u/yoyokittybro_reddit

I know this is mostly just an issue with my computer's capabilities, but before the last two updates, this past week/ few days ago, my computer loaded Phasmophobia no problem. I may have been a bit slower in the loading, but it was all very bearable. My game has never crashed and never truly given me a performance issue.

Since the updates, my game often crashes, my computer turns into an airplane engine, it takes me 10x longer to open the game, select single player/multiplayer, press any button to open a screen or journal, load into a game, load all the assets, load out of the game, and even close the game entirely.

It also makes anything else on my computer lag while it runs, such as typing in discord, pressing play on a song, etc.

I've never had these issues before. It's as if it's tripled the amount of storage it's taking on my computer. I have set all the graphics the lowest it can be, and it still does this.

I know it's a high running game, but this is just unbelievably insane. I don't have the fanciest computer, but why does it take the fanciest computer to run it? It should be an accessable game! Every time I load up the game, it crashes at some point. It's just unbelievable and unacceptable. Any other game on my computer runs perfectly smoothly and has none of these issues. It's only Phasmophobia.

I have over 300 hours on the game, I love it and want to push through any other bad updates, but I can't even do that because it's TRULY unplayable for me.

Please fix these issues, or I (and probably many others) can't play it. Not for petty reasons, but because I Literally. Can't. Play. It.

21F, 5'9, 280lbs

I have no medical issues beside PCOS, I take birth control for that only on occasion, but I haven't taken any during this whole ordeal.

I don't take any medications/ I didn't take any type of medication or vitamin without realizing that could cause this (besides the antibiotics I list below).

At the beginning of April, I got sick. Body temp changed from burning hot to freezing cold constantly, sinus congestion, severe cough, produced neon yellow flem, the normal stuff. I took antibiotics ( amoxicillin) and everything cleared up within a week or two, but after I got over that sickness, I started to smell a very specific smell.

I have a hard time describing the smell. It's almost like the smell they put in gas for gas stoves. Very putrid, but not exactly like it. It's almost worse and has a small chemical hint to it. It almost smells like sick if that makes any sense. Sorry this isn't the best description, but just know it smells BAD!

I chalked it up to bad BO, maybe some leftover mucus in my nostrils, maybe the antibiotics had something to do with it. I had also. in this time, changed my shampoo to a medicated shampoo for dry scalp ( head and shoulders clinical strength dry scalp rescue). The thing is, I only smelled this smell on me and anything I touched/ anything my sweat got on. Nothing else smelt and sometimes I didn't smell it at all. I figured maybe any of those things caused my BO to smell different, but nobody, and I asked several different people, nobody told me I smelt. I stopped using that shampoo as well, and nothing changed.

Near the end of the month, the smell had gotten less severe and I could almost ignore it, but then I got sick again with a stomach bug. I was throwing up constantly for a whole day, and had a sore stomach the next few days. That's when the smell came back but ten fold. Now it's so strong, I feel nauseated whenever I smell it. I smell it the most in my shower/ bathroom because that's where my sweat gets everywhere, but I still smell it on me. On my palms, my pits, my forehead, anywhere sweat comes out.

I don't just smell it in my home, I smell it everywhere I go, but only on me or anything my sweat touches.

That's the thing that confuses me the most. You'd think I'd smell it constantly on anything, but everything else smells perfectly fine. Food, candles, perfume all smell fine. It's just on me and nobody but me smells it. Is so putrid and I can't escape it.

I'm just so exhausted of smelling like this. It's almost like I'm an animal that can smell my own scent.

Before anyone asks, I am not diabetic or pre-diabetic. There is no smell of ketones from my breath and I recently had bloodwork done, nothing unusual. There's also nothing sweet about the smell.

There's also no smell coming from the water in my shower. I've had people that don't live in my house/ with me tell me that nothing about me, my house, or my water smell like what I'm smelling.

Also, there is no gas leak or chemical leak in my home.

I think I've included all I can think of about this. I'm just so desperate for answers. I don't trust Dr. Google, but so far even that hasn't gotten me anywhere. I'm going to schedule a Doctors visit tomorrow, I've finally found the time to go, but I figured I'd ask here as well. I'm just losing my mind over this.