Constant, short freezes in combat?

[Shammy]

Whenever I get into combat I experience short, total game freezes that seems to happen during certain spells being casted. Any idea what exactly is causing this and how to fix it?

[Gift]

maybe it's in your auto-pause settings?

[Shammy]

Originally posted by a defenceless schoolgirl:

maybe it's in your auto-pause settings?

It's a hard freeze, as in cant control/interact with anything at all, FPS to 0, etc. Auto pause is just for Combat Start only.

[Gift]

Originally posted by Shammy:

Originally posted by a defenceless schoolgirl:

maybe it's in your auto-pause settings?

It's a hard freeze, as in cant control/interact with anything at all, FPS to 0, etc. Auto pause is just for Combat Start only.

Must be a bug. Go to Obsidian forums to report it so they can fix it. They don't check the steam forums for bugs. So go to Obsidian :)

[SuperMonkey]

I have a similar issue, and had it in the first poe game as well. Everytime it happens I can hear noises from my harddrive, so I just assume it has something to do with loading assets that are causing the hiccups. I've tried everything I can think of with the harddrive that it's installed on to no avail--there's nothing wrong with it as far as I can tell, so I have just learned to live with it. I've thought about reinstalling the game on an ssd to see if that helps, but it hasn't bothered me enough to try that yet.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

How long does the game freeze?

On two computers, I've seen short freezes of maybe 2-3 seconds upon completion of summoning abilities. They differ in CPU and graphics.

[madgamer2]

I have times when the mouse functions but you can't move anyone. All other functions work, like saving and rebooting, which you can save when it happens and then reboot the game.

[Shammy]

Originally posted by D'amarr from Darshiva:

How long does the game freeze?

On two computers, I've seen short freezes of maybe 2-3 seconds upon completion of summoning abilities. They differ in CPU and graphics.

It's around 1-3 seconds depending on what I'm casting, though there isn't any consistency with that.

[Miss P.]

Hello, do you run other program when you play ? if yes, shut them down. If not, delete same saves, if still not okay, clean your pc (physical, take out the dust), if still not okay, you need to take off some graphic option (but you can begin by this one if you want).

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Then it could be the same thing and a technical limitation of the used game engine. PoE 1 also had it in a very few places.

[Shammy]

Originally posted by Miss P.:

Hello, do you run other program when you play ? if yes, shut them down. If not, delete same saves, if still not okay, clean your pc (physical, take out the dust), if still not okay, you need to take off some graphic option (but you can begin by this one if you want).

I dont run anything else but Discord, though it's super low cpu usage that I doubt it's affecting it. Will give it a try though. Which graphic options should I lower to help with the spell freezes?

[Miss P.]

Originally posted by Shammy:

Originally posted by Miss P.:

Hello, do you run other program when you play ? if yes, shut them down. If not, delete same saves, if still not okay, clean your pc (physical, take out the dust), if still not okay, you need to take off some graphic option (but you can begin by this one if you want).

I dont run anything else but Discord, though it's super low cpu usage that I doubt it's affecting it. Will give it a try though. Which graphic options should I lower to help with the spell freezes?

I dont know Discord, but maybe it is. If it is the problem, could you please make an update for other players ? Thanks a lot.

I play with intermediate and everything is fine (I have a really old pc), but you can also only swift off the water/sea graphics and something is enought.

In the options (graphic) you can see with your mouse which one takes a hight level of ressources.

I hope I am clear, it is late sorry.