Dayz Freezes
Inacayal Tanoesoedibjo
Indeed, in play, I have regular micro-freezes, certainly not very annoying but which I would like to get rid of. This happens especially during a kill (1 kill out of 3 or 4 approximately) whether it is a kill of a zombie or a survivor, but also when I go into the inventory and come out. At this precise moment at the end of the inventory, a small freeze of one second occurs. If I kill a zombie it's the same thing, which means that at the moment when "he dies" I don't have the animation of his body falling to the ground. I see my hand-to-hand weapon reach his head for example then a freeze of a second and once the freeze is finished the body is on the ground. I have searched a lot but to no avail. I noticed during a game and going to the task manager of windows 10 (by doing Ctrl + alt + delete and performance tab) that my GPU had stalls at the same time of freeze. I go from 100% GPU use to 47% then it goes back up to 100% immediately. So at that time I questioned my graphics card which is also new! (Nvidia Geforce GTX 1660 ti). So I tested with a graphics card (Nvidia Geforce GTX 980), taking care to uninstall the old one completely and reinstall the drivers with a new installation. Latest Nivida 442.19 drivers for both cards. Verdict: Total failure, always the same behavior and the same freezes that occur at the same time and especially in the same situations. (exit from inventory by pressing TAB or during a kill of a zombie or survivor if I have not killed another for 2 or 3 mns.)
My PC tower is healthy, ventilated box, antivirus windows defender integrated in windows 10 updated, intel processor i7 6700k cooled in Watercooling, little heating after checks, 32 GB of RAM 2133mhz, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1660ti with latest drivers, DayZ is installed on a Samsung SSD drive. Iiyama 144Hz screen, Cougar 700w power supply.
All I could notice strange during long enough games is that the game is ultra greedy in graphics card resources! I note that the GPU is nonstop at 100% (Whether with the 1660ti or the 980) but especially the RAM of the graphics card is used and does not empty. As the game progresses, the dedicated GPU memory usage increases until saturation. At the end of 30mns of game the 6go of memory of my 1660ti are used almost 100% !!! (5.7 GB used on 6 GB of GPU memory ...) Same on my GTX 980.
A friend has a PC but laptop for him, his Nvidia GTX 1070 does not behave at all like that with a 100% graphics processor without stopping, for him it always fluctuates between 65 and 85% and his GPU memory usage does not increase without going down during the game. Ditto on Twitch, many players / streamers do not have this problem. I also tested in the Nvidia settings the power management mode by setting to "favor maximum performance", without success.
Hello @Greensek ! Are you aware of this kind of problem as described in my original post? Perhaps for certain computer configurations and in certain specific cases? I didn't have it in 1.05. I have been looking for a solution since 1.06 and thought that this should also be the case for everyone. Oddly, on my 2nd PC which is a laptop, no problem and obviously many players do not have it either. If you have a lead or the beginning of a solution I would be very grateful to you because I really tried everything that was possible and unimaginable. Big thanks in advance!
Well I do not despair of having an answer or a start of track to find a solution. I continue my research, I just tested all my config with the OCCT software, everything is OK no hardware problem. So it doesn't come from there. I also tested with and without Freesync / G-Sync. There also no change. Always these ****** freezes every 30 sec if I go out of my inventory wherever I kill a zombie / survivor. At that time, my GPU which is 100% suddenly drops to 47% and goes up immediately. This sudden fall causes me to freeze for about one second. It becomes painful and I start to wonder if it does not come simply from the game which is very badly optimized and buggy ... But why my 2nd PC which is a laptop does not have this symptom, nor many other players ? I'm a bit lost ... Gentlemen of Bohemia, HELP! Thanks in advance !!! ??
I come back here to give some news and especially to tell you that this evening I managed to find the origin of the problem and to solve it. Almost completely by chance, by the way. Let me explain briefly, do you ever know maybe it will be useful for some.
I was going to reset Windows 10 as a last resort, when I remembered having moved all my Win10 personal directories (Documents, images, music etc ...) to my 2nd hard drive "tray". D:. So I re-moved the Documents directory to his original location (where Windows originally created it) on my drive in SSD.
BINGO !! No more freeze!
