Game Freeze: Worse now

[MustLoveSnails]

So I made a post some time ago about my game freezing when someone faints, monster tail is cut and the worse is when collecting jewel rewards. It can get so bad that it would last for 20-30 seconds and I end up being out of sync then disconnecting from the session. I've never had this issue on base game, ever. It all started when I bought Iceborne on its release and I've had to deal with it ever since. Needless to say that this has been very annoying and frustrating.

The freezes got less when Stygian came out and stayed that way until Raging Brachy and Furious Monkey came out few days ago. In fact, now it's getting worse as it happens more often. I can barely complete hunts because sometimes someone would faint and my game freezes till I get disconnected.

I've tried many different ways to fix this but to no avail. I'm currently playing at the lowest graphics possible and that doesn't seem to help too. In case anyone is curious, my specs are:-

- GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80Hz
- 7.92 GB RAM
- 1920 x 1080, 60Hz

I doubt that this issue is due to my lack of PC specs, I don't see why everything would go smoothly during base game but immediately goes downhill on Iceborne. I've also met others who faces this exact same issue and they have better specs than I do. If anyone have ANY idea on how to fix this, I'd appreciate it if you'd share. This is getting out of hand and affecting my passion for the game. I have over 2.1k hours so far and I don't plan to stop yet. Thank you.

[Kittenpox]

Firing off an SOS Flare to get a hand with Savage Deviljho, only to find a really awesome team who get disconnected 5-10mins later when the game siezes up for 20-30seconds (meaning that I'm back to soloing the pickle, now with more hp to beat down) has NOT been a good introduction to the SOS Flare system...

The freezing is starting to kill off my enthusiasm for the game, and I haven't even *seen* Safi yet, much less had a chance to try the new weapons etc. :-(

[Nerevar]

my game was working completly fine till the update last week. now i get these freezes aswell sometimes. but always but it happens. nothing was changed software or hardware wise on my end aswell.

this is a problem with this game thats for certain at this point. problems dont magically appear when a game updates and can then be blamed on the users config when said config had no issues before said update to the game happend. thats just complete bullcrap.

stop messing around please devs. just remove the ♥♥♥♥ anitcheat aswell. it does NOTHING to prevent cheating so may aswell get rid of it for good. that would rule this as a reason out atleast.

dcs are also alot worse this week but this might be due to overload and eastern vacation times tough.

[MustLoveSnails]

To those that are facing the same or somewhat similar problems as I have, I hope you'll read this. I may have found, not a fix, but more of a workaround for these freezing issues.

I went to my GeForce Experience app and optimized my game. It changed some of the graphical settings along with my resolution. It went from 1920x1080 Windowed Mode (my original preference and it's what I've been playing on since base game) to 1600x900 Fullscreen. I changed it back to Windowed Mode however because I Alt Tab to check Discord and Chrome often. But I think it's due to the change on my resolution, I can now play on somewhat medium graphic settings with no freezes or FPS drops. I went into a few Extremoth runs, Temp MR Elders and the most I've gotten was a 1-2 second freeze when collecting jewel rewards. No more freezes when anyone faints or monster tail is cut whatsoever.

I don't want to get too excited just yet since I haven't tested it enough. But this has been a good sign so far. The only downside for me to this 'fix' is that my game screen is about 1/4 smaller. But that's hardly an issue for me as long as it won't freeze my game anymore.

I hope you guys who have this problem would read this, give it a try and would also work the same for you. I apologize if this isn't the kind of 'fix' you were looking for but I'm no genius in tech stuffs, so this is the best I got. Best of luck!

[H1tSc4n]

Publicado originalmente por MustLoveSnails:

To those that are facing the same or somewhat similar problems as I have, I hope you'll read this. I may have found, not a fix, but more of a workaround for these freezing issues.

