To me, since I turned the dynamic render scale off in the game options and I added the “-threads 2” line in the launcher, I’ve been able to play several games in a row without the freezing. I haven’t really counted how many games in a row, but let’s say 5-6 at most. I’ve been able to complete daily challenges and several weekly challenges. But it eventually freezes in the middle of a match. Never in the menus; I can stay forever in menus without a problem. I’ve been playing like this for 2 days.
Don’t know which of the 2 options did the trick, though. And I don’t really want to touch anything again since at least I can play some matches normally.
Ah, also I play on borderless windowed so when it freezes I can close the game more easily than in fullscreen mode.
I have a Pentium G4600 (7th gen). My GPU is a Radeon RX 560, although we already know that it isn’t a GPU problem. 8 GB of RAM and on a SSD.
at the same time as us having to wait, we do need to make sure blizzard don’t just forget about it, I can imagine during the betas when this happened blizzard did the same thing about saying they would fix it, but still they didn’t
So far the official blue text from support only touched on the freezing issue, narrowed it down to a speculated i3 problem and also changed the title of this thread to that specific problem.
Like many have said the ‘force closing after a few min’ issue was not openly acknowledged.
For the crashing / force closing issue, again please reply to this post to help and for more focused attention. This popular thread has too much complaining, re-clarification, questioning, chaos and uproar.
I must say that by using this command I was able to re-enable hyperthreading (thus getting to 100+ fps instead of sub 30) and playing 3 games in a row. Crashed at the fourth. The command I used is:
