Hm, damn. Tried to push that move as far away from me as possible… Guess I will have to look into upgrading myself, see if that helps. Has to be done at some point anyway.
Is it complicated, upgrading? Never did that, only ever got new Windows when I bought new PC’s.
It was easy, took about an hour. I downloaded and ran the ISO from this page:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
Might have to reinstall some drivers afterwards but it’ll keep all of your files.
Thanks, will give it a try.
Are you going to install Win 10? If so, could you report if this helped you or not?
I will report!
Thanks @tinklepee, the upgrade from Win 7 to 10 did the job and the freezes are gone. Game is playable now 
Hope this works. Giving it a shot. Thank you for the tip.
I’ve played approx. 6 hours yesterday and only ran into 2 of the freezes, both lasting about 2 seconds. I was getting these same freezes every few minutes before. My overall fps is higher as well but not by much.
Windows 10 is kind of weird. I noticed that if you turn off Windows Defender’s realtime protection and it’s firewall portion that it actually increases the CPU usage of Windows services (svchost, etc.). Seems counterintuitive but I’d leave those running for the best performance.
Same here, still some rare but very short freezes. Nothing in comparison to the previous ones though. Really happy about your tip.
Thank you, tinklepee for a more radical solution. Seems to be working, so far. Would have waited days, maybe weeks for a patch to fix this. Going to delete all saves to this point and start again. Thanks VERY much.
Any solution for those who stuck with win 8 ? =((
Same problem here.
The game runs smoothly for 3-4 minutes after boot and begins to lock up and freeze suddenly for anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 minutes. Then it will run smoothly for 5-60 seconds and do it again, indefinitely. Settings and current in-game situation have no effect. My video card HUD clocks me using only 50-70% of the GPU, using only 1.3 Gb of 2.0Gb of VRAM with an average of 60fps. I’m also getting the CPU spike during the freezes. I also never go over 8Gb of regular RAM usage.
I also noticed that “Fullscreen” makes it very noticeably worse than “Borderless” does.
Unfortunately I’m not willing to “upgrade” to Win 10, so that’s not a solution.
i5 4570 3.2 Ghz X4
16Gb DDR3 RAM
GTX 770 2Gb GDDR5
Win 7
All drivers are updated
It’s a great game otherwise! Good job Warhorse!
I might have found a solution for those of you using an Nvidia GPU!
This worked 9/10 for me. I still have little baby freezes that feel more like momentary glitches, and they happen so far apart I forget it’s a problem sometimes.
Also running in “Borderless” as opposed to “Fullscreen” helped a bunch.
Hope that helps some people!
Sadly, I already tried that, didn’t help.
Also, the freezes happen just as often when playing in Windowed mode, will try Borderless now nevertheless. Doubt that alone will help, though…
Thx for that hint. It kinda helped me, allthough I still get freezes from time to time.
Tried to upgrade to Windows 10 but that`s another story 
Borderless is bad for framerate though, I was getting 20-40 in borderless and I’m now at 30-50 in Windowed mode.
I have the same Problem.
I5, 16 GB Ram, GTX 1080, Win7. No matters if i play with super high or medium graphic settings. Game will freeze every 5 Minutes. Before tamberg it was better.
I have sometimes 120 fps, but the game freezes anyway.
But i can’t/won’t update to win10. I have some software installed who needs win7.
i will try the windowed mode, an the physx settings this evening.
I got:
RX 580
I5-4690k
Win7
16 GB RAM
I tried everything. EVERYTHING. I didn’t try only win 10. Any other suggestions how to fix on AMD videocards?
Also had continuous stuttering (5 second freezes) in town on a 3570k @ 4.3ghz. Upgraded from Win7 to Win10 and practically all of it is gone, there are very rare 1 second stutters related to my weak CPU but that’s all. Unfortunately this game still seems to be very heavy on CPU usage in general, and when I’m walking around in Rattay for example I can expect 100% cpu usage all the time. No idea what can be done to reduce this somehow…
changed the window settings to borderless(? not shure, how its named in englsih). now it works fine with win7.
Just played 3 hours with graphic settings on high, and had just 4-5 minor freezes.
