First off, I only play HC.
This weekend, I started with D4. I made a necro.
I get into Helltide, and every 60s or so, massive freeze, sometimes crash the game. Never had any issues in previous seasons.
Death 1
I do a fresh reinstall, and update my drivers. I close all other programs. I crank down settings.
I make a new necro. I go into Helltidies.
Crash.
Death 2
I give up on D4 after 6 hours of troubleshooting.
I download D2r.
I create a bladesin for the new season.
I level to 80, I enter Tristram in Hell.
Massive lag begins, I fearfully select exit game.
I run pingtest immediately, 150 mb/s no packet loss
I login
“Character already in a game”
Logout.
Login - dead HC char
Therefore 3 dead HC chars in one day by crash or disconnect
Therefore sad
Cry
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such is life in the zone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqGQnnlPkAY
HC + online game is never a good idea
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Oh man sry to hear that my computer ran like dream silky silky smooth no drops in frames or lag
Upgrade time?
Why do some people seem to have many issues when others do not have any? My 5 year old rig runs D4 good.
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5 year old? I run this game without problems on Ivy Bridge (2012).
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You dont perchance own an intel cpu from the last 2 generations do you ?
(incase you have not heard of the massive cpu issues they are having causing crashing etc)
Running it on Windows 98 SE my friends, with 4 gigs of ram. Best operating system to date, change my mind.
It seems like every time there’s a world boss, the entire server freezes up. I even experienced it while skipping the world boss and running a Nightmare Dungeon.
wow…
call up your ISP to query if they throttled certain traffic or not.
this is odd. honestly i havent had any lag playing hardcore in several seasons. only time i have noticed lag is at wb. helltide is smooth like butter for me. got a sorc and necro this season in hc. considering doing a druid next
Well aside from the fact Win 98 SE doesn’t support DirectX 11 and the game requires that and a minimum of 8Gb I’m sure you’re having a great experience. I, too, experience silky smooth game play by watching videos of others play it.
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If I can get Doom to run off a Dick Tracy watch, I can get D4 to run off of Windows 98 SE. 
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There was a recent Black Hat event where the winner of the hack prize got Doom running on an insanely tiny piece of hardware. Don’t remember how tiny but it was apparently very impressive.
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I play HC in all the zones of D3… Asia, EU, and NA from my home in southern Mexico. But D4 has been a lag fest and DC farm since the Jun 6th release. I had no issues during server slams and beta weekends… no issues in the 3 days of early access. But then on June 6th it was like they flipped a switch and the game never ran reliably after that. I tried dialing down settings, turning off cross plat, etc. Nothing worked and I gave up after S3… it just wasn’t worth the hassle. I keep watching the forums and I see post after post on PC and console forums about lag issues and know it hasn’t gotten any better.
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Yeah, he was 100% describing a d/c’ed hardcore character.
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if u can move while evrything around freezes thats internet problem if evrything freez thats pc problem
you do realize what is the common denominator in your story is right? I will help you. That you made a necro (which means a dead man literally). If you had made a barb or a sorc you would probably be still playing now in hc instead of posting in forums 
If you had a scroll of escape, it would have saved your sorry a$$. It triggers on disconnects, even on crashes. Check this. https://youtube.com/watch?v=kQZs7ou74Q0
Omg, you win. Fond memories of that dinosaur… and the whirring tower & the blinking light… I think it was a Compaq. Does Compaq still exist??
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