AC frozen for a second or so every now and then

[Tom]

• i7-3770
• 16GB RAM
• GTX970 OC
• AC installed on SSD

Lowering GFX quality doesn't solve the problem, all drivers are updated. Any ideas how to fix this, please? Doesn't happen in other games like F1 2017, Destiny 2, Heroes of the Storm and so on.

Thanks!

 

[Gevatter]

Do you use any GUI addons? Sometimes those can induce stutters, if you use too many or use outdated or shoddily made ones. Does it happen on any car/track, stock or mod?

 

[Insert Coin]

Using hardware monitoring tools (GPU in particular) can cause stutters. On the other hand you might have a heat problem, the CPU or GPU may downclock itself when it gets too hot. FYI: I'm using nVidia driver 388.31 without problems.

 

[Inouk]

• i7-3770
• 16GB RAM
• GTX970 OC
• AC installed on SSD

Lowering GFX quality doesn't solve the problem, all drivers are updated. Any ideas how to fix this, please? Doesn't happen in other games like F1 2017, Destiny 2, Heroes of the Storm and so on.

Thanks!

I have the same issue with AC and no other game.

 

[Armor666]

Same here,

Specs my pc:

• i7-3770
• 16GB RAM
• GTX1080
• AC installed on SSD

Happens on kunos AND mod tracks, pretty annoying when it happens in a corner.
Noticed that it happens mostly in big corners with lots of panning.

 

[Neilski]

Using hardware monitoring tools (GPU in particular) can cause stutters.

Yes, I've experienced this myself.
The last time it was happening, I traced it to SpeedFan (which is bloody useful so it was annoying to have to stop using it). I think it was the SMART data-gathering which screwed up the machine for a fraction of a second very now and then.

 

[Inouk]

Why only in Assetto Corsa?

 

[Tom]

Using hardware monitoring tools (GPU in particular) can cause stutters. On the other hand you might have a heat problem, the CPU or GPU may downclock itself when it gets too hot. FYI: I'm using nVidia driver 388.31 without problems.

Afterburner or not, it happens. Vanilla or not, it happens. Temps are fine, sadly in this case.

 

[guidofoc]

You can check this thread on the official forum on how to remove the third party apps. Sometimes an app or a combination of apps, maybe not correctly removed, can cause stuttering.
http://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/i...n-every-game-mod-condition.48309/#post-944374

 

[Rami]

Had this problem some while ago. Strange thing is that only solution I found was to ramp up graphics settings. For me it worked for some reason...

 

[Inouk]

We need a fix in the next update.

 

[Jim Liak]

Do you happen to experience this after the creators update?

 

[Inouk]

Yes. It's very random for me. Never at a good time.

 

[Armor666]

Thanks Guidofoc, that helped for me.

Unchecking some apps in content manager (not loading the apps) solved the problem for me. I disabled: AI_Line_Helper, Chat, Crewchief, f12016hud, gMeter. I am not sure which app caused the freezes. But in the future i'll enable them systematically to see which app causes the freezes.

 

[dud]

Yes, I've experienced this myself.
The last time it was happening, I traced it to SpeedFan (which is bloody useful so it was annoying to have to stop using it). I think it was the SMART data-gathering which screwed up the machine for a fraction of a second very now and then.

I think this stutter is a harddrive wait. Some disk block that is mapped but isn't resident yet is wanted but the disk is busy with something else. There might be write activity, which can make this very bad with consumer SATA SSDs. Popular candidates are Steam in the background and other autoupdate mechanisms.

Many (most?) harddrives go completely possum when you retrieve SMART info, you definitely don't want that.

If you have enough RAM then making the game resident by reading it from disk into nothing will help a lot.

 

[Inouk]

Thanks Guidofoc, that helped for me.

Unchecking some apps in content manager (not loading the apps) solved the problem for me. I disabled: AI_Line_Helper, Chat, Crewchief, f12016hud, gMeter. I am not sure which app caused the freezes. But in the future i'll enable them systematically to see which app causes the freezes.

Looks like that's the fix. So far so good after a few hours of driving.
Thanks for your help.

 

[Mr Deap]

Permanent fix suggered
https://i.imgur.com/nseCbmZ.jpg

 

[magzire]

Reinstall or try old or new graphics drivers

 

[Tom]

Actually, it seems that CrewChief left some files in other folders and deleting those helped in my case...so my vanilla was only 99.99% vanilla and that caused the issue.

Thanks everyone!