Sound will cut out at random , which leads to a freeze, and crash. Never happened before newest penance update

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my current theories is that

  1. some ppl have issues with direct storage, can be number of reasons but one thing direct storage doesnt on SSD’s is caching files compared to previous file reader. In theory this should not be needed for an SSD so recommended is to have it off. Not sure if this is the cause or not.

  2. from most logs I can see there is alot of PSO’s being created so there is likely an issue here with 1.3.0 we changed version of the local cached version, which meant that we nuked that data. Same things happens if you update the gpu driver afaik. These stalls will be gone after a few missions. But the idea is that the shader cache should generate these for you before launching the game.

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So I tried experimental again, and added the line at the very top. Played one match, seemed there are no issues. But I do notice my fps dipping a bit much at times still. From 60 to 40, even when theres no real hordes around. Did the game maybe also get a graphical upgrade with the penance patch or something? I have however read about other people having fps issues after patch.

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Not that im aware of.

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This happens ALL the time to me and everyone i play with. (Xbox)

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Is this the same issue? Happened after playing 5 missions without anything. Just randomly crashed. Maybe a lot of things happening at once? I was casting venting shriek and crashed. Team had all veterans with lasguns.

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This happens to me every second or third map also now. Began some time after the Path of Redemption update. It starts with the game’s sound cutting off, then after a moment the game starts stuttering, with no sound during each stutter. It can be a while between them, or in rapid succession. I know my game will disconnect then, just don’t know when. Usually takes a few minutes. Guy I play with regularly never had it.

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This has been happening regularly since the penance update, despite the hotfixes. It is not a crash, but a freeze and drop from match. I have verified, reinstalled, and made the settings.ini edit, and it still happens. Putting the game down until this is patched.

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I think this is a crash inside our audio engine that should be fixed in a future update.

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is is likely a long stall in the gameplay code. I will add some more code to get more info from this, since i can’t see were in the code it’s stuck in atm.

The other stalls I saw could be due to PSO generation which we are aware of and planning a fix for.

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on xbox we don’t have the issue with pso’s atleast since we can precompute it.

So there is more than one issue causing issues.

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you can try the experimental branch and upload a log if you want us to take a look.

In the meantime Im trying to add so we can get better debug functionality like this in the default branch

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see

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Can Gamepass players access the experimental branch somehow?

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Its the general freezing and crashing. We don’t even get error codes it just freezes, kick you from the game, then you can reconnect instantly. From what ppl are saying on discord and ppl i play with its everyone in xbox suffering.

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I’m running experimental branch and while the audio doesn’t seem to drop out anymore, I still get freezes and eventual DCs.

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Following on from the comment above, Steam users may wish to switch to the experimental branch using the instructions here:

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my best guess (without being a network coder) is that if the stall is long enough you get disconnected.

we are still working on general performance issues such as this and improving our tools how to detect it in production.

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sadly not, i don’t know if msstore has similar functionality to have a beta branch.

The plan is to move most of the fixes to the main branch.

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can you see if this helps you? (this is on the default branch)

Potentially this might be required for xbox as well atm, if the issue is due to the same reason

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