Possible "Game freezes every 5 seconds" fix.

[Beanyman 0]

I have had this problem with my game freezing every 10 seconds or so ever since i got the game and installed dayZ and i have seen many threads on various forums about this problem but no one can seem to help. I think i may have found a way to fix some peoples problems so i am posting it here as I have no idea where else I can put this thread.

To start with people said these three things were my problem but it turned out not to be them at all.

- It was not lag or frame rate issues.

- It was not having a bad PC

- It was not the problem with having the six launcher loaded.

- It was not having the settings too high or not matched up correctly to my computer.

It was my whole game freezing and unfreezing over and over again. I searched the web far and low and see many threads trying to fix this but NONE had any answer at all. I was told it was my computer and it was past it's prime and to be honest it was a fair assumption, There was no real reason other than that.

I persisted on due to the fact i am a tight mother f--ker and did not want to waste my money. While messing around and trying to play a game I see my norton pop up saying "PresentationFontCache is using all your damn cpu!". After checking this out and disabling the feature i now run my game on high settings with -no- freezing what so ever and a nice 30fps. If you are having this problem and like me you are at a loss with what to do try to disable it.

go to Control Panel

click on System and Security

Then Administrative Tools

Then Services

Scroll all of the way down until you see “Windows Presentation Foundation Font Cache”. Double-click on this entry, and select “Disabled” from the “Startup type” list

If this does not work run your game as normal and while running the game press cntrl alt del and open the system task manager. go to the performance tab and open up the resource monitor. Look for PresentationFontCache (Probably close to the top as it will be no doubt eating up all dem prezuss cpu'z") and END PROCESS. This will hopefully fix everything for you and allow you to play. You can also shut off any other non neccesary programmes eating up all your cpu here.

Make sure your graphics card has been optimized to peak performance and make sure you lower your in game graphics - Just to make sure! I hope this fixed your problem and I hope to be blasting you away in game very soon.

[Ethonie1 0]

Hey man. This helped a bit and thanks, but I still was getting the problem bad. :( but i just FIGURED SOMETHING HUGE OUT AND I HOPE IT WORKS FOR YOU. If you go to the video settings when you load ArmA 2 OA up you should see a setting called "PPAA". So far this has got rid of it but change the "PPAA" setting to "SWAA - Very High". after I changed the setting it completely (So far) got rid of the weird freeze then unfreeze. :) Hope this helped. I attached a couple of pics to show you my settings.

[Ethonie1 0]

Hey man. This helped a bit and thanks, but I still was getting the problem bad. :( but i just FIGURED SOMETHING HUGE OUT AND I HOPE IT WORKS FOR YOU. If you go to the video settings when you load ArmA 2 OA up you should see a setting called "PPAA". So far this has got rid of it but change the "PPAA" setting to "SWAA - Very High". after I changed the setting it completely (So far) got rid of the weird freeze then unfreeze. :) Hope this helped. I attached a couple of pics to show you my settings.

[uPDATE] Well as i thought would happen this didn't work either so oh well :(. Guess i just got to keep looking. It fixed it for about 2 or 3 hours for me.

Edited June 28, 2013 by Ethonie1

[GangstaDuck 4]

Reduce graphics quality.

[GangstaDuck 4]

Ding ding ding. We have a winner. COMMON SENSE.

[GangstaDuck 4]

*success kid*

[on3c3nt 185]

Reduce graphics quality.

 

Sorry but that's nothing close to a solution. I have this problem for months now even after reinstallation and on every graphics quality.

I got an i7-3770k overclocked on 4,2ghz,  32 GB of ram and a HD 7870 OC and at the moment there's no game i cannot play on maximum setting.

 

This freeze comes up every 5-10 seconds, whether or not you are standing or moving etc and it is not important where exactly you are in the game - It is not a "random occuring" grafic lag or freeze but a periodical freeze.

[facoptere 180]

see http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/152666-lag-spikes/?p=1529606

[on3c3nt 185]

see http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/152666-lag-spikes/?p=1529606

Thanks but as i said before, it's a freeze, not a lag and it is every 5-10 secs even if i am not moving... on every server i have been so far

[cywehner1234 582]

Sorry but that's nothing close to a solution. I have this problem for months now even after reinstallation and on every graphics quality.

I got an i7-3770k overclocked on 4,2ghz,  32 GB of ram and a HD 7870 OC and at the moment there's no game i cannot play on maximum setting.

 

This freeze comes up every 5-10 seconds, whether or not you are standing or moving etc and it is not important where exactly you are in the game - It is not a "random occuring" grafic lag or freeze but a periodical freeze.

LOL this. There's no game that I cannot play on maximum settings. Yeah, that's probably true. But I can 100% assure you you do not get 60 frames at all times. I dunno what is up with your freezing, but you may want to lower graphics quality. Btw, 32 gigs of ram, is quite unessecary.

[on3c3nt 185]

LOL this. There's no game that I cannot play on maximum settings. Yeah, that's probably true. But I can 100% assure you you do not get 60 frames at all times. I dunno what is up with your freezing, but you may want to lower graphics quality. Btw, 32 gigs of ram, is quite unessecary.

I play (for example) Battlefield 4 on ultra on steady 70-72 fps and i do not own a game where i get less than 40 fps.

These Freezes come up on every graphics quality, even with everything turned off. in Arma 2 and in every Arma 2 Mod.

 

And i got the 32 Gigs "cheap" and i need a lot for rendering and 3d animation.

 

 

Edit: What i wanted to say with "Theres no game i cannot play on maximum settings" is - "Reduce graphics quality" is not a valid answer or solution to this problem, because i can handle dayz speccs and it's there even on low settings.

plus i played without freezes on a far worse pc before

Edited December 2, 2013 by generelleasy

[c313 0]

LOL this. There's no game that I cannot play on maximum settings. Yeah, that's probably true. But I can 100% assure you you do not get 60 frames at all times. I dunno what is up with your freezing, but you may want to lower graphics quality. Btw, 32 gigs of ram, is quite unessecary.

 

Yeah, lets just assume that everyone with a ton of ram is using it only for gaming

[on3c3nt 185]

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/153010-eset-smart-security-7-or-eset-nod32-antivirus-7-is-causing-low-fpsstutter-this-might-fix-it/

 

LangeName PM'ed me and told me about his problems and solution.

turning my firewall off solved the consistent freezes, don't know why i never thought of that... you should try that, Beanyman