Game Engine pausing

[Fascore]

I have been playing DDO on my current computer for about 6 months with no difficulties. The computer is a ROG STRIX rig with plenty of power, memory and a SSD drive. I have high speed internet over Fiber (1.5 GBs) and my machine is plugged into ethernet directly. I can play DDO with the highest graphic settings. I logged in after maintenance a couple of weeks ago and I am now experiencing game freezes about every minute or so. As far as I can tell, nothing was updated on my computer before this issue started (no Windows updates, no updated video drivers, no changes to firewall, no changes to AV/malware). I haven't seen the behavior described elsewhere on the forums or online. The game engine, including music, will pause for about 2-4 seconds about every minute or so. Play pauses for me but the game world keeps going and I will continue to take damage in combat. It's fairly consistent with regards to timing. I have been through a couple troubleshooting checklists but with no success. It almost seems that there is a process/check/poll that runs every minute or so that interferes with the game. But I don't understand what has changed to make this happen. The only thing I can think of is the day before I had trouble with my USB webcam during a videoconference call. I quit the browser and unplugged the camera. Once I plugged the camera back in and restarted the browser, the videoconference worked fine. I read on the troubleshooting lists that USB devices can cause lag. To troubleshoot this issue, I unplugged my USB devices (camera & headset) and I removed the devices from my Device Manager list (I used the reveal hidden devices to be able to remove them while they were unplugged). The USB devices work fine but the game freezes are still happening

Anyone else experience this issue and have any advice on how to fix it. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Fascore]

And as mysteriously as it appeared, it disappeared ... sigh!

 

[Spikkel]

The way I would start troubleshooting:

put on a second screen
open some system monitoring tools,
sort processes so highest cpu is on top
then look for things that read/write on your ssd (IOPS) sort that on top (this is a 2nd test)
memory is rarely a problem

when the hickup happens, look which processes are using a lot of resources at that moment

 

[imhoteprises]

I have been playing DDO on my current computer for about 6 months with no difficulties. The computer is a ROG STRIX rig with plenty of power, memory and a SSD drive. I have high speed internet over Fiber (1.5 GBs) and my machine is plugged into ethernet directly. I can play DDO with the highest graphic settings. I logged in after maintenance a couple of weeks ago and I am now experiencing game freezes about every minute or so. As far as I can tell, nothing was updated on my computer before this issue started (no Windows updates, no updated video drivers, no changes to firewall, no changes to AV/malware). I haven't seen the behavior described elsewhere on the forums or online. The game engine, including music, will pause for about 2-4 seconds about every minute or so. Play pauses for me but the game world keeps going and I will continue to take damage in combat. It's fairly consistent with regards to timing. I have been through a couple troubleshooting checklists but with no success. It almost seems that there is a process/check/poll that runs every minute or so that interferes with the game. But I don't understand what has changed to make this happen. The only thing I can think of is the day before I had trouble with my USB webcam during a videoconference call. I quit the browser and unplugged the camera. Once I plugged the camera back in and restarted the browser, the videoconference worked fine. I read on the troubleshooting lists that USB devices can cause lag. To troubleshoot this issue, I unplugged my USB devices (camera & headset) and I removed the devices from my Device Manager list (I used the reveal hidden devices to be able to remove them while they were unplugged). The USB devices work fine but the game freezes are still happening

Anyone else experience this issue and have any advice on how to fix it. Any help would be appreciated.

July 17th to Aug 11th we are in mercury Retrograde Electronics and communications will be a default, the Devs Don't study the stars well enough to make an accurate choice for the business since the choice was made right around the beginning of the planetary alignment.

 

[Fascore]

I have been playing DDO on my current computer for about 6 months with no difficulties. The computer is a ROG STRIX rig with plenty of power, memory and a SSD drive. I have high speed internet over Fiber (1.5 GBs) and my machine is plugged into ethernet directly. I can play DDO with the highest graphic settings. I logged in after maintenance a couple of weeks ago and I am now experiencing game freezes about every minute or so. As far as I can tell, nothing was updated on my computer before this issue started (no Windows updates, no updated video drivers, no changes to firewall, no changes to AV/malware). I haven't seen the behavior described elsewhere on the forums or online. The game engine, including music, will pause for about 2-4 seconds about every minute or so. Play pauses for me but the game world keeps going and I will continue to take damage in combat. It's fairly consistent with regards to timing. I have been through a couple troubleshooting checklists but with no success. It almost seems that there is a process/check/poll that runs every minute or so that interferes with the game. But I don't understand what has changed to make this happen. The only thing I can think of is the day before I had trouble with my USB webcam during a videoconference call. I quit the browser and unplugged the camera. Once I plugged the camera back in and restarted the browser, the videoconference worked fine. I read on the troubleshooting lists that USB devices can cause lag. To troubleshoot this issue, I unplugged my USB devices (camera & headset) and I removed the devices from my Device Manager list (I used the reveal hidden devices to be able to remove them while they were unplugged). The USB devices work fine but the game freezes are still happening

Anyone else experience this issue and have any advice on how to fix it. Any help would be appreciated.

And over a year later, it has started to happen again. I almost 'bricked' my computer last time trying to figure this out (Thanks Microsoft for F'ing with Safe Mode and attempting to roll back video drivers). Hopefully it disappears magically like it did last time. Sigh!