Weird freeze- crash - need help

[Joenic2]

Hi everyone. I am not too sure where to post this as what is happening to me is at times a freeze and a crash. Since update 59 this is what is going on. When I play either in quests or in cities, suddenly my screen freezes like a screenshot of DDO. I can swing and walk and hear things in the background but it seems to be happening behind this screenshot. I can't click on anything. I can talk and tell people that I'm frozen and they hear me. Nothing seems to make it go away so I have to click on the "X" in top right corner to exit the game. I am sure I can get hit by mobs so I click out fast since now I'm playing HC at the moment. Sometimes it freezes then the game kicks me out almost immediately after the freeze like a crash. During a session it may never happen, occasionally happen or happen many times which is super annoying. It seems random. Is it on my end or something weird on DDO's part? Any one else experience this? Again, never happened before U59. I tried 64 bit, 32 bit, repair game data, make sure it uses my NVIDIA GeForce GTX960 and I lowered my in game system speed from very high to high and still froze/crashed. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[rabidfox]

Try turning your in-game sound setting to zero and see if it still happens; they've messed with the game's usage of OpenAL audio drivers a few times since Dread and it might be your issue. Turning the game's audio off will let you rule out if this is the cause.

 

[Joenic2]

Ok. I'll try that. Too bad if that is the issue as sound is pretty important. Well, just logged in game, turned sound off and froze almost immediately so I guess it is not a sound issue. :(