The fact that Blizzard doesn't care anymore is just crazy. The community is fixing bugs for free which is a lot of effort in the end and it simply gets ignored by the developers
You can avoid Battlenet forcing the update by making a shortcut of your diablo III 64.exe and editing the "Target" field in the porperties with "-launch"
Thanks for sharing this - worked for me; 8 hrs of play with no freezes Kind of embarrassing that a multi-billion dollar company has yet to fix this issue
you can download Heroes of the Storm or Starcraft 2. either game works as long as you move that same file into the Diablo 3 folder. no more sound in the game, but no more crashing or freezing.
Lol this was making me go crazy last season. I thought my computer was breaking but then I realized it was only diablo 3 freezing. UA-cam ran fine in my second moniter.
Same. I was sooo totally considering having to shell out $$$ to upgrade my PC. If this works, my current setup is total over kill for D3 (pretty much all I play)... correction pretty much all I have time to play with 2 kids :D
Something has to affect Blizzards wallet in a really big way for them to really give a shit. They may fix it, they may not. Sorry my dude, I'm glad we have people like Wudijo to keep them engaged
Thank goodness - thanks for posting this! It was driving me crazy. I'd gladly give up in-game sound to avoid freezes - I'll just crank up some hard rock in Spotify instead ;-D
MAAAN THX A LOT!! That helps me complete Sprinter solo))) Game was crahing 4 times in act V in Malthael's fortress at 54-56 min, that was sooo frustraiting, but this sound file thing works perfectly!
Finally after about a month of constant 10 second freezing......sometimes up to 4 times per GR, I found this.............worked perfectly and once you know the sequence kind of easy. Thank you so much for this post
There is a script too that someone made in that post to avoid the annoying think that you have to replace the file manually if the launcher said update.
@@horseone8341 Save the hero's file to your desktop. You will need to replace it when it updates. It only takes about 30 seconds. And is well worth it.
I stopped playing diablo 3 completely this season because of all the problems it's having right now. I won't start playing again unless blizzard actually fixes this by themselves.
@@MrSr3nity_97 poor little Indie company Blizzard can't fix this not new problem for an always online only actively sold triple AAA title. Sorry if anyone spent money on this game recently and expected sound AND it to work - sorry you have to pick one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 fucking pathetic and this is after their post season patch too. Fucking pathetic 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This has annoyed me for so long, contacted blizzard like 10 times, they told me it was a asus software. i dont have a asus software -.-' thx finaly a soulution ( i just opened a ticket telling blizzard about this, i suggest u all do that aswell so they might fix it)
Well, wish i had known this at the start of the season..having a crash at the end of a5 during sprinter in hc two times in a row was very frustrating >.>
Well they sure as shit didn't use the Blizzard method of half-ass hardware info collection and vague response tier 1 tech support non-answer bullshit. Ooh what video card what processor oops all across the board ok now time for shameful dead silence. Fucking pathetic
"Sometimes it says UPDATE and you are forced to update, just close bnet and replace the file and try again" I've done this several times, it still forces me to update. Any fix for that?
was mach ich falsch das funktioniert bei mir gar nicht der laucher will immer updaten und wenn ich d3.exe laucher rein schreib geht der sound genauso wie immer was mache ich falsch
Hey m8! great job! this fixed my problem thanks! One more question, how do you guys avoid the lagging in the 4-man groups caused by the area damage? I was wondering if you had any trick for it too :P
Ok, I'm officially done with this game. Did this, crashed after 25 mins of game. Tried everything, reinstalled it in my SSD (thought it was an issue with HD). Changed with firewall/antiviruses. Disabled sound. Turned on compatibility mode, admin mode. Changed GPU settings to everything imaginable. Sometimes, after a reboot, or after trying one of the hacks, I was able to play for a few hours without interruption. But after a logout/login, it goes to shit again. Maybe they don't want people playing this game anymore. Screw Blizzard. They managed to screw up big with this game, which had a lot of potential.
what worked for me was to set affinity on d3.exe to only CPU 0 and 1, final fix. only downside is that you hav to do it everytime you run diablo but it takes 20 seconds
I've been playing with sound on since launch. This is too drastic, ruins my immersion. Thanks for the tip, but Blizzard should fix this properly. Meanwhile I'm stuck with my wiz, freezing on every promising map I fish.
