I'm getting random freezes when opening containers, opening my inventory, or moving things in my inventory.
The freezes can last SEVERAL seconds....from 4-5 seconds on the low end, to 20 seconds on the higher end. During these freezes, I can move my mouse...i see the mouse moving, it's still the 7dtd mouse pointer (not the windows pointer). When the freeze stops, the game continues as normal...
The freeze hits when I open my inventory (i get the mouse pointer, but the game freezes before the inventory actually opens), when I open an "untouched" container...anything, and it appears completely random which time looting might trigger it, or what i'm looting (the "container opening" sound plays, the "open loot" timer starts, then freezes...again, i can move the mouse pointer, and when the freeze finally ends, looting carries on as normal), and it happens when i try to move things around manually in my inventory (though NOT when shift-clicking them instantly from my toolbelt to my backpack or vice versa).
It doesn't freeze all the time....Sometimes I'll go an hour between. Sometimes 30 minutes....sometimes 5-10 minutes between these freezes. They're incredibly noticeable, as 5 seconds of noticing that NOTHING in the game is moving is pretty noticeable, let alone 20 seconds of just not being able to do anything.
My graphics settings are way WAY down (like nearly every graphic option turned off or at medium/low), and other than slow logging in and somewhat reduced performance with weird weather effects or in the middle of cities or horde nights, my game otherwise runs perfectly smoothly. I'd been trying to fiddle with different settings to see if I could find any reason why these freezes were happening, but nothing seems to improve or worsen them.
In single player, they'd be tolerable, if annoying, but I started playing on a MP server with a friend, and EVERY time one of these freezes happens, I get booted out of the world to the title screen. I just missed most of a horde night, after finally finishing a really fun base, and was REALLY looking forward to testing it....Instead i sat back at the title screen after being booted (and the increased demands from horde night on my computer, along with the aftereffects of whatever this damned problem is kept me from even trying to get back in). I finally get in after horde night and I'm booted again 5 minutes later while opening one of my own containers to grab some repair materials.
I'm beyond frustrated with this. NO other game of mine does anything like this. I can run other FPS style games on higher graphics settings without anything like this happening. It is clearly a uniquely 7dtd issue, and almost certainly some SPECIFIC issue to always constantly affect looting and inventory ONLY, but I can't figure out what it is and I'm at the end of my tolerance for it.
Does anyone have any ideas, from what I've described, what the problem could be and/or some possible solutions to fix or mitigate it?
The freezes can last SEVERAL seconds....from 4-5 seconds on the low end, to 20 seconds on the higher end. During these freezes, I can move my mouse...i see the mouse moving, it's still the 7dtd mouse pointer (not the windows pointer). When the freeze stops, the game continues as normal...
The freeze hits when I open my inventory (i get the mouse pointer, but the game freezes before the inventory actually opens), when I open an "untouched" container...anything, and it appears completely random which time looting might trigger it, or what i'm looting (the "container opening" sound plays, the "open loot" timer starts, then freezes...again, i can move the mouse pointer, and when the freeze finally ends, looting carries on as normal), and it happens when i try to move things around manually in my inventory (though NOT when shift-clicking them instantly from my toolbelt to my backpack or vice versa).
It doesn't freeze all the time....Sometimes I'll go an hour between. Sometimes 30 minutes....sometimes 5-10 minutes between these freezes. They're incredibly noticeable, as 5 seconds of noticing that NOTHING in the game is moving is pretty noticeable, let alone 20 seconds of just not being able to do anything.
My graphics settings are way WAY down (like nearly every graphic option turned off or at medium/low), and other than slow logging in and somewhat reduced performance with weird weather effects or in the middle of cities or horde nights, my game otherwise runs perfectly smoothly. I'd been trying to fiddle with different settings to see if I could find any reason why these freezes were happening, but nothing seems to improve or worsen them.
In single player, they'd be tolerable, if annoying, but I started playing on a MP server with a friend, and EVERY time one of these freezes happens, I get booted out of the world to the title screen. I just missed most of a horde night, after finally finishing a really fun base, and was REALLY looking forward to testing it....Instead i sat back at the title screen after being booted (and the increased demands from horde night on my computer, along with the aftereffects of whatever this damned problem is kept me from even trying to get back in). I finally get in after horde night and I'm booted again 5 minutes later while opening one of my own containers to grab some repair materials.
I'm beyond frustrated with this. NO other game of mine does anything like this. I can run other FPS style games on higher graphics settings without anything like this happening. It is clearly a uniquely 7dtd issue, and almost certainly some SPECIFIC issue to always constantly affect looting and inventory ONLY, but I can't figure out what it is and I'm at the end of my tolerance for it.
Does anyone have any ideas, from what I've described, what the problem could be and/or some possible solutions to fix or mitigate it?
I had this for ages till I sussed it. Then they patched my experimental version a day later 
