do the rest of your guys summoners lag

[freefree]

I finally got my summoner to hell baal and started to do key runs but with 13 skelletons, no mages and no revives I'm lagging so much the game freezes a minute at a time, and with a full army i get 15 FPS and it lags so bad that nothing happens to the point I have to tab out of the game, and manually close diablo.

I don't have this kind of lag with anyother character and I run a pretty decent computer and internet connection.

so are the rest of you lagging alot as well or am i just unlucky.

[AnimeCraze]

The lag is caused by bnet, not you. My zealot get these kind of lags lately as well. Other than that, are you using Direct3D or DirectDraw? Switch to directdraw practically eliminates all graphics lag from meteor, lightning fury, summon, frozen orb, etc.

EDIT: And large minimaps. I never thought that was possible, but I almost got killed by the minimap when I had my sorc in 1 of those ice caverns in hell act 5 with Direct3D on.

[freefree]

I use direct3D, how does that cause more slow down then directdraw. I would assume my card doesn't even support 2D exceleration. And I know bnets laggy, but my pings are still below 300 usually around 107 with my summoner. so I wouldn't think its bnet. I might have to give up on the necro and use a smiter, even though i hate pallys.

I'll try direct draw aswell,

edit: I justrealised I had the debug runtimes installed, im-a switch back to retail and see if that helps the frames a bit.

[Morathi]

I have only tried making one necro summoner before and it never lagged but that was cause i did single player not bnet.

[Viktri]

I don't lag with 50 or so minions on my screen

[Perfect Hatred]

I noticed the same problem when I play my necro. The whole game freezes up for about 3 seconds every 3 minutes or so. The problem is the game doesnt really stop while my screen freezes and if you just teleported into a tough crowd when screen freezes you might find yourself dead by the time you unfreeze. The weird thing is that this never happens when I play my Javazon.

[Anti-Life]

its bnet based lag not character based lag. every character is gettingn massive lag spikes now-a-days

[bogie]

I never lag with my summoner...ive noticed some lag when your the OTHER player, but thats almost like desycnch with a pally or fast zon, but Ive never had lag myself, Id blame bnet, not your poor summoner.