Multiplayer Game Freezes After Patch #6

[Darkfox]

Ever since installing the Patch #6 and its subsequent hotfixes (around Feb 18-22, 2024) the game tends to lag/glitch/freeze while I am playing Multiplayer with my friends. It never did that before. Single player works normally. We have been playing multiplayer with the same group for months and it worked fine for us up until now.

We do not have, and nobody of us ever had, any mods or other possibly interfering stuff installed. It happens only to me and not to anybody else (or, mostly - my lags can influence them, and some have experienced something similar sometimes, but that may be a random thing).

What happens: usually I can start playing ok, then after I do something like opening an inventory, starting a conversation or simply opening any other kind of interface (including trying to open the in-game Options window!) besides just having the normal screen on, the game freezes. Or more specifically, I e.g. click a chest, it does not open, I can see characters moving etc., and eventually their animation stops showing (they are just moving about like figurines not moving their limbs) and then eventually the whole game just freezes for me. Sometimes it unfreezes, and sometimes the chest or inventory or whatever I clicked opens (after like X minutes), the game may run for a bit, but then freezes or lags again.

It never did that before the patch.

I tried putting graphics to lowest (but why? It has never been a problem before), various shenaningans with different game settings, verified game integrity, nothing helped.

Any ideas what might be the cause, or how to fix it?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Darkfox:

Multiplayer Game Freezes After Patch #6
Ever since installing the Patch #6 and its subsequent hotfixes (around Feb 18-22, 2024) the game tends to lag/glitch/freeze while I am playing Multiplayer with my friends. It never did that before. Single player works normally. We have been playing multiplayer with the same group for months and it worked fine for us up until now.

We do not have, and nobody of us ever had, any mods or other possibly interfering stuff installed. It happens only to me and not to anybody else (or, mostly - my lags can influence them, and some have experienced something similar sometimes, but that may be a random thing).

What happens: usually I can start playing ok, then after I do something like opening an inventory, starting a conversation or simply opening any other kind of interface (including trying to open the in-game Options window!) besides just having the normal screen on, the game freezes. Or more specifically, I e.g. click a chest, it does not open, I can see characters moving etc., and eventually their animation stops showing (they are just moving about like figurines not moving their limbs) and then eventually the whole game just freezes for me. Sometimes it unfreezes, and sometimes the chest or inventory or whatever I clicked opens (after like X minutes), the game may run for a bit, but then freezes or lags again.

It never did that before the patch.

I tried putting graphics to lowest (but why? It has never been a problem before), various shenaningans with different game settings, verified game integrity, nothing helped.

Any ideas what might be the cause, or how to fix it?

Did you do the Game Update Routine when updating the game?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3017038167
If not proceed with the Cleaning Cache guide to address your issues
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3018203217
make sure not to miss a single step then try again in a new campaign after everyone in your party has done the procedures

[Darkfox]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Darkfox:

Multiplayer Game Freezes After Patch #6
Ever since installing the Patch #6 and its subsequent hotfixes (around Feb 18-22, 2024) the game tends to lag/glitch/freeze while I am playing Multiplayer with my friends. It never did that before. Single player works normally. We have been playing multiplayer with the same group for months and it worked fine for us up until now.

We do not have, and nobody of us ever had, any mods or other possibly interfering stuff installed. It happens only to me and not to anybody else (or, mostly - my lags can influence them, and some have experienced something similar sometimes, but that may be a random thing).

What happens: usually I can start playing ok, then after I do something like opening an inventory, starting a conversation or simply opening any other kind of interface (including trying to open the in-game Options window!) besides just having the normal screen on, the game freezes. Or more specifically, I e.g. click a chest, it does not open, I can see characters moving etc., and eventually their animation stops showing (they are just moving about like figurines not moving their limbs) and then eventually the whole game just freezes for me. Sometimes it unfreezes, and sometimes the chest or inventory or whatever I clicked opens (after like X minutes), the game may run for a bit, but then freezes or lags again.

It never did that before the patch.

I tried putting graphics to lowest (but why? It has never been a problem before), various shenaningans with different game settings, verified game integrity, nothing helped.

Any ideas what might be the cause, or how to fix it?

Did you do the Game Update Routine when updating the game?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3017038167
If not proceed with the Cleaning Cache guide to address your issues
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3018203217
make sure not to miss a single step then try again in a new campaign after everyone in your party has done the procedures

Thanks, I went through these steps but it did not help. With one friend, we tried to test by starting a new game and that seemed to run no problem, but the game with all my friends keeps lagging the same way.