After an entire week of trying to figure out what was causing my game to stutter and have mini freezes literally trying everything from changing every setting individually, turning off cross-play, reinstalling, hell I nearly even reformatted but I finally figured it out!!

Not saying this will work for everyone but I can confirm it 100% worked for me and my friend.. I even tried turning this setting back on just to be sure and low and behold the stuttering returned immediately.

WHAT TO DO!?

Surprisingly this setting isn't even in-game, It's in the battle.net Launcher!

what you need to do is go to the settings in your launcher ( click the battle.net logo top left )

goto the App tab scroll down and disable "Use browser hardware acceleration"

make sure to restart battle.net before launching D4 and you're good to go

not exactly sure why this is causing so many issues in-game but this instantly fixed all my problems, I can now run completely smooth on high graphics with no hitching, stuttering or micro freezing!

hope this helps others!

edit-

People are also receiving memory leaks which after a while of playing begins to stutter and lag your game.. to see if this is happening to you open your task manager ( ALT CONTROL DEL) > performance > select your gpu >

under all the graphs you should see "Dedicated GPU Memory" with a number out of -

for example

6.4/12.0 GB

to see if you're getting a memory leak you can teleport to different towns in game (this speed up the leaks process ) and the number will slowly but surely increase.

Unfortunately I haven't found a way to stop this but there is annoying work around as a few of you have suggested -

change your "Texture Quality" in game to low then back to your current. this will reset your vram and give you that buffer until it reaches unplayable limits again.

you can monitor this all through task manager and see what you find appropriate playing level's.

Edit 2-

Some people are also still receiving stutters after alt tabbing a few times. Unfortunately I haven't found any solution for this the only temporary work around that I can confirm works is to avoid alt-tabbing completely and make sure all overlays ( discord, afterburner, xbox-gamebar etc ) are disabled.

What my friend has ended up doing is queuing a bunch of youtube videos or songs so he doesn't need to alt tab before he launches the game to avoid the stutters, not ideal but is something worth noting.

Goodluck! hope we get some patches soon.

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