What it says on the tin. I’m currently in Act III (no spoilers, please 🙂) somewhere close to the end of it, if I’m guessing correctly, and I’ve been noticing the game getting more and more choppy the farther I go.
At first I just thought it was the main town, but then it happened in the enemy town/prison, then in the mountain area, then on the way to Kehjistan, each progressively worse in terms of stutters, frame drops for no apparent reason, and lag (complete with teleportation and massive input delay).
Scosglen was worse than Fractured peaks (in which I didn’t notice this problem except rare occasions). Dry Steppes is worse than Scosglen. I’m worried I’ll have to mail my input commands to Blizzard and wait for the USPS to return my results by the final acts! 😆
I can only think it must be a network condition problem, but on Blizzard’s side. I have 1Gb down and low pings, no other traffic on my network (or similar traffic during the day as when I play other games online).
My machine, an AMD 5600X with 3060ti and an NVMe drive, running at 1440p with DLSS on Balanced, hovers at 150+ fps when conditions are good.
Anyone else experiencing this sort of progressive performance degradation, or are the servers really just getting hammered that badly? Maybe someone has a remedy to try?
Anyway, loving the game, and all of this is in good spirits. Not looking to create a hate-fest in the comments. Just wondering if I’m not the only one who notices this stuff.
There's times where I get some lag during prime time but it's not that bad in that regard.
The game does have several performance issues though. One is a vram issue where it fills your vram no matter what. During the betas I also had the performance degrade over time (not game progress), which required a restart of the game client to get back to full performance. I heard some people still experience this, so maybe this was just fixed through Linux drivers on my end instead. There's another issues however that is still ongoing: The game sometimes when you teleport or alt tab just degrades performance. You can usually fix this by toggling certain graphics option, like the shader quality back & forth or the smooth shadows off & on. I didn't notice a vram difference after that so I'm not sure if it's related to that or not but at least it is a quick momentarily fix until it happens again. Not sure if it works under Windows but I'd give it at least a try.
Edit: Skip the lag comment. It's been unplayable rubberbanding now.