Blackjack_UK Posted December 18, 2018 Posted December 18, 2018 Bug description: Flying normally and all is fine with decent FPS etc then the game will freeze completely for 30 sec or so. Sound carries on as normal. No key inputs have any effect and do not appear to buffer. PC fan goes up to max for the duration of freeze. When it unfreezes the game continues as though nothing has happened - nothing pressed during the freeze has any effect - and fan drops to normal. Repeats every 3-5 minutes. Steps to reproduce / Conditions of occurrence Random times flying in campaign "Republic". Haven't tried anywhere else yet. PC Configuration i7 with 16Gb and 2x512Gb SSD. GTX1070/4Gb. Windows 10 with all latest patches. Nothing else running except Saitek to program the FCS. Hardware firewall, no AV. Nothing has changed in the few weeks except the latest DCS release. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
3WA Posted December 18, 2018 Posted December 18, 2018 Yeah, I get freezing occasionally as well. Not sure what the cause is. I'm wondering if it's low memory. I have 8gb on my motherboard. 4gb on my graphics card.
MadDog-IC Posted December 19, 2018 Posted December 19, 2018 Bug description: Flying normally and all is fine with decent FPS etc then the game will freeze completely for 30 sec or so. Sound carries on as normal. No key inputs have any effect and do not appear to buffer. PC fan goes up to max for the duration of freeze. I'll state the obvious, but nothing is so simple in DCS, but those symptoms sounds like the CPU or GPU is overheating, then throttling down the speed to stop failure and then after a little time the CPU or GPU cools down and ramps up the speed again, rinse and repeat. Try MSI afterburner or GPU-Z tools to monitor CPU and GPU temps, frequencies and loads whilst game is running under the conditions described. Regards, Ian. Asus p877v-pro, Intel I7 3770k 4.2ghz, 32gb Ripjaw X ram, Nvidia RTX-2070 Super, Samsung 32" TV, Saitek x52 pro Joystick and Combat rudder pedals, TrackIR 5, Win8.1 x64 with SSD and SSHD protected by (Avast AV). DCS Tech Support.
3WA Posted December 19, 2018 Posted December 19, 2018 I know it's not the GPU on mine, because when it goes ballistic, you can hear it. I re-encode blurays to max compression to stick them in my library, and it boosts my gpu and cpu to maximum levels. The CPU and GPU fans speed up to roaring levels of sound. I don't hear this when I'm running DCS: World. Everything seems pretty normal. So, at least for me, I don't think that's it.
Blackjack_UK Posted December 21, 2018 Author Posted December 21, 2018 I'll state the obvious, but nothing is so simple in DCS, but those symptoms sounds like the CPU or GPU is overheating, then throttling down the speed to stop failure and then after a little time the CPU or GPU cools down and ramps up the speed again, rinse and repeat. Try MSI afterburner or GPU-Z tools to monitor CPU and GPU temps, frequencies and loads whilst game is running under the conditions described. Regards, Ian. Hi Ian, I'd agree with you except that it isn't the problem. Both the CPU and GPU are well within specs and run much heavier duty applications for much longer without issue. I can start the computer from cold, go straight into Ka-50 and have the freeze happen within 10 minutes of the power coming on. Or I can sit there all day running high-end video rendering and real-time subtitling and it doesn't miss a beat or even get hot. But I appreciate the suggestion and I'll rerun some monitoring tools to make certain. Cheers, Simon [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
thrustvector Posted December 21, 2018 Posted December 21, 2018 could probably be ram 16gb is just about average now
Blackjack_UK Posted December 21, 2018 Author Posted December 21, 2018 OK, but why now? What's changed? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
thrustvector Posted December 21, 2018 Posted December 21, 2018 my apologies didn't look in your sig, you have 16gb, well in that case try deleting metashaders and fxo folders, as then dcs will rebuild those settings, is worth doing when it updates sometimes. I always save the folders first on desktop till you have run the game once......just in case. they are found in your savegame folder
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