I went to my GeForce Experience app and optimized my game. It changed some of the graphical settings along with my resolution. It went from 1920x1080 Windowed Mode (my original preference and it's what I've been playing on since base game) to 1600x900 Fullscreen. I changed it back to Windowed Mode however because I Alt Tab to check Discord and Chrome often. But I think it's due to the change on my resolution, I can now play on somewhat medium graphic settings with no freezes or FPS drops. I went into a few Extremoth runs, Temp MR Elders and the most I've gotten was a 1-2 second freeze when collecting jewel rewards. No more freezes when anyone faints or monster tail is cut whatsoever.

I don't want to get too excited just yet since I haven't tested it enough. But this has been a good sign so far. The only downside for me to this 'fix' is that my game screen is about 1/4 smaller. But that's hardly an issue for me as long as it won't freeze my game anymore.

I hope you guys who have this problem would read this, give it a try and would also work the same for you. I apologize if this isn't the kind of 'fix' you were looking for but I'm no genius in tech stuffs, so this is the best I got. Best of luck!

I optimized mine and it still stutters quite a lot unfortunately :(
It got better, even though the optimization has actually increased my settings (???)

[MustLoveSnails]

Publicado originalmente por H1tSc4n:

Publicado originalmente por MustLoveSnails:

To those that are facing the same or somewhat similar problems as I have, I hope you'll read this. I may have found, not a fix, but more of a workaround for these freezing issues.

I went to my GeForce Experience app and optimized my game. It changed some of the graphical settings along with my resolution. It went from 1920x1080 Windowed Mode (my original preference and it's what I've been playing on since base game) to 1600x900 Fullscreen. I changed it back to Windowed Mode however because I Alt Tab to check Discord and Chrome often. But I think it's due to the change on my resolution, I can now play on somewhat medium graphic settings with no freezes or FPS drops. I went into a few Extremoth runs, Temp MR Elders and the most I've gotten was a 1-2 second freeze when collecting jewel rewards. No more freezes when anyone faints or monster tail is cut whatsoever.

I don't want to get too excited just yet since I haven't tested it enough. But this has been a good sign so far. The only downside for me to this 'fix' is that my game screen is about 1/4 smaller. But that's hardly an issue for me as long as it won't freeze my game anymore.

I hope you guys who have this problem would read this, give it a try and would also work the same for you. I apologize if this isn't the kind of 'fix' you were looking for but I'm no genius in tech stuffs, so this is the best I got. Best of luck!

I optimized mine and it still stutters quite a lot unfortunately :(
It got better, even though the optimization has actually increased my settings (???)

A friend of mine told me that by playing on lower resolution, your PC uses less resources. Hence why it's able to run smoother on higher graphics. I'm sorry to hear you still have stutters though. If you haven't already, maybe try out my exact game resolution of 1600x900 and see if that works?

[Bnaha]

I have those freezes too!
And at first I thought it might have to do with my pc!
I'm glad it's not that but that sucks tho.

[MustLoveSnails]

Well, scratch what I said about the 'fix'. I joined a streamer's session earlier and the first faint on our first quest froze my game and DCed.

[Ifrit1332]

Publicado originalmente por MustLoveSnails:

Well, scratch what I said about the 'fix'. I joined a streamer's session earlier and the first faint on our first quest froze my game and DCed.

Believe me I've tried a lot of stuff that "used to work" and... it simply doesn't, I'm even dreadfully playing it on 900p @30fps to alleviate the load on my cpu, mostly what it does is reduce the maximum load to around 80%. Also, does the game freezes at the character select menu when you choose your character for anyone? Previous patch it was worse, but it's still there.

[Mister_Plume]

Game crash after half hours fighting solo on HBG new Nergigante Iceborn. Just after his death. Mission not completed. I have to restart it. A pain! Big freeze everytime someone is killed, I mean the frame is not moving during 30 sec at least. Multiple little freeze during some random monster animations. I have Intel core i7 9700K 16 Gb RAM and RTX 2070 super 8Gb. Most of time we are disconnected from multiplayer session after the first death of hunter... I read this is happening since the release of Iceborn. Seems something unfixable. When can we expect a normal experience of gameplay? I have tried many solution to fix it myself nothing is working.