[Sparrohawk]

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Does anyone get lag/dips in their FPS when a lot of enemies come on screen? For the most part the game runs much better in windows, but when there are a bunch of things going on in the game, the FPS often drops into the teens and it lags up. Anyone else have these issues or know any ways to solve them? I worry that when I move on to higher difficulties and play with 4 people that I will just be bogged down the whole time.

On occasion; usually when there's a mighty ton of effects going on in a co-op game. The friends I play with occasionally get it, too.

The game isn't really innovative in terms of story, or in fact anything else. I love the lack of attribute points and skill trees; that stuff bored me to tears, and was what stopped me from playing Diablo 2. Well, that and when one goes online, being subjected to all the very best in internet abuse because your build wasn't mathematically perfect. The game is a lot of fun, and calling down meteors, firing off what look like miniature galaxies (I play a wizard, lvl 46) and electrocuting demons is good stuff.

Although I do wish they hadn't made the female demon hunter wear high-hells. I mean, sure, eye candy and all that, but jeez.

[JLV]

Think I'm gonna have to turn some settings down. I get rare but atrocious lag which forces a stop in recording.

[DeuceDrizzle]

JLV, on 24 May 2012 - 04:30 AM, said:

Think I'm gonna have to turn some settings down. I get rare but atrocious lag which forces a stop in recording.

Yeah I am playing on a Mac with specs that are plenty good enough to run the game at higher settings, but I end up having to have most things lower. For the most part I can still play at the highest resolution but I have to turn everything else on low or off to be able to get pretty solid performance. I am not sure that they really optimized things very well (especially for Macs) and I am hoping that over time they will patch and things will get better.

[QuickTidal]

I'll just leave this here.

[Aptorian]

Did you just get downvoted by an alt? Look, if you're going to downvote somebody do it in person, who ever this soon to be banned person is.

[Obdigore]

Aptorius, on 25 May 2012 - 04:58 AM, said:

Did you just get downvoted by an alt? Look, if you're going to downvote somebody do it in person, who ever this soon to be banned person is.

Whoever made the Doloros Menhir alt didn't get banned, why should whoever made that repfairy alt? No, it wasn't me, I'm firmly approving of the CoC which is apparently no longer being enforced...

Anyway, D3, its fucking stupid that on a monk your offhand weapon's dps does not effect your dps at all, but is just a stat-stick. Putting a shield on as a monk in hell+ is pretty much standard play because you get better stats on a shield, plus the block+armor is needed for either of the melee classes on Hell.

This post has been edited by Obdigore: 25 May 2012 - 05:35 AM

[Aptorian]

I reckon it is probably the same person making them. I find novelty accounts/alts funny when done right. I don't mind them at all really. But making an alt to downvote other people, that's just stupid and one of the reasons why they were banned in the first place.

[Sindriss]

act 1 inferno. Things are getting fun!

[QuickTidal]

Meh, they called me sport at least in the neg rep.

Haha.

Using an Alt is pretty stupid, but it's probably someone who doesn't like me. I'm okay with that.

Thanks for the re-repification Apt.

[Silencer]

Obdigore, on 25 May 2012 - 05:33 AM, said:

Aptorius, on 25 May 2012 - 04:58 AM, said:

Did you just get downvoted by an alt? Look, if you're going to downvote somebody do it in person, who ever this soon to be banned person is.

Whoever made the Doloros Menhir alt didn't get banned, why should whoever made that repfairy alt?

What's this? What DM alt? *narrow gaze*

*goes to investigate*

[Morgoth]

I say, when I was an admin we knew every member by heart and could instantly recognice the apperance of alt accounts by the feel of the forum beneath our feet.

[Silencer]

...when you were an admin, there were like ten members.


No, in all seriousness, if this was in the Inn (and I imagine it was)...I don't go in there so much since the, er, degradation of the topics, shall we say.

[Illuyankas]

So, using my EXPERT DEDUCTIVE SKILLS I have determined what completely non-obvious plot hooks there are for these apparent two expansions!