For some strange reason, when you kill, or exit your inventory by pressing TAB, the game accesses your DayZ directory which is in "Documents".
If like me for the sake of lack of space on the SSD you move all these Windows personal directories on your tray disk (because generally much more space on it ...) and well concerning DayZ this will cause you a problem which obviously often accesses in game to the config files found in Documents\DayZ!
For proof, in the Windows performance tab, looking at the graphics of the GPU and the hard drive tray, indeed the GPU load drops (from 100% to 47%) correspond to the second close to a peak in the use of the hard drive (0% to 45%).
I ran into this problem when i started playing again a couple of days ago. While running around or doing whatever my game will sometimes freeze. The game itself doesn't crash, but the only way to fix it and make it un-freeze is ctrl+alt+delete. my game will then tab out and when I tap back in the game is good again. It happens approximately every 10-15 minute.
Sometimes my game freezes for a few seconds when there is a sudden change in weather. (e.g: clouds suddenly appear or the winds picks up.) It does fix itself however after a few seconds, this is the only similar issue that comes to my mind at the moment.
I'm playing on a brand new Alienware laptop and my game crashes a few times per play session. It's on my SSD and I was thinking of moving it off. I've tried uninstalling and all that but I still have to hard restart all the time. Also every single time I exit the game, it freezes and I have to wait 5 minutes before it resolves itself. And I get lag too sometimes that can only be fixed by restarting, which involves the annoying exit crash. My internet is super fast. I've plugged in a LAN cable and that didn't fix it. It's soooo frustrating.
It 's really is strange. I also noticed that while my game freezes it seems like my cooler turns off (Or makes less noice) and when the game un-freezes the cooler makes the regular noise again. I doubt it has anything to do with any of my specs since it only happens in Dayz, it really pisses me off tbh :,(
Hey guys, first post here ?, I am having the same issue with dayz and only dayz, with complete random freezing that i am forced to restart my laptop, sometimes i can play for hours with no issues and then sometimes freeze after freeze its just not playable, did you guys find any solutions, any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks
Hello all! I have this great issue with my motherboard where, if I restart my PC, the Internet won't connect for anywhere between 15 minutes to 2 hours. So, of course, I never reboot it. But DayZ makes it hard to not need to, especially when I alt-tab. So here are issues that I personally have experienced and how I've resolved them. They may not be universal, but they might work for you.
bad_module_info has to do with the way the Win10 Creators update displays and attempts to optimise fullscreen applications. The simplest way to avoid fullscreen applications is, of course, to have it not be fullscreen. This has worked for me in the past and has lowered the number of bad modules I've gotten. But, windowed mode sucks, sooooo....
To disable it, go to your steam folder. It's commonly located on C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\DayZ. You will want to open BOTH DayZ.exe and DayZ_x64.exe, depending on your computer (if you still have a 32-bit PC it's time to upgrade). Right click, open properties, and select 'Disable Fullscreen Optimisations
Solution: Before you would like to tab out of DayZ, press shift-tab to open the Steam overlay and then tab. When I do this, I never have this problem. THIS ALSO SOLVES THE "HOLDING DOWN LEFT CLICK AND RAPID-FIRING YOUR GUN INTO THE DUDE IN FRONT OF YOU" ISSUE
Sometimes when exiting DayZ, my PC freezes. Sometimes it blackscreens, sometimes it just sits frozen, sometimes I can hear Dean Hall's disembodied voice laughing at me, telling me to go fuck myself. No sweat, I've got a fix! Eiter one of these solutions have worked for me 100% of the time.
If the above fails, Solution 2 - Cancelling signout. Sometimes the above fails, so I press ctrl-alt-del, and click on sign out. It starts to close out tasks, but programmes like Steam and TS3 take their sweet time before closing, so quickly hit "cancel". You'll have to relaunch TS3, but it's better than signing out / rebooting.
f your having trouble closing the DayZ app when trying to alt tab after freezing you might want to give Super Alt F4 a try. It's a program that I've been using for over a year and it essentially bypasses your computer and all restrictions to forcefully close any program that is at the front of your screen. Just be careful since this program is powerful and if you were to use it whilst nothing was opened it would force kill your desktop (no joke it has happened to me b4).
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