Freezes all the Time

[KrampKnarrenbauer]

Hi, first of all my specs:
- NVidia GTX 970
- AMD FX-8350
- 16GB DDR3 Ram
- Primary Disk, SSD 120GB with OS (Win7)and the most important applications (Steam etc.)
- Secondary Disk, HDD 2TB with Attila
So, now my problem. When i start the game, during the intro, during the game (mainly Campaign) and sometimes even in battles my game randomly freezes. The freeze is not "total" since i can still hear audio in the background and move my mouse but the image is static. Normally this only lasts about a minute or so and then i can continue the game like normal, but this still makes it basically unplayable since it happens quite often .
I tried out quiet some things:
- Reinstall/update GPU drivers
- Verify integrity of game files
- Reinstalled the Game (also deleted the Attila file via %appdata%)
- Optimized Graphics settings ingame and in the NVidia Controll panel (shadows, trees, grass and all the cpu intensive settings on low)
- looked for conflicts with my virus scanner
- defragmented my hard-disks
- run the game in windowed mode
Apperantly none of this seems to work. Please, if anyone has some advice i´d be very thankfull.

EDIT: I dont know if this helps but ROME II runs perfectly fine. No Crashes at all good fps, even with higher settings. Actually Attila is the only game where i encountered those issues, everything else works good.

EDIT2: Meanwhile i went to a new OS (WIN10). Completely wiped both disks and installed windows 10 clean/from scratch. Problem still stays the same.

[Pullo]

Did you have this before? Did or do you have any mods installed ?

[KrampKnarrenbauer]

Forgot to add. No, i dont have and never had any mods installed.

[𒀀𒂵𒉡𒆠.n0 m3rCy☣☠]

Been long since you flushed out ♥♥♥♥ from your motherboards heatsinks ? cleaned beneath fan? dusted the psu ? blowed the old motherboard?

(pressurized air.)

[KrampKnarrenbauer]

Originally posted by .n0 m3rCy:

Been long since you flushed out ♥♥♥♥ from your motherboards heatsinks ? cleaned beneath fan? dusted the psu ? blowed the old motherboard?

(pressurized air.)

Well, it's been a bit since then but I checked and there's almost nothing.

[Laigon ♥]

I've got the same issue, never had it in any other total war game. It's annoying but at least not game breaking. Would be nice to know if you find a fix though.

[KrampKnarrenbauer]

Originally posted by Laigon:

I've got the same issue, never had it in any other total war game. It's annoying but at least not game breaking. Would be nice to know if you find a fix though.

Yea it is playable but still extremely frustrating. Don't worry I'll let you know if I find a solution.

[KrampKnarrenbauer]

*bump

[Lord Antharg]

I had this problem too, moved Attila to SSD and problem solved.

[Laigon ♥]

Mine was installed on ssd but still had this issue :(

[Pullo]

Is there a program thats running on the background? i Have had freezes in Attila and Warhammer total war when there was a muted youtube video running for a long period of time minimized in the background. It froze sometimes it goes true the freeze and i could keep playing, sometimes it froze and then it crashed after couple of minutes. But after i closed the video everything was good again, its what i have had, don't know its the same thing but I know total war games can be very hard on the processor and maybe something is eating up memory, im not a computer expert. I also remember few years ago people had trouble with Rome 2 freezing up because of Nvidea experience if im not mistaken. It can also be because of newer Windows 10 updates some games do pretty weird things after a Windows 10 update. Sorry for the long text but just a few things i remember. I hope you find a solution, there must be one! Good luck.