Sadly this dosnt fix all crashes. Alot of people had crashes in s24 already even tho they replaced the dll, including me. Funny how d3 is the only game ever crashing
I've tried doing this method, but everytime i open the battle.net launcher it requires me to update the game, regardless of how many times i shut down battle.net and do the method again. Any tips for that?
It worked for a day and then it stopped working after I got the update thing. I was forced to update and then I replaced the file again and it freezes started happening again even worse than ever. After that, the next day I had to update again and instead I did what it said here about replacing the file and it still is forcing me to update every time and the fix just doesn't work anymore even after replacing the file. I'm done with D3, fuck blizzard and their shit game. I was so happy this worked, I don't understand why replacing the file stopped working.
Not much u can do about that other than maybe uncheck the MAX FPS 150 setting in the D3 menus (video section). Game is not being optimized for newer hardware any more (I had to look up when D3 came out which was back in 2012).
I have this problem with freeze and i start game scan and repair, the game scan and when finish write whooops, looks like a something broke, give it another shot, i press ok, game need to be updated, i click ok, and nothing, again whooops, something broke, and i cant play Diablo 3 anymore???? WTF,m stay, games need update, he start update and again the fucking same??????
i am using rx580 graphic card, 3~5 min freezing is not suprizing thing to me, always crash, someone says radeon driver have some problem, so they use old graphic driver, i will try that tonight after work.
Doesnt happen for ps4. That sucks guys. I love the diablo pc community. So. Hope no more troubles for everyone a.s.a.p I'm already 70 new season. Necro. Got grasp of essence 3 try from kadala. And got the death nova weapon multiplayer. And got squits necklace in the cube. And I'm just chilling in T3. Might bump it up
I dont really crash or freezes, but when there a uge pack of mobs it start lagging like crazy and sometime end up dead... Still tried your method but its still super laggy when their is too many mob on screen...Shity bliz lol nice vid tho
You know you can't spread these kinda fixes to help the community right? There are too many players still alive in Hardcore and Blizzard has a quota to meet.
before this, i play normaly, just have freeze on 5-10 seconds in group runs sometimes, i dont have crush, just freeze.. lol this game and this fucking bllizard.. what to do now?? unninstal game?
If you don't want to download HotS - I have the file on my Discord server in the "d3-links-planners" channel: discord.gg/kcVynTM
The link is not working anymore
is the fix still working? i applied it but i can still hear sounds ingame, not sure about freezes yet.
Wish Blizzard can just fix this problem, this is so messed up :(
The fact that Blizzard doesn't care anymore is just crazy. The community is fixing bugs for free which is a lot of effort in the end and it simply gets ignored by the developers
Don't be a sheep, they are doing it ON PURPOSE so that your only choice for hardcore is D4 or D2 "remastered", basically buying a new product.
You can avoid Battlenet forcing the update by making a shortcut of your diablo III 64.exe and editing the "Target" field in the porperties with "-launch"
if i do it like this and bypass Battlenet app i start fresh, no heroes saved, ofc no gear, nothing. Maybe i'm doing smthing wrong
@@marianrosu9031 Did you manage to fix it? You should change the region
@@Rub1con been a couple of days since battlenet hasn't prompted me to update the file, if it does i just change the file again
Doesn't work, all my heroes and progress are gone.
Thanks for sharing this - worked for me; 8 hrs of play with no freezes
Kind of embarrassing that a multi-billion dollar company has yet to fix this issue
you can download Heroes of the Storm or Starcraft 2. either game works as long as you move that same file into the Diablo 3 folder. no more sound in the game, but no more crashing or freezing.
haha gratis dl this games ? i buy them not just for a dll fix ^^
Lol this was making me go crazy last season. I thought my computer was breaking but then I realized it was only diablo 3 freezing. UA-cam ran fine in my second moniter.
