Since the last patch the game has a tendency to "freeze" between 2 frames. I can still hear the sound but see only these 2 frames repated over and over again. Alt-tabbing or switchting to window mode fixes this, sometimes for good sometimes only for a couple of seconds. This does not always work, in 1 out of 5 times I get weird graphical artifacts, black bars, missing textures etc.
I tried:
- reinstalling all c++ redistributables
- setting the game to load textures on demand
- starting in native then switching to crpg
None of these helped at all, only
- installing the low res texture pack
provided some relief. Yesterday the game worked flawless for hours, but today its back to freezes and artifacts with such a frequency that it renders the game unplayable.
It is not an issue with my machine. After getting those artifacts for the first time I put my CPU & GPU through a burntest and tested my GPU for artifacts. Nothing. Also it worked perfect before the patch.