What causes the random freezes?

[Zanarkin]

Game sometimes freezes while playing. Sometimes it is just while traversing around the world (the forest and wyveria are particularly bad for it) and other times it happens while hunting monsters (happened to me a lot when hunting lala barina but those hunts happened in the forest and wyveria. Took like 5 tries to actually get past the Anjanath and Barina story Quest)

Whenever I look at something like mission center, CPU is at like 40-70% utilization and Vram does not go over 5.5 (a max of 8 gb available).

Meanwhile GPU utilization is at like 90-100% and it doesn't seem to matter if I lower every single setting to the lowest (720p with FSR upscaling performance, low textures, etc.) it will go or if I play at medium settings (900p, upscaling, medium textures). Today I upped the settings, was able to play decently well in all areas for 3-4 hours and then crashed when I was in Wyveria.

I'm using an AMD 6600 GPU, Ryzen 5600 CPU and have 32 gb of ram. The game is also installed in an SSD. Edit1: I'm playing on linux, not sure if that is an issue, but considering I have sessions where I don't crash I can't say I can fully blame it on that

Edit2: I tried the Rebar trick + REFramework and it worked but FPS was down to ~30 FPS from the usual 55-60 FPS average I had before. I removed REFramework, but FPS drop still is there, so the Rebar might be doing something to FPS. I did notice after using ReBar, the game seems to be using a lot more of the VRAM and CPU (still within their limit). I travelled the worlds for a bit and hunted monsters and it was ok until I fought Uth Duna, then the game froze again in the same manner it had been doing before.

The FPS drop is annoying, but if it can let me finish quests and play for longer periods maybe it is worth it. The past week there were 2 or three days where I lost a lot of game time simply due to the game constantly freezing and forcing me to restart my computer.

Edit 3: well some sort of update today went out i think, and the FPS did improve by like 10 frames on average with ReBar on.

Happy to report game has been working a lot netter. Camps still at 30 FPS but out in fields, the FPS feels a lot better. Not 60 FPS, but I can play at 1080p without fsr, and the game is not freezing and crashing in the same hunt multiple times. Could have been a patch, random chance, or the changes made in this topic. Not sure, but I'm hopeful it won't happen again.

[BEEP!]

Have you tried using RE FRAMEWORK that sounds like the Capcoms Anti-Tamper at work I had the same issue then RE FRAMEWORK fixed it for me.

Also another thing it might be for what ever reason the game will randomly delete a couple files so every now and again when it starts hanging and freezing up for a couple seconds re-validate the files I've had this happen multiple time's.

[This PC]

I suspect it's textures streaming in
is it a sata SSD or a NVME ?
If it's a NVME, is resizable BAR/ReBAR enabled in your bios ?
Also try adding the game's folder and its executable to windows defender exclusions.

Edit: Yeah, some people report that just running REFramework helps. ^^''

[Zanarkin]

Originally posted by 1080Puktra:

Have you tried using RE FRAMEWORK that sounds like the Capcoms Anti-Tamper at work I had the same issue then RE FRAMEWORK fixed it for me.

Also another thing it might be for what ever reason the game will randomly delete a couple files so every now and again when it starts hanging and freezing up for a couple seconds re-validate the files I've had this happen multiple time's.

I've seen it online discussed online but usually coupled with some mod for DLSS. Does it actually do anything on its own? I downloaded it and had it on my system on a particularly bad day for freezing, but it did not seem to actually do anything. I assumed some other script had to be installed but I wasn't sure so I just took it out of my game.

[Zanarkin]

Originally posted by This PC:

I suspect it's textures streaming in
is it a sata SSD or a NVME ?
If it's a NVME, is resizable BAR/ReBAR enabled in your bios ?
Also try adding the game's folder and its executable to windows defender exclusions.

Edit: Yeah, some people report that just running REFramework helps. ^^''

NVME. I'm not sure about the bios setting. Also I am using linux, I forgot to mention that in my post (its been edited).

[This PC]

Originally posted by Zanarkin:

I've seen it online discussed online but usually coupled with some mod for DLSS. Does it actually do anything on its own? I downloaded it and had it on my system on a particularly bad day for freezing, but it did not seem to actually do anything. I assumed some other script had to be installed but I wasn't sure so I just took it out of my game.

