The game randomly freezes! Well, the game kinda freezes.

[Voltagetweak]

Greetings fellow city builders!

I have an issue I have not find an answer to..
The game randomly freezes. Well, the game kinda freezes.

It's like a "screenshot" has been placed over my game, sound and everything is working. When I use mouse-wheel to zoom in the sound changes to "close-up-sound",
I hear clicking sounds when I start to click around, it's like a fully functional game underneath this "screenshot".

Only way to get back to the game, is to Ctrl-Alt-Delete, close the game and start over. I can obviously only continue from last save, which could be from a while back.

I did disable the Steam overlay, which helped a little, but the issue is still there and happens ever so often.

My specs are (Gaming laptop, Asus):

Windows 8.1, 64 Bit
Intel i7-4700HQ CPU @ 2.40 GHz
12 GB Ram
Geforce GTX 870m

Feel free to ask any questions, or give any advice.
Thanks in advanced!

-Voltagetweak

 

[Dmented]

Does it happen when you place a Cargo Train Terminal by chance? It sounds exactly like my issue except it only happens with Cargo Train Terminals.

If it's the same with you too, then head over to this thread and reply so it gets more notice: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...s-freeze-when-rotate-tilt-zoom-tools-are-used

 

[Voltagetweak]

Does it happen when you place a Cargo Train Terminal by chance? It sounds exactly like my issue except it only happens with Cargo Train Terminals.

If it's the same with you too, then head over to this thread and reply so it gets more notice: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...s-freeze-when-rotate-tilt-zoom-tools-are-used

Nope. No Cargo Train Terminal.

Cant really pinpoint when it happens other then it happens..


Thanks for the reply though.

-Voltage

Ps. Thanks for the thread tip. Seems to be the same issue.

 

[PocketCity]

I have the similar problems, seems like freezing caused by info overlays (traffic, education, decorations etc).

Pretty much random for me, i mean one game session its was traffic overlay, and in another it was education or decorations...


Try to hit ESC key! It does not removes the problem but at least you can save the game and use restart!

 

[Voltagetweak]

I have the similar problems, seems like freezing caused by info overlays (traffic, education, decorations etc).

Pretty much random for me, i mean one game session its was traffic overlay, and in another it was education or decorations...


Try to hit ESC key! It does not removes the problem but at least you can save the game and use restart!

Yep, that's what happens to me.
It happens very randomly.

ESC key does'nt work for me, but I've heard Quicksaving (F1) will atleast save your progress.

-Voltagetweak

 

[Duman]

I also have this issue, I think it can be related to having railroads or having Ore Industry Area. I noticed that it begin after I expanded to 2nd pile which has railroad and I built ore industry there.
And game lacking autosave is really bad for these kind of situations.

 

[airsize]

I also have this issue, I think it can be related to having railroads or having Ore Industry Area. I noticed that it begin after I expanded to 2nd pile which has railroad and I built ore industry there.
And game lacking autosave is really bad for these kind of situations.

I have the same issues like you.
My last game CTD when I zoning ore industry, and the area has a cargo terminal.

 

[Duman]

I found the exact reason, there must be graphical bug with Ore Industry Buildings, causing game freeze, sometimes CTD.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?843239-Zooming-to-Ore-Industry-Area-Causes-Freeze

When I tried to load game and directly zoom to Ore Industry Area, it happened again.

 

[Voltagetweak]

One thing that did help me was to this; In the properties of the game (in steam) go to set Launch Options... and type the following -force-d3d9

This is a tip I got from http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...s-freeze-when-rotate-tilt-zoom-tools-are-used
and was provided by @Bladvack

(This forces the game to run in DX9)

Tried playing a few hours, without any problems.

-Voltage

 

[Chief of Staff]

Can confirm this. Experienced same thing exactly as in first post above, at least three times.

 

[ach9999]

Same Problem here but i could find the problem for me: Goods Train Terminal and Sea Goods Terminals (Didn't try passenger terminals). As soon as i move the camera to one of those and then rotate the camera it happens 100% of the time. Same area but with no Terminal and there is no problem at all. So for me it is 100% the Sea and Train Terminals.

I'm going to try the DirectX 9 tip, hope that will help

 

[Voltagetweak]

The game still crashes a lot..
Even with forced DirectX 9...

And that makes me sad.

-Voltage