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[SQUIRRELLL]

Usually the game would crash to desktop, now i'm getting the game frozen mid battle and at random times. When i hit task manager it shows MWO hasnt crashed though. Really weird.

I havent played in 1-2 months, but never ever had this before. I Tried re-installing and nothing. Running medium graphics on ATI, Win 7 64bit.

Anyone else?

[Glucose]

Yes, this started for me around the Feb 5th patch. I also have Win 7 / ATI card.

Try this, and see if it helps
http://mwomercs.com/...eze-workaround/

[Marvyn Dodgers]

What sort of ping are you running?

[Das Wudone]

it also happens on nvidia cards. i get random freezing but lately a lot of those seem to be from missile impacts especially lrms. sometimes its not tho, just a freeze into the beginning or when im just running around not in battle.

the game actually still responds during the freeze. accdg to my teammate i was still firing my weapons on a stalker when my game froze as i was clicking the weapon groups like crazy during the freeze. i had no choice but to end it with task manager after the stalker died tho. back in the day alt+tabbing during the freeze would work and unfroze the game. now that rarely happens.

Edited by Das Wudone, 14 March 2013 - 05:19 PM.

[Sean von Steinike]

Usually you can tab out and back into the match and it is working again.

[Mechrophilia]

I just had 2 unfixable freezes in the last 3 games. I don't like having to use task manager. This bug is starting to become very frustrating.

[Thomas McRiley]

Many freezes here aswell. Sometimes you can fix it by ALT tabbing in and out. Most times you just hang then in a black screen.
Have this since the last patch. Nvidia GTX670 here.

[SQUIRRELLL]

Just got it again fighting in my DDC. Froze. I tried alt tabbing in and out, when i went back in, the screen was just black.

Weird thing is, in task manager shows game still running and not crashed. I have a 40ping as i live in Canada. ATI drivers up to date.

[Lyrik]

That's a frustating bug -.-

Alt-Tab and opening taskmanager only helps 1/3 of the time.

[DeKamme]

Adding MWO to my firewall's exception list (Comodo) and enabling vsync solved it for me. At least one of these 2 probably has.

Alt-tab doesn't work when this happens, only ctr-alt-del. And switching back to the game never worked.

[Monkeymortar]

Same thing is happening to me its now chain freezing me now pretty much every match.sometimes doesn't happen at all sometimes happens every time. its getting old and sad tbh whole month you can't fix it lol if your coders were roofers they would be in jail just saying
Specs are as follows:
i5 200k 3.4 ghz
560 GTX TI
8 gigs of ddr3 1333 memory

[Thecure]

Monkeymortar, on 16 March 2013 - 01:31 AM, said:

Same thing is happening to me its now chain freezing me now pretty much every match.sometimes doesn't happen at all sometimes happens every time. its getting old and sad tbh whole month you can't fix it lol if your coders were roofers they would be in jail just saying
Specs are as follows:
i5 200k 3.4 ghz
560 GTX TI
8 gigs of ddr3 1333 memory

Was getting ALOT of game lockups too. What I did was enable v-sync AND reduce my systems overclock. Set the multiplier at 38x on my 2500K. it's stable now.

[Monkeymortar]

Thecure, on 16 March 2013 - 01:45 AM, said:

Was getting ALOT of game lockups too. What I did was enable v-sync AND reduce my systems overclock. Set the multiplier at 38x on my 2500K. it's stable now.

ill give it a go

[SQUIRRELLL]

Tried the v-sync thing, ive also deleted shader folder, and still getting it. ATL Tab doesnt work either.

[Bident]

Thomas McRiley, on 14 March 2013 - 11:13 PM, said:

Many freezes here aswell. Sometimes you can fix it by ALT tabbing in and out. Most times you just hang then in a black screen.
Have this since the last patch. Nvidia GTX670 here.

same problem here
(nvidia gts 450)

[ohtochooseaname]

I had this happen to me a couple times. It froze, then unfroze about 5 seconds later.

[C12AZyED]

This freeze glitch has been happening to many users since the Feb 5th patch, including myself. It seems to occur most often when you witness a large volley of LRMs impacting something, be it a mech or terrain. After having tried many solutions, the only one i know works 100% right now is limiting your framerate .

To do this:

1.Go to your Mechwarrior Online root folder.
2. Open up the "user.cfg" CFG file.
3. Type in (without quotations marks of course ): sys_MaxFPS = 45
4. Save file.

Your framerate will now be limited to 45 fps, you can see this by hitting F9 and in the top left-hand corner of the screen will be diagnostic information, including your framerate. Oddly, the framerate will say something like 47.6 ( you'll see), but regardless your framerate will be limited.

Somehow this fixes the issue outright, but clearly this is a highly undesirable workaround for those with high-end PCs, whose hardware is being artificially limited.

This glitch has been around far too long Piranha, please sort it out.

[WhupAzz]

C12AZyED, on 19 March 2013 - 04:01 AM, said:

[...]
To do this:

1.Go to your Mechwarrior Online root folder.
2. Open up the "user.cfg" CFG file.
3. Type in (without quotations marks of course ): sys_MaxFPS = 45
4. Save file.
[...]

I'll give it a go thanks. It's a recent issue atleast for me and its ruining the game for me.

Edited by WhupAzz, 19 March 2013 - 04:12 AM.