Mini Freezes an stucks [Fixed] [Solution]

[Sarkas1704]

Anyone here same? Sometime the Game freez for 2-3 Secs and than runs 30 Secs and freez again 2-3 secs and again andd again. WTF should i do? I know my system ist not the best. But this?

I5-6500k (I know its bad)
AMD Radeon RX 7600 OC
24gb Ram
Game is on ssd
Win10

[PsyTay]

I'm having the same issue , tried to speek with the support ,
they told i I'm below spec , and i know the its not the problem u run the game on mid on 120 fps ( dont want high)
i saw on reddit that if you move the game to an ssd it can fix it,
my problem is i dont have one :D
my spec is :
i7-9700F
16 ram
Radeon RX 590 Series

not the best i know but i can run on high red dead 2 adn get solid 60+ fps

[Sarkas1704]

I try Processor Lasso a program that force the CPU usage down but also the game runs fine and than a spike came and freez. After a little bit of time the game crashed. I Really Really hope that Bethesda will fix it when the game comes to offical release.

[Sarkas1704]

I dont know what i have done but i did some windows updates and now it runs smooth without any freezes. I dont know if it help all but try it out. Also i deactivate vsynv,sharping and vrs and it works now.

[Sooty230]

I downloaded Battle Encoder Shirasé and now my i5-6600k is running fine on ultra settings :)

[Myfyr]

Originally posted by Sooty230:

I downloaded Battle Encoder Shirasé and now my i5-6600k is running fine on ultra settings :)

This was my solution. I am now running fine on mostly medium settings (although I had to turn off dynamic resolution, since it seemed to cause freezes and possibly a crash), on an i5-3570K. So it can be run on a below spec cpu.

I suspect my issue might result from my pagefile being on a HDD. As others have noted, the freezes came when the CPU usage hit 100%, and that seemed to coincide with heavy swapping activity. Possibly dynamic resolution might result in more swapping due changing texture resolutions? In any case, limiting Starfield's cpu usage to below 100% (I'm using -7% in BES) seems to allow the pagefile to operate smoothly and eliminates the freezes.

[Meuhoua]

How it is supposed to work, just select the running program and set a -X value ? Because does ot seems to be effective for me with a i5 7600k and the game ona SSD, still got regular saturated cpu usage.

[tloback]

Same problem with a 5800x, 4070ti , 32gb ram and the game installed on a 7400 MBPS nvme.. I dont' think i am "below specs"....
V-sync, resizeble bar etc etc, none of this solves anything.

[Sarkas1704]

Originally posted by Meuhoua:

How it is supposed to work, just select the running program and set a -X value ? Because does ot seems to be effective for me with a i5 7600k and the game ona SSD, still got regular saturated cpu usage.

I try it dont work for me.

But i see in some areas its fine like when you wandering around on stone surcaces no freezes. But if you come close to npc's than freezes alot. Yesterday i play the whole time without freezes and in the pirates outpost freez after freez.

I will Try today to update my Mainboard and CPU and hope it will fix it. i have a Old Mainboard and old processor. But that the game is that hardware hungry thats huge...

[tloback]

Originally posted by tloback:

Same problem with a 5800x, 4070ti , 32gb ram and the game installed on a 7400 MBPS nvme.. I dont' think i am "below specs"....
V-sync, resizeble bar etc etc, none of this solves anything.

Well i solved it, for me it was the dynamic resolution, i had it to off the game just reactivated it by himself without me noticing it.

[PsyTay]

Originally posted by Myfyr:

Originally posted by Sooty230:

I downloaded Battle Encoder Shirasé and now my i5-6600k is running fine on ultra settings :)

This was my solution. I am now running fine on mostly medium settings (although I had to turn off dynamic resolution, since it seemed to cause freezes and possibly a crash), on an i5-3570K. So it can be run on a below spec cpu.

I suspect my issue might result from my pagefile being on a HDD. As others have noted, the freezes came when the CPU usage hit 100%, and that seemed to coincide with heavy swapping activity. Possibly dynamic resolution might result in more swapping due changing texture resolutions? In any case, limiting Starfield's cpu usage to below 100% (I'm using -7% in BES) seems to allow the pagefile to operate smoothly and eliminates the freezes.

how do you use Battle Encoder Shirasé? trying to use it now

[Nightwalker]

Look at my post to resolve this:

** For all you folks having PC problems, read this **
Direct link: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1716740/discussions/0/3824173464661214199/

It has everything you need to check for and fix if you're having problems running the game. also good for general PC maintenance.

[ZDuB]

goto nvidia control panel under manage 3D settings - program settings tab, add Starfield. set Power management mode to Prefer maximun performance, Texture filtering -Negative LOD Bias to Clamp and Vsync off

[Myfyr]

Originally posted by PsyTay:

how do you use Battle Encoder Shirasé? trying to use it now

You just run BES.exe, find the relevant process in the list (so, Starfield.exe, in this case), click the "Limit this" button, click "Yes" to confirm the process, and then drag the slider at the bottom until you get to the limit you want. It defaults to -33%, I'm using -7%. The official webpage has some more info.

Originally posted by Meuhoua:

How it is supposed to work, just select the running program and set a -X value ? Because does ot seems to be effective for me with a i5 7600k and the game ona SSD, still got regular saturated cpu usage.

If you're still getting 100% usage, that suggests either a) BES isn't working correctly for some reason, or b) you have background processes that are using up all the spare CPU usage you've freed up by limiting Starfield, and you need to use a more aggressive BES setting (or find and close the problematic process).
To check for a), you could try changing Starfield's core affinities (that's what I did first). Open Task Manager, go to the "Details" tab, find Starfield.exe, right-click, select "Set Affinity", and uncheck one or more boxes (I'd start with "CPU 0", since IIRC some programs need it specifically). Starfield will now be blocked from using those CPU cores, leaving them available for other processes. If you're still getting 100% CPU usage, then something else is definitely needing CPU time, and you'll need to find and close it, or limit Starfield more. Note that changes to processor affinities will reset when you close the game, so you'll either need to repeat every time, or use something like BES.

As for everyone else it's not working for, I'm sure there are other issues with the game too. Hopefully they'll get fixed soon, either by Bethesda or modders.

[Sarkas1704]

Originally posted by Myfyr:

Originally posted by PsyTay:

how do you use Battle Encoder Shirasé? trying to use it now

You just run BES.exe, find the relevant process in the list (so, Starfield.exe, in this case), click the "Limit this" button, click "Yes" to confirm the process, and then drag the slider at the bottom until you get to the limit you want. It defaults to -33%, I'm using -7%. The official webpage has some more info.

I use the same and it works a little better for me. Sometimes freeze but not that much anymore.

[TenjuRazer]

same problem here got freezes (3-5 seconds) every few minutes somtimes more often. iam playing with an rtx 4080 / i9 13900k and 32gb ddr5 ram / installed on an fast ssd

at this moment i cant really enjoy the game and iam kind of mad that i payed 100 € for a EA version