Game temporarily freezes when I walk.

[SidewaysSquare]

It seems that the game runs just fine. the graphics look great, the frames are smooth, and the audio is fine. I can look around and shoot just fine, but the moment i start walking, running, or moving in any direction where im not in one place, the game freezes. It takes a minute or two, but the game does come back, and ill only be standing another foot from where i started.

I tried lowering graphics and stuff like that; and i did a search for any kind of viruses or malware, but my computer doesn't seem to have any issues.

Any suggestions?

[Kenstar]

Same was happening to me, kill any punkbuster processes as a first resort.
a second resort is to look through your task manager for any unknown/unneeded processes and kill them. Something might be reading your key inputs and messing arma 3 up. I had to close a few processes, but got it to work.

[SidewaysSquare]

Originally posted by Thick James:

Same was happening to me, kill any punkbuster processes as a first resort.
a second resort is to look through your task manager for any unknown/unneeded processes and kill them. Something might be reading your key inputs and messing arma 3 up. I had to close a few processes, but got it to work.

What kind of processes? I don't know all that much about this kind of stuff...

[1stMarine]

Hey Murry, did you ever get a real fix for this problem? This is driving me nuts. Our concern is exactly the same. I am drained trying to figure it out. Thanx for any help.
1st Marine

[Dj Otacon]

Find the energy settings in the operative system and select high profile to avoid the energy reduction while playing.

[ShazMX6]

Huh? How would that affect the problem. If it was related to Power saving functions, then the player wouldn't be able to use their peripherals period. The problem is inability to move, but yet you can still look around, and fire weapons and what not (if lack of power to mouse/keyboard, then how do you explain that?)

1stMarine is running a regular desktop PC, Intel Core i7, GTX 560 Ti's in SLI, Windows 7 64-bit, I forget the rest of his specs, he's not all that tech savvy, but knows enough to run the games on it, I'm usually one of the ones to help with, but this problem even stumps me. He was wondering if the original poster ever found out how to resolve this.

But when you start offering totally random suggestions for people that aren't that tech savvy, with no real reasons for what the problem is, or why it exists, doesn't exactly help. OP speciically stated what the problem is,

"I can look around and shoot just fine, but the moment i start walking, running, or moving in any direction where im not in one place, the game freezes. It takes a minute or two, but the game does come back, and ill only be standing another foot from where i started."

Your Peripherals going into hibernation mode or sleep mode due to low power state is not going to produce that kind of problem.

Look at it this way, the problem is moving forward or backward, strafe sideways, etc, freezes the character/game, but looking around with mouse, firing weapon with mouse, even using various other keyboard functions, still exist and work, if this was a power issue with devices, NONE of those functions would work, its a specific function that are causing the game to freeze, or inability to operate.

[Dj Otacon]

Originally posted by ShazMX6:

Comment.

Interesting.

[Pèpè Silvia]

Originally posted by ShazMX6:

Huh? How would that affect the problem. If it was related to Power saving functions, then the player wouldn't be able to use their peripherals period. The problem is inability to move, but yet you can still look around, and fire weapons and what not (if lack of power to mouse/keyboard, then how do you explain that?)

1stMarine is running a regular desktop PC, Intel Core i7, GTX 560 Ti's in SLI, Windows 7 64-bit, I forget the rest of his specs, he's not all that tech savvy, but knows enough to run the games on it, I'm usually one of the ones to help with, but this problem even stumps me. He was wondering if the original poster ever found out how to resolve this.

But when you start offering totally random suggestions for people that aren't that tech savvy, with no real reasons for what the problem is, or why it exists, doesn't exactly help. OP speciically stated what the problem is,

"I can look around and shoot just fine, but the moment i start walking, running, or moving in any direction where im not in one place, the game freezes. It takes a minute or two, but the game does come back, and ill only be standing another foot from where i started."

Your Peripherals going into hibernation mode or sleep mode due to low power state is not going to produce that kind of problem.

Look at it this way, the problem is moving forward or backward, strafe sideways, etc, freezes the character/game, but looking around with mouse, firing weapon with mouse, even using various other keyboard functions, still exist and work, if this was a power issue with devices, NONE of those functions would work, its a specific function that are causing the game to freeze, or inability to operate.

So all that to tell someone they gave bad help, but yet not offering any actual help yourself?

Oh, and almost any "tech savvy" person as yourself should know that some power settings can also reduce HDD, CPU, GPU performance; not just peripherals.

