I’ve been getting serious frame loss and game crashes after the latest update, even including lag on the main menu. Characters take forever to load, and once I’m in the game, there’s very consistent frame loss every minute or so, and I’m lucky to be able to play for more than an hour without the game freezing on trying to load or properly crashing (usually after a teleport rune cast or zone change). I’ve tried verifying and reinstalling; the drive it’s on is fine as I play all my steam games from it, I’ve tried adjusting graphics settings, windowed/full screen etc and nothing seems to change it. Among all my PC games this is the only one experiencing problems.
The last update was months ago. Is that the one you are referring to?
Since you verified the installation (although, did you do a clean one? Did you ever run any mods?), the next steps would be to update drivers. You can also opt into the v1.1.9.8 beta branch to see if an older version of the game makes a difference (backup your saves!). If it does, there may be something we need to investigate, but if it doesn’t, then the issue would be on the system end.
I don’t run mods, and I did uninstall/reinstall via Steam to see if that would help. I’ll try updating drivers and see if playing on an older patch has any effect on it.
After doing some digging around, it’s definitely system-side. Turns out it’s the drive GD is on, rather than the game itself, and it just happened to coincide with around when the last update came out. Thank you for the response!