Same. I was sooo totally considering having to shell out $$$ to upgrade my PC. If this works, my current setup is total over kill for D3 (pretty much all I play)... correction pretty much all I have time to play with 2 kids :D
How does it look for you when it freezes? Does the game update every 2 seconds or so, or does it just completely freeze?
Thx my friend! Especially for me as a HC player 👍👍👌
Wow... Why can't blizz fix this for us? SMH
Something has to affect Blizzards wallet in a really big way for them to really give a shit. They may fix it, they may not. Sorry my dude, I'm glad we have people like Wudijo to keep them engaged
just a small indi company...
@@husis123 31.03.2021 GAME STILL FREEZE
Thank goodness - thanks for posting this! It was driving me crazy. I'd gladly give up in-game sound to avoid freezes - I'll just crank up some hard rock in Spotify instead ;-D
This fix did not work at first until I restarted my PC then I was able to run the game with no more crashes after this fix. Thanks friend!!
MAAAN THX A LOT!! That helps me complete Sprinter solo))) Game was crahing 4 times in act V in Malthael's fortress at 54-56 min, that was sooo frustraiting, but this sound file thing works perfectly!
That moment where you look up a fix on youtube, expecting it will never work, and it actually works... Wow. Thanks! Much appreciated!
Finally after about a month of constant 10 second freezing......sometimes up to 4 times per GR, I found this.............worked perfectly and once you know the sequence kind of easy. Thank you so much for this post
Had so many lag and freezes and did this fix now and it worked =) I love you so much
I was struggling with this issue for 2 seasons now ... THX SO much for sharing
Great video explaining a very odd 'fix' to a problem. Hope it works for those affected!
There is a script too that someone made in that post to avoid the annoying think that you have to replace the file manually if the launcher said update.
This is only one of the problems and the fix has been known for years. There are still lots of other crashes happening.
I tried so many things to fix this... This one FINALLY WORKED!
This also solves the Wizard issue this season! I can't thank you enough! Please share with your friends! Diablo fans need help!
My launcher ask me to update Diablo everytime, what can i do ?
@@horseone8341 Save the hero's file to your desktop. You will need to replace it when it updates. It only takes about 30 seconds. And is well worth it.
hopefully this works for me im tired of all the damn crashing every day i get on d3 it doesnt happen in any other game at all
Corrupting the sound files sounds pretty drastic. Oh well. D4 looms.
it keeps prompting for update every time
Worth to say here as well if people are having a huge lag once they join a game / new game and start ofc in town, that lag is caused by communities
1:48 the computer asks me how I would like to open it and I don't know what to click
you don't open it, you just copy paste it there
I stopped playing diablo 3 completely this season because of all the problems it's having right now.
I won't start playing again unless blizzard actually fixes this by themselves.
They won't 🤣
@@MrSr3nity_97 poor little Indie company Blizzard can't fix this not new problem for an always online only actively sold triple AAA title. Sorry if anyone spent money on this game recently and expected sound AND it to work - sorry you have to pick one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 fucking pathetic and this is after their post season patch too. Fucking pathetic 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
it fixed the issue, I tried like 50 different things. even reinstalling the bloody game. I play by default without sounds.
I tried everything, finaly this was the solution. Thank you for everything :D I really appreciate it
this somehow popped up when searching how to fix Diablo + Hellfire HD Gog version since it has been crashing on me when clicking the HD option
This has annoyed me for so long, contacted blizzard like 10 times, they told me it was a asus software. i dont have a asus software -.-' thx finaly a soulution ( i just opened a ticket telling blizzard about this, i suggest u all do that aswell so they might fix it)
Well, wish i had known this at the start of the season..having a crash at the end of a5 during sprinter in hc two times in a row was very frustrating >.>
How did people even find a fix to this? So intriguing...
