Diablo III Forum

Good news and bad news. Good news, authentication without restricting D3 executable using the setarch command does not hang on "retrieving character list". You can create, join a game with no problem.

Bad news:

• massive performance hit. Setting affinity to one core on quad core machine slams your fps intro the ground (1 digit numbers)
• shutting down the game cannot be done gracefully, although, exiting a game can be done with no problems

Mitigation:

Continue launching the game with the "setarch" workaround described in the forum and the tips & tricks sections.

regarding the performance hit (amd x4 620e):

After patch 1.0.2c th game ran in slowmotion. After trying thousands of combinations of graphics settings (in both the game and nvidia settings) - none helped - I found a fix for my problem:

Disabling amd cool and quiet in BIOS.

I don't like it, but it made the game at least playable again.