Game freezing

  • Just wanted to report a problem I encountered, spent an hour and a half with three friendly Spaniards (in UK myself) only for game to freeze with 6 chests aboard our ship. Now it did not freeze completely, sound continued to play, almost felt like a desync where after 10minutes of frozen screen my character would teleport and I would get a glimpse of my crews audio. After waiting 45 minutes on frozen screens to see if it would resync, no luck and all my progress for the day was lost and was actually down in gold as I bought the map. Hugely, hugely frustrating, I can understand this is the beta, but if something like this were to persist into full release where you played for an hour(or more) only for the game to break and no progress be made you’d be disenfranchising people from the get go.

    I’m not really one for public criticism but I really felt inclined to write this as I love this game so far, I can’t remember a title in recent years that oozed so much charm and emboldened my imagination like this one, and it’s with this affection I write this as I want this game to do well. I know you will be looking into this and a myriad of bugs before release but I had to say a word to raise awareness for a potential problem that would cause any sane gamer to think twice, a unique game like this must bring unique problems in design and development but I fear for a lack of stability at launch and how this could impact the potential community.

    Kind regards,
    some bloke on his Xbox

    TLDR fix losing an afternoons/day progress before launch please

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  • @squattinghobo

    Same...

  • This is a bit of an old thread, but I'm experiencing the same issue now. I can play just fine, nice and smooth for a good solid 20-25 minutes, before I'm hit with the freezing. Has happened consistently since the maintenance earlier this morning.

  • Same Issue. Play an Hour.. maybe more or less and Game Freezed. idk why... Graphic Driver is up to date.

  • Same thing here ,lets me play for about an hour , then freezes. not able to join friends anymore (doesn give me the join option and i cant receive invites). Graphic drivers are updated

  • Same issue here with an AMD R380 Graphic Card 4Go RAM on one computer, the game freeze after a couple of minutes...
    My other computer seems to have no issues (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 TI 12Go RAM)

    Yesterday all was fine, no problem, but today after the update it crash 3 times, even after a reboot

  • @cptchadbeard420 and everyone else If you are using AMD you need to update to the optional drivers. It specifically mentions in the driver update that it fixes the freezing in sea of thieves. I did this update and it fixed this problem for me.

  • @drewsky1992 18.3.3 wont work

    i got an aswer from support with this link
    but i have no access to this link
    can someone screenshot pls ^^

    https://support.seaofthieves.com/hc/de/articles/360000490227-Troubleshoot-Experiencing-regular-crashes-during-gameplay-or-when-resizing-the-window

  • @kkl1ckk I'm running 18.3.2 with the R9 Series and it works fine.

  • I'm trying to check drivers but I don't understand what "optional drivers" are ? and I have the R9 380, so the same graphic card...

  • ok I found the optionnal drivers, but I will do step by step ^^ I was in 16.30.2311... so I have to update first ;)

  • It seems to be fixed with the latest driver 18.3.1 and graphics in ordinary... no freeeze for the moment

  • I just started having this problem since The Hungering Deep release. I’m playing on an Xbox One S, and after I play for about 4 or 5 hours my screen starts locking up and freezing on the same screen for 12 to 30 seconds. Typically starts happening when I’m browsing in the shops, and then continues as I resume playing the game.

  • It amazes me how you are all so geographically close but speak different languages.

  • Started experiencing "game lock ups" yesterday and it continues again today. Never had this issue before. It's intermittent and sometimes results in an almondbeard disconnect for some players. Definitely a server based issue and not a client one. Perhaps a GM response is necessary to at least acknowledging this is a known issue, and work is being done to resolve it.

  • This has been happening to me for over a week, and I'm getting to the point that it is discouraging me from playing the game.

  • Me always and since the begining, with some lag in hours and when we go outpost it crash, very awesome 😒 can't solo sloop because i'm too scare of it.. Or Lazybeard when you come into the Game ; after the loading... Etc..

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