The Early Access was just fine for me, no crashes or noticeable issues but after the first few updates I also started crashing. Have been lagging when going in/out of town through TP/WP, all the time, but it’s gotten worse since the updates.
I have a pretty nice system and it runs every game on the market in 5120x1440 without struggle really, but new releases are always so poorly optimized that issues such as this, are almost always present for the first 6 months or more because developers are pushed to release at a certain time in order for the management to satisfy investors.
That’s the explanation for rushed releases that has a multitude of performance, stability and compability issues.
Blizzard says here in a blue post that there are no known memory issues with the game but that’s not what many, many, many players have been reporting.
I crashed once with the Error Message “You have run out of virtual memory, this could be due to using higher quality settings than your system can handle” or something along those lines.
Well, that’s nonsense.
I have a 9900K with a 3080, 32GB RAM and 10,5TB of rapid NVMe and SSD storage, powered by a 1200W Platinum PSU. There’s nothing in gaming way this rig can’t handle,so what on earth is Blizzard talking about “no memory issues” when you literally tell me I have run out of +16GB of accessible RAM + 16GB of pagefile.sys on the C: drive to make use of and an additional 10GB of Virtual RAM on the GPU, to make use of.
Granted, not all assets can be combined for a giant pool of accessible memory, to my understanding at least, but this is blatant proof that there is something wrong with the memory optimization in the game. This is not an issue on our systems, it’s an issue in the game code.
Blizzard, please stop lying to us. We know you really need to save face here now but be honest with us. Just once. Try it and see if you can achieve a different result than you normally do. Because we all know, you need a saving hand right now and there’s surely been many thinking Diablo 4 would be that precious redemption - but things are falling apart quickly right now, is it not?
Read the room, take in the social queues from your audience, listen to us.
If you want to stay afloat in these times where we see unprecedented market loss for corporations trying to wage psychological warfare and perform social engineering on their customers; you will have to try a different approach than what you have before.
How about trying to please your customers this time?
I remember being a child in the 90’s, playing the Warcraft and Starcraft series. Those were good times. Because you cared about your creations and your customers. Your products had life, soul and character. They were made with care and passion. Not to please greedy and impatient, careless investors. We know you are slaves to the ESG score and we’ve given you quite a few chances to navigate this murky marsh to find your own path again. But you just don’t care, do you? Imagine if you did.