This is something I do not understand.
Most games are getting better with updates. Not just content wise, but performance wise.
Division 2 gets worse.
Every single friend of mine has issues with this product since the second or third major update.
Crashes and freezes are the norm. YES, without DX12.
After logging in after 6 or 7 months it still crashes for me on a regular basis but I now have extreme mouse stutter.
Why is this product not getting better? And why is this accepted by the community?
There is something off with performance in the game. I can post screenshots from the bench-test where I was getting 20 percent higher performance than I usually get; It's often after I make changes and go to do a bench-test and then a few hours later I'm down 20 percent performance.
I am certain it is nothing to do with my PC or drivers because I've done a fresh install of Windows 10 AME since then and still see the same thing on a fresh install. I also notice that GPU utilization in the bench-test is all over the place and the only time I get the 20 percent performance boost is when it is obviously high.
I've also benched several other games and tests with no such issues.
Interestingly, after a fresh install of AME, which doesn't include a great deal of the usual Windows spyware, the game crashed unexpectedly a few times so I made a few changes only:
Changed Swap file to fixed size (using hardware monitor I noticed that the Swap file does change size while I'm playing the game even though I am only using about 50 percent of my system memory);
disabled full screen optimizations etc on the game files, the launcher and EAC;
and went back to NVIDIA driver 460.79 which was stripped to the essentials using NVslimmer.
Oh i forgot that I also turned off desktop graphics performance settings and only enabled font smoothing and thumbnails because I like my desktop clean and fast.
These changes were all that was needed to fix the crashing issue. Dumping Windows Defender and all the other nonsense helped somewhat in my humble opinion. My PC runs like a rocket now and uses far less system memory on Operating System resources.
I can now play for many hours without a single problem just as I could before I did a fresh install.
I'm just wondering if there has been some throttling mechanism introduced to the game recently to offset all the crashes involving inept factory and user GPU over-clocks which has actually plagued gaming as far back as Battlefield 3.
It's worth noting that I run my system using a normal user account to mitigate 94 percent of potential problems with malware. The other 6 percent is mitigated by sensible security practices. Anti-virus is for noobs.