Game freezes

[Jay aka Demy]

On map.. when i zoom out.. game just freeze.. in version 4.0 never happend..
I have 350 hours played... it happens with mods even without mods.
I complete reinstal game.. delete "documents file" all stuff.

[Zloth]

I assume you're playing with Windows and not Linux? What driver version do you have? (I think a new one from NVIDIA just showed up today.)

[The-Gizmo]

A little while back I had the game start freezing out of no where randomly. It got a bit annoying, though after I started quicksaving often to avoid losing progress, it stopped freezing.

[Jay aka Demy]

Win 10. Drivers are actual.

Originally posted by Zloth:

I assume you're playing with Windows and not Linux? What driver version do you have? (I think a new one from NVIDIA just showed up today.)

[Jay aka Demy]

I use autosave 20-40 min... sometimes manual save.. and quick save before every quest etc...... When you have freeze.. it was on map or when it happend???

Originally posted by The-Gizmo:

A little while back I had the game start freezing out of no where randomly. It got a bit annoying, though after I started quicksaving often to avoid losing progress, it stopped freezing.

[eMYNOCK]

Please, would you mind telling us your Specs?

There is a couple of reasons why the Game can freeze but without knowing on wich kind of Hardware or Software you are playing it is all just guessing until we evntually stumble upon this or that specific part of Hardware or that special, unique AV Scanner that was not mentioned before.

[Jay aka Demy]

MY spec are:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Nvid - 2060
HyperX 16GB KIT DDR4 3600MHz
MSI MAG B550
win 10
Drivers are actual.. Bios too

Originally posted by eMYNOCK:

Please, would you mind telling us your Specs?

There is a couple of reasons why the Game can freeze but without knowing on wich kind of Hardware or Software you are playing it is all just guessing until we evntually stumble upon this or that specific part of Hardware or that special, unique AV Scanner that was not mentioned before.

[The-Gizmo]

I tried to find a pattern to my freezes but the only thing I could come up with is, you know that short freeze you get sometimes when you enter a new sector and then it resumes? It seemed sometimes that short freeze was permanent instead. Though sometimes it would just freeze looking at the in game log.

Tbh I think it was something in my game world/save that was causing the freezing. Possibly something the AI was doing, as the freezing resolved itself without any changes at all from me. All on an unmodded save.

I created a dump from task manager a while back on 4.0 HF1 when it froze one time, but never uploaded it anywhere as they are quite large.

For reference my specs are: Ryzen 9 3900x, GTX 1080 Ti, 32GB RAM, default Windows 10 AV scanner.

[nephilimnexus]

Originally posted by Zloth:

I assume you're playing with Windows and not Linux

I have this exact same problem with Linux.

Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
16 gb RAM
Radeon 5600 XT video
Ubuntu

The problem began with the latest update to game.

Happens when I try to zoom sector map out past the base opening size. Doesn't just freeze the game - it hard locks my entire computer until I power cycle reboot it.

[Jay aka Demy]

I hope they fix this "stuff".. When my game freeze im able to force quit so i see use of my ram... and its 100% until i stop X4 running i experience windonws lagg

Originally posted by nephilimnexus:

Originally posted by Zloth:

I assume you're playing with Windows and not Linux

I have this exact same problem with Linux.

Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
16 gb RAM
Radeon 5600 XT video
Ubuntu

The problem began with the latest update to game.

Happens when I try to zoom sector map out past the base opening size. Doesn't just freeze the game - it hard locks my entire computer until I power cycle reboot it.

[CunkFeatures]

Originally posted by Jay aka Demy:

I hope they fix this "stuff".. When my game freeze im able to force quit so i see use of my ram... and its 100% until i stop X4 running i experience windonws lagg

Originally posted by nephilimnexus:

I have this exact same problem with Linux.

Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
16 gb RAM
Radeon 5600 XT video
Ubuntu

The problem began with the latest update to game.

Happens when I try to zoom sector map out past the base opening size. Doesn't just freeze the game - it hard locks my entire computer until I power cycle reboot it.

OS' use a swap file when the RAM is full, this is done on the much much slower HDD. I wonder how long you are playing before this happens, sounds like a late game.
You should be able to manage with just 16GB, see what software you can close to free some up.

I hope we don't need more than 16GBs now, im on a laptop and SODIMM is not cheap.

[BlackRainGER *THC*]

im having the same issue, the pc got updated 2 month ago from
"nope im not able to load your huge safefile anymore " to
what is a loading screen bigger than 20 seconds? not on my watch"


the "screen" freezes, while taskmanager keeps updating the work in progress
wich is a cpu usage between 8 to 9 %
and a worksave of 26 % with 9'063.7 mb

specs are
graphic card: Nvidia GTX Geforce 3060
Windows 10
Windows Defender
prozssor: 13.gen intel i7 13700k 3400mhz 16 cores , 24 logical cores
64gb Ram

im using 2 screens wich forced me to have a special Graphic card driver from nvidia
but all drivers are up to date and i have tons of free worksave

the issue started to appear maybe 2 weeks ago, im running this system since 2 months
it tends to occure on the second bording attemt after the dropp pots connect and the third bording state appears, while im in F2 vision on the target. could just be cause i like bording so mutch but its a strange coaccident that it allways seem to appear while im bording xD

oh and when i let the game run for the ammount of time that took me to write this comment, the sound disapears and clicking onto the game again does not make the screen of it reapear. had to manualy close the game now.

its just a very wild guess... but are some features of the beta 6.0 already in the core game?
since i like bording so mutch, i didnt come arround to notice that l and xl ships started clipping into each other within the last 2 weeks and im pretty sure that didnt happen earlier but that might just be me imaginating stuff

i dont know if this further information helps but im also using the thrustmaster 16000m hotas system, and now and than i realize that some ships fly to the right, with the same movement that other ships makes rolling wich is something i realy dont understand lol


Edit:

i reloaded the savefile a couple times now, and it is confirmed that this freeze appears while boarding.

the game did not freeze within the first 40 minutes till the next autosave.
ten minutes later i started bording again, my first crew got murdered, the second started fighting.

this time, the game froze in the moment, i stood up from my m class ships chair.
exactly in the moment when the npc pilot took place the game froze.

++++++

so it has to do something with the change of actions while bording. something about how the game renders objects while sitting in a chair or swapping through the camera modes

++++++

i dug a little deeper into it

https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=442134

"Is your riser cable pcie 4.0 certified or 3.0 certified?
If you do not know, go to BIOS set the PCIe to 3.0 not 4.0 or Auto. See how things going."

not jet tested...

[BlackRainGER *THC*]

Originally posted by CunkFeatures:

Originally posted by Jay aka Demy:

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I hope we don't need more than 16GBs now, im on a laptop and SODIMM is not cheap.

i can guarantee you, that 16GB is not enough to reach the "Terraforming projects"

you will have a cpu usage of 85%, while the game will run on 1 fps till your unable to even load a savefile in under 35 minutes.

64 gb, lets my endgame file run on 25 % cpu usage. but fluid on 60 fps
as long im not bording, my game does not crash...

"Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
16 gb RAM"

that will bring you through the game till the point where you start adding ressourceproduction specifically for terraforming. but that is a lot...
too mutch for your hardware

if you wouldnt play on a laptop.... you could invest 1400 euro to get you there...
but i wonder if your laptop even is upgradable to the place he needs to be in order to run the endgame... i would bet, the processor will become the bottleneck even if your able to restock up to 64 gb...