its unplayable right now for me and played every season prior and its never been this bad. any mob encounter, UI menu, overworld zone load the game turns into a picture book where i am spamming all my keys and buttons hoping the next frame is me still alive.
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Agree, I myself have posted about this and its crashing and locking up on me.
I can’t even start the game. I uninstalled and reinstalled, updated video card drivers and everything.
The game tries to load, then just crashes with no report or anything. Really frustrating.
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I was playing the game all night with zero issues. Took a break, and when I came back there was a new game update. Now the game is completely unplayable due to extreme lag. My game settings are still the same so I don’t understand why it is so bad now.
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I installed the game and played it for the first time since launch, yesterday. I had no issues while playing. All of the sudden, I log on today and there’s a new update. Now the game is completely unplayable. Massive amounts of lag/stuttering/rubberbanding.
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I am experiencing the same situation. Before the recent update, the game ran like a dream at max settings. Now, even with everything set to the lowest quality I am rubber banding like crazy.
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Ditto, wish there was some response from Blizz, but nice to see it’s not just me. Played last night just fine. Had a random crash after hours of play, no big deal. got new patch right after crash, and game is unplayable since. If I leave town and find any mobs (start any fight with anything), game ramps up lag FAST till I crash or it has even locked up my entire pc.
Exact same issue as the people above. Whats weird is that it maxes out your CPU while your GPU sits at 5-20% usage.
1 month ago I played this game for 12 hours a day on weekends, while having Youtube open on my 2nd monitor and I could watch whole TV series and podcasts and so on. A day and a half ago I played Vessel of Hatred and it ran mostly fine - some lag, but i’m not a whiner and I’ve been through enough online game releases by this point that I expect lag near launch.
Now, after the most recent 2 hotfixes, my game is functionally unplayable. 1-3 fps while fighting, 99% CPU usage - hell, you can’t even exit the game properly. It’ll stop responding and force you to close it via brute force.
I’ve done all the usual nonsense.
- Reinstalled
- Drivers and windows up to date
- Restarted my PC
- Closed all background applications
- Checked graphics settings, Nvidia control panel settings
- Checked power settings
- Checked other games
- Rubbed my mouse for good luck
yada yada. It doesn’t work. Its not my PC. I still can play a half dozen games in a row at 200 FPS in Overwatch on high/ultra 1440p. I can still play God of War Ragnarok maxed out at 60 fps. Forbidden West too.
I’ve uninstalled the game for now just to try and keep my mind off it, but man does it feel like I got scammed. I bought this expansion and the battle pass and had a lot of fun for a day on launch and now its been a day and a half and i’ve not only not been able to play at all for fear of your game breaking my PC due to how poor it runs, but there has been complete and total radio silence for the DOZENS of threads about this issue and the crashing one.
I post here on the US forums because the EU forums for Blizzard games are generally just a pit where animals are contained and ignored, but it appears even here on the US forums you guys don’t have it any better these days.
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Definitely not just you all as we experience the same thing here. Blizzard sure does love to live up to their name, literally, as they like to leave their customers out in the cold.
Below are my computer specs. I have charter 1GBps connection and a backup Tmobile home internet 500Mbps solution. Lagging so much it’s sometimes not even possible to ride a horse without running into several, several of things alone the way.
GPU1
AMD Radeon RX 7600
Primary/Discrete
| OS Name | Microsoft Windows 11 Home |
|---|---|
| Version | 10.0.22631 Build 22631 |
| OS Manufacturer | Microsoft Corporation |
| System Model | GamingPC |
| System Type | x64-based PC |
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core Processor, 3801 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s) |
| BIOS Version/Date | American Megatrends International, LLC. 2.06.AS03, 1/16/2024 |
| SMBIOS Version | 3.4 |
| Embedded Controller Version | 255.255 |
| BIOS Mode | UEFI |
| Locale | United States |
| Hardware Abstraction Layer | Version = 10.0.22621.2506 |
| Time Zone | Eastern Daylight Time |
| Installed Physical Memory (RAM) | 32.0 GB |
Think it has something to do with the amount of vram this game uses.
Many people have the game installed on an SSD, but their system drive might be a normal HD, which is where vram is used by default.
I monitor it on my machine… even with 32gb ram, the game has my vram filled at 40gb. The amount of vram it uses is insane compared to ANY other game.
The amount of vram usage if on a normal HD, is going to cause a lot of stutter and lag.
Naaa being the game worked fine before this update or expansion pack, I’ve played 4 seasons so far and finished them … The specs of the game have not changed due to the xpack… My OS drive is SSD and my Game drive is also an SSD.
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same issues here. The second anything comes on screen (monster, other player, etc), it slows to a crawl. The more stuff, the longer the slowdown. But outside of ANY encounter…it’ll run fine.
Definitely a newer problem. Haven’t played in a while but I didn’t have the issue when I last logged on a few seasons ago.
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Releasing the VOH add-on in such poor quality is an obvious and calculated practice by Blizzard. It’s not the fault of all the hardware, settings or driver configuration. The game is not optimized, it never was. They do not make an effort in this matter. Every new product and add-on to the base game deepens the problem related to performance. Blizzard deserves not our money but a class action lawsuit for the fraud of selling a non-working game. Diablo does not meet performance standards. How the game works depends only and exclusively on the condition of the weak server that serves it and is not modernized. The entire infrastructure is lying.
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Yeah due to rubberbanding the game is 100% unplayable and its only D4 I am having the problem with every other online game works for me its been like this for 3 or 4 days for me
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