[GAMEPLAY] Dark Star Thresh skin causes crippling in game lag

Electromech·Jun 17, 2016·4 votes·14,986 views

Not sure if this was just in the game me and my friends were playing but every time Dark Star Thresh entered vision, the game lagged out for a second and made it impossible to react to the situation.

Have Dark Star Thresh enter vision from the fog of war.
Experience lag.

This bug was entirely reproducible on every instance that this happened during the game. This happened whenever Thresh entered TEAM vision.

Like I said, not sure if this was an isolated instance but it definitely sucked.

51 Comments

RiotmoonstonesJun 17, 20163 votes

Hey Electromech -

Thanks for the report! We are aware of the issue, and you're correct that FoW is the culprit here. At the moment, we're working on a resolution for this issue.

M4dDanJun 17, 20162 votes

everytime i play sejuani my fps in late game (or after 30 min +-) go down from 140 to 80 and i can notice the game is more laggy can u solve this too? XD with all other champs i haven't this issue

ArchadriaJun 21, 20161 votes

Try closing some programs out. What do you usually run during league

KGB watching UJun 17, 20161 votes

working on? you must disable the skin, is a game-breaking bug, is impossible to play vs this skin. now is a pay to win: buy skin and easy win ranked.

RiotPabroJun 18, 20163 votes

I know I'm late to this thread. First, apologies for the problem having in the first place. We have since disabled DS Thresh, and we have a team working on a potential fix. We are testing it over the weekend in hopes of a hotfix very soon.

To give some behind the scene context- once we get these types of reports- we attempt to get as much information as possible to see how widespread the problem was. We worked with our data analytics team and saw that this issue was pretty wide spread and made the decision to disable DS Thresh. So, when we say we're working on it- it implies we are studying the problem, seeing how wide spread it is, what types of players and machines it's happening on, are there other factors (ie server problems, latency problems, etc.). Once we determined it was for sure DS Thresh and in what type of conditions- we were able to gain enough information to make the call to turn him off.

Totally agree- any feature, skin, champion etc..that causes such widespread disruption should immediately be turned off to protect the overall player experience.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Genuinely, appreciate it.

ArchadriaJun 19, 20164 votes

Question: to those of us who bought the skin prior to the problem, how are we going to be reimbursed for the downtime of not enjoying the skin :)

xeno the fallenJun 19, 20162 votes

really i spent the money for the DS thresh skin and the icons and ward but i have only gotten to play one game with it can i at least get a fix date please? Thresh i miss you

RiotPabroJun 19, 20161 votes

Thanks for chiming in. We have a potential fix but are QAing it over the weekend to ensure it actually solves or alleviates the problem. We are testing on a whole host of both high end and low end PC configurations to ensure it is improved and we're awaiting information in order to verify that it is actually improved. All I can say in regards to time to hotfix, is ASAP, because if I give a date and it changes- then that is no good for anybody. We are cranking on it, and again, apologies. I am so sad this skin is not in your hands.

Alpha casterJun 19, 20161 votes

Hopefully this fix will work. I just got it out of hextech chest and am pretty excited about playing it. anyway thanks for the hard work ^-^

RiotPabroJun 22, 20162 votes

And it's back! We hotfixed it today and should be playable again. Cheers!

Grey WolfJun 22, 20161 votes

Uhhhh, not quite.....

lagged badly in my thresh game.

RiotPabroJun 26, 20162 votes

Was it a hitch (ie game basically stops for a sec) or did you see a major frame rate drop?

Can you send me some deets about your system specs, and the conditions upon which this is occurring for you. This will help give us more details to isolate the problem. The fix we put out optimized a lot of his ability effects but we are still working to improve it. So the more information I get, can help our efforts.

I'm sorry this is still affecting you.

AramsAreBestJun 26, 20163 votes

Not everyone knows what deets means.

Celeste BenalJun 27, 20161 votes

details

AramsAreBestJun 27, 20162 votes

Yeah I'm just saying when a rioter posts he/she should not be using slang like deets if they really take the issue serious.

RiotPabroJun 27, 20162 votes

Thanks for the feedback.

BADxW0LFJun 27, 20162 votes

Man...don't listen to haters like this. use all the slang you want man!

DecritJun 27, 20161 votes

actually... no, if it is a technical thing better not.

These are NA boards but people form all over the world come here. I am not english, i understood aniway what he meant, but i could see someone getting confused.

Nothing dramatic however ;)

AramsAreBestJun 27, 20162 votes

Yeah I'm just saying when a rioter posts he/she should not be using slang like deets if they really take the issue serious.

Grey WolfJun 27, 20161 votes

I posted that quickly; the lag occurs in games when he is not in them too. I was running LoLWiz, and that might have caused the issue instead.