[Dj Otacon]

Originally posted by Pèpè Silvia:

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Exactly but I dont give extra info to "ninjas" for free ;)

[ShazMX6]

Yeah, what's that phrase, Pot calling the kettle black? I personally know 1stMarine, he's a friend, have tried to help him best I could, helped him pick the parts for his current PC 2 years ago, etc. He's not all that tech savvy when it comes to a lot of that stuff. But yes, I know about the Power settings, on my end, I have all power settings, and hibernation mode set to off, or power set to max performance, I've been doing that for over a decade or more since before Windows XP, If I remember right I think I started doing that back in Windows 98 or 98SE, same advice I gave him years ago when he built the PC, and as far as I know he hasn't messed with the system in any of those things since.

But lets, look at this.

CPU wise, power reduction, game runs, but only one aspect is affected, specific control functions and game freezes on and off, if CPU power reduction was an issue, the entire game would run slower, all functions would be affected and not just one set. CPU would run at slower clock speeds, reducing overall game performance, even possibly run on a single core, versus all 4 cores.

He has Intel Speedstep or whatever they are calling it these days, disabled in his Bios. Windows Hibernation stuff should be shut off, and running at max performance.

GPU Wise, again, overall game performance would suffer, running at a lower power state, or reduced clock speeds. Not just one aspect of the game, with rest of it running fine. He is Running SLI, with two GTX 560 Ti's. Though there is potential there for problems, but a specific control/movement issue like this would not be related to SLI or a Single GPU setup, in other words, SLI shouldn't/isn't the issue. And other games including ArmA 2 work just fine.

HDD, Considering the OS and Game are on same drive, he's running a single drive for the OS and Games, a 2nd drive for backing up data to. Since the main drive is almost always active, either with OS Processes, Anti virus, or even simple programs like teamspeak, or the Steam App, along with the game, ACTIVELY running from the hard drive, the likelihood of said HDD going into a hibernation or power saving mode, very slim, unless something is wrong with the drive. But again, the Power states and performance, should be set to max, and not been messed with over the last 2 years. He hasn't reinstalled Windows 7 since, and nothings been changed in that respect.

"Find the energy settings in the operative system and select high profile to avoid the energy reduction while playing."

As the one guy stated.

What Energy reductions, 1stMarine made NO comment in regards to energy reductions, nor did the original poster... so where did that assumption come from? Why are they thinking this is energy reductions, and not simply some sort of software issue, or perhaps a game bug that was fixed or resolved in some other manner?

Perhaps if they asked for system specs, and more details, or even asked for clarification on what the system specs are, software versions installed, what has been tried, and what has worked or not worked, then it would of been more valid to offer such a conclusion. But nothing was asked, all it was is a simple "oh, here, do this, there, that should help" reply.

That is why 1stMarine addressed his reply to Murray, find out if he ever resolved the issue and how.

Kenstar's reply was more on track, and possible culprit to this problem. We already looked at those possibilities before I had 1stMarine post on the forums here asking for help, I found this thread, and pointed him to it, he figured he could maybe ask Murray to see if he resolved it. Only way was to post a reply, unable to send a message to his profile with out adding as a friend.

But further examination between me and 1stMarine yesterday while on Teamspeak, I had him Update his Nvidia drivers, it seemed to work to an extent, game loads fine through Nvidia Geforce Experience crap, but has issues still loading through steam itself. Things worked for a while through GFE, but then he had additional Windows Blue Screens. So there are more than just simple power reduction and power state issues going on with his system, the game and problems he's having.

He's done everything from checking Game file integrity, to uninstalling and reinstalling the game twice already. Run it with no mods too. Still same problems.

Meanwhile no such problems with ArmA 2 or any other games, its ONLY an issue with ArmA 3, which would suggest its not a Power state issue either, but more likely some sort of issue with the game, or conflicting software.

One error that popped up during one loading of the game had something to do with KBHook.dll, which could be anything from some conflicting keyboard drivers, missing drivers, corrupt drivers, malware, or some other issue. Another reason why I think Kenstar's reply was more on track with the problem or a possible resolution.

My opinion is it was probably something related to that, or possibly some OS issue, with the Blue screens, he wasn't able to provide any info on the Blue screen messages unfortunately, so I'm at a loss on what is causing those.

So yeah, as far as me not offering any help with the situation... Shame on me... Shame, shame, shame....

[SidewaysSquare]

Originally posted by 1stMarine:

Hey Murry, did you ever get a real fix for this problem? This is driving me nuts. Our concern is exactly the same. I am drained trying to figure it out. Thanx for any help.
1st Marine

Well, I actually ended up getting a new OS (not for this purpose, I just happened to need an upgrade) and that seemed to fix things, but I still need to play on medium graphic settings for it to run smoothly. I know its not much but i hope that helps

[1stMarine]

fter trying all sort of things I finally tried updating video card and that fixed it... Yikes, too easy to overlook.

[Wyatt]

Glad you got your problem solved.

Something extra I do on my PC, in the Arma3.cfg file I change the GPU_DetectedFramesAhead parameter from 1 to 3. This takes my old Radeon HD6950 from 50fps to 85fps on ultra.