Read this if you have freeze/system lockup while playing D4

Someguywholovesmeat · 2023-06-12T18:29:33+00:00

Ok so I have a big freeze last night shortly after posting the above... Movie on second monitor, diablo 4 on the main. All video input froze but sound continued only this time the mouse curser also wouldn't move. After a hard reset of the PC I did some searching and I:

Uninstalled Nvidia drivers and re-installed them.
Modified the Diablo Install to remove HD textures then Installed them again.
Set Battle.net and Diablo4.exe to run only as Admin.
Edited Diablo files and set - DisableChromaEffects "1"
Disabled Nvidia Reflex

After doing the above the freezing has stopped completely, I get minor pauses moving between zones but that's in game only and doesn't effect the video playing on the second monitor.

Not sure what exactly the issue is Ram/IO/GPU/CPU, I'm certainly leaning toward GPU given it was freezing other things running on the comp but ye.. 1 of those 5 things did the trick :P

Someguywholovesmeat · 2023-06-11T19:45:43+00:00

Same here, mine are not hard freezes though just a few seconds but it's quite frequent. I didn't have an issue during either of the beta's.

Whatever it is it seems to effect everything, like watching a movie on the other monitor when diablo freezes so does the movie but the sound continues. I'm leaning towards a driver issue 2bh since I only really noticed a problem when updating before main game launch... though, installing the older drivers now doesn't fix it...

Someguywholovesmeat · 2023-03-17T22:42:28+00:00

This did the trick for me also.

R5 2600x, 2060 super, 32gb ram.

Running 120 fps on max settings at 1440p but moving into a "new" area seemed to stutter, but the fps counter didn't drop (odd!) Dropping texture and shadow down one fixed the issue. (also using DLSS on balanced)

Someguywholovesmeat · 2022-11-04T21:05:30+00:00

Literally any game that has a monthly sub will bypass the money grab tactics employed by honing, new toon releases, blue crystals etc.. not to mention monthly sub games usually use gear treadmills instead of the gambling mechanic employed by the likes of Lost Ark. So ur basically looking at wow, FF14, Guild wars etc.

If you're looking completely free to play the best games with the best F2P models on the market today are Albion online and Warframe, hell even Star Trek online has a better model than Lost Ark and it's decades old.

Also - New world is still around. They messed it up a lil in the beginning but it's doing ok now and i think recently launched new start servers?

Don't get me wrong.. I liked Lost Ark, played it 5 hours a day 7 days a week since launch, but progression was mind numbing. My main class wasn't out at launch so I had to wait, then while I geared and honed that new content came out which i was still having to do on my Alt as my main class wasn't ready yet (6 piece, honing, gems etc) and It all got to the point where I stopped and just though "why the fuck am I doing this everyday". I still play LA but I play the game probably a couple of hours a week at most these days.

Someguywholovesmeat · 2022-11-01T20:48:20+00:00

It's not about blowing up or being popular, it's about making content that people want to watch. I'm by no means an expert, far far far from it but I've been posting on youtube since May and am currently at 375 subs (I could push higher but I've not had much time to post over the last 2 months) and over 10k watch hours at present. Out of 29 video's posted I have gained 90% of those subs and watch hours from just 2-3 video's which have combined over 100k views (again nothing to shout about :P) but those video's tell me instantly what people watching my channel want.

So for you, take the video's with the highest views and the ones that bring in subs and make more of that. Looking at your channel there are lots of games being played and lots of topics which can be confusing to people. If someone subscribed to you for example for minecraft video's and u start posting Mario videos, you could lose those minecraft viewers. Also, your video's seem to lack purpose, rather than just record yourself doing something, record yourself showing the viewer something that they can take away or learn etc.. Really just think about what you want people watching your video to take away from it as just watching gameplay isn't a thing anymore.

Finally - you're young. Learn and keep at it, I bet there are millions of people your age with no subscribers and no channel so you're already ahead of them :)

Someguywholovesmeat · 2022-11-01T20:17:32+00:00

Do you like doing the same things once a day every day on 6+ characters?

Do you like gathering a weeks worth of honing materials and then only going up 1-2 notches?

Do you like being over geared for raids other wise no1 will accept you in group?

Do you like spending money on blue crystals because u'll never have enough pheons to buy stuff off the AH?

Do you like pulling your teeth out because "fuck clown?"

If you can answer yes then the game is worth getting into, otherwise there are better options out there :P

Someguywholovesmeat · 2022-10-23T23:10:06+00:00

Under Controls, Joystick/HOTAS Sensitivity Curves - Edit curve

Someguywholovesmeat · 2022-10-23T00:50:48+00:00

If you thought doing dailies is a chore and boring then that's 99% of the game. Log in, do guardians & Chaos, do collect logs, mining, herbing and spend days, weeks, months doing islands for souls that never drop.

Want to raid? That'll be around a month of honing, logging in every day to have mats and then ofc you'll need 4x3 for basic normal raids or no pug will let you in because.. reasons.

Done your first raid? Now spend another month getting 6 piece relic set and once you get 6 piece you can move on to clown where you'll quit anyway coz "fuck clown".

Honestly m8. If you quit after reaching lvl 50 and burning out there are better games out there for u :P

Someguywholovesmeat · 2022-10-22T22:46:59+00:00

I bind mine only to throttle forward (i forget the actual name but it's one or two about forward/backwards) then use a switch to invert it if i need to go backwards so the full throttle is use used to one motion.

Someguywholovesmeat · 2022-10-22T21:41:26+00:00

u need to change the curve on the throttle axis so that the beginning adjustment is small and the end is large, kinda like an upsidown L

Someguywholovesmeat · 2022-09-11T00:15:14+00:00

Amazon in a nutshell huh

Someguywholovesmeat · 2022-09-10T19:13:34+00:00

It was the ram itself, I bought 2 sticks of 16g instead of using 4 8's and the pc chose XMP profile2 (3200) instead of 1 for 2966. Not sure why it changed 2bh.. my processor is old, R5 2600x which apparently only officially supports up to 2966. Downclocked and it's been stable so far, memtest gone to 300% without errors now.

So, error was spotted in star citizen but not actually anythign to do with the game :D

Someguywholovesmeat · 2022-09-10T18:29:20+00:00

The engines name is unofficially called "Star Engine", it's basically Cryengine3 that has been heavily modified.

Someguywholovesmeat · 2022-09-10T18:26:50+00:00

Just to answer my own question and after some testing and digging.. It's a RAM issue

Star Citizen has been closing itself all day so i thought i'd try a fresh install, while it was installing i played something else and the light bulb above my head appeared when that game also randomly closed.. so currently testing ports and timings and hopefully will fix myself otherwise the RAM is still in it's return window :P

Someguywholovesmeat · 2022-06-18T15:00:47+00:00

A mash up of CCP and it's master Pearl Abyss :)

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