Load screen lag is such a f*cking c*nt

Anyone on PC get this issue where the game loads but the screen is still stuck on the load screen for several seconds, sometimes resulting in what appears to be a lag Death?

Just had it happen in Uber Trist with my HC warlock. Luckily I'm quick on the trigger finger with the Save & Exit, but being out a set of keys is a fucking pissoff. This is on offline SP so guess im gonna be grinding for some more keys FFS and then figure out if there's some way to prevent this next time.

You got load screen killed on offline SP?
That's cheap, I was thinking about getting back into hardcore, but I don't think I could handle losing a character that way.

It's real common in online. The game/server sees your character almost instantly although your computer is still stuck loading.
I run two accounts sometimes and it's "funny" seeing my character on one screen just standing and chilling and the other screen is still on the loading animation.

RackAnewShoe wrote: 11 hours ago

You got load screen killed on offline SP?
That's cheap, I was thinking about getting back into hardcore, but I don't think I could handle losing a character that way.

It's real common in online. The game/server sees your character almost instantly although your computer is still stuck loading.
I run two accounts sometimes and it's "funny" seeing my character on one screen just standing and chilling and the other screen is still on the loading animation.

No no, didnt get killed. That's what i meant when i said i was lucky that I'm quick on the trigger finger with Save & Exit. But I'm out a set of keys/organs now.

My defiler and merc were already killed before the screen even loaded in. I myself was cornered right at the portal by a huge skelly mob of Uber Meph, was wearing Fortitude (my usual go to for Ubers) and not my Enigma so couldnt TP away, had no choice but to Save & Exit or be killed. Better to lose set of keys than a whole char but still a huge pissoff, especially when my warlock likely would've mowed them down if done right.

BigD wrote: 13 hours ago

screen is still stuck on the load screen for several seconds

Have you tried to uncheck the Vertical sync in video options? it helped me get faster load screens.

Never had this issue but there are plenty of other issues ive had with this game. Sometimes I must start the game over again as the game just chooses to drop fps from 60 to 51-54 constantly. Only way to fix this is either restarting the game and hoping it wont happen or control + alt + delete and go to the control panel and change the games realtime priority into highest... It makes no sense to me why this would fix it but it does.
And there is the random game closing if too many objects/effects in screen, people keep saying "drop the vfx settings" like it isnt the first thing tested. Changing settings does nothing as its a game engine limit, but then again its weird how some people never encounter this issue and some have it constantly.
I cant kill shenk without the Death bombardment killing my game :'D

I'm not sure if that's exactly what you're experiencing but I've had it a couple times now that action was already going on when loading was finished, i.e. my merc and

Valkyrie already deep in battle with monsters, so game action calculations must have been going on for a couple seconds already.

Which is really bad, by the way, if those monsters are Willowisps at the entrance of the

Throne of Destruction and the loading screen goes away at just the right time for you to see lightning rays disassemble your character.

Salid wrote: 5 hours ago

I'm not sure if that's exactly what you're experiencing but I've had it a couple times now that action was already going on when loading was finished, i.e. my merc and

Valkyrie already deep in battle with monsters, so game action calculations must have been going on for a couple seconds already.

Which is really bad, by the way, if those monsters are Willowisps at the entrance of the

Throne of Destruction and the loading screen goes away at just the right time for you to see lightning rays disassemble your character.

Your character appears in-game and/or at the destination waypoint/townportal much sooner than the loading finishes. If you have fast load times it's almost insignificant (usually), but if you have slow load times your character can stand in harm's way for a several seconds before you can actually take any action because you're still viewing the load screen. And while you're on the load screen, your merc and/or minions can start wandering around and aggro nearby monsters. That's what happened to BigD (and you with your

Valkyrie) - the merc or a minion wandered off, aggroed and engaged something, while you were still on the load screen.

If you've ever been standing next to a waypoint/townportal (outside town) and waiting for someone to join you, when they enter the waypoint/townportal their charater appears almost instantly (and can be targeted by both monsters and hostile players), and will just stand there for a few seconds before they start moving around - that doesn't necessarily mean that they were inattentive or indecisive, they were probably still on the load screen.

On PC you can use Ladik's Casc Viewer to unpack game files and use "-direct -txt" command line to improve load times a bit.

The downside is that you need around 40GB of free disk space, unpacking this much data takes a few minutes, AND you need to re-unpack files every time that the game updates (which with RotW out probably will be more frequent, at least for some time).

https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comment ... oad_times/

Lately I have been getting occasional freezes lasting for 3-5 seconds (but even before RotW came out), however it was never on loading screens.

Come to think of it, these lags for me started around the time when I stopped using "-direct -txt" method... Gotta try it out again and see if it fixes these random freezes.

i thought this happened only online...

ShadowHeart wrote: 5 hours ago

Salid wrote: 5 hours ago

I'm not sure if that's exactly what you're experiencing but I've had it a couple times now that action was already going on when loading was finished, i.e. my merc and

Valkyrie already deep in battle with monsters, so game action calculations must have been going on for a couple seconds already.

Which is really bad, by the way, if those monsters are Willowisps at the entrance of the

Throne of Destruction and the loading screen goes away at just the right time for you to see lightning rays disassemble your character.

Your character appears in-game and/or at the destination waypoint/townportal much sooner than the loading finishes. If you have fast load times it's almost insignificant (usually), but if you have slow load times your character can stand in harm's way for a several seconds before you can actually take any action because you're still viewing the load screen. And while you're on the load screen, your merc and/or minions can start wandering around and aggro nearby monsters. That's what happened to BigD (and you with your

Valkyrie) - the merc or a minion wandered off, aggroed and engaged something, while you were still on the load screen.

If you've ever been standing next to a waypoint/townportal (outside town) and waiting for someone to join you, when they enter the waypoint/townportal their charater appears almost instantly (and can be targeted by both monsters and hostile players), and will just stand there for a few seconds before they start moving around - that doesn't necessarily mean that they were inattentive or indecisive, they were probably still on the load screen.

Yes. Best way to explain it. Thank you. Guess I should be grateful I didnt lose my char but I'm still super irritated.

Certain way points/levels seem to be worse than others. Tower Cellar, Kurast Temple,

Throne of Destruction, and

Frigid Highlands way point all seem to have this issue frequently. Maybe I'll try putting the console on Airplane mode next time and see if that helps. After I grind for another

3x3 Keyset that is

On PS4 this is a real problem as well. On PS5, there is almost no loading time and haven't had this problem.

ShadowHeart wrote: 5 hours ago

Your character appears in-game and/or at the destination waypoint/townportal much sooner than the loading finishes.

I get that this happens online. It's just the nature of gaming on the internet. But for lag like this to happen in single player? That's bogus. Should never happen.