Game freezing every 20 second

Hi all,

I got the game a couple of days ago, and since then I’m experiencing constant freezing. I tried every solution I could find in forums but with little luck. I have quite a good PC (the game runs at 60 fps with everything on high or above) but it keep freezing for 3-4 seconds quite often - every 30-60 seconds in general gameplay, every 10-20 second in cutscenes and combat. The game is pretty much unplayable, especially during combat
Looking at the resource manager it looks like one of the CPU is bottlenekking.

My PC:
Alienware 17 with i7 7820HK
Geforce GTX 1080
32 GB RAM
1 TB SSD

Patch 1.4.1

here is what I have already tried:

  • changing settings in game (borderless seems to improve the freezing slightly) all the rest doesn’t make much difference
  • use BES.EXE - I read about this in some forum for limiting the max CPU used. This does not make any difference to my PC, the same CPU core is still bottlenecking
  • reset the affinity for the CPU - again no difference, CPU still bottlenecking
  • use user.cfg - I read in another forum to use this:
    Write r_VSync = 0
    sys_MaxFPS = 60
    e_ViewDistRatio 200
    e_ViewDistRatioVegetation 250
    sys_main_CPU 0 - This is the CPU that bottleneck
    sys_physics_CPU 2
    sys_streaming_CPU 4
    r_TexturesStreamPoolSize 10240
    e_ShadowsPoolSize 4096
    e_ShadowsMaxTexRes 1024
    e_LodFaceAreaTargetSiz= 0.0008
    e_UberlodDistanceRatio 4.0
    r_Sharpening -1.2

This seems to improve the normal gameplay freezing (outside combat and cutscenes), but it’s still not a fix.

Does anybody have a solution for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

have gone to 1.42 patch. 1.4 was causing stutters.
see if 1.42 does anything?
Using mods? some un updated one can cause chaos

I actually found a way to make it work properly. I was using an external monitor for the laptop and getting the freezing. I started using the laptop screen instead and the freezing stopped completely… Not sure why but it worked!

Thanks anyway