When I read this week's newspost, I decided to test out the crash reduction claims for myself. The results were mixed.
The issues which have driven me to play in Compatibility Mode for about the past six months are a little different. My game wasn't crashing upon logging in, however there were certain places in-game where RS would immediately and completely freeze. I couldn't even log out. I had to X out the client and reopen it. I found these screen freezes could be avoided by playing in CM. Yeah, the lag sucks, but it beats total game freeze.
One place my game would freeze is halfway between the Edgeville lodestone and the clay rocks south of the barbarian village. As I moved south from the lodestone, roughly in-line with the Body Altar, everything just stopped, unless I was in CM. When I tried this in Auto Normal Mode on Monday, as I reached the spot where my game had frozen before, the run animation stalled for a second, but then I continued moving without the game freezing. The same thing happened later when I approached the trapdoor to enter Edgeville Dungeon.
However, later on I tried to teleport to Falador. This still results in total game freeze.
I sent Jagex another detailed bug report. Clearing the cache does nothing to help.
So I am back in CM.
Ah yes...the infamous Falador Freeze. I have experienced this myself.
Your timeline seems to line up with mine. I didn't note this bug until right around the 2022 Beach event. The Beach itself suffered from areas of game freeze last year, particularly the southern end of the crater, as well as the west exit.
Yeah, it would be great to escape Compatibility Mode.
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