Periodic Freezing - Multiplayer!

[Neil79]

Generally the game is spot on only took you guys a year to fix it but still when playing the game will freeze for a split second and frame rates drop to 40 and quickly goes back to normal. It seems to happen with certain explosions but I haven't tested this fully yet. ( not vsync or oc related )

Happens about once or twice during a round, temps are spot on and system tested works fine in BF3 and any other game

 

[Ducky]

That can happen if you have too less free RAM available. The game needs to play a sound file -in this case for the arti drops-, but that file isn't yet loaded in memory. Try to free some extra memory by reducing the number of active background applications or by adding RAM.
A program like GameBooster can help you with freeing RAM space.

 

[tixhal]

smells like punkbuster... 8gb should be enough to keep most stuff in the cache. try playing on a server that doesn't run pb, check if it sill happens.

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

smells like punkbuster... 8gb should be enough to keep most stuff in the cache. try playing on a server that doesn't run pb, check if it sill happens.

I agree, smells like punkbuster.

 

[Flanker15]

I've seen it too, I thought it was punkbuster but I was playing on a PBneg server. I've more than enough ram aswell. It seems to happen in intervals which makes it look like PB but it can't be.

 

[r5cya]

when i had 4meg of ram on win7, i had all kinds of problems when arty fell. mostly sounds cutting out. now i have 12meg and no sound problems. as cheap as memory was then and probably is now, i just said what the heck. it's an upgrade that can only benefit me in the future.

 

[Neil79]

That can happen if you have too less free RAM available.

Doubtful what with 8GB memory and only 44 or less processes in use at any one time. If it's a memory problem it's the game not my end

 

[r5cya]

there's a few guys here, who i bow to and don't question, as far as advice is concerned. Ducky is one. take it for what it's worth.

good luck getting your bugs worked out. you'll love the game when they're gone.

 

[Neil79]

there's a few guys here, who i bow to and don't question, as far as advice is concerned. Ducky is one. take it for what it's worth.

Understandable but doesn't always make it right, if it's running out of ram when the customers computer is virus free, low processes and nothing else running in the background then that is a game bug that needs fixing. A game such as this should not be using upto 8gb of memory plus you'd also get windows complaining about low performance which never happens.

This is the only annoying bug really

I'm not a noob who just got his first computer btw

 

[Neil79]

Just thought i'd add this could be going the wrong way too it may not be a memory issue and could be something else!, just think about many bugs/flaws this game has had in it's original release with the developers screaming at customers saying it's their fault.

Did you not forget them asking some to send their pc's into Tripwire because the game according to them was pretty faultless lol

 

[Ducky]

Doubtful what with 8GB memory and only 44 or less processes in use at any one time. If it's a memory problem it's the game not my end

That depends on how much other programs/servers/drivers are already loaded in memory.

 

[Neil79]

Found the cause, it's the texture streaming!

Increased pool size to 512 made it far improved but i'd prefer to have no streaming, it's not really needed