Game freezes

[DarknessEyes]

My game keeps freezing randomly...
Any1 have same issue and/or a fix?

[predatos]

many of us. i tried many things but doesnt work . when the producers will fix it ,it will be fix untill then........enjoy crashing...just kidding.

[DarknessEyes]

Any eta on a fix?

[PSXfiles]

I've stopped using Skeleton Keys until there's a fix. I got so tired of losing them because the game will freeze.

[tide{S}haper industries]

there are a bunch of people, suffering from this issue. Unfortunately the Devs still seems to groping in the dark about the source of the issue - at least that's the latest information from a designer on the official forums.

Also, there is not much information from the devs to the community - what is a bit sad, because they did a mostly good job before.

As far as I see the issue (I had it before myself), it has something to do with the AI/pathfinding and the implemented multicore usage (they called it performance optimization in the latest patch, that has caused this issue) of the engine.

So you shouldn't try too much tweaking on graphical settings - since they're not working for most people at all. (And I don't believe they have something to do with the freezing issue)

Only thing that seems to help consistantly is to force the game to use only the first core of your CPU. To do this, you have to open the windows task-manager, right klick on grimdawn.exe in the process tab, choose; 'set affinity' and check only your first CPU core which is called 'CPU 0'.

It seems that this have fixed for me - and many others said, it works for them - but I haven't done that much testing. Also; keep in mind, that you have to set this everytime you start grimdawn new!

There are some other advices out there - like switching to windowed mode - but also if some people experience a better outcome, most of them still getting freezes - even if it seems that they don't occuring as often as before.

One other thing to keep in mind: If you have a rather old CPU (like me) and switching to single core usage, you most likely running into some stuttering and overall worse performance. So you better don't try it with hardcore chars. ;)

[DarknessEyes]

I added Grim Dawn.exe to clean mem (program used to clear memory usage from processes when they reach "X" mb) and it seems to be working.

At least didnt crash in last 4 hours.

[Darthvilla]

Originally posted by DarknessEyes:

I added Grim Dawn.exe to clean mem (program used to clear memory usage from processes when they reach "X" mb) and it seems to be working.

At least didnt crash in last 4 hours.

what program you say?

[DarknessEyes]

Crashed when i opened steam overaly.

Clean Mem mini monitor.

[Darthvilla]

ok, I tried

[Wolfe1759]

Same here. GD has been crashing/freezing on a regular basis since I bought it upon it's full release (i.e. it's now out of EA and good to go). I've clocked up 3+ hours of play time but I'm probably no more than 30 mins into the game, still on the very first quest. Highly frustrating.

[DarknessEyes]

Game still crash with clean mem program.
However it seems to work if i run it in a single core.

[Peeto]

its freezing, very hard crashing, when restart of PC is needed. Quite serious bug. Otherwise, game is great, but they needs to fix it.

[Seamus]

Have to wonder how many of these issues are related to the steam overlay. Try disabling it for grim dawn?

[DarknessEyes]

Originally posted by Seamus:

Have to wonder how many of these issues are related to the steam overlay. Try disabling it for grim dawn? :csdmeh:

Still freezes. First thing i tried.

Originally posted by Peeto:

its freezing, very hard crashing, when restart of PC is needed. Quite serious bug. Otherwise, game is great, but they needs to fix it.

The only thing to prevent the freeze is to run it on a single core.
Run Grim Dawn
Press ctrl+alt+del
Start task manager
Go to processes
Rigth click "grim dawn.exe"
Click "Set afinity"
Uncheck all cores EXCEPT "Core 0"
Press OK

[APoCaLyPSE666NoW]

Originally posted by DarknessEyes:

My game keeps freezing randomly...
Any1 have same issue and/or a fix?

By freezing, if you mean crash or game application who stop suddendly to respond to OS, randomly, i belong like you to players who suffer from this problem. Each time i must CTRL+ALT+SUPPR to kill GD.exe from memory after freezing/crash.

This problem happened mostly when i play conjurer and arcanist.

[Panzerknacker]

Crashes every hour or so