D3 still performing like crap (graphics only)

[Deleted]

Hi people!

It's been some time that D3 is released now and i have the impression that with each patch the graphics perform worse and worse ...

my rig:
CPU: 2nd generation i7 (2600k)
GPU: Geforce 460GTX
Ram: 2x4GB
SSD: OCZ Vertex 4 128 gb

i play the game with a resolution of 1920x1080 (windowed fullscreen mode)
i've set everything to LOW or OFF
I've deactivated Anti-Alising
Activated Low FX as well as VSync (hate tearing, makes my eyes hurt)
i didn't set any framecap ...
i also changed the HardwareClass to 1 (down from 4) ...
in nvdia system panel I've set tripple buffering to ON and Display Mode to "Single".
my nvidia drivers are: v314.14

Still the game stutters heavily when playing with 2-4 players... this is mainly due to dropping below 60 fps and getting back up ...

i also tried to play the game on the following system:
CPU: 3rd generation i5 (3450, not sure about that number right now ^^)
GPU: nVidia GeForce 660Ti
Ram: 2x4 GB
HDD: 7200rpm WD Black (1TB)
same settings, same drivers ...

still the game stutters because it's constantly dropping below 60fps ...
does anybody else have this issue?
I'm pretty disappointed in blizz, since other games like WoW or SC2 run with near max settings perfectly (on both systems) ...

is there anything else one could do to improve D3s performance?

Thanks in advance.

[traen]

You should get some more info.
- CPU load when you see fps drop (you need information about every core load)
- GPU load when you see fps drop
- OS version

But I guess that the problem is not with drivers, settings or your pc. The game is very poorly optimized (just as any other blizzard game). Most likely there is nothing to do about it.

[Deleted]

cpu and gpu loads hardly go over 50% ...
os is win8 (the other rig i posted has win7)

i, too, fear that the problem isn't on my side ... still i don't think that blizz games are poorly optimzed, as i've stated SC2 and Wow have run great for me, always ...

[traen]

cpu and gpu loads hardly go over 50% ...

It does not work like this.
You need exact information about each core load and exact number of gpu load.

The cpu can have 15% load but if a game can only use 1 core (or even 1 thread of one core), it would mean that the system's weakest point is cpu because the core that a game uses is loaded for 100%.

[Ghul]

my computer is 3 years old and i can run every blizzard game on maxed out settings without any problems. i dont think the problem lies with their games ~~

and no, its not a high-end machine :>

[Deleted]

Diablo 3 always freezes the first time spell effects get loaded for me. Once it has loaded all effects at least once the game runs smooth. It's definitely poor coding on Blizzard's part, because high end FPS games work fine but Diablo 3 performs crap.

[Djuntas]

No lag here OP, I7 2.8, 4GB DDR3 1.3mhz, and 470 GTX.

Only inn the start, but everyone has this...always been like that really.

[Lassira]

When I played I got a consistent 60 FPS playing it on WINE via Linux with similar specs(sans the CPU, I had an FX-6300 OC'd to 4.2)

It's possible for an insufficient PSU to throttle your system, make sure you have a sufficient power supply.

[Asmekiel]

Try messing with sound channels. Last week my fps was constantly around 15, switching sound channels to a lower setting fixed it.

[Deleted]

Only inn the start, but everyone has this...always been like that really.

I wonder why though. Because it's not uncommon for me to die once I encounter the first few monsters of a game, simply because the game freezes for a few seconds.
Maybe the game doesn't pre-load enough.

[Djuntas]

I wonder why though. Because it's not uncommon for me to die once I encounter the first few monsters of a game, simply because the game freezes for a few seconds.
Maybe the game doesn't pre-load enough.

Yep, its something to do with the pre-loading I think to. Besides, its only 20 sec's or so

[Treline]

Never had any issues with D3 at all. Running the game with 250+ fps with everything maxed. Altho wow is under preforming slightly for me. Or maybe its just running max settings in SW at prime time.

