Guys, I used post on spectrum a lot. (Have since ceased because I just dont want to keep up with 38.563 forums) I actually have a famous critique, that for some reason, still gets upvotes. Even OVER a year later. It was not removed. (Last upvote was JUNE this year, for some reason, despite post being made Jan 2025)

Image of my post

But this is the kind of shit I see on spectrum that gets people nuked, and this particular guy goes straight to the refunds sub and claims he was banned for liking PvP, and really tried to spin it that way. Even the refunds sub tore him a new asshole for his... "Joke".

The message that got him nuked?

"CR will ban anyone who pirates and personally go to their house and shoot their family dog!"

Also calling people douches.

Which is funny, because here is a quote from Zyloh himself:

"We're not here to protect players from aggressors, pirates, and PvPers. A big part of Star Citizen is about that dichotomy." - Zyloh

CIG is literally in his corner, but swears that they are not.

He claims on reddit to "like the game" but literally all of his posts and comments are bashing the game, and he literally cannot do anything else and has over 1000 comments and posts spanning only two MONTHS. Dude cannot resist trashing the game at any possible opportunity. Which normally would be fine, if he didnt continuously argue in bad faith, especially after the above ban.

On top of the above issue, he is also the first to call people shills, CIG plants/staff, or marketing firms trying to better CIGs name. And this is literally his response to his dogshit takes and critique.

This is the kind of shit I see that gets people nuked from spectrum, and they come here to complain without showing exactly what got them banned.

Edit 2: Even funnier, he is banned till 2034 for additional misconduct.

Cutlass, delete west.

Deleting west.

Brace yourselves for angry people for not getting a free ship and/or releasing a MK + 1 Variant without goldpassing or goldpassing properly first

EDIT: I forgot shocked pikachu for aurora mk2 as well. Lmao

For those who dont know, a ship schedule was leaked:

Per pipeline:

New ships in the next couple of month We've obtained detail about the "final pass deadline" for a number of ships in the next few months. Mind you, this doesn't mean the ship will release at that day exactly, just that CIG want them done by then, to release them shortly after

Anvil Auxilia Deadline end of August

Greycat MFC Deadline end of August

Origin M60 Deadline 22nd September

GATAC Hyun Deadline 30th September

RSI Skylark Deadline mid September

RSI Constellations Series Constellations getting a Mk5

Mk4 (Current models) getting gold standard Deadline 13th october

Drake Marauder Deadline 19th October

Liberator Deadline scheduled for 26th February 2027, currently behind schedule

Kraken Deadline by end of March 2027

Just be aware all. Everything on reddit is visible and searchable. Even if you hide your post history it is incredibly easy to find.

The same account was used in all of his links/comments and screenshots I provided. He wasnt using an alt like he claimed.

An exchange I remember from years ago. Always gets me a laugh when the topic of piracy comes up in my org or others.

Edit: This was the persons response on how I formerly pirated in 3.22 when reclaimers made 10m UEC every 45 minutes.

Summary:

1. I hail them and ask for 10% of their haul in UEC because unloading a reclaimer is annoying and they had 10m in UEC onboard.
2. Talk in global, ask the same.
3. Get out of my ship and float against their cockpit and talk in proximity chat, ask the same.
4. No one ever took up the offer via silence or insults at my group.
5. Softdead them and board.
6. Kill them and then bring in C2 for loading.

Thats it. No other chats or voice comms.

This person accused me of harrasment and other really heinous IRL crimes and was hoping I was on a watchlist because I haggled as a pirate and actually tried to do exactly what this subreddit wants a pirate to do, eg, reach out and negotiate portion of the hauls instead of just shooting and moving on.

Edit 2: If you accuse me of harassment/stalking etc in here I will report you to the mods and they will ban you just like they did on that thread and the screenshotted person above. Just a heads up.

All, this subreddit has been in a poor state for a long time, and despite insistence from the mods to keep it reigned in, and in the wake of the Bruno situation, which you can find if you are uninformed, this subreddit has become a nearly untenable mess.

The mod team wants a change, and we've settled on it. This post is to purely keep the community informed and nothing else.

The old guard, by and large, is stepping away. /u/RainDasher will be taking charge from here on out, I will remain head mod, but at this moment in time, its only to prevent rogue moderation, my day to day moderation will likely cease in the near future. None of this is a punitive measure. The reasons given in order of biggest to smallest reasons:

1. This sub is a toxic platform now. Place blame where you will, but odds are its a ton of factors all mixing together in a huge storm, and really you could point in just about any direction and find an issue. And as mentioned, in the wake of bruno, nothing has changed in any form, aside from this subreddit still furious at an apparent lack of change and genuine official comment.

2. We don't play anymore. We don't have interest in the game, or interest in maintaining the community anymore.

3. We cannot be expected to continuously babysit the sub anymore. We have lives, and in my case, this subreddit is bleeding into everything else now.

4. Inactivity (for select mods)

With the above in mind, we are opening moderator applications. We are looking for 4 moderators. We really want people who want to be active, watch the queues, respond to modmails, at least once a day.

That said, the requirements/information for moderator are as follows:

1. At least some activity/contributions to the sub. (Preferred)
2. Former moderator actions can, and may, be counted against your application. (Depending on severity.)
3. Absolutely must be 21 years old or older.
4. Must check queues/modmail at least once daily, if you want to be super active and do more, or peruse new/comments at your leisure, that is encouraged.
5. Inactive mods will be removed
6. Expect this to be a long haul thing, don't wear this as a badge of honor or like you're a hero. Being a moderator honestly sucks, especially now. You must understand you are realistically a janitor. Know that you do this because you want to help the community, and you will get shit thrown at you.

