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Washout #2263
Game slows the first time a skill is used(1)Category: Technical SupportJuly-20-2013 12:46 AM PDT (9 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
My game slows to a crawl when a skill is used for the first time. Both mine and enemy' skills.
The reason seems clear, the game is loading the skills from disk into memory.
Is there a way to force the game to load every skill into memory at game start instead of during combat.
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Lurdlespor
Game slows the first time a skill is used(2)July-20-2013 3:52 AM PDT (9 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
Hello,

This is something we are investigating and working on at the moment, as it's reproducible (it happens to me too).

One thing to check though would be to ensure that the hard drive where the game is installed is defragged and clean, just to make sure that the data being loaded from the game files is being loaded as quickly as possible:
battle.net/support/article/running-scandisk-defrag
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