Game Freezing often for 10 seconds plus

[Mashed Sausage]

My game is freezing very often when just roaming around. When it freezes it can be up to like 30 seconds of being frozen. My drivers are up to date and I meet the required hardware specs and I am running the game on medium settings even though i can run it on higher. I am on windows 11 but idk if that could be the problem. pls help i wanna play the game.

[Mooman]

Long freezes like that normally make me think Windows is doing something in the background tying up resources or maxing out the hard drive.

Next time it happens hit ctrl-alt-delete and choose task manager (you might have to set always on top for task manager before opening game).

Check to see what is at high %, particularly hard drive. Clicking on the % will sort by usage. Look at left for what process is using the most and internet search to see what it is.

Windows likes to optimise things and I've seen it run defrag at times it shouldn't. It can also run updates or windows store in the background clogging the hard drive. Most of this stuff can be turned off.

If you can rule out Windows (Windows 11 could be the issue without a solution) as the culprit then next step can tweak the game.

[76561199281265327]

ive noticed sometimes you will get a spawn area lag for a second the game will freeze but usally it happens when a large pack of scourge spawn in your area. ive noticed it happening more often when out in the bog, or around the airport. places with high numbers of scourge spawns usally triggers this time of split second game freeze.

i also agree with mooman, check your steam background downloading or update queue's sometimes i see huge preformance issues when background updates start to download, ive recently stoped all auto updates and removed steam from downloading in the background.

also try to free up at least 20gigs on your windows drive for faster page file and data buffers.

[Vsont]

Yes, my game is doing the same thing have you guys found a fix for it because the game is unplayable at the moment? I also use windows 11

[Arcanix]

So many having problems with games on Window 11. The fault is at Windows 11, not you or your verified files. Play on Windows 10 and you wount have any problems.

Then wait on Microsoft to fix it. Not entirely sure a hotfix covers this looks like a design flaw.

[76561199281265327]

someone said something that virtual cores are causing the freeze ups for most windows 11 users, you need to disable the virtual cpu cores everytime you start windows 11 before you play fallout 76

[Kanonymous]

Messaggio originale di New Login for Fallout76:

someone said something that virtual cores are causing the freeze ups for most windows 11 users, you need to disable the virtual cpu cores everytime you start windows 11 before you play fallout 76

How you can disable that "virtual cores"?

[RTX 5080 FE(Mr Happy)]

Messaggio originale di Kanonymous:

Messaggio originale di New Login for Fallout76:

someone said something that virtual cores are causing the freeze ups for most windows 11 users, you need to disable the virtual cpu cores everytime you start windows 11 before you play fallout 76

How you can disable that "virtual cores"?

Messaggio originale di Eater Of Bozos:

My game is freezing very often when just roaming around. When it freezes it can be up to like 30 seconds of being frozen. My drivers are up to date and I meet the required hardware specs and I am running the game on medium settings even though i can run it on higher. I am on windows 11 but idk if that could be the problem. pls help i wanna play the game.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1151340/discussions/0/3644000310594132271/

I posted a potential fix. Please post a comment if it did or did not help. Thanks

[Plastic Love の Kirari Yoruni]

Sorry to break everyone's ball. the freeze has nothing to do with WIndows 11 and its a steam issue. I tried the xboxgame version on my win 11 and it didnt freeze intermittenly at all. everything is smooth. so ya

[76561199281265327]

i believe its a steam issue as well, i have had many disconnection errors with steam using default settings when first trying to play this game on steam after migration from bethesda launcher.

steam back ground and auto updatings , including steam store back ground data, seems to be the culpurate of disconnection issues an poor game play that effects, fallout 76

[Sr Humungus]

try this, go to steam/settings/download and uncheck "throttle downloads while streaming", relaunch the game.

[War Wizard Grymzst]

F76 usually freezes when

1) There is a hacker/cheater/exploiter either duping or using the dev room, or otherwise being negative to the game code.
2) Anything flying happens in the game, and the game code flips out because flying was not intended in the original code.
3) Bad internet connection, but thats obvious
4) Pretty much anything in the game code is messed up, as that has been a plague since day one launch of the game.
5) There are exploitively created camps in the game world (people with camps over budget, or otherwise UNDER the game world)

[Plastic Love の Kirari Yoruni]

Messaggio originale di GreenBeret63Echo:

F76 usually freezes when

1) There is a hacker/cheater/exploiter either duping or using the dev room, or otherwise being negative to the game code.
2) Anything flying happens in the game, and the game code flips out because flying was not intended in the original code.
3) Bad internet connection, but thats obvious
4) Pretty much anything in the game code is messed up, as that has been a plague since day one launch of the game.
5) There are exploitively created camps in the game world (people with camps over budget, or otherwise UNDER the game world)

but in my xboxgame pass version of fallout does not freeze at all. why only steam version freeze? before i was using bethesda launcher and it didnt freeze too. only after migrated to steam then the freezing starts intermittenly thru out the games.

[Caelinus]

Messaggio originale di WinterMint ヴィーナ:

Messaggio originale di GreenBeret63Echo:

F76 usually freezes when

1) There is a hacker/cheater/exploiter either duping or using the dev room, or otherwise being negative to the game code.
2) Anything flying happens in the game, and the game code flips out because flying was not intended in the original code.
3) Bad internet connection, but thats obvious
4) Pretty much anything in the game code is messed up, as that has been a plague since day one launch of the game.
5) There are exploitively created camps in the game world (people with camps over budget, or otherwise UNDER the game world)

but in my xboxgame pass version of fallout does not freeze at all. why only steam version freeze? before i was using bethesda launcher and it didnt freeze too. only after migrated to steam then the freezing starts intermittenly thru out the games.

Gamepass freezes for me constantly. Win 11.

It is associated with random 100% CPU usage spikes, despite the game normally having sub 30% utilization of any core.

[LUCID]

Run the game in bordered window instead of full screen!

[RavenBone]

On one of my workstations I have an OS Windows 11 and Fallout 76 was freezing up like every minute for 5 or more second, it was unplayable, I was struggling for months until I reinstalled and updated the motherboard integrated sound card drivers, and it fixed it. It's an Asus Hero motherboard, with I think Realtec sound drivers or something. Bottom line, the sound drivers or some sound software was causing my long freezes.