Troubleshooting

Please see below for some common problems and their solutions:

If the site is too slow for you, please try the following solutions:

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Enable hardware acceleration in your browser settings.

Chrome: Go into Settings > Advanced > System. Toggle on “Use hardware acceleration when available”

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Firefox: Go into the Menu and select Options > General. Under Performance, select “Use hardware acceleration when available”

Hardware acceleration chrome
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Update your graphics card drivers.

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On devices with more than one GPU, make sure that the high performance GPU is used for browsing.

Windows 10: To enable high performance mode in Windows 10, take the following steps. Please note that this will make laptop batteries run down more quickly on all sites.

1 Find Graphics Settings in the Windows menu.

Graphics settings

2 In the Graphics performance preference section, change the drop down to "Desktop app" and click the "Browse" button.

Desktop app

3 Select your Browser application in the dialog that opens, for example Chrome is usually installed at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

4 This should add a control for your browser to the window. Click the "Options" button.

Desktop app options

5 In the Graphics preference dialog that pops up, select "High performance" and click the "Save" button.

Graphics preference

6 The Graphics settings window should now show "High performance" in the section for your browser.

High performance

7 Close all browser windows to ensure that your changes take effect. Open a new browser window and try heroforge.com again.

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Update your browser.

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Try a different browser.

We recommend Chrome. If Chrome runs slowly, Chrome might have stopped supporting your graphics hardware, so try Firefox.

If none of the above works, open Chrome, navigate to chrome://gpu/, press “Copy Report to Clipboard”, submit a ticket, and paste the output into the body of your ticket.

If you're seeing our site in low detail, your device is likely getting flagged as not having the hardware or features needed for our full resolution site. We occasionally update our site in ways that make it more graphically intense, so your device may get flagged even if it didn't before.

Here are a few things you can do to troubleshoot:

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Adjust graphics level.

Navigate to the Info menu and select "Options." From there choose "Regular" instead of Auto. We choose a detail level automatically based on your device's specs, but this will override it.

Note that we disable some higher graphics levels on certain devices to prevent browser crashes.

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Enable hardware acceleration in your browser settings.

Chrome: Go into Settings > Advanced > System. Toggle on “Use hardware acceleration when available”

Firefox: Go into the Menu and select Options > General. Under Performance, select “Use hardware acceleration when available”

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Update your browser.

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Try a different browser.

We recommend Chrome.

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Update your graphics card drivers.

If you’re seeing a graphical glitch, update your graphics card drivers.

If that does not help, please make sure you’re seeing the glitch on the site, then navigate to Info > Report a Bug to send us a bug report.

If the site won't load for you, please try the following solutions:

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Update your browser.

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Change your browser (we recommend Chrome).

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Update your graphics card drivers.

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Enable hardware acceleration in your browser settings.

Chrome: Go into Settings > Advanced > System. Toggle on “Use hardware acceleration when available”

Hardware acceleration chrome

Firefox: Go into the Menu and select Options > General. Under Performance, select “Use hardware acceleration when available”

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If you're still having trouble loading the site properly but can partially load it, please submit a bug report.

If you cannot submit a bug report, please submit a ticket. In your ticket, please include a screenshot of your console log at the time you're trying to load the site. On Chrome, you can see the console by opening the Chrome menu at the top-right of the browser, then selecting More tools > Developer tools, or pressing Ctrl + Shift + I. On Firefox, you can see the console by opening the Firefox menu at the top-right of the browser, then selecting Web Developer > Web Console, or pressing Ctrl + Shift + K. Make sure the "console" tab is selected.

Don’t see your issue? Please submit a bug report. If the issue is about an active order, please submit a ticket.