I was lucky so far but you’re not the only one complaining.
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Lag spikes every 1-4 minutes for almost everyone, irrespective of single player or multiplayer and whatever hardware/software you have. No idea why they release such patches every time with such major bugs that can easily be detected by playing a single game. Honestly finding hard to enjoy this game.
4 Likes
I haven’t tried in single player but in all the MP games I’ve played so far I experienced that freezing.
I just saw Liereyy complaining about that very issue in his stream.
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Seems a global issue. T90 just said it in his stream too. For sure the devs already know this and hopefully will come up with a hotfix.
Also elo calculations seems broken sometimes. Winning a game and losing elo, while loosing a game and winning elo… It happens for example to Lierrey according T90.
5 Likes
This bug is sooo bad. Wow. All of the other fixes are fine but this lag issue is horrible. So bad. Idk whats going on.
3 Likes
In my case really bad in some matches, barely noticable in others. No idea on what it actually depends.
4 Likes
The devs just said they know about the issue and trying to fix
6 Likes
Indeed, it’s really bad 
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i know it doesnt help yall, but my games so far have actually been better than previously, i used to have an opponent with yellow clock every 2nd match, nothing so far today. so althought it seems to be nailing yall, at least it isnt everyone (i know this doesnt help, sorry its bad)
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Same for me, I tried to reinstall the game, but it won’t resolve that issue…
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This time i even got disconnection messages in the ingame chat during a small freeze. Never happened before with other freezes.
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Same here, lots of small freezings during game. I am on Steam also.
Same problem here, the game freezes for a couple of frames every minute or so, making it unplayable.
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Same issue here in Single Player.
System Information
Time of this report: 7/22/2020, 12:48:29
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 18363) (18362.19h1_release.190318-1202)
Language: Polish (Regional Setting: Polish)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: 7601 (type: UEFI)
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core Processor (16 CPUs), ~3.6GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 32698MB RAM
Page File: 9739MB used, 27821MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
DirectX Database Version: Unknown
DxDiag Version: 10.00.18362.0387 64bit Unicode
DxDiag Notes
Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
Sound Tab 3: No problems found.
Sound Tab 4: No problems found.
Sound Tab 5: No problems found.
Sound Tab 6: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.
DirectX Debug Levels
Direct3D: 0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)
Display Devices
Card name: Radeon RX Vega
Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Chip type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x687F)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Type: Full Device (POST)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F&SUBSYS_0B361002&REV_C0
Device Status: 0180200A [DN_DRIVER_LOADED|DN_STARTED|DN_DISABLEABLE|DN_NT_ENUMERATOR|DN_NT_DRIVER]
Device Problem Code: No Problem
Driver Problem Code: Unknown
Display Memory: 24468 MB
Dedicated Memory: 8119 MB
Shared Memory: 16348 MB
Current Mode: 2560 x 1440 (32 bit) (144Hz)
HDR Support: Not Supported
Display Topology: Internal
Display Color Space: DXGI_COLOR_SPACE_RGB_FULL_G22_NONE_P709
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Output Type: Displayport External
Monitor Capabilities: HDR Not Supported
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Advanced Color: Not Supported
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Driver Version: 27.20.2001.9003
DDI Version: 12
Feature Levels: 12_1,12_0,11_1,11_0,10_1,10_0,9_3,9_2,9_1
Driver Model: WDDM 2.6
Graphics Preemption: Primitive
Compute Preemption: DMA
Miracast: Not Supported by Graphics driver
Detachable GPU: No
Hybrid Graphics GPU: Not Supported
Power P-states: Not Supported
Virtualization: Paravirtualization
Block List: No Blocks
Catalog Attributes: Universal:False Declarative:False
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 11.07.2020 02:00:00, 1959776 bytes
WHQL Logo’d: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp: Unknown
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Rank Of Driver: 00D12000
Video Accel: Unknown
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Deinterlace Caps: n/a
D3D9 Overlay: Not Supported
DXVA-HD: Not Supported
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled
MPO MaxPlanes: 1
MPO Caps: Not Supported
MPO Stretch: Not Supported
MPO Media Hints: Not Supported
MPO Formats: Not Supported
PanelFitter Caps: Not Supported
PanelFitter Stretch: Not Supported
Sound Devices
Description: Speakers (Logitech Wireless Headset)
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: No
Hardware ID: USB\VID_046D&PID_0A29&REV_7657&MI_00
Manufacturer ID: 65535
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Type: WDM
