Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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If I have any D&DBeyond character sheet page open, my entire computer slows to a crawl after 1~2 minutes.
Closing the tab with the D&DBeyond character sheet restores performance to expected levels.
As a measurement, I am running two 165Hz screens and playing on Foundry.
Plays perfectly smooth with no DDB charsheet open.
With a DDB charsheet open for over ~2mins, plays with massive stutters - panning cameras, virtual dice etc feel like 10fps at best.
Opening / Minimizing windows and dragging them around, gifs playing in discord etc all feel like 10fps.
Close the DDB charsheet tab and I'm back to butter smooth 165fps everywhere within 5sec.
Whether the DDB charsheet tab is open or not, CPU and GPU usage hover around 10-20% and nothing there looks indicative of these slowdowns.
Hardware - 7800X3D, RTX 3060, 64GB DDR5-6000
Software - Win11, Firefox 149.0.2
Would appreciate help in diagnosing what exactly is going on there, as I enjoy playing and dming with charsheets open on the side, and that is currently practically unplayable for me.
My advice:Test it w/o Foundry.
Because that isn't a 1st-party product.
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Do you have any other tools that integrate with the DDB character, like Beyond20 or other browser extensions?
Me and my friend (4 of the 5 people) all using firefox have the same problem. Extreme lag only on the character sheet. If you close the tab with the character, everything comeback to normal. When you re open it, it take about 5min and everything lag again.
So we are kinda closing and re opening our character every 5-10min.
Keep in mind that we never had any problem before the update of the website recently.
Also encountered this issue on Firefox. Trial and error (deleting elements) tracked the issue to this element:
<canvas style="position: fixed; width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow: hidden; display: block; inset: 0px; z-index: 999999999; pointer-events: none;" width="1714" height="884"></canvas>
Not sure what feature it's being used for.
I have made a uBlock filter to temporarily hotfix this issue, the canvas appears to be duplicated somehow, deleting the excess one on load and letting it be created programmatically doesn't seem to break anything.
www.dndbeyond.com##canvas[style*="z-index: 999999999"]
Same without Foundry.
A Firefox tab with a DDB character sheet open is enough to cast web on my computer.
Godspeed man, I've given that a shot and the issue is resolved.
It does break dice rolling, but I can do that outside of DDB.
Update - the uBlock filter did not completely resolve the issue (still performance degradation after 1h+) but is a great mitigation still, thanks again
also having the same issues as OP stated. after 5-10 minutes of having the character sheet open, my whole computer comes to a crawl. Which is very odd since I have a very high end PC. Also use firefox.
Definitely seems like the shared dice-roll feature is the direct cause of this stuttering. Has any testing been done on non-Chromium browsers? It's consistent on every machine I've tested using Firefox, including my gaming rig and my work laptop.
Can also state I've experienced the slowdown and memory hogging of DnDBeyond.
Ever since the dice roller updates, our group has noticed the same. We mostly use Chrome with some using Edge, and all have the issue to one degree or another. We have had to turn off Beyond20 Extension because it no longer works the same as it used to (even after the latest updates), and we still have the issues of dice rolling on the character sheets cause otherwise high end computers to slow.
Playing D&D since 1982
Have played every version of the game since Basic (original Red Box Set), except that abomination sometimes called 4e.
I have this same problem on a 9800x3d/64gb/RTX4080 on Firefox Windows 11 (I don't remember it happening on my Macbook). What happens is Desktop Windows Manager begins using massive amounts of single-core CPU resources and this only happened after a recent update (over the past week or two).
I can confirm it is the new "dice" that are causing this issue. If you open https://www.dndbeyond.com/my-dice it causes the same slowdowns with Desktop Windows Manager as the Character sheet. Soon as the tab is closed or switched off it goes back to normal. There appears to be the something wrong with how DDB is asking to render the dice rolling.
Can you please make an option to turn off dice completely so that the sheets are accessible? Turning off dice rolling in the character settings (home in a character) does nothing to prevent this. Also the dice visibility post-processing, effects, shadows, etc turing off/low also doesn't turn this off.
There's an option in the die roller to turn off 3D dice.
I haven't had the thing drag my computer down since like the first week, but at that point, disabling the dice fixed it IIRC.
You responded while I was editing it. I've turned off all options in the dice page and on the character sheet and the issue persists.
I've tried submitting a bug report to DNDbeyond with their system.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1squxit/whats_new_on_ddb_changelog_4202026/ohaphna/
DNDB says they will have a fix shortly.