Spoiler

Chasing Adria down and murderating the shit out of her, and Malthael the missing archangel of wisdom going crazy and needing to be murderated.

Of course, finding a way to make these even slightly match the ending of D3 for climactic appeal is going to be tricky as balls.

[Obdigore]

Illuyankas, on 25 May 2012 - 01:55 PM, said:

So, using my EXPERT DEDUCTIVE SKILLS I have determined what completely non-obvious plot hooks there are for these apparent two expansions!

Spoiler

Chasing Adria down and murderating the shit out of her, and Malthael the missing archangel of wisdom going crazy and needing to be murderated.

Of course, finding a way to make these even slightly match the ending of D3 for climactic appeal is going to be tricky as balls.

You forgot that the Black Soulstone fell to the earth.

Its Adria and the Soulstone.

[Illuyankas]

SPOILERS!??!?!!?

[Defiance]

Illuyankas, on 25 May 2012 - 01:55 PM, said:

So, using my EXPERT DEDUCTIVE SKILLS I have determined what completely non-obvious plot hooks there are for these apparent two expansions!

Spoiler

Chasing Adria down and murderating the shit out of her, and Malthael the missing archangel of wisdom going crazy and needing to be murderated.

Of course, finding a way to make these even slightly match the ending of D3 for climactic appeal is going to be tricky as balls.

Plot? Diablo 3? What?

I wrote better stories when I was in middle school.

Spoiler

Belial is the lord of lies, despite being obvious in a facepalm-worthy way? Belial's big lie is that he's a good liar. Act 2 should have ended with you killing the Belial child emperor, only to realize that it was only an illusion and you've just slaughtered an innocent little kid. Azmodan is a master strategist? That announces to everyone what he's going to do and spreads his orders through missives that are always intercepted? He's an expert strategist, yet he accomplishes basically nothing?

Cain dying? Obvious from the previews. Leah being Diablo? Obvious since the Black Soulstone trailer at Blizzcon. Adria being evil? The stereotypical betrayal everyone saw from a mile away. Tyrael as the fallen star? Obvious to anyone who listened to the previews "Justice will fall on the world of men." Tyrael with amnesia? Oh, god amnesia plots... Man, Chris Metzen is a shit writer.

I enjoyed Diablo 3, but in the end it's nothing special. As far as I'm concerned, Blizzard peaked in early-mid 2000 and has been going downhill every since.

[Illuyankas]

So, they patched the game recently and now the EU servers are in a state of perma-fucked. It's kind of nice how 23 hours out of 24 you can't sign in, and the hour you can is usually just before they shut the servers down for maintenance anyway. Oh wait, not nice. Incredibly frustrating. And that's just me, my brother only has about five hours out of every three days to play and so far over the last week he's managed to get about ninety minutes of gaming done due to this. They're doing such a fantastic job of public relations about it, too!

[Obdigore]

Illuyankas, on 31 May 2012 - 04:54 PM, said:

So, they patched the game recently and now the EU servers are in a state of perma-fucked. It's kind of nice how 23 hours out of 24 you can't sign in, and the hour you can is usually just before they shut the servers down for maintenance anyway. Oh wait, not nice. Incredibly frustrating. And that's just me, my brother only has about five hours out of every three days to play and so far over the last week he's managed to get about ninety minutes of gaming done due to this. They're doing such a fantastic job of public relations about it, too!

Guess you guys should just move to NA.

The only problem I had signing in was during Maintenance when they were releasing the patch.

[Sindriss]

So how far are you people? My barb is still lurking in act1 inferno.

Atm I spent my time either leveling up my wiz (24), searching AH for bargains that can be sold more expensive, or cheesing it up with my barb in inferno act4, aspect killing for lvl60 blues.

[Gothos]

Haven't had much time to play lately, mostly buying stuff off the AH and sneaking through Inferno Act II (killed Maghda the other day). It's pretty hardcore out there.