Hell it never seemed to impact that game one bit in fact. Played fine every time.

For that matter Diablo IV plays fine as well. Though I have been able to replicate some issues, if I force the condition.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu4pYvGBp5s

i swear if you’re trollin me.

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I am getting this message, too. I never got it until recently, so my money is Blizzard did something to cause this, but just speculating.

I have noticed a few things that I have not seen anyone mention, or I missed it.

  1. While I am on the screen with the message, there is less than 100kbps in network bandwidth usage, so I doubt it is downloading anything.
  2. There is significant SSD/HDD usage during this message. It stays that way even after the game fully loads, but eventually stops. It lasts about as long as a scan and repair, so maybe Blizzard triggered this to happen to combat cheating?
  3. Last, I noticed this message happens only once for a certain period of time. I have not bothered to see if it a period of time (and if this, for how long) or a set time to trigger this activity. However, after I let the SSD/HDD activity come to a finish, the game loads snappy as it used to if I quit and go back in. No message, no SSD/HDD activity at all.
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yah tried it, but it didnt fix it for me.

if so when are they going to drop the ban hammers? getting sick and tired of their silence about this though tbqh. they probably fudged something up pretty badly and this is their bandaid for the time being.

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