D2 freezing laptop?

[Mr Mage]

I previously thought this was an issue with windows 11's shoddy coding, but I realized that D2 is the only program this is occurring on. which makes sense as the game was unplayable on my old laptop since the new lighting system beyond light introduced. my current laptop, however, can run D2 at max graphics and not go below 60 FPS, not to mention it can run virtually any other game just fine and can render a 1000 frame blender animation at 2500 samples per frame within a couple hours, so this is not a problem on my end. furthermore, I've noticed that others are having performance related issues with D2, so this evidence isn't anecdotal either.

[T3rAbYt3]

Fix 1:Verify the Integrity of the Game File and Clear download cache

Verify Integrity of Game Files

Clear download cache

Fix 2: Run SFC and DISM

Step 1: Click Start menu, type cmd, right-click the Command Prompt application and choose Run as Administrator. When the User Account Control window appears, click Yes to launch the elevated cmd.exe.

Step 2: Type sfc /scannow and then press Enter to run the SFC scan.
Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files[support.microsoft.com]

Step 3: To run DISM, type the following commands and press Enter after each.

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Fix 3: Reinstall the Problematic Game and Battleye

Reinstalling the problematic game and Battleye may help fix this issue

Fix 4: Update Windows, Driver

Check for Windows and Driver Updates

Fix 5: Run as administrator

Is destiny2.exe running in "Run as administrator"? Uncheck, if so. Then try again.

[DakotaThrice]

Originally posted by Mr Mage:

not to mention it can run virtually any other game just fine and can render a 1000 frame blender animation at 2500 samples per frame within a couple hours, so this is not a problem on my end.

What other applications you can run and how that perform is almost entirely meaningless, even two games built in the same system can have wildly different performance due to massive number of variables.

That aside the first thing you should do is verify that Destiny is running on your dedicated graphics processor and not the integrated one. Beyond that before anybody can provide any practical advice we'd need to know the system specs and what graphics drivers you're running.