Cause people care so they play a game fine. Blizzard doesnt give a shit :)
Well they sure as shit didn't use the Blizzard method of half-ass hardware info collection and vague response tier 1 tech support non-answer bullshit. Ooh what video card what processor oops all across the board ok now time for shameful dead silence. Fucking pathetic
when i open battlenet like you it just gives me the update
update and then copy the file again with bnet launcher open
I just did this and it made me update immediately.
then update and redo it and launch the game before it updates again, keep battle.net open
i m having spike lag issues despite a 1GB DDR5 updated drivers graphic card and 150MPBS Internet.. what is my solution then
"Sometimes it says UPDATE and you are forced to update, just close bnet and replace the file and try again" I've done this several times, it still forces me to update. Any fix for that?
was mach ich falsch das funktioniert bei mir gar nicht
der laucher will immer updaten
und wenn ich d3.exe laucher rein schreib geht der sound genauso wie immer
was mache ich falsch
Hey m8! great job! this fixed my problem thanks!
One more question, how do you guys avoid the lagging in the 4-man groups caused by the area damage? I was wondering if you had any trick for it too :P
Turn off area dmg. Especially if you are a zdps character.
Unfortunately my game is still freezing after that.
My game isn't crashing anymore! But now there is not sound on my Diablo 3...
Has fixed my 10 sec hangs so far and actualy almost doubled my FPS in game! -.-''
Same issue in Diablo 4? I'm still getting
Ok, I'm officially done with this game. Did this, crashed after 25 mins of game. Tried everything, reinstalled it in my SSD (thought it was an issue with HD). Changed with firewall/antiviruses. Disabled sound. Turned on compatibility mode, admin mode. Changed GPU settings to everything imaginable. Sometimes, after a reboot, or after trying one of the hacks, I was able to play for a few hours without interruption. But after a logout/login, it goes to shit again. Maybe they don't want people playing this game anymore. Screw Blizzard. They managed to screw up big with this game, which had a lot of potential.
what worked for me was to set affinity on d3.exe to only CPU 0 and 1, final fix. only downside is that you hav to do it everytime you run diablo but it takes 20 seconds
I'm sitting here and am still asking me - Why not just turn of the Sounds in the settings :/
Because that is not the only thing this file does.
Worked for my wizard build season 23 also. Ridiculous how it's even a thing.
I've been playing with sound on since launch. This is too drastic, ruins my immersion. Thanks for the tip, but Blizzard should fix this properly. Meanwhile I'm stuck with my wiz, freezing on every promising map I fish.
I think they have fixed it! At least I know they've been working on something and applied some update
Beautiful! BUT, it keeps updating every time I start the game for some reason.. so i have to repeat the process every time.
this didnt work for me.. tried it and at 120 GRs i started getting the spikes again
this video saved my season, thank you
I feel like this got even worse somehow over that last few days, perhaps before D2R public alpha testing began
how i lost a couple of HC chars this way, not a good memory especially when you just open a grift with a mob waiting at the entrance TvT.
Also works with sc2 dll
I did this, but now the game wants me to Update, and i cant get past that. Any tips?
Sadly this dosnt fix all crashes. Alot of people had crashes in s24 already even tho they replaced the dll, including me. Funny how d3 is the only game ever crashing
I've tried doing this method, but everytime i open the battle.net launcher it requires me to update the game, regardless of how many times i shut down battle.net and do the method again. Any tips for that?
i did the dll swap and it runs better but still locks up for approx 3-5 seconds. Only now in silence haha
Amazing thanks for this 100 percent worked
thanks for the step by step guide. but it jus mean that we cant hunt gobs anymore. =(
can just keep the regular file for your goblin hunting sessions
the blue one doesnt sound anyway :D
This solution is not working for me anymore..
I worked fine until now. every time i replace the file, it will update agin. Do you know how to fix it now ?
It worked for a day and then it stopped working after I got the update thing.
I was forced to update and then I replaced the file again and it freezes started happening again even worse than ever.
After that, the next day I had to update again and instead I did what it said here about replacing the file and it still is forcing me to update every time and the fix just doesn't work anymore even after replacing the file.
I'm done with D3, fuck blizzard and their shit game.
