I am playing on Steam, the game is installed on an SSD.
Since the Season 11 update dropped, I have been having an issue where the game will freeze about three-to-ten minutes into the first Brig or Galleon session I play after starting the game. It will last until I disconnect, which can sometimes happen within one or two minutes, and other times will last 5-10 minutes, but has yet to last the full Lazybeard time-out window. After it disconnects, it gives me the option to rejoin. And whether I do or just join a new session, I am safe from that point onwards until the next time I start the game.
Other Details I've Noticed:
- This has yet to occur during a Sloop session
- This seems to not occur in solo sessions, regardless of ship size
- It has not occurred during my current session (presently solo, Galleon at the time of typing)
I initially thought it was a crashing issue, specifically the widespread crashing issues that came along after the GDK updates and the base Season 11 update, I would just task-close the game when it happened, not realising it would eventually unfreeze upon a disconnect. But it persisted after the hotfix was distributed. I eventually stumbled upon a reddit post stating that the freezing was essentially the game trying to scan its entire codebase, all ~100GB of it. And that I needed to let it run until I got disconnected, after which it would permanently go away. I can say that waiting the freeze out allows the game to run perfectly fine for the rest of the instance. But once the game is closed out of and re-opened, it would eventually freeze up once more during the first Gally or Brig session.
