Blight has become completely unplayable. Every league keeps getting worse?

How is it that every league Blight continues to experience more lag? It was still at least playable somewhat last season with the degrading graphics but it at least wasn't dropping below 25 fps or so. Now it's unplayable. It was so bad I couldn't even move it looked like a giant 8 bit game. Every other program has been turned off, including browsers because for whatever reason blight just tanks the game (even with filters on). It's not the loot spam I get massive loot spam a lot in other parts of the map and it's not that bad but this is.

This last time it was so bad that it basically froze up and I died, and when returned to hideout immediately shot up to normal FPS. I tried to run back into the portal to save my map, and it took between 30-45 seconds of loading screen that I could actually hear sounds doing things, but could not see. So obviously when I finally loaded back in the blight had failed(duh).

This seems like a double failure really because if you're not going to at least fix the insane graphic issues, could you at least make it so the map is paused during the loading screen (we know you have the ability to pause the game as evidenced by Ultimatum)? That way we can pop back in and not automatically fail because the game crashed. This is extra frustrating because it's a good way to farm crafting currency without being forced to trade, and now that avenue seems pretty closed off.

Anyway I know that you're not going to fix this because everyone complains every single league and it has constantly gotten worse every time but at least I can voice my frustration about it so that maybe one day, someone will decide to take up the issue, or just remove blight from the game, because the only purpose for it currently is to bait people into thinking they can actually play it.

Or should I just make a Bingo card?

I agree. I have played Blight in previous leagues and sometimes there were performance drops when there are too much monsters, but in this league is complete unplayable to the point that the screen is frozen, even in the simplest maps. Too much explosions or too much monsters. I don't know, but it is a serious issue.

Same, Blight had had issues in the past, but going down to 6 or 7 fps every map in 3.24.

I wish an option to disable particle effects. I know this causes lot of problems in other games because not all systems implement particle effects at hardware level and use emulation, which require a lot of CPU process. And cannot deal if there are too much particles. I suppose this is how explosions are now implemented in the new render.

Edit: I put all graphic options to a minimum and no luck. I wonder why we have options like disable global illumination, antialiasing, but there is no option to disable particle system that can easily toast the computer.

I was going to create very same thread, so I just pin myself here. Basically same problem. Blight is unplayable. I play on 4k, but resolution dynamically changes to 720p or so in blight.

My specs:
7800x3d,
rtx 3080
32g ram

DX11: game changes graphically into diablo 2 (super low res), and I have like 20-40 fps, stutters, lags. And I'm not even talking about blight maps - just an ordinary blight encounter in ordinary map.

On vulkan or dx12 blight is somewhat playable, but it just simply crashes too often with generic messages (vulkan: device lost, dx12 swap_chain->Present() failed, no other usefull logs).

Heck, I even formated my drive and reinstalled windows, cause I blamed it, but no, same problem on fresh installation. Game files of course validated.

I play in windowed fullscreen.
GPU usage: >20-30ms (80-90% usage according to task manager)
CPU usage: ~4-5ms
Temps are ok: 70-80*C
All graphical options are in default state.

Ok, it seems I fixed my problems. Windows is retarded(yeah, tell me something I don't know, huh?). Windows Update was installing ancient drivers for GPU - 4 years old! I updated the drivers and now it works. At all times it's 60+ fps - usually 100-110 with dx12.

One more thing, I installed "studio" version of drivers, which do not have all new fancy stuff, but are supposedly more stable.

So i suppose, it's worth checking if you don't use some ancient drivers.

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Klimatyzator wrote:

Ok, it seems I fixed my problems. Windows is retarded(yeah, tell me something I don't know, huh?). Windows Update was installing ancient drivers for GPU - 4 years old! I updated the drivers and now it works. At all times it's 60+ fps - usually 100-110 with dx12.

One more thing, I installed "studio" version of drivers, which do not have all new fancy stuff, but are supposedly more stable.

So i suppose, it's worth checking if you don't use some ancient drivers.

All drivers are update and it still rams to 100% of the GPU and CPU during bright events.

Ya I don't get it, I played blight just fine last league, nothing changed. My blights become unplayable this league. My PC is a year old and ha e 3070ti it makes no sense.