The first rig seems to have a GPU bottlenecking it tho, but should be good enough for low settings..

[Popesickle]

Crank up the fps slider in D3 to max, turn off the in-game v-sync and triple buffering. Check the nvidia control panel settings and turn on adaptive v-sync.

[Triggered Fridgekin]

The OP is seeking help with his issue, not post after post of folk drooling over their e-peen on how well they run the game.

Personally, I would untick Vsync as a first step since that will only compound the stuttering, choppy gameplay if you cannot keep your FPS over 60, it'll cap at 30, if not 30, it'll go down to 15. Some games can run better at a low FPS rate whereas others suffer, it all depend on how well Blizzard designed their product which is likely the main culprit to many gameplay-related issues such as micro-stuttering when you first fire up the game.

Unticking Vsync may do nothing, but if your FPS dips below 30 or 60 due to the increased player load, spell effects and so forth, you'll get less-than-ideal results.

Also, i'm not sure if you've read this blue post or not on a potential workaround but here it is.

[Deleted]

yep, i tried couple of workarounds including the one you mentioned ...

with vsync, i tried everything ... i cannot play without because my eyes hurt after about 10 minutes of screen tearing (and there is alot of screen tearing in d3) and finally i get headache from that ...
i've tried running d3 in adaptive vsync, but it didn't help ... game still stutters sometimes.
i've tried running the game in vsync 30fps but ... the game still stutters sometimes ...

concerning my psu: i have an antec HCG with 700W ... that should do fine.
the GPU might be bottlenecking, it isn't as "new" as other parts of the system ...

also there is no "triple buffering" option in the game, the TB is activated through nvidia system panel and has helped with stuttering slightly as far as i can tell.

with the preloading i don't have that much of an issue ... in multiplayer my game SOMETIMES (and i'm talking about once a week) freezes for 'bout 2-5 sec ... apart from that my ssd is doing a great job at loading the game files fast.

[daFuzz]

I had similar issues with my FPS dropping to unplayable rates in areas of the game. Found a topic with someone with similar issues and it turns out it was his sound card. You can either try turning off the sound completely or just dropping the sound channels to low. This completely sorted the issue out for me. However i do have a bit of a non mainstream sound card "Asus Xonar D2X"

[Evil Inside]

Try putting it on your SSD if you haven't already.

[Deleted]

I had similar issues with my FPS dropping to unplayable rates in areas of the game. Found a topic with someone with similar issues and it turns out it was his sound card. You can either try turning off the sound completely or just dropping the sound channels to low. This completely sorted the issue out for me. However i do have a bit of a non mainstream sound card "Asus Xonar D2X"

i'm already running on "low" sound quality, the only thing possible to further reduce sound settings is to turn it off - which i'm not going to do ... ^^ but i already tried that once before ... didn't help ^^
I'm using onboard sound on my Intel DZ68DP mb.

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Try putting it on your SSD if you haven't already.

i use 2 ssds ...
the first one is an "old" Adata 64gb, my system is on there (Windows 8 and programms).
the second ssd is an OCZ Vertex 4 128gb where i only have games on, including diablo3.

the Adata SSD is connected via SataII, because it doesn't support sataIII... i only have two SataIII connectors on my MB, and i use them only for the Vertex4, so 1 is free ...
so, additionally to the Adata SSD my 2TB HDD and my dvd rom are connceted to SataII.

[Zenko]

SSDs and its still causing you problems? Thats depressing. Maybe a flash drive installation would do the trick?

http://diablo3blog.blogspot.com/2012...usb-flash.html

Feel lucky that others (read: me) have neither of these and must deal with 30sec of solid .01 fps slideshow at the beginning of every session.

[LonestarHero]

You could be having heat issues with the GPU. Open up your video card utility and make sure the software is automatically cranking up the fan while under high loads. If it is not, manually set the fan to go at 50% of max speed to keep your temperature under 80 Celsius.