I know my FPS dropped to 6 FPS when 3 of us were taking down a dragon, then again in another game wen the enemy was blowing up our Nexus.

RiotPabroJun 27, 20162 votes

If you get a chance to play without LoL Wiz, and you see the issue please let us know. And, just to be clear, in those games was there a Dark Star Thresh? Was he on your team or the opponent's team?

Grey WolfJun 27, 20161 votes

I posted that quickly; the lag occurs in games when he is not in them too. I was running LoLWiz, and that might have caused the issue instead.

I know my FPS dropped to 6 FPS when 3 of us were taking down a dragon, then again in another game when the enemy was blowing up our Nexus.

xeno the fallenJun 19, 20161 votes

really i spent the money for the DS thresh skin and the icons and ward but i have only gotten to play one game with it can i at least get a fix date please? Thresh i miss you

i agree with you Archadria

ArchadriaJun 20, 20162 votes

I was thinking simple stuff, some bonus IP globally for everyone, a double IP weekend maybe?

ArchadriaJun 20, 20161 votes

Just to show the community that you do care about having to worm on a hook us when crap happens :)

RiotPabroJun 19, 20164 votes

We are discussing through options here, hope to have more information in the next few days about this.

DartExplosion10Jun 19, 20163 votes

days???

RiotPabroJun 20, 20163 votes

Yep. Once we have a fix that works and is ready for patching, we will announce more. Won't make a commitment on a date until I know it's mitigated for sure.

DartExplosion10Jun 20, 20161 votes

gj rito

the Anarchit3chtJun 20, 20163 votes

I love you for this. More Rioters need to have this attitude. I get that a lot of Rioters don't comment on things because they don't want to make any promises on when it will be finished, but it's nice to hear "We're working on. We don't have an ETA, but it's a priority." As opposed to hearing nothing at all! One thumbs up for being the bro-iest broducer ever.

ElectromechJun 18, 20162 votes

Glad to hear it! Just saw on the client that the skin is disabled haha!

Thanks for the attention to the issues that plague us in game :) One of the few reasons I keep on coming back for more League!

FlahertyJun 17, 20162 votes

I got that skin and have played about 6 games with it, no one ever mentioned anything like that to me. I did notice a sudden jerking movement with my camera as Dark Star Varus on the other team came into my vision once.

Virgin RayJun 17, 20162 votes

It's cause he's a dark star, he must stay hidden from the other team and cannot be seen. Like real black holes.

25 Macdo reguJun 17, 20162 votes

i just bought the skin and i got little lagg all game i run an high end pc its not from me

MurkHouseJun 17, 20162 votes

i can confirm, both me and a friend experienced this. as soon as he appears, my game froze for ~1 sec every time he came into view. My friend exact same thing.

CloaJun 17, 20162 votes

Can confirm this bug. Was in comms in a 5-man pre-made and every single time Thresh came out of FoW our clients froze for 1 second.

woelmuisJun 17, 20162 votes

I can confirm this. I am running an AMD graphics card.

GraggersJun 17, 20162 votes

Confirmed and extremely annoying in ranked, this also happens whenever Sion's passive dies.

ArchadriaJun 19, 20161 votes

I get a lag spike every time I die since patch 6.6

Starcall CaseyJun 19, 20161 votes

For some reason this is caused by loading your Death recap when you die. I sometimes have that happen too so i looked it up and it took me forever to find a rioter comment about it.

DehitayJun 17, 20162 votes

Well, this explains why I my game was freezing for a second in my last game. There was indeed a Dark Star Thresh. Now since I was in jungle, I didn't check to see if each freeze was a result of him coming out of fog of war, but Dark Star Thresh and small freezes were indeed in the same game.

LadyRenlyJun 19, 20162 votes

Sounds like a typical day for Mordekaiser

nightshockJun 20, 20162 votes

Can i get my 25$ back from the dark star bundle so I can spend it on overwatch? Riot better do something to compensate people for this. Big mess up when you are fighting blizz for players right now /faceplant

KINGWOLF59Jun 19, 20161 votes

Haven't had any complaints when I used it. I am a little ticked that I spent all those RP on it and can't use it though. So I hope you get this issue solved soon

TheFoollJun 20, 20161 votes

will there still have the dark star set bundle after fixed the problem?

TimelessblurJun 28, 20161 votes

This skin is still causing masssive issues on anyone with a the mac. Is make is crippling to use and lag issues.

Can riot please disable this skin again.

BOneUpMay 29, 20181 votes

Was it fixed, cause I just had this exact problem... I don't wanna have to ban Trash every game just cause it could give them a free win if they have the skin.

Sona PingMay 30, 20181 votes

This is a two year old thread! Do not bump years old threads to ask a question to the void; that is flagrant misconduct. Make a new thread on the appropriate board.