Terraria freezes for 1-2 seconds randomly

[Fava]

Just started to play terraria after the latest 1.3 patch but my game randomly freezes for up to 2 seconds randomly.

My computer is high end enough to run GTA V and so on so i doubt its the specs.

One thing that i think is important is that when the game freezes it is the whole game and not the screen, in other words when a freeze happens the game stops and doesn't continue in the background, but sounds and music still play, and when the game resumes it just continues where it left off.

Anyone know why?

[ANOMALIK]

Same problem...

['Garf910]

I am also having the same problem, singleplayer, multiplayer me hosting or not, it still does it. Pretty annoying

[Bomb Bloke]

I have it happen occasionally, less often since the last patch, oddly enough.

In my case it seems to be caused by the game loading previously uncached resources from disk (or ones that perhaps had been unloaded due to disuse). For example, placing a new wall block into the world (so the game has to load the texture), killing something after an extended period of pacifism (so the game has to load the "death" audio-sample), approaching a new biome, and so on.

I maybe notice it once or twice an hour, if that?

['Garf910]

Ive even had it on my SSD and it happens every minute at least, so still dont know whats up.

[SpacePiratePanda]

One suggestion would be to go to your video settings in game and turn off multicore lighting. Its known to cause stuttering. -shrugs-

['Garf910]

ok that might make sense, its a new setting so ya i'll try that, thanks

[SpacePiratePanda]

Originally posted by 'Garf:

ok that might make sense, its a new setting so ya i'll try that, thanks

Let me know if that doesnt fix the problem and ill be happy to help you find some solutions.

['Garf910]

well i think that might have fixed the problem no terrible few second freezes now, just the random pops when things are loading but thats pretty normal, thanks for the suggestion!

[smokauweeds]

its the auto save. i have it happen with other games. i disabled it on terraria, i stopped getting the lag

[Flyingbox]

Multicore Lighting. Turn it off. It's really not necessary.
Frame skip can also decide slowdowns, be it on or off. Try inverting that if multicore alone doesn't fix.

[Fava]

Multicore lighting has been off the whole time it seems, but i will try that auto save thing :)

[☠ Smaug ☠]

Same problem for me really annoying...

[signorekeller]

I'm having this very same issue. Mulicore lighting and auto save features being off have not resolved the issue. I've played Terraria for quite a while and it's never done this. I've just tried reinstalling Terraria through Steam to no avail. I have recorded a video of the issue(at the time I thought it was the recording software, as this is the first time I've played Terraria in awhile.) Here's the video which displays the issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81jNTHAUzWQ

[signorekeller]

I appear to have fixed the issue by deleting all Terraria content on my PC and then reinstalling again through Steam. I'll post again here if the issue persists.

[signorekeller]

After 5 minutes of gameplay the problem resumed.