People report only having results with a very recent nightly build - 2 days ago or so, so give it a shot again ?

[This PC]

Originally posted by Zanarkin:

Originally posted by This PC:

I suspect it's textures streaming in
is it a sata SSD or a NVME ?
If it's a NVME, is resizable BAR/ReBAR enabled in your bios ?
Also try adding the game's folder and its executable to windows defender exclusions.

Edit: Yeah, some people report that just running REFramework helps. ^^''

NVME. I'm not sure about the bios setting. Also I am using linux, I forgot to mention that in my post (its been edited).

right, check if rebar is enabled in your bios, it might help ^^''
Another thing you should do once you enable rebar is check with REFramework if the game is indeed taking advantage of it. In the developer tools menu > Object Explorer > Scroll to the bottom > in Field Signature, type in DIRECT_STORAGE > in app.OptionParamDef > TDB Fields > Check if GPU is set to 1. I believe you can do it manually with REFramework, but the game did it for me soon as I enabled rebar, just used REFramework to confirm.

Installing REFramework didn't change anything for me on its own, but lots of people reported it does, soo... There #FullDisclosure :D

[Temuthril]

What's your GPU driver version? I had issues after updating to 25.3.1, downgrading to 25.2.1 seems to have helped so far.

[This PC]

Originally posted by Temuthril:

What's your GPU driver version? I had issues after updating to 25.3.1, downgrading to 25.2.1 seems to have helped so far.

that's also an easy fix to try ^^

[BEEP!]

Originally posted by Zanarkin:

Originally posted by 1080Puktra:

Have you tried using RE FRAMEWORK that sounds like the Capcoms Anti-Tamper at work I had the same issue then RE FRAMEWORK fixed it for me.

Also another thing it might be for what ever reason the game will randomly delete a couple files so every now and again when it starts hanging and freezing up for a couple seconds re-validate the files I've had this happen multiple time's.

I've seen it online discussed online but usually coupled with some mod for DLSS. Does it actually do anything on its own? I downloaded it and had it on my system on a particularly bad day for freezing, but it did not seem to actually do anything. I assumed some other script had to be installed but I wasn't sure so I just took it out of my game.

I'm not sure what RE Framework is doing but it help fix the frametime's that the ANTI-TAMPER is messing up.

[Zanarkin]

Originally posted by Temuthril:

What's your GPU driver version? I had issues after updating to 25.3.1, downgrading to 25.2.1 seems to have helped so far.

I've been trying to find out how to find my driver version on linux. Whenever I try it doesn't give me anything useful (maybe I just don't know what I'm seeing). I did check for updates, using the terminal and everything updated successfully. I still have yet to find that. I'm a bit of a noob for linux, but I try lol

Originally posted by This PC:

Originally posted by Zanarkin:

NVME. I'm not sure about the bios setting. Also I am using linux, I forgot to mention that in my post (its been edited).

right, check if rebar is enabled in your bios, it might help ^^''
Another thing you should do once you enable rebar is check with REFramework if the game is indeed taking advantage of it. In the developer tools menu > Object Explorer > Scroll to the bottom > in Field Signature, type in DIRECT_STORAGE > in app.OptionParamDef > TDB Fields > Check if GPU is set to 1. I believe you can do it manually with REFramework, but the game did it for me soon as I enabled rebar, just used REFramework to confirm.

Installing REFramework didn't change anything for me on its own, but lots of people reported it does, soo... There #FullDisclosure :D

I checked and ReBar was disabled. Just enabled the option, so we will see if it helps. I'll give REFramework another try.

[This PC]

Originally posted by Zanarkin:

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best of luck friendo o7 thank you for keeping a positive attitude

[Zanarkin]

Hmm Ok, I'll have to continue testing after a bit. But I think either the ReBar or REFramework is doing something. My FPS is now half of what it used to be around (55-60). No crashes in the small play test I just did though, and system seemed to be handling the game ok too. I did not see the GPU hitting 100% utilization at any point, even traversing the land. CPU and vram were a lot higher (~70% for CPU and Vram was hitting 6gb)

Honestly, I'm willing to tolerate 30 FPS if it means the game is stable. I'll have to play around a bit more to see if I can get back the old FPS with the stability. I'm hoping it isn't just a fluke either.