Game periodically freezing up.

[Wubbinz]

I'm having an issue where the game will periodically freeze for a few seconds does anyone else have these problems? I'm using an I5 6600, GTX 1060, 16GB RAM. 1080p 60FPS and all my drivers are up to date.

[Zlobenia]

Does it happen when you take damage? I'n got that as a problem.

[Wubbinz]

Originally posted by Nightwatch:

Does it happen when you take damage? I'n got that as a problem.

No it's very random, sometimes I'm just going through the menus, sometimes I'm in combat and sometimes I'm just walking around.

[Gomorrha21]

I rarely play Dark Souls III now, but sometimes I got a random split-second where the game just hiccuped as well, but it didn't impact gameplay at all (unlike for the TO). But this is really only something if you just focus on that, on the other hand this doesn't happen in other games at all.

Just posting this, because I have the very same processor, the i5 6600 non-k, the same video card, apart from only having 8 gigs of memory. Motherboard is an Asus B150 HD3P and obviously Dark Souls III is installed (since release) on an SSD here. It should make NO difference if this game is on a regular HDD, as loading times should really be no issue at all with this game.

So from my point of view, it doesn't seem to be a problem with that hardware combination. Although the GTX 1060 suffers a bit from DPC latency, which was fixed by Nvidia two or three driver versions ago.

Did you set Power Settings in Windows to "high performance"? If no, you should to so.
Other plans sometimes produce weird things, like having stuttering despite the video card working hard.

Also you should check your Nvidia Control Panel itself, going into 3D settings-> changing number of prerendered frames and playing around with that setting a bit, like for instance putting this on "1". As well as setting the power management entry to "optimal performance". That way the GPU alwqays runs at full speed (I think, not sure), but this can quickly be changed after quitting the game. I just tried to translate those settings from my German Windows version, so I'm not really sure how those items are called in an English version.

[Mattqu]

I have the same problem since the last patch. Never had it before.

EDIT: Could also be after the Win10 Anniversary update.

[KillDaComunist]

same here, freeze randomly

[Banr]

Try this:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/374320/discussions/0/365163686085830287/

or:
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/53zv7c/pc_if_your_game_freezes_for_23_seconds_randomly/

if you are on Windows 10:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=772250322
This last one is for CS:GO but you never know, it might help.

[Mattqu]

I am not using MSI afterburner, so there is no fix for me to be found with that. I tried disabling DVR as recommended in the CS:GO guide, that didn't help either :(

I am using a gtx 980 by the way, maybe it's something to do with nVidia?

[Wubbinz]

Originally posted by Banr:

Try this:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/374320/discussions/0/365163686085830287/

or:
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/53zv7c/pc_if_your_game_freezes_for_23_seconds_randomly/

if you are on Windows 10:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=772250322
This last one is for CS:GO but you never know, it might help.

It's not an FPS issue because it runs at a smooth 60 then all of a sudden complete freeze then back to smooth 60 again.

[Vilnius]

Yeah, it's the W10 update that did it to us. fps is not affected, just random screen freezes.

[Wubbinz]

I'm trying the suggestion of setting GameOverlayRenderer as read only now I'll post if it works.

[Wubbinz]

The problem still persists, I think we'll be waiting for a patch :/

[The Black Baron]

Originally posted by Johnp92:

The problem still persists, I think we'll be waiting for a patch :/

Try deactivateing the steam overlay ingame. i had the same issue it was fixed for me ( just for Ds3 of course not for all games)

[Wubbinz]

Originally posted by The Black Baron:

Originally posted by Johnp92:

The problem still persists, I think we'll be waiting for a patch :/

Try deactivateing the steam overlay ingame. i had the same issue it was fixed for me ( just for Ds3 of course not for all games)

Noob question but how do I do that?

[The Black Baron]

Originally posted by Johnp92:

Originally posted by The Black Baron:

Try deactivateing the steam overlay ingame. i had the same issue it was fixed for me ( just for Ds3 of course not for all games)

Noob question but how do I do that?

Go to your library , select darksouls 3. Go to propperties. General tab. click the checkmark that says allow steam overlay ingame.

[Wubbinz]

Originally posted by The Black Baron:

Originally posted by Johnp92:

Noob question but how do I do that?

Go to your library , select darksouls 3. Go to propperties. General tab. click the checkmark that says allow steam overlay ingame.

Thanks :)