Game video and audio freezing - in menu and in game

[private plowjoy 0]

Hello everyone,

 

I haven't played Arma3 in a while but decided to reinstall and have another go. Since the last time I played it,  my PC has been totally upgraded, essentially its new. The issue is, the game experiences a video and audio freeze of around 1-2 seconds, every say 10 seconds or thereabouts. This is seen on the menu screen, when altering the video settings and in game. If the client is running, the problem will happen.

 

• I have already gone through the launcher settings and tried with and without the various settings options (around core selection, hyperthreading, etc) and its the same in either state (some of the settings set, none of the settings set).
• I've altered the in game video presets from Ultra (the default auto detect) to Low and its the same, regardless of settings there, which I was certain would be responsible for something like this (it feels very much like the PC is struggling to keep up)
• I've also disabled the analytics tracking in the launcher, no difference.

 

My specs are as follows...

 

• Windows 10 - up to date
• 8700k i7 running at 4.4ghz
• 32gb of 2100 DDR4
• TitanXp GPU with the very latest driver installed
• Client installed to a Samsung 860 PRO on SATA3.

 

Tracking my PC hardware during these events, the CPU is bubbling along very happily and the GPU is running 10-15 degrees under its normal peak load.

Does anyone have any ideas on what this may be?

 

 

Thanks

 

 

[stanhope 276]

Have you verified your game files?
Have you lowered your view distance?
What FPS are you at when it's not frozen?
 

[private plowjoy 0]

Hi,

 

Its a completely fresh install of Arma3 with the files also verified.

I've gone from Ultra to Low presets and also then lowered other settings like view distance too. Makes no difference, as its also happening in the in game menu that just has water or a static background.

FPS is coming in at 143.

 

Interestingly, I was about to update this post anyway but moving the game install to my m2 drive has fixed it. I've since run a bench of my 960 and it came in over 520 write and read so I can only assume the controller that the 960 is in, is somehow being overloaded but its SATA3.