The game keeps freezing

[Slayrix]

The game will lock up entirely and then I have to force close it through task manager, can't even play for 10 minutes straight.

I have an rtx 3070 and and intel i7-12700K

Have tried playing on low settings, tried locking fps, tried validating files, tried everything I can think of to do. Please help

[Steve (Dawn's Hubby)]

What about running it in a window and using a full screen sizer (it doesn't have borderless wiindow does it?) to make it full screen? I know Steam sells Magic Borderless and it works for a lot of games. If memory serves it was like five dollars.

Have you tried compatibility settings? Maybe run it as Win 7?

[Slayrix]

Originally posted by Steve (Dawn's Hubby):

What about running it in a window and using a full screen sizer (it doesn't have borderless wiindow does it?) to make it full screen? I know Steam sells Magic Borderless and it works for a lot of games. If memory serves it was like five dollars.

Have you tried compatibility settings? Maybe run it as Win 7?

None of that worked... I tried running the game in a window, still crashed, tried running in all compatibility modes, all of them still crashed, the only fix I really got any result with was limiting my core affinity but even then it still crashed after like 5 minutes. I guess I just can't play this game...

[Steve (Dawn's Hubby)]

When you look in task manager it's running on your dedicated gpu and not the graphics that comes with cpu right?

If you are sure it's using your gpu, then I would use the in game settings and the NVIDEA control panel to turn every thing to the lowest settings and turn off all the extras. There should even be a setting for threaded optimization in the Nvidea control panel that you want to turn off for this game. I might, just for the sake of experimenting, try v-sync the game, because you are likely getting insane FPS.

Just make sure while you are int he control panel that you are working in the programs tab for the game and that you are not changing your global settings. And be sure to save your changes before you exit.

After you turn all settings to the lowest possible and disable all of the extras, if it runs then slowly add the features back to discover what gave you the problem. Then you can start increasing the quality of the settings again until you have it the way you would like it.

In the end it might just be something as simple as the new gpu drivers don't work well with the older game, I just don't know.

[Captain Chris Medic]

Im having the exact same problem and its very annoying

[Mister Binche]

Same problem for me, i have an i9 12900k and RTX 3070 with 32Gb Ram and i crash every 2 minutes. 1080p, 1440p or 4K, low or ultra, same problem each time.

[B1gD4ddy]

the freezing comes from this stoneage game hating high core count cpus.
limit your cpu to 8 cores or less via bios or msconfig and it works.
same goes for wolfenstein 2009.
tested it with my 16 core 7950x3d.

btw you can remove the 60fps cap by simply adding -hz=xxx to the steam start options of the game.
xxx has to be replaced with your monitor's refresh rate.

[Kenpii]

Thank you, finally found a resoultion. I was drivin' nuts because this game was working on my old setup with no problems and now with the same gpu and cpu as the thread creator it's freezing like hell. Thank you guys.

[B1gD4ddy]

did you limit the cores to 8 or 4?
or how did you solve it?
😊

[RM1985]

Originally posted by Bats:

I saw sometone post this, I did it and ran smooth and no crash within the part 1.

1. Fresh reinstall the game onto the same drive with steam, preferably on a SSD drive
2. Start the game, go to settings in startup window, and set the options to:
- Display Resolution = (Your native resolution)
- Texture Detail & Shadow Detail = Ultra
- Anti-aliasing & Draw Distance = High
- Anisotropic Filtering = 16
- Supersampling = 4.0
- Tick only the followings: Ambient Occlusion, Use Obscurance Fields, V-Sync

Found this in another discussion about freezes and it worked for me!! And I only did #2, didn't re-install the game!

[longshot]

after trying processor affinity in task manager, with 8 cores, 4 cores and didn't work, a friend of mine jokingly suggested to try with one core. I managed to play for a few hours without it freezing once.

[DragoNate]

Originally posted by B1gD4ddy:

the freezing comes from this stoneage game hating high core count cpus.
limit your cpu to 8 cores or less via bios or msconfig and it works.
same goes for wolfenstein 2009.
tested it with my 16 core 7950x3d.

btw you can remove the 60fps cap by simply adding -hz=xxx to the steam start options of the game.
xxx has to be replaced with your monitor's refresh rate.

Sorry but I will absolutely NOT be limiting my CPU core count via BIOS every time I wish to play this one game.
I wanted to have a 4 core CPU, I would've purchased a 4 core CPU. There is literally zero reason to turn a $700+ high end piece of hardware into a $100 low end one just to play 1 game.

A better solution would be to use Virtual Box or something, limiting the core count to 4 just to play the game.
That's what I'm going to try anyway, no clue if it will work.

[DragoNate]

Originally posted by RM1985:

Originally posted by Bats:

I saw sometone post this, I did it and ran smooth and no crash within the part 1.

1. Fresh reinstall the game onto the same drive with steam, preferably on a SSD drive
2. Start the game, go to settings in startup window, and set the options to:
- Display Resolution = (Your native resolution)
- Texture Detail & Shadow Detail = Ultra
- Anti-aliasing & Draw Distance = High
- Anisotropic Filtering = 16
- Supersampling = 4.0
- Tick only the followings: Ambient Occlusion, Use Obscurance Fields, V-Sync

Found this in another discussion about freezes and it worked for me!! And I only did #2, didn't re-install the game!

I tried this and still no luck.

[B1gD4ddy]

if you don't want to use the bios, you can also do it via msconfig like i already said.

maybe affinity via taskmanager also works.
haven't tried this.

otherwise simply don't play the game.
imagine being mad despite having 2 perfectly working solutions to your problem, just because it takes a minute or 2 to enable them.

[Terran]

Has any fix been found for this? I've already tried everything - including limiting my cores.

[ThatDeafDude]

Originally posted by Terran:

Has any fix been found for this? I've already tried everything - including limiting my cores.

I've added a comment here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/301640/discussions/0/3819655463296541476/?ctp=3#c7260435610010418492

Can you check if it's working for you?