Is there a workaround this issue?

I've been a fan of using a

Carrion Wind unique ring on my characters since the LoD. To my dismay all its features don't properly work for me in D2R. Every time I spawn a

Poison Creeper the game crashes within 30-40 seconds. Turns out, there is a bug report thread on Blizzard's forum site https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t ... ash/127640 which I recently updated with my entry. I bought the game 2 years after its release in hope all the major issues would be addressed by then. I don't know how Blizzard treats its bug report forum in general, but this one in particular seems to be ignored, as it's been almost 18 months since the first report on the issue.

Have you tried something very stupid as having another Druid in your game when you spawn it? Also with what character you are playing?

Poison Creeper has long since been known to be one of those "can annihilate your performance" type skills.

It doesn't affect everyone and those it does affect aren't necessarily affected to the same degree.

Slow down. Massive slow down. Increasing slow down until your game finally crashes. Really the same varied behavior as all of those "wreck yo performance" skills (

Poison Creeper,

Armageddon, Mosaic sins going nuts, ...).

The "workaround" is generally to either be lucky and simply not affected. Or to play around with your (usually graphics, rarely audio) settings until it improves/gets fixed. Add in the usual "update your drivers bra!" and you're good. Or not. Seems on occasion, it is indeed persistent until the actual hardware is replaced.

Don't expect Blizz to come to the rescue though. 0 bug fixes in what? 5 months now? and certainly not for lack of bugs...kinda shows you how much they care. They just don't.

TheDoo wrote: 7 months ago

Have you tried something very stupid as having another Druid in your game when you spawn it? Also with what character you are playing?

I've tried it with Amazon, Assassin, Barbarian. All produced the same result - a crashed game. Every time that happened, the AMD video driver (or whatever software layer that is) popped up a prompt to submit a report to AMD.

Schnorki wrote: 7 months ago

Poison Creeper has long since been known to be one of those "can annihilate your performance" type skills.
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Don't expect Blizz to come to the rescue though. 0 bug fixes in what? 5 months now? and certainly not for lack of bugs...kinda shows you how much they care. They just don't.

Yeah, I've figured that much. The game is too good and vast, as far as replayability (is there such word?) is concerned, to turn away because of this glitch and a number of others. Maybe this is something specific to AMD hardware/software. Unfortunately, I don't have the means to prove it, or otherwise.

Using AMD, big ouchy! Oh well, cannot help you there sir...

TheDoo wrote: 7 months ago

Using AMD, big ouchy! Oh well, cannot help you there sir...

You'd be laughing (or crying) if you knew the PC configuration I play this game on.