Good thinking, but the problem does not appear to be (internet) lag. My latency is consistently very low (always green) and others in my household (using the same shared internet connection) do not seem to be experiencing these problems. Additionally, I am not using any firewall software.
(I have asked this on the official Blizzard support forums as well, hopefully I can get an answer direct, but I am not getting my hopes up for any kind of a fast response there.)
I have spent my entire weekend up to this point completely overhauling my system, and I'm sure you can understand how this would be upsetting to me.
I was running a 2.5ghz dual core 64bit amd with 4gb DDR ram and a GeForce GT 240 video card (which I have seen is about a medium quality card for this game) with windows 7 x64. (and dual monitors, if that matters.)
After playing through normal solo, I started playing with friends and it got to the point where any group of monsters would bring my game to a screeching halt, my FPS dropped so low that I would often die before I had any idea what happened. And this was with all of my settings as low as they would go.
Even playing solo in nightmare gave me this problem frequently, I see monsters, my game slows to molasses mode, and if I survive, the game goes back to being smooth a butter, lather rinse repeat ad nauseum.
Clearly this was making it impossible to enjoy this game with my friends, and it was even difficult to enjoy it on my own. All the evidence was telling me that I should not be having these issues, but still, I was due for an upgrade.
So, now I am running a 3.2 GHZ Amd athlon II x2 260, 8gb of DDR3, Windows 7 x64, and I got a brand new GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024mb gddr5. (still 2x monitors)
This rig should be like a boss, but for some reason the game still runs like rubbish. Even with the absolute lowest settings, whenever I see a pack of monsters the game just dumps all over itself until they are gone and then it's back to super silky smooth.
I've spent a whole lot of money and a whole lot of time on this, and my hardware profile says this should not be happening.
Can somebody PLEASE tell me what is going on here and how to fix this? My blood is about to boil. Since discovering that my old hardware was supposed to run this game just fine, I am understandably a little aggravated. But the silver lining here is that if I can get these issues resolved, my wife and I can play together if she uses my old video card; and I would like that. But this is just unacceptable, Hardcore play is out of the question. I don't know wth to do. Please help.
What I have tried so far (besides completely overhauling my #$#@% machine):
* GPU Driver updates
* Virus/Malware scans to make absolutely sure nothing else is screwing with me
* Ran CCleaner, just in case.
* I am NOT using WIFI, I am using wired Ethernet.
* My Speedtest.net reports come back good, 36ms ping, 30mbps down, 1mbps up. My ISP is not the issue AFAIK. (although my upstream should be higher according to what I pay for, but that is another fight for another day.)
* Made quadruple-sure that my system was completely clear of dust, installed extra fans, did pretty much everything short of watercooling to make sure that heat wasn't the problem with my old (or new) video card and causing it to throttle itself.
What I have considered trying (grasping at straws here):
* Defragging my HDDs (I keep my system pretty clean, I really doubt this would do any good. Although my win7 install and my programs are on different drives. Does that matter?)
It may be worth noting that I have not had issues like this with any other game before, not Starcraft II, WoW, nothing. Even with my old hardware. I did have similar problems with the D3 beta, however, but I attributed a lot of that to the game being, you know, in beta.
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It is very peculiar indeed.
I have spent my entire weekend up to this point completely overhauling my system, and I'm sure you can understand how this would be upsetting to me.
I was running a 2.5ghz dual core 64bit amd with 4gb DDR ram and a GeForce GT 240 video card (which I have seen is about a medium quality card for this game) with windows 7 x64. (and dual monitors, if that matters.)
After playing through normal solo, I started playing with friends and it got to the point where any group of monsters would bring my game to a screeching halt, my FPS dropped so low that I would often die before I had any idea what happened. And this was with all of my settings as low as they would go.
Even playing solo in nightmare gave me this problem frequently, I see monsters, my game slows to molasses mode, and if I survive, the game goes back to being smooth a butter, lather rinse repeat ad nauseum.
Clearly this was making it impossible to enjoy this game with my friends, and it was even difficult to enjoy it on my own. All the evidence was telling me that I should not be having these issues, but still, I was due for an upgrade.
So, now I am running a 3.2 GHZ Amd athlon II x2 260, 8gb of DDR3, Windows 7 x64, and I got a brand new GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024mb gddr5. (still 2x monitors)
This rig should be like a boss, but for some reason the game still runs like rubbish. Even with the absolute lowest settings, whenever I see a pack of monsters the game just dumps all over itself until they are gone and then it's back to super silky smooth.
I've spent a whole lot of money and a whole lot of time on this, and my hardware profile says this should not be happening.
Can somebody PLEASE tell me what is going on here and how to fix this? My blood is about to boil. Since discovering that my old hardware was supposed to run this game just fine, I am understandably a little aggravated. But the silver lining here is that if I can get these issues resolved, my wife and I can play together if she uses my old video card; and I would like that. But this is just unacceptable, Hardcore play is out of the question. I don't know wth to do. Please help.
What I have tried so far (besides completely overhauling my #$#@% machine):
* GPU Driver updates
* Virus/Malware scans to make absolutely sure nothing else is screwing with me
* Ran CCleaner, just in case.
* I am NOT using WIFI, I am using wired Ethernet.
* My Speedtest.net reports come back good, 36ms ping, 30mbps down, 1mbps up. My ISP is not the issue AFAIK. (although my upstream should be higher according to what I pay for, but that is another fight for another day.)
* Made quadruple-sure that my system was completely clear of dust, installed extra fans, did pretty much everything short of watercooling to make sure that heat wasn't the problem with my old (or new) video card and causing it to throttle itself.
What I have considered trying (grasping at straws here):
* Defragging my HDDs (I keep my system pretty clean, I really doubt this would do any good. Although my win7 install and my programs are on different drives. Does that matter?)
It may be worth noting that I have not had issues like this with any other game before, not Starcraft II, WoW, nothing. Even with my old hardware. I did have similar problems with the D3 beta, however, but I attributed a lot of that to the game being, you know, in beta.