Originally Posted by sndwav
Interesting. Me and my friend were experiencing a similar issue - every 1 to 10 minutes, the game would freeze for 5 seconds and then resume.

He is on an SSD and I'm not. We didn't check the hard-drives, but we did notice that when we experience a freeze, the CPU would jump up to 100% and the GPU down to 0%.

I believe the issue started since hotfix #3.

Yesterday we managed to fix the freezing by disabling the Steam overlay for the game, and setting the exe files to 'run as administrator'.

I opened a thread about it here just a short while ago: http://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=701410#Post701410

Might be worth trying.

Best of luck!


The plot thickens.

I'm using GOG, not Steam, and since there is this bug that prevents many users from launching the game from GOG or Steam, I have to start the executable directly with admin rights (bg3_11.exe) plus a few other cantrips such as drawing a pentagram, praying and lighting candles. But even without the extra Steam/Galaxy layers, I still get those frequent freezes. So if you don't have them anymore, it means there must be different reason for them, the Steam overlay but also other causes.