Long stutters / freezing


(cerebralSofa) #1

For about 5-15 seconds, the game will freeze with no redrawing of the screen and no audio. This happens when the game is first loading and gets to the screen where it shows your three characters and prompts you to press space to spawn. However, the character portraits are usually not loaded in yet.

It also seems to happen when you are about to die, or at least in the middle of combat. In between freezes, the game runs smoothly. I think there is usually a minute or two between the freezes. I have a high end system, so it’s not just a performance problem, but a problem that the game started having. The game ran completely fine until a couple of weeks ago when an update was released. I think it was around the beginning of the month when I think Nexon Security and Dirty Bomb were updated.


(cerebralSofa) #2

Also, it seems what is happening is the Process is Not Responding for the few seconds in Task Manager. The sound keeps gets stuck during that time and plays a kind of continuous beat.


(cerebralSofa) #3

Although I have 16GB of RAM, I found that with Chrome running, Dirty Bomb was somehow running out of memory. That is probably why the portraits and various dialog texts couldn’t load in. I no longer freeze, but at the end of every match after the rewards are shown and you start loading into the next game and before you get back to loadout and mission start timer, it says it can’t connect to server and only gives you an option to Exit the game and return to desktop. This happens after every match despite having no connection problems during the match.