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WHQL Logo’d: Yes
Date and Size: 18.03.2019 00:00:00, 198656 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Microsoft
HW Accel Level: Basic
Cap Flags: 0xF1F
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HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX™ 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2™ Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura™ ZoomFX™: No
Description: Speakers (Steam Streaming Microphone)
Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No
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Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo’d: Yes
Date and Size: 28.07.2017 00:00:00, 40736 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Valve Corporation
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Cap Flags: 0xF1F
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Voice Management: No
EAX™ 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2™ Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura™ ZoomFX™: No
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Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No
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WHQL Logo’d: Yes
Date and Size: 27.11.2018 00:00:00, 6486608 bytes
Other Files:
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Cap Flags: 0xF1F
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Default Voice Playback: No
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Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo’d: Yes
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Other Files:
Driver Provider: Valve Corporation
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Voice Management: No
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I3DL2™ Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura™ ZoomFX™: No
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Default Sound Playback: No
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Type: WDM
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WHQL Logo’d: Yes
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Voice Management: No
EAX™ 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2™ Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura™ ZoomFX™: No
Description: Speakers (2- Realtek High Definition Audio)
Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No
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WHQL Logo’d: Yes
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Voice Management: No
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I3DL2™ Listen/Src: No, No
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Sound Capture Devices
Description: Microphone (Orbit/Sphere AF)
Default Sound Capture: Yes
Default Voice Capture: Yes
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Default Voice Capture: No
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Driver Version: ()
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
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1 Like
To add my experience, I tried the Art of War Fast Castle challenge a few times last night with both the Steam and the MS Store versions of the game. I had the small freezes with the Steam version but not the MS Store version. However, it does seem to get worse the longer the game has been running, and I played the Steam version first, only switching to the MS Store version when I started getting the freezes. I didn’t play the MS Store version for as long, so can’t be completely sure that it wouldn’t start having the same problem if I played it for longer.
Edit: to add to the above, I’ve since played the MS Store version for several hours without getting a single small freeze.
3 Likes
I’m getting the micro-freezes as well as lost connection to server…
I still can’t believe this game has so many netcode bugs. And of course people are still constantly disconnecting.
This game is unplayable, which is a shame because in every other respect the July patch was very good.
What on earth causes issues like this? Did someone at Forgotten Empires accidentally spill their coffee onto the server???
5 Likes
Same here. I downloaded the new patch last night on steam and stuttering and freezes are unbearable
2 Likes
I get a lot of freezes as well, sometimes this even destroys my PC completely (no task manager, no reaction at all, have to reboot…). I most often see this whenever a trigger is activated. So i crashed in the new singleplayerevent (Mongol Raiders) after I took down the first castle, with the last hit game crashed. Then I had a game where it was gg, and one guy send all his vills into a castle, as the last one died my PC crashed (I think there is some kind of trigger that tells us that he is defeated…). Later I also faced a huge lag spike when I converted a sheep (like 3 min into the game… so no long game…)
I do not know why this happens, but for me it seems that most times I get the lags/crashes some triggers were activated.
Nevertheless: I love the AoE2 games (for more than half my life now…), but tbh: I would not recommend this to any friend, because it is just a lottery if you can play or not…
2 Likes
I’m having the same problem here. The game was normal before the new patch. I even lowered the graphics to see if this bug came out, but it keeps stuttering
1 Like
I have the same problem. Steam version too.
1 Like