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Intermittent, brief game freezes
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Description

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Game Version number: 1.2.1.169
Modded?: No (Yes/No)
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Issue Description: This bug has always existed, basically the game will briefly freeze EXACTLY as shown in the video, same symtoms each occurence. Notice how the audio seems to return before video, happens in some cases. The freezes are random and can happen with intervals of days or just hours, have not seen any pattern.

Details

Severity
Major
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Random
Operating System
Windows 10
Operating System Version
XBOX SERIES X
Category
General
Steps To Reproduce

Please include reproduction steps here!!!!
Unknown, play and hope it happens sometime I suppose.

Additional Information

Does not happen to everyone at the same time.
My friends do not freeze when I freeze, for example. We could individually freeze a few hours later or earlier than each other, it is extremely random.

Event Timeline

Better video

Geez changed the task status from New to Awaiting internal Testing.Dec 17 2024, 9:14 PM
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byNautiic updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 12 2025, 1:27 AM
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byNautiic added a comment.EditedMar 8 2025, 3:12 PM

Happens in Xbox experimental 1.3.0.102 too, but can sometimes lead to full dashboard crashes

Happens very often on 128p stress test servers

byNautiic renamed this task from Very intermittent, brief game freezes to Intermittent, brief game freezes.Mar 29 2025, 6:18 PM
byNautiic changed Severity from Minor to Major.

Bump. Playing on 1.3 stable, I freeze every 20 seconds, eventually leads to a crash.
Completely unplayable.
I've tried swapping from Quality (30)fps to Performance (60)fps, nothing changes.

Bump. Playing on 1.3 stable, I freeze every 20 seconds, eventually leads to a crash.
Completely unplayable.
I've tried swapping from Quality (30)fps to Performance (60)fps, nothing changes.

Mine aren't that frequent. Tried clearing cache?

Bump. Playing on 1.3 stable, I freeze every 20 seconds, eventually leads to a crash.
Completely unplayable.
I've tried swapping from Quality (30)fps to Performance (60)fps, nothing changes.

Mine aren't that frequent. Tried clearing cache?

Yes, I have tried clearing cache before restarting the game, they always come back. I got about 2 and a half hours of playtime from 20:00 (8PM), it was full of game freezes, and ended up in a crash, I came to the site to make a report but saw you had made one.
I planned on uploading a clip as well but my Xbox failed to record last 45sec before the crash.

Bump. Playing on 1.3 stable, I freeze every 20 seconds, eventually leads to a crash.
Completely unplayable.
I've tried swapping from Quality (30)fps to Performance (60)fps, nothing changes.

Mine aren't that frequent. Tried clearing cache?

Yes, I have tried clearing cache before restarting the game, they always come back. I got about 2 and a half hours of playtime from 20:00 (8PM), it was full of game freezes, and ended up in a crash, I came to the site to make a report but saw you had made one.
I planned on uploading a clip as well but my Xbox failed to record last 45sec before the crash.

Ok, I see. Are you on Series X or S? I'd imagine S struggles even more.

Series S, I suffer a lot this 1.3 stable update, 1.2.1 introduced very few freezes, the hotfixes added more and more, 1.3 exp was the same as 1.2.1 but 1.3 stable just freezes so so much.

Series S, I suffer a lot this 1.3 stable update, 1.2.1 introduced very few freezes, the hotfixes added more and more, 1.3 exp was the same as 1.2.1 but 1.3 stable just freezes so so much.

That makes more sense then.
I hope something can be done about it.
I was not getting this amount of freezes on exp either.

I agree, something has to be done because playing like this is very very difficult. Often times it happens exactly when you don't want it to happen, like piloting a helicopter, active gunfight, clutch play, so on. like me once when I was eyeing down an enemy infantry in a jeep driving my way, once I was ready to shoot my game froze 3 times, it pissed me off so much.

Anyhow I have scoured up 3 videos where this game freezing happens, question is if I have permission to upload them here.

I agree, something has to be done because playing like this is very very difficult. Often times it happens exactly when you don't want it to happen, like piloting a helicopter, active gunfight, clutch play, so on. like me once when I was eyeing down an enemy infantry in a jeep driving my way, once I was ready to shoot my game froze 3 times, it pissed me off so much.

Anyhow I have scoured up 3 videos where this game freezing happens, question is if I have permission to upload them here.

Sure, I don't see why not. I haven't needed any special permission :)

Click on the cloud symbol with an arrow to upload it

Here's a video where I froze 3 times in a row.

Video where I freeze twice.

Alan101 added a comment.EditedMar 31 2025, 10:54 PM

Video where I freeze once.

First video seems to have audio desync, that's an xbox problem when you push your luck with recording last 60 seconds I think.

There's more videos I haven't cut yet but you get the gist, it's horrible.

Today at 5:10PM, my game managed to freeze 13 times within a minute, there was nothing crazy going on either, my 13th freeze happened when I was face to face with an enemy player.
This. Is. Straight. Up. Unplayable.

My game froze and crashed this morning, 0646, 5 April 2024, Seattle, WA.time. I am on Xbox One, which has been doing this frequently, at least the freezing up part. I had a good ping, my download speed is 1260Mbps and upload is 669 Mbps, so I know that was not the issue, unless it changed while playing and I didn't notice. I died twice in a game yesterday while driving. It is becoming very annoying as I have enjoyed playing the game. I recently purchased the game within the last few months. As a Dayz fan, I thought I would try this. Please fix it.

Alan101 added a comment.EditedThu, Apr 10, 4:46 PM

Today with the newest Arma Reforger stable update, I have encountered 4 consecutive game crashes, I managed to save videos, 3 videos spliced into one video, wonderful fix, I HOPE that something in this video reveals something because these game freezes and crashes are getting repetitive and annoying, no matter what server, where I am, what I do, they'll always happen. This update though introduced more crashes than freezes, I get about 3 freezes and then on the 4th I crash. The 6 second clip of my screen being frozen is right before the crash happens.

Alan101 added a comment.EditedSun, Apr 13, 5:23 PM

Ohhh you guys are gonna love this, ab so lute ly unplayable.

THE WHOLE VIDEO is just a picture!
My game freezes went from basic 5sec freezes to a whopping 10 seconds to a whopping 30 seconds.
Also happens to me in official vanilla servers, it's more frequent for me now and crashes more often.
My console is completely CHILLING, not even hot, fans are quiet.

Alan101 added a comment.EditedThu, Apr 17, 9:06 PM

As of the newest update, my gameplay has been A BIT MORE stable, the game freezes happen less but still happen, whatever y'all did is going the right direction, haven't crashed once, yet, it will happen eventually that I'm sure of.

Edited on April 18th 7:45PM GMT+2
Scratch that about happening less, still the same amount of freezes and crashes.

Today on April 19th, 9PM, I have frozen 5 times upon joining in a server, then crashed, I had the chance to join back and took it, just to freeze again ONCE and then game crashed again.
Time to wait for next patch.

Alan101 added a comment.EditedSat, Apr 26, 5:16 PM

Uploading 3 videos in chronological order where a crash happens.
Bottom is first, top is last
Forgot to add context; these 3 videos (the first 2 are actually one but Xbox recording is horrible sometimes) show game crashes that happened within 10 minutes of each other, first I crash while overlooking the forest and the road, I restart my game and rejoin and run somewhere else, just to crash again as I was trying to type in chat.