has absolutely raped my computer somehow.

every game I'm spiking even pressing the button to use a spell. I.E. press W to cast dragonfire on Pyro, screen freezes for 1-2 seconds.

needless to say completely unplayable. I defragged my disks, disk cleanup, malware removal, deleted all temporary files, removed any unused programs, have nothing running besides HON, and have all graphics turned down to low with no textures, shadows, etc.

I still find myself unable to play this game stably consistently. some games I join there are no issues and I can play as normal.

switch graphics mode to opengl
maybe this helps

Chances are its the servers, if you have fine games, then shit ones. I remember when like East XX was HORRIBLE to try and play on. XX = random numbers I can't remember. But all other east ones were fine.

turn off the hon in game browser.

awesomoniumprocess.exe

can only kill it when you have hon open. works a bit for me.

maybe it's just the first aoe lag?

like first time after you started up the game you try to use an aoe spell and you get a lagspike, while everything else after this point will run smoothly,

i usually just start up hon>start a practice server>pick tempest>skill meteor and try to use>and try to drop an item ( i sometimes get a lagspike when i try to drop an item )

this is all true, happens to me sometimes
s2 great coders tho and gg servers