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Frequent game freeze: Both Steam and Epic versions of Dead by Daylight (PC-hardware independent)

SoraKagami
SoraKagami Member Posts: 5
edited October 2023 in Bug Reporting

To Reproduce:

  1. Start Dead by Daylight, preferably a steam version of DbD (significantly worse there). The older the hardware setup, the more obvious these freezes are.
  2. Play for a few rounds.
  3. Note the small 0.5s/1s freezes that happens during play.

Hardware for the two systems that had these freezes:

  • PC 1 (Laptop): Alienware 13 R3: Intel i7-6700HQ, 32GB RAM, NVIDIA GTX 1060, SSD, Windows 10 x64 v1703 Build 15063.786. Primarily plays from Southern California.
  • PC 2 (Custom PC): AMD Ryzen 9 5950x, 96GB RAM, NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti (driver v537.42), Intel 660p 2TB SSD (OS + install), Windows 10 Pro x64 21H1 Build 19043.1165. Connected to DbD from Asia.

Frequency of freezes:

  • PC 1, Steam: typically at least once every 2 rounds, lasting ~0.5-1s. Started happening within the last year.
  • PC 1, Epic: Infrequent, did not happen 2-4 DbD patches ago.
  • PC 2, Steam: Once every few rounds, started happening within the last year.
  • PC 2, Epic: Once every few rounds starting from 2-4 DbD patches ago, lasting ~200-500ms. Used to be freeze-free.

Additional Information:

  • The freezing affects steam significantly more and worse than Epic versions.
  • These freezes used to only affect steam versions of DbD, up until the last 2-4 patches in which it started to happen on Epic clients too.
  • Two different hardware setups were tested at two different locations (two different countries). 4 different accounts were tested (2 epic, 2 steam).
  • Different survivors were tested (Feng, Kate, Mikaela, Claudette), no difference to frequency of freezing. Unsure if team composition mattered, there were typically at least one Feng in party but unlikely to be related to the freezing.
  • Antivirus: Windows Defender on/off.
  • Killer was not tested.
  • Perks: any perk, doesn't matter.
  • Frequency: Typically at least once a match for steam, usually multiple freezes. For Epic DbD, much less frequent, maybe once every few matches.
  • Map: any/all.
  • For players with older PCs (i.e. PC 1), the freezing will be more pronouced, to the point that they will freeze for around a second and rubber-band back to their previous location a second ago (even from a spectator's view). The freezes on PC 2 are short (~200-500ms).

Logs:

Taken from PC 1 with the most freezes (steam version).

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  • SoraKagami
    SoraKagami Member Posts: 5

    Please let me know if the log did not attach properly. I did not see a progress bar and the log file is >10MB.

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