Game lagging since latest update
Since the last update (Aetherdrift Alchemy 2025/03/05) the animations are lagging during game. This also makes some card selections during the game harder. Before the update everything was working perfectly smoothly for me.

-
rawman#91422 commented
Are there any updates on this issue? Is this under investigation?
Under some circumstances the game is near to unplayable with this lag, for example when you have a very big hand size and have to choose cards from there.
Also in the card overview when you press the filter button it takes ~15 seconds to load the filter screen. -
srvalex93#58647 commented
Same! Since Aetherdrift Alchemy update the animations are lagging during game, more often at the start of the match. Even worse after last update. Before those updates game run perfect
-
MoDBlue#70437 commented
Same here, really laggy only in gameplay. Changing resolution does not solve the problem.
-
The Dark Mage commented
Same. Also opening the Store or Filter in Deckbuilder is very very slow to open.
After some more games and performance monitoring my opinion is that it's network related not screen tearing or local cpu gpu ssd spikes noticed. only network and i have 1gb/s connection. -
Manoroth73#30085 commented
I have the same issue since last update, lot of freezes in animations and game is very slow to shut down.
I play on Steam, with RTX 4080, i5 13600k, 32Go RAM, SSD, ...
-
PlasteredDragon#66811 commented
2025.46.00 game update completely broke animation. I can't event start a game any more, once I click play the game slows to a crawl just displaying the animated screen where you select what deck/game type you want to play. Frames of the animations are coming about once every 2 seconds. Game becomes completely unresponsive to clicks and I have to close it. I have a 4090 graphics card, 128 GB of RAM, and plenty of HD space. Everything was working fine before the update.
-
rawman#91422 commented
Additional Information: Using PC client. So far I only observed the problem during gameplay.