Are these game freezes the result of someone changing codes in real time?

[Animl-AW]

It has something to do with skins, HT/Dale, how often does the game/client check for new skins?, would it be 10 mins?

I turned off "automatically download skins", but it didn't actually make a difference (i suspect it still checks in, but doesn't download anything in this mode), however, with that setting on, and selecting a skin I did not have, clicking it to kick it's download off, I get the freeze after the skin is downloaded, and while it's moving into the skins folder, or (it's hard to time) when the cleanup happens (when the res.fth is renamed to .res and moved to skins folder)

Can anyone replicate?

I have auto skin DL disabled.  Not having skins DL while playing should be a given.

Thanks for making a good point.

That said, whats happening now is new, auto skin DL is old.

Checking for skins is not a resource hog. But ya never know.

Evidently you’re still having issues?

[steely07]

Auto skin download is indeed old, but the IP's and routing for those servers recently changed remember, and for all we know those workloads may have been moved at same time to new machines

I'd still like to see if anyone can replicate

[AKIron]

I flew around for just over 20 mins in offline practice mode. Mostly circles, a bit of maneuvering. Nary a hiccup.

Ryzen 7 5800X3D, 64GB DDR4, RTX 3070.

DX11, all default settings in game.

An excerpt of what it looked like.

[CptTrips]

I flew around for just over 20 mins in offline practice mode. Mostly circles, a bit of maneuvering. Nary a hiccup.

Ryzen 7 5800X3D, 64GB DDR4, RTX 3070.

DX11, all default settings in game.

An excerpt of what it looked like.

Had you been seeing the hiccup before?

[AKIron]

Had you been seeing the hiccup before?

No but I haven't gone online in a long time. I pull it for a bit of target practice now and then. Someone who is seeing the freezing might try offline which might narrow it down to being network related or not.

[Animl-AW]

I flew around for just over 20 mins in offline practice mode. Mostly circles, a bit of maneuvering. Nary a hiccup.

Ryzen 7 5800X3D, 64GB DDR4, RTX 3070.

DX11, all default settings in game.

An excerpt of what it looked like.

Watched it twice, didn't see any freezes.

1st. question, did you tweak anything like your GPU before this flight?

A good comparison would be to then fly online and see if you get 2 sec freezes every 10 min.

If you're not affected online either, then my assumption is your setup/config is not prone to them.

I do know that tweaks I made to TCP wasn't what fixed my issue. Doesn't mean there's no server or ISP issue, just means those tweaks weren't what fixed it.

[Animl-AW]

No but I haven't gone online in a long time. I pull it for a bit of target practice now and then. Someone who is seeing the freezing might try offline which might narrow it down to being network related or not.

Exactly why I was asking others to fly offline.
Now that I'm fixed it would be irrelevant for me to do so as an A-B comparison.

One thing that might be different from me with others is I removed Game Bar and Geforce Experience (those could have changed/updated), and unparked the CPU. Every other config I did prior to this issue.

Al I know is I'm fixed and need to figure out how I did it. lol

[Shuffler]

Frozen margaritas are for chicks man.

Chicks love pilots that drink margaritas!

[JimmyD3]

Do these freeze's happen in FSO, Monday Night Madness, or the custom arenas?

[MDStampf93]

Do these freeze's happen in FSO, Monday Night Madness, or the custom arenas?

Yes, was experiencing them last night in FSO quite frequently. Always at the worst moments too. 

Asked the squad and everyone was having the same issue.

[Spikes]

Flew for an hour in MA and then FSO and had no issues, odd.

[Shane]

My testing so far leans towards it being directx11 related and possibly in conjunction with nvidia drivers.

Ran dx9 version with no freezes (still have geforce overlay, no effect on or off.)

Dx11 still experiences freezes.

Only thing I haven't done is rolled back nvidia drivers to pre-isp move (last known non-freeze dx11.)   If I do this and it does not resolve the freezes, then it's either some windows update or possibly actually related somehow to the isp switchover.

[AKIron]

I allowed the Windows Dev updates a few years ago. Big mistake. Weekly updates if not more frequent. Many problems. I withdrew about a year ago but you have to wait for the next big update before they will stop. Unless you want to do a wipe and clean install. Many of the problems I have seen were most apparent in game graphics. Sometimes the next Windows update would resolve, sometimes the next Nvidia update would resolve. Hard to know which is the culprit.

[Animl-AW]

My testing so far leans towards it being directx11 related and possibly in conjunction with nvidia drivers.

Ran dx9 version with no freezes (still have geforce overlay, no effect on or off.)

Dx11 still experiences freezes.

Only thing I haven't done is rolled back nvidia drivers to pre-isp move (last known non-freeze dx11.)   If I do this and it does not resolve the freezes, then it's either some windows update or possibly actually related somehow to the isp switchover.

As I stated before. DX9 may work over DX11 because DX9 is not implementing enhancements DX11 brought to the table, its bypassing them. Same as my performance setting over quality, performance is bypassing processes quality settings would steer signal to.

That said, now running at 300fps, I figured I could afford more quality, and then BAM!  Got freezes back. I’m at work, can’t remember name of the setting right now, but if I can duplicate it 2-3 more times I may have found part of the problem. I ran out of time last night, but next round home I get back into what I did.

Its PROLLY a DX and nvidia battle, but nividia is all we can control.

ALSO was reading nvidia had digital audio conflicts. I disabled nvidia digital audio last month. No reason for audio signal to pass through 2-3 needless processes for a single result. There could be a problem there.

We’re getting close, no cigar yet

[Animl-AW]

Flew for an hour in MA and then FSO and had no issues, odd.

Did you make any settings prior to that?