I was so happy this worked, I don't understand why replacing the file stopped working.
even after doing everything that is on this video I still have 9 sec freezing and my connection is perfect. Do you have any other idea?
Is there a fix for fps drops? 3700x and 2080super, 16gb ram dual channel, and the game on minimun droping to 80 fps quite often.
Not much u can do about that other than maybe uncheck the MAX FPS 150 setting in the D3 menus (video section).
Game is not being optimized for newer hardware any more (I had to look up when D3 came out which was back in 2012).
I have this problem with freeze and i start game scan and repair, the game scan and when finish write whooops, looks like a something broke, give it another shot, i press ok, game need to be updated, i click ok, and nothing, again whooops, something broke, and i cant play Diablo 3 anymore???? WTF,m stay, games need update, he start update and again the fucking same??????
Amazing how Blizzard cannot do simple maintenance like this as a minor solution ...
thanks wudijo! FKING annoying freezes
Thanks this video helped alot!
i am using rx580 graphic card, 3~5 min freezing is not suprizing thing to me, always crash, someone says radeon driver have some problem, so they use old graphic driver, i will try that tonight after work.
Did this fix your freezing issues ? I also have a rx580.
im following guide but my sound comes back every time i start the game
after updating you have to replace again and then quickly start
Wasn't it easier to offer the dll for download????
Why do you need to download the whole game as oppose to just downloading and copying the dll file to the Diablo 3 directory?
I got the file singled out on my Discord if you need
it keep asking me to update over and over. any ideas?
I dont have sound after change the file :(
Can I uninstall HotS afterwards?
as long as you put the file in another location like he did in the video (so you can get to it again if you need it) you are good to uninstall hots.
Tough Didn't work and No sound
And where is the Downld?
can you the files not sepparat upload where we can dl it ? i will not install heroes of the storm extra for this
it's on my discord server in the "d3-links-planners" channel
what is the "important greek stuff" file on your desktop????
important greek stuff, mostly
Yes my char died 2 times on hc because of this crashing... Now I only play SC for sure.. Destroys my playfun
has blizzard fixed this yet?
i use the fix but now is the sound away ! how i get back ingamesound ??
You don't.
You've disabled the sound, that is the fix.
i get the dll from internet but than i have no sound ! give it a version of the dll with sound ?
no this is just how it works
i do evrerything and all time when start battlenet on Diablo need update??
Doesnt happen for ps4. That sucks guys. I love the diablo pc community. So. Hope no more troubles for everyone a.s.a.p
I'm already 70 new season. Necro. Got grasp of essence 3 try from kadala. And got the death nova weapon multiplayer. And got squits necklace in the cube. And I'm just chilling in T3. Might bump it up
I dont really crash or freezes, but when there a uge pack of mobs it start lagging like crazy and sometime end up dead... Still tried your method but its still super laggy when their is too many mob on screen...Shity bliz lol nice vid tho
You know you can't spread these kinda fixes to help the community right? There are too many players still alive in Hardcore and Blizzard has a quota to meet.
This should be fixed by blizzard, the sound dll is causing the issues
Just tried this but it keeps telling me to update diablo
Don't close BNET after update, just go to that folder replace the fmodex64.dll again. than play
Hm. Looking by the name of it... Maybe just running x32 version helps?
nope,same crash on x32 also
@@tomislavbareta8859 Heh. I guess staying on 1909 was a good decision then =)
is it works on my win 10 home
version 20H2 and OS 19042.685 ,
i dunno , i will try it , thanks wudijo😀😀
thanks wudi for this
It just forces to update with everytime i launch battle.net...
@Ryzha i ihave
before this, i play normaly, just have freeze on 5-10 seconds in group runs sometimes, i dont have crush, just freeze.. lol this game and this fucking bllizard.. what to do now?? unninstal game?
Does this fix ERROR 1016 crashes?
Rather embarrassed for blizzard. Is this how they are going to treat diablo4 as well.
Life saver had just full aug monk so sad
did not work
Sub. because you're my last hope before i uninstall the game.
welcome!