Freezes Every Few Seconds

[Starwind Amada]

This game's performance is horrible. Every few seconds I get framerate drops and the game will freeze up for a few seconds. It's virtually unplayable. I pay $89.99 and this is what I get. I checked and my PC can run the game. I set everything to medium quality and still it freezes.

[🍃🪻🪷Sylvie🩵🍸🍵]

Originally posted by Starwind Amada:

This game's performance is horrible. Every few seconds I get framerate drops and the game will freeze up for a few seconds. It's virtually unplayable. I pay $89.99 and this is what I get. I checked and my PC can run the game. I set everything to medium quality and still it freezes.

What's your spec? Are you running latest graphics driver?

[Citizen]

Yeah I've been encountering the same exact thing on and off. Sometimes I can play for 20 minutes without them occurring and next thing I know it's like non stop frame drops every few seconds for like 2 minutes straight. Really stressing in certain parts of the game.

The tutorial prompts that pop up and disappear if you move the camera even slightly are a nuisance too. Sometimes when I'm climbing the camera just completely 180's randomly without me even touching it. Then just before hopping off tonight I was trying to complete the "shoot down the nests" challenge in the first free roam of the second area and I got 3/4 of the nests and found the fourth one and no matter how many times I shot it, it remained invincible.

I'm too tired to write about anything else but before I finish I just want to say I really enjoy this game so far and if all of these bugs weren't present it'd be an easy 8/10 for me. Maybe a 9.

[Morthoseth]

Go to task manager > processes tab > left click game > set priority to high

[Cthulhu]

Hey guys, definitely try the "setting SoTTR to high priority in task manager" solution in the meantime. Seemed to work for myself and a few others so far, definitely not your rig. Worth a try till we get a patch!

[JovaZmaj]

Originally posted by Cthulhu Dawn:

Hey guys, definitely try the "setting SoTTR to high priority in task manager" solution in the meantime. Seemed to work for myself and a few others so far, definitely not your rig. Worth a try till we get a patch!

I can confirm this

[Starwind Amada]

I asked for a refund. Now the Play button says Purchase but I see no refund on my statement nor do I have any email from Valve. Does this mean a refund is being precessed?

[PR3DAT0R]

I think its related to some of Windows 10 update. Because other games like Far Cry 5 start to freezes and stutters for me after windows update. But set priority to HIGH for SOTTR resolved the issue

[K0T]

this game truly sux. cut scene graphics way worse compared to the previous game, mouths lit from inside and such. and it FREEZES and LAGS whenever you look around. I have a GTX1080, i4790K, running on optimized, no DX12, no Vsync. the freaking game is bugged. Kudos to developers! Claiming my money back unless there's a fix and soon. :((

[Tatoo]

I have the same issue. Will try the priority fix...

[ELZORRO]

have the same issue ..i'm glad i'm not the only one ! stutter and stops the game for a second than continius realy annoing

[-sTr1Ve]

Play in DX11 and the stutter is gone. Sadly the fps in CPU-intensive scenes are way worth, but at least no stutter (which makes the game unplayable). I have it too with 7900x@4.9Ghz + 1080Ti on 3440 :)

[Malker]

Anyone tried the windows game mode?

[jutl]

Originally posted by Malker:

Anyone tried the windows game mode?

It's not available which means I think the game enables it by default.

[Seina]

I'm having a similar issue.

Every few minutes the game freezes up (and nothing has any effect, can't even ctrl-alt-del out) but after 10-15 seconds, goes back to normal like nothing happened.

And the rest of the time I'm running it on very high settings, smooth as butter.


Lower settings doesn't fix it either. So......

[Zorzin]

I can confirm that setting priority to high for process resolved my issue.