I’ve tested it on the live servers and in PTR, it only occours in PTR. Thus I think it may have something to do with the new patch. I can’t see how though…
It only occours in 2 areas (at least I haven’t noticed it anywhere else so far)
- Act 2, Desolate Sands
- Act 5, Blood Marshes or the area after that
The issue in both areas is a visual freeze. The game itself is still going, I can perform attacks (even though nothing is moving on the screen), click on objects, warps (the mouse curser still changes accordingly when moving it around a clickable object or warp) and waypoints and I can tp out of the area. However, even after leaving the area, my screen is still not moving. No loading screen, nothing, only sounds. However I asume the usual procedures seem to be performed based on those sounds.
Only after leaving the area (only possible via tp) I can make the screen moving again by alt+tab out of the game and maximazing it again.
After reentering the area the visuals freeze again. The auto map is still drawing fine though. If I can warp to the area via waypoint and move around a bit bevore it freezes I can still move blindly around the area and it performs just fine. I just can’t see anything because nothing is moving on my screen.
In both cases I think that it might be connected to a certain part of each area that might occour regularly there. At least I didn’t have any case where it didn’t freeze at some point.
Here an example of each area where I can move around a bit.
The act 2 area likes to freeze a lot, I can hardly move around there. In act 5 it’s very often that one spot I noticed this.
The lines of the cycles are about the area where the screen stops moving. And as mentioned above, even if the screen is not moving I can still walk (or spin) around, the sounds happen, just nothing moves. And no, I can’t screenshot the exact moment I stop moving, that just grants me a black image.
https://i.imgur.com/vq2REHS.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/394FANu.jpg
The only thing I can’t say for certain: Is anybody else noticing similar issues in these areas or is that just something with my setup here? Since I haven’t seen any topics about this yet I can only assume that I’m either the only person trying how fast I can rush bounties with this set or this has something to do with my hardware that doesn’t like a small change that was done and not mentioned in these areas?