I’ve been seeing a lot of forum posts related to the total freeze of the game here and on reddit. Anecdotally speaking, here’s a summary of what i’ve heard:
- The freeze lasts anywhere from 1s to permanent - it varies, but 3-10 feels common
- It seems to occur most frequently in open world scenarios - not NMDs
- It seems to occur most frequently in WT3+
- Some have said turning off hardware acceleration here helps
- Some have said that turning off hardware acceleration in the bnet app helps
- Some have said that using older nvidia drivers helps
My theory is that it has to do with the way that they instance the open world environment and the client is getting jammed up with too much data it doesn’t know how to parse. I think there’s wayyyyy more people playing now and that’s why we didn’t experience this in S1. I’m not blizz though, so who knows - it’s just a theory 