Grrr Diablo 3 choppiness.

[Geosurface]

I just tried to play some Diablo 3 again for the first time in a while, and I gave up because it's just running like crap.

Massive amounts of slow down and choppiness.

It really shouldn't be my PC. I've heard this happens to a lot of people... I had this issue when I was at the height of my playing, but I'm pretty sure that most of the time it was much smoother. It seems like this issue has gotten worse over time. Or maybe I had figured out something to make it run smoother on a previous install which I forgot to do this time.

Does anyone know off hand some of the best things to get it running smoothly? I want to have that figured out before the expansion.

Specs:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
16gigs of RAM
DirectX 11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 670

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

Jesus Christ, this is still an issue? I tried playing this maybe 4-5 months after release and it wasn't fixed. Can't believe it still is choppy.

There was a massive thread on the Diablo 3 forums about this that the mods shut down. Fuck Blizzard.

 

[akahoovy]

That's odd. I saw slowdowns when there were multiple wizards using spells with lots of particle effects like Meteors but never stuttering.

I was disappointed that Diablo 2 ran pretty choppy on my latest machine. Oh well.

 

[darkswordsman17]

OP are you talking about that like rubberbanding stuff where you'll run somewhere and then it'll revert to like 2 seconds ago? Or just the random slowdown and choppiness that happens for no apparent f'ing reason?

 

[darkswordsman17]

That's odd. I saw slowdowns when there were multiple wizards using spells with lots of particle effects like Meteors but never stuttering.

I was disappointed that Diablo 2 ran pretty choppy on my latest machine. Oh well.

What machine? I think D2 will peg your CPU so if its a machine that likes to try to drop to lower power state then it might be due to it ramping up and down as the CPU load changes.

 

[Geosurface]

OP are you talking about that like rubberbanding stuff where you'll run somewhere and then it'll revert to like 2 seconds ago? Or just the random slowdown and choppiness that happens for no apparent f'ing reason?

the random slowdown and choppiness that happens for no apparent f'ing reason

 

[BSim500]

I was disappointed that Diablo 2 ran pretty choppy on my latest machine. Oh well.

Probably because Diablo 2 is hard capped at 25fps:-
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=15657788591
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?689467-Why-is-SP-stuck-at-25-frames

 

[frozentundra123456]

I just started playing again after some time off, and it was awful. I couldn't believe how choppy it was, and this was on an i5 as well. I put it down to some sort of network/server issues, considering that you have to be online even for single player. The last couple of times I have played though it seems better, although I have no reason why.

 

[akahoovy]

Probably because Diablo 2 is hard capped at 25fps:-
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=15657788591
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?689467-Why-is-SP-stuck-at-25-frames

Thanks for the info. I wasn't honest, it wasn't on my current machine, but my previous one with i5 2500k and a GeForce GTX 560 Ti, monitor at 120Hz. It wasn't the 25 fps though, it was stuttering.

I'm disappointed (and somewhat glad given the time investment needed) that I never got a lightning trap assassin with a hireling that had an Infinity polearm. That character was too much fun.

 

[redrider4life4]

It is 100% related to your HD, you pretty much need an SSD or run the game off a flash drive to play it properly. I will not be buying the expansion because of this as I am sure many others will not either.

 

[Ventanni]

I've been playing Diablo 3 too and was noticing the slowdown.

 

[Tweak155]

Huh, no wonder a few laptops I tested it on had the stutter problem.

I don't have stutter problems on either of my desktops or my personal laptop, but they're all SSD.

 

[artemicion]

Plays fine on my laptop (i7, 16gigs, 750m, SSD, 1080p). Does it only happen when there's a lot of action on screen?

It's been a few months since I played it off a HDD (i7, 12gigs, 660ti, HDD, 1440p), but when I did I remember it being buttery smooth (at least compared to coming from my old laptop, which IIRC was i7, 8gigs, 640m, HDD, 1080p.

 

[Evilviking]

Runs great for me. With a shit ton of mobs on the screen.

A better question is what's your internet connection like? If i try downloading the game suffers.

 

[Snock514]

Everything runs smooth for me, first thing that I thought of would be your internet connection. Good luck OP!

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

It is 100% related to your HD, you pretty much need an SSD or run the game off a flash drive to play it properly. I will not be buying the expansion because of this as I am sure many others will not either.

tried on my ssd with the same results. and its not my internet

 

[Geosurface]

I remember now I used to have it on SSD. I have a larger SSD now and I guess I'll try throwing it on there, but it's still not such a large one or with so much free space that I'm keen on clogging up nearly 20gb of it with a single game.

Why can't they have fixed this by now?

My internet connection is pretty solid. Steam installs games at about 6mbps.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

Why can't they have fixed this by now?

Because they already have your money, so screw you.

And I'm about 90% sure the problem has nothing to do with either an SSD or the internet connection.

This was the thread I first opened when I thought that I was alone in my experience. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6307731713

Then someone directed me to the main thread: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5270834509?page=1

600+ posts, and the mods shut it down. After deleting many posts, and banning users for complaining that the game was broken, and they have done nothing to fix it.

Never again will I support a company like this. There are far too many good games out there to waste my time on bullshit like this.

 

[flexy]

D3 profits *greatly* from putting in on a SSD. It uses some weird caching for loading zones/mobs...and on a normal HD this can cause extreme stutters.

 

[Geosurface]

I copied my Diablo 3 folder over to my C: SSD, and yea it helped a lot. I remember now that when I was actually doing my prime Diablo 3 playing it had been on my previous SSD at that time.

It's not perfect but it's way, way better. Nearly perfect.

I still feel like they have a lot of nerve programming it so that it needs an SSD. The majority of people are still installing their games on HDDs and those who do have an SSD are usually not keen on using that much of it's space on a single game. Myself included.

I have to assume this is yet another stupid consequence of all the "always online" make sure you're not pirating it crap... this game should have had an offline single player mode from day 1, and should have never featured any auction house. Not just the real money, but both should never have existed.

 

[JeffMD]

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
16gigs of RAM
DirectX 11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 670[/B]

Those specs will eat diablo 3 alive. And if you don't have SSD you will still suffer load times, but at 16 gb I don't think you should find it ever unplayable, continually loading new areas after a portal will take some time but thats it.

That said, an SSD will do wonders for your gaming. I picked one up for my Q6600 before my motherboard overhaul and it was probably one of the single most pivitol upgrades, even in games where my 4gb of ram was maxed out like planetside 2 it improved tremendously because any swapping back and forth between ram and cache was lightning quick. Diablo 3 was also a game I was playing on my ssd and it was butter.

 

[Prey2big]

Get an SSD.
Cap FPS to 61 (or try Vsync enabled).

I never liked that since I have a 120Hz monitor, but Diablo III runs best this way for some reason.