Super crazy lag with the past few updates

[OmicronAlpha1]

I love Darkest Dungeon with all of my heart. However, not too long ago, a new build came out and made everything that I did in town or out in a mission extremely laggy. This is still happening to me with the most recent update and I don't know how to fix it. It really prevents me from doing anything in this game and, therefore, really irks me that I can't play one of my favorite games! Thoughts on what to do next?

This could be either related to my computer or to some bug in the game.

[ShadowDark3]

It sounds like it may be something to do with either your processor or memory. What are your system specs?

[dlmcelroy0]

I have suffered this, off an on, as well. Overall, while I think it's possible that DD itself is part of the problem, I came to the conclusion it's mostly my system.

2 year old windows 8 laptop, nothing special, but nothing terrible either. This is what I have found:

• Antivirus can grind the game down. If the antivirus is actively running a scan or updating, then DD crawls.
  
• IAStorDataMgrSvc has a memory leak. If you leave your system running without shutting down periodically, it can really build up. I restart this every day or so. Worst I saw it it was grabbing 1.5 GB of memory.
  
• MS Mystery system services can spike the disk usage. Pretty much any disk usage level over about 10%, and DD starts to lag. I don't know what's doing it because MS has just bundled it all into a 'System' black-box service...

In general, if either disk or cpu is over about 20%, it's not worth playing. I googled the typical sort of thing about crummy pc/windows performance, and shut off a few background services that are known to be hogs.

Sometimes I just have to let the OS do whatever it's going to do and not start until it's settled down...

[7FOUR]

Are you playing in windowed mode? A few builds ago I noticed that while playing windowed the game would be a bit laggy at start up, and then eventually fix itself after a few minutes. It wasn't "super crazy" so it may not be what you're dealing with, but I thought it worth a mention.

[Yermoh]

I have the same issue, when loading my save, the game freezes for a while (3-4 minutes). This didnt happend before the new heroes/bosses patch :(

[OmicronAlpha1]

Originally posted by dlmcelroy0:

I have suffered this, off an on, as well. Overall, while I think it's possible that DD itself is part of the problem, I came to the conclusion it's mostly my system.

2 year old windows 8 laptop, nothing special, but nothing terrible either. This is what I have found:

• Antivirus can grind the game down. If the antivirus is actively running a scan or updating, then DD crawls.
  
• IAStorDataMgrSvc has a memory leak. If you leave your system running without shutting down periodically, it can really build up. I restart this every day or so. Worst I saw it it was grabbing 1.5 GB of memory.
  
• MS Mystery system services can spike the disk usage. Pretty much any disk usage level over about 10%, and DD starts to lag. I don't know what's doing it because MS has just bundled it all into a 'System' black-box service...

In general, if either disk or cpu is over about 20%, it's not worth playing. I googled the typical sort of thing about crummy pc/windows performance, and shut off a few background services that are known to be hogs.

Sometimes I just have to let the OS do whatever it's going to do and not start until it's settled down...

Thanks! My computer is also not one of the bests but it is still functional. I shall try this ASAP.

EDIT: It appears that my CPU usage is pretty low before starting DD, but changes periodically to over 15% for one tick but later goes back down to 1%. Darkest dungeon seems to be running a bit more smoothly with faster running times but the lag is still too noticable to be able to do anything in the Hamlet. All that I know is that my cpu usage is not going past 20% for the majority of the time.

[OmicronAlpha1]

Originally posted by Yermoh:

I have the same issue, when loading my save, the game freezes for a while (3-4 minutes). This didnt happend before the new heroes/bosses patch :(

Well my problem consists of extreme game-braking lag especially noticable within the Hamlet. It is so slow that it is impossible to get stuff done within the game. You should ask somone about that freezing issue, never seemed to happen to me :/

[OmicronAlpha1]

Originally posted by Blue Istari:

Are you playing in windowed mode? A few builds ago I noticed that while playing windowed the game would be a bit laggy at start up, and then eventually fix itself after a few minutes. It wasn't "super crazy" so it may not be what you're dealing with, but I thought it worth a mention.

Yes and no, I would try to start the game in both modes with settings turned down almost completely but that did not seem to fix the everlasting problem. This type of lag just makes it so that you cannot do anything in town or out in the field. HOWEVER, I have found out that older saves from older builds are slower than up-to-date saves when testing out how a small save would do against the lag.

[OmicronAlpha1]

Originally posted by ShadowDark3:

It sounds like it may be something to do with either your processor or memory. What are your system specs?

Name: Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000

Adapter RAM: 1.77 GB

Drive size: 449.06 GB

Free drive space: 277.43 GB

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2367M CPU @ 1.40GHz, 1400 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical processor(s)

Model: Aspire V5-571 (ACER)

[haon26]

Originally posted by ThePerson12:

I love Darkest Dungeon with all of my heart. However, not too long ago, a new build came out and made everything that I did in town or out in a mission extremely laggy. This is still happening to me with the most recent update and I don't know how to fix it. It really prevents me from doing anything in this game and, therefore, really irks me that I can't play one of my favorite games! Thoughts on what to do next?

This could be either related to my computer or to some bug in the game.

I also had the lag problem. My game got to the point playing was miserable(sp? who cares). It has always had some amout. but like you, these last 3 updates.
I cant remember/find who posted it. someone else deserves credit and a big thanks from me. they suggested shutting down a,
"??SYNC??" program. my verson of the sync was diffrent. after i shut my program down, my game went back to, what I have to say is an acceptable (finally at least playable) level of lag.
I hope this helps a lot of people.

[hcl0754]

I have the same problem in 2023, but every other game on my PC works perfectly fine and only this lags very much

[Hubiś]

Originally posted by 밤비:

I have the same problem in 2023, but every other game on my PC works perfectly fine and only this lags very much

Do you find reason why game lags?
Ur comment is from recent days, so i thinking u could answer me. I am asking bcs i have the same problem as you.

[Ангстрем]

I have found the problem.
You must turn off overlay in Steam and in Radeon Adrenalin.

In Steam go Settings - In game - and turn off all switches about overlay.
In Radeon Software go Settings (Gear) - Settings (in menu) - Common and turn off all switches about overlay too.

That works for me - no more FPS drops.

[HjAa]

I tried turning off the Steam overlay but it didn't do it for me, unfortunately. I'm running Nvidia so maybe there's another problem if you're on Radeon.

[HjAa]

Found a solution for Nvidia! in the NVIDIA Control Panel, go to 3D Settings - Adjust Image settings with preview and make sure Let the 3D Application decide is ticked. Mine was set to Use the advanced 3D settings.

[OmicronAlpha1]

The only thing I remember about my old laptop when I posted this is that, for some reason, DD would use my weak integrated graphics card instead of my NVIDIA graphics card, which slowed the game down considerably. There's a setting in NVIDIA control panel to force DD to use the better card if that's anyone's problem. Other than that, my laptop was on its way out, so it could have been a number of other things. I don't have the issue anymore with my new pc, but I hope you guys find a solution soon.