Application Link

Good luck, and fair seas.

Scroll to bottom for screenshot of this. This is insane. I compared this game to star citizen, in both VRAM and RAM, Star Citizen actually beats Diablo 4 in utilization and its not a small win. At minimum its 40% up to 2-3x WORSE than Star Citizen. That is INSANE. Star Citizen is very unoptimized (not bashing star citizen here, its a fun game with friends, I will NOT deny it has problems, but it has a much larger scope and many more problems than D4, D4 should NOT lose against SC in this manner).

I have a 9800X3D and a 9070 XT.

The game gets progressively stuttery as time goes on. This is the Only game I have that does this out of my 4 I regularly play.

I sat and played and watched my RAM continuously increase in usage as Diablo 4 was open.

I have tried every fix. No BNet open when game launches, 96 gb paging files for EACH drive. Turning off HD textures. Lowering graphics.

This behavior is not observed in any game I play, or when the system is idle.

This has been an ongoing issue. I can play three hours MAX before the game hard locks my system.

When typing this post in a browser on reddit on an existing tab, the RAM usage for diablo has increased two entire gigabytes.

When the hell is blizzard going to fix this?

God I hate it when people just ignore a problem that has been talked about on this subreddit repeatedly, and has been talked about by ICY VEINS etc. And how its affecting both brands of graphics cards (nvidia users saying its only AMD below, which is untrue if you literally just google "diablo 4 memory leak" and see team green complaining too) because they would plug their ears and go "blah blah blah" rather than blame blizzard that has had this issue for actual YEARS.

https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/s/D3ZZQ9a0OG (10 months ago)

https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/news/diablo-4-season-9-hit-by-recurring-ram-vram-memory- leaks/ (Season 9)

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/a-memory-leak-fix/210109 (2024 telling everyone to increase paging file, which wears SSDs down faster, btw)

https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/1t18gym/memory_issueleak_still_not_fixed/ (post from 5 days ago, top commenter complains that mem leak issue is ignored by people or outright denied)

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/major-memory-leak-–-ram-vram-escalation-ignored-by- support-crash-id-included/220837 (2025, ignored by support)

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/memory-leak-still-not-fixed/6589 (2023. First response accuses OP of making threats because they said "you will lose customers)

The what is wrong with this community? Many many programs do not do this, and none of the ones I run, including games have memory leaks. Memory leaks are not common errors, and the further back you go, devs had to be extremely tedious to not have them because RAM was far more precious.

IE its not being fixed because Blizzard is lazy or doesnt care at some level of management and they need a dang call out!

(Edited the above because people got offended I called "the devs lazy" because of an issue that has been happening for 3 years, for some reason)

Here is another screenshot I took myself after an hour of play. Diablo is using 3x the VRAM it is estimating for my game settings. In the screenshot 15GB of VRAM is being used. My OS uses about 12 System RAM by itself idling, but the game loads initially using 8 or less System RAM and after some time jumps to 16gb System RAM

I like how I gave someone troubleshooting steps in this thread and they got mad and called me a stubborn child over it. I remembered why I dont engage on online with blizz communities on reddit or the forums. Look at this thread.

For those who havent seen it this is what I tried:

The native launcher, medium settings to extend the time I can play. All frame gen/fsr off.

Page file increased to 96gb on each drive I have in the system. (again to extend game playability lifespan)

All AMD driver features off like AFMF/sync/etc.

Reinstalled game. NO HD textures.

Used DDU to reseat GPU drivers.

Different sets of RAM.

Bnet hardware acceleration off. Bnet closed when game is open.

All overlays off. All of them (I hate em anyway, with the sole exception of steam, which is irrelevant because I am using Bnet).

HAGS On/off also does not matter, someone suggested that too.

I have checked if the remainder of my 64gb ram is accessible. It is. And I know it can be touched with memory and benchmarking programs. Diablo 4 seems to have a hard cap on how much RAM it can use, meaning it hits the cap quickly and crashes.

D4 appears to have a hard limit coded in to prevent it from using over half the system RAM. I have tried other games and programs and they use all of it, D4 does NOT.

I checked event viewer for a known timestamp of a crash, it is infact a memory error. Im not sure if this is caused directly by the memory leak, but it is attempting to access memory it doesnt have access to.

Further checking, at menu D4 is using 11gb of VRAM at the main menu, which is 2x higher than its graphics options estimated VRAM usage. That is absurd. A link to another person complaining about this 3 years ago

Other users in this thread reporting this happens on linux too. So its NOT OS isolated.

Ive done all the suggested fixes that mention this issue that I could find, im sure I missed some in the aboce list. None of them stick permanently or work.

Compared against STAR CITIZEN:

Star citizen, the most unoptimized game I have installed, at menu, uses less half the SYSTEM RAM than diablo 4 while ALSO generating 146 THOUSAND shaders. In game while ALSO generating shaders, it uses 40% less VRAM as a whole. Star citizen says it should be using 9.5GB of VRAM, and it is using much closer to that, while D4 uses 2-3x the amount it says it should use in menu. Star Citizen also uses more than half my RAM whereas, again confirmed, D4 will not utilize more RAM due to a now blatantly obvious hard coded cap. Screenshot taken when loaded into game. And in my big ass hangar.