Massive lag spikes in north drizzlewood coast [Merged]

[Grahckheuhl.7549]

something is causing huge game pauses in north dwc near the frost citadel area when using environment settings other than low. i have already tried removing arc and doing -repair and the issue is unchanged. this started happening with the patch on the 23rd. all other zones i have been in so far do not have any issue at high settings.

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

[gerwalk.1320]

Just like to add to this. Just got done doing North with as group of about 20. Everyone was complaining of 2-5 second freezes. The game sound, screen and controls all freeze up completely. Then you're good until it happens again. Never had a problem before the recent update. Something with the update caused this, not your PCs fault.

[SirDoNKeY.4578]

+1

Happening to me too in Frost Citadel Drizzlewood Coast..

@Josh Davis.7865FYI

Edited August 29, 2022 by SirDoNKeY.4578

[Grunch Monkey.3095]

Having the same issue. Multiple people on map complaining of lag spikes in north lasting anywhere from 2 to 5 seconds, sometimes multiple times in a row. 

[Labjax.2465]

2 hours ago, Grunch Monkey.3095 said:

Having the same issue. Multiple people on map complaining of lag spikes in north lasting anywhere from 2 to 5 seconds, sometimes multiple times in a row. 

Can confirm, seen this too (multiple people reporting experiencing the same). Particular areas I notice it happening more consistently is on the way from Frostvein to Drizzlewood Peak encampment after killing last tribune. And in the citadel room with the big tank.

Complete game freeze for a few seconds.

[Thangor.4150]

Been having the same issue, glad to see it's not just me.

[Siennamisa.3125]

Also having this issue! So is my partner, we are both in Australia 

[Dotveg.5108]

Having the same issue. Didn't happen until two patches back. This is extremely problematic and makes it basically impossible to do the meta without pulling your hair out. Happens extremely frequently in the Frost Citadel, and begins happening as soon as you reach Frostvein. Starts calming down the moment you get away from blood, fighting the Claw of Jormag.

My guess is the game's having trouble rendering Jormag's blood, but I genuinely have no idea besides that. Pretty thematic the Elder Dragon of Ice would cause game freezes. 😀

Edited August 31, 2022 by Dotveg.5108
Typos and missing words

[Chaustere.8073]

Just want to add that I have been experiencing this problem as well

[Juriasti.8297]

I'm seeing this as well. It seems to have started after updating graphics drivers. Nvidia GeForce 516.94. I may rollback if this persists. 

[Stadsport.8714]

Adding to this, and to clarify it's not network latency lag, it's a client-side performance issue, but it's only happening in Drizzlewood. The entire game just hangs (visually) for a few seconds, then continues normally. 

[RedJacK.3247]

Same, massive 2-5 second full freeze randomly.

[RexDragon.9581]

I'm also getting it. The game generally runs around 60 fps for me otherwise. I've linked a DxDiag log.

 

https://pastebin.com/aCdEwSjs

[Sigerk.2897]

Same here, lots of people on the map are saying the same. Only in the north part it seems and only on that map.

[Rayti.6531]

Same, got several freezes during North Drizzlewood - never had this happen before.

[Fragile.1987]

same here

[Exonara.5716]

Same, was thinking it was my cpu or gpu but nop its server side.

[Pheex.8932]

The assault on the citadel has almost every player hard freezing for 2-20 seconds constantly. I mean total lock ups. Constantly.

 

This is not lag or loading things in on the gpu. The GPU literally drops to 0% usage.

[Witch of Steam.5138]

I did some digging around and COuldn't find it anywhere 

But Drizzlewood north has been notorious for a while for hardcrashing people's Clients ( And games) Due to some graphical .. something or other that's been happening. 

I wanted to know if it was safe to farm drizzlewood or not beccause that's my primary Mystic Clover Source. 

[Ultramex.1506]

Man....i read the tile and thought they have made the North meta less repetitive and sleep inducing

Never have crashed during North though

[kharmin.7683]

9 minutes ago, Ultramex.1506 said:

Man....i read the tile and thought they have made the North meta less repetitive and sleep inducing

 

Me, too.  Sadly, disappointed.

[Farohna.6247]

2 hours ago, Ultramex.1506 said:

Man....i read the tile and thought they have made the North meta less repetitive and sleep inducing

Never have crashed during North though

Got me all excited for nothing.

Never have had a crash during north.  

[Fueki.4753]

I doubt they'll ever be able to fix anything about it.

In my experiences, the lags mostly happened due to the excessive amounts of particle effects and bright colours. These aren't just coming from the players, but also the icy surroundings.

Given that they seem to love excessive particle effects to a degree that isn't exactly healthy for a game, I can't see them fixing this reason for lag.

And since the game is hosted on Amazon Web Servers, I doubt they can upgrade the servers to handle the particle effects better.

Edited September 24, 2022 by Fueki.4753

[Labjax.2465]

I'm not aware of hard crashes. Just intermittent freezes. But you can try turning environment to low. I tried that on someone else's recommendation and it seems to stop full freezes from happening.

[Witch of Steam.5138]

2 hours ago, Labjax.2465 said:

I'm not aware of hard crashes. Just intermittent freezes. But you can try turning environment to low. I tried that on someone else's recommendation and it seems to stop full freezes from happening.

So why is this a thing Now 


I used to run North Drizz without issues all the time.