Micro freezes

[lvw06 36]

Hello !

I'm coming to you today because I have a problem that I can't solve and that only happens when playing DayZ.

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.

So if this problem is known and someone has this problem or has a solution or a start of track, I would be very grateful.

Thank you in advance for your help !

Edited February 15, 2020 by lvw06

[Kathosky 119]

Maybe you have already tried this. If not, it could help:

- Whitelist your whole steam folder and your DayZ.exe in Windows Defender for stoping the in real-time scan.

- Enable write caching of your SSD (should be already enabled but check just in case).

- Check if you RAM is running at 2133mhz that if I am not mistaken it is the fastest speed your processor can handle. I believe you can check it with CPU-Z.

[lvw06 36]

3 hours ago, Kathosky said:

Maybe you have already tried this. If not, it could help:

- Whitelist your whole steam folder and your DayZ.exe in Windows Defender for stoping the in real-time scan.

- Enable write caching of your SSD (should be already enabled but check just in case).

- Check if you RAM is running at 2133mhz that if I am not mistaken it is the fastest speed your processor can handle. I believe you can check it with CPU-Z.

 

Hello ! Already, a huge thank you for your response !! If ever what I write is not very clear, please excuse me, I only speak French and I use the Google translator to answer you 😉 Regarding the first 2 points that you advised me to check, I have not tried it yet and I will do it right away. For the last point, yes I looked in the BIOS, no problem there, I'm fine at 2133 MHz. What is crazy and that I do not understand is that with my 2nd PC which is a recent ASUS Rog laptop but which is a little less powerful, I have absolutely no problem. It is inexplicable! I keep you posted and thank you again for responding! ☺️

 

EDIT : I just checked the cache of my SSD, no problem, it was activated by default. So I immediately tested the game by whitelisting the DayZ and Dayz.exe folder as you advised me. No Change unfortunately. I have the impression to be the only one to have these freezes, it is really embarrassing even if it is not unplayable. ☹️

Edited February 19, 2020 by lvw06

[lvw06 36]

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!

[lvw06 36]

 

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 !!! 😤😥

[lvw06 36]

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%).

Here, if it can help some!

Edited February 24, 2020 by lvw06