Whether or not AI players are added, regardless of the number of in-game population, this issue will be reproduced.
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I have also encountered the same problem, perhaps we can try this method：Fix for Micro Stutters, Dropped Frames and Contant Freezes in Age of Empires 3 on Modern CPUs (8+ Cores / 16+ Threads)"
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Same problem here. The game just freezes for 10 or so seconds. Happens in both singleplayer and multiplayer. It is definetly not related to a high number of units, since it happens 30 to 40 seconds into the game.
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I’ve wrote a similar issue yesterday here, but no replies yet.
I’m not sure whether my issue is the same or related, but in my case, the game freezes and then pops up an error message which tells something about sprite. What is strange is it is about a random unit or object. The error message tells it may be due to mods, but I don’t have any mods activated.
Maybe your issue is also related to mine given that my case pops up error messages of “random units or objects all of sudden regardless of the civs” that are on the scenario.
My case was twice in the Into China scenario of the Genghis Khan campaign. On my own scenarios, there were no problems. This means maps with new civs make some troubles.
I hope your and my cases all to be fixed soon.
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Same for me. Happens even in single player 1v1, dark age, so definetely not related to unit number.
Also disabled Steam Cloud saving, disabled any mods or “usual suspect” overlays.
Edit: Also verified the game files via steam.
Maybe be the autosave/restore, but I’d need to test and time that in SP.
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This might be related to the maps. I have not had this issue on custom maps like tournament maps, rage forest an the like. However, on standard maps, this issue occurs even in single player skirmish.
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Can you give me a map name where you have not the problem ? because I can reproduce it for every game
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I had no issues so far on any of these maps:
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thanks, I will test tonight
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Same issue here, happens on different maps.
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For me, freeze happens right on start of Victors and Vanquished scenarios Ragnar and Xie An. I managed to play through whole Xie An and it froze at least two more times until the end.
However, it doesn’t seem consistent. It only hangs at the beginning of mentioned scenarios if I start any of the scenarios as soon as I start up the game. Resigning and re-playing scenario or re-starting it from Scenario Menu won’t make it hang. Not sure if I have to play long enough for it to happen.
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So same for me.
I did a test on RF 5 after 10 min no freeze
I switch to arabia, freeze after 1 min
Did a last test on RF 5 no problem
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I’ve tried it, but it doesn’t work
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It’s happening to me too. Freeze on single player and multipler, no matter 1vs1 or tg. Almost all games between minute 1 and 2, and others during the game.
I’ve tried the following with no positive result:
Deactivating mods.
Checking game files through integrity check.
Deactivating all the mods and reinstalling the game with no mods.
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Same here.
At first, I wanted to wait till the first hotfix. But now it happened while luring a boar…
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@YaguarSeptim might be right, could be a thing of map scripting.
I’m testing with custom maps, such as tourney maps and it’s not happening again.
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Does anybody have a workaround or any idea what causes this? It can obviously not affect all players, I didn’t see any pro streaming ranked games with freezes. Ranked is absolutely impossible for me in the current state.
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yes its exact same problem here, it occurs EVERY game, online or offline, this make online playing imposible because this thing make you lose the game.
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Do we have any confirmation that the devs are looking into a hotfix? Very frustrating to not be able to play the game I love but I’m afraid since only a few people have this issue that this won’t be fixed soon.
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I think this has an impact on a lot of players
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