Tales of Zestiria randomly freezing

[Toni]

Hi,
For a while now when I play Tales of Zestiria the game starts to freeze at random moments. The screen freezes, so I can't move, press buttons etc., but the music in the background keeps playing normally. It can last from a couple of seconds up to around 5 or 6, a few times it was a lot longer. Steam's FPS counter also freezes but right when things start running again the FPS drops to 1 and then goes back to normal.
It can happen while controlling the character, during cutscenes, inside menu (even start menu) or when looking at the map - so basically everywhere. I can't remember if it ever happened during battle, though. I have Battle at 60FPS, General and Cutscenes at 30 (because some maps are too demanding for my computer and I get slowdown)

I'm pretty sure I never had this problem for the first 10 hours or so of my playthrough (currently I have more than 30), but I haven't installed any new program in this laptop or changed anything since then, so I don't think it's a third party application causing the issue. I do play with DS4windows, though, but again, never had this problem until a while ago. I couldn't find any solution in the meantime.
A few days ago I changed filter type from Trilinear to Anisotropic x2 through the fix (Tales of Zestiria (TO12) Tweak v 1.1.0) and the game ran perfectly fine for the 2+ hours that I played, so I thought that fixed it. Now it is freezing again though.

I've been able to play normally after a few times closing and reopening the game, but this is very annoying.

Any idea what it could be and how to fix it?

Should I send the logs found in game's folder?

[burnhell]

Same issue here, It also freezes for me mostly after I Start the game and load a save, however it sometimes crash after hours of gameplay too, it crash to desktop without any error message, it doesn't even make the MGS sound just crash with no warn of stopping no nothing.

Maybe it is steam client or overlay?

[DNMock]

Get rid of steam overlay. That can absolutely cause issues while using a DLL injector like Reshade or Special K. Also check in the special K settings to disable Nvidia bloatware. That should help you out some.

[Toni]

I disabled Steam overlay and Nvidia bloatware (in d3d9.ini, default_d3d9.ini and default_tzfx.ini, I set DisableBloatWare_NVIDIA=true. It was set to 'false' before).

The issue is still there.
And maybe it was just a bad coincidence, but it seems to be freezing even more than before.

[burnhell]

maybe it is one of Zestiria issues, I was surprised with the list of crashes issues that Zestiria has and SpecialK fixes.

[Toni]

It's been a real pain to play this game lately.
Anyone got any other suggestion? Anything...

[burnhell]

Originally posted by Toni:

It's been a real pain to play this game lately.
Anyone got any other suggestion? Anything...

use older versions of the toz fix.

maybe upload the log so Kaldaien can see if he can find something.

Or maybe try the one I'm using:

The new one that I'm using few crashes with this one: https://mir.cr/MMA1NB7Y


This is the older that I was using: https://mir.cr/0UEEMRWU

[Toni]

I'm currently not having any crashes, it' just the freezes. But I'll see if it still happens in older versions. Thank you.

After a few tries, I reverted the Nvidia bloatware settings to 'true' and turned off the computer, turned it on again, and this time the game ran flawlessly so I was able to progress the story without any stress. I'm tired now, but tomorrow if I have time I'll see how it goes.