I went into the high level crystal mines area and ran into a ton of lag, both actual lag and low framerate issues. The best result was when I managed to pick up my own gems before finishing dying.
I attacked the Vubbe Ice Wizard, its attack animations were unrelated to the timing of damage taken, after a little while I suddenly took close to 3000 damage, then I used a potion and hit it with a couple attacks, the attacks showed their animations but did not go on cooldown or build up overheat or do damage, and after that my gems flew everywhere and the res dialog came up, then I picked up three of my gems while still standing, and then my HP was reduced to 0 and I dropped dead.
These sorts of things were happening frequently in this zone tonight, and didn’t happen in the lower level floors on the way in. One time I snowrolled a few ice wizards, was at about 6000 HP near the end of the roll, and then I instantly dropped dead. I managed to repeat that delayed damage effect on video (14 seconds in) and got the bug where you’re blue as if frozen while moving around.
In both high level mine zones my framerate was under half what it usually is. It dropped especially low during combat when effects like ice wall and earthquake were visible, even though there’s no problem with those in other areas. The green gas from broken purifiers on the first floor brought the framerate down to low single digits and made the controls very unresponsive.
When the ice wizards cast ice pike their animation isn’t showing up correctly.
The scripted event with the crystals may have been bugged. I tried following the guide in another thread, and clicked on the riddle machine, but the red and yellow crystals said “The crystals are already reacting”, and the blue one wasn’t there. I didn’t get an aura from any. It’s possible I just did it wrong, since I haven’t done it before. However, for a while before I started doing the event, I was getting spammed with the red ! messages: “You’ve restored the energies!”, and “Put the bleeding monster onto the yellow energy and let the crystal absorb the vitalities!”, which was almost instantly replaced by the other message. These two alternated for a long time before stopping.
Date: 11/12. The screenshot was taken at 11:13:25 PM Eastern. The timestamp on the video title is in JST, and it was on 11/12 11:37 PM EST.
Control Mode: Mouse
System
- CPU : AMD Phenom II X4 965 3400Mhz
- RAM : 8GB
- Graphics Card : Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4830 DirectX 9.0c overclocked to 700Mhz
- Mainboard : MSI MS-7641 760GM-P34FX
- Storage : 300GB
- OS : Windows XP Pro 64bit
- Internet Connection : 16/3, maintained 22ms avg (51ms max) pings to google.com with 0 packet loss while lagging in game
- Country, Region : Eastern US
- Graphics settings turned to low