Submit any bugs or issues you've encountered while playing Northgard.

FPS drop/ lag mid late game

Conquest Since Stoat release game stutters and slows towards mid/late game. Win 10 Both Yes, all conquest
Suggested by: Howl (11 Sep, '23) Upvoted: 19 Jan Comments: 3

Out of memory

When selecting the game settings (difficulty, clan, etc.), it gives an error at launch: D:\Projects\zdev-archive\hashlink\src\gc.c(410) This happens way too ...
Suggested by: Anastasiia (24 Aug, '24) Upvoted: 13 Jan Comments: 4

Game freezes when i click on anything new and even when i just sitting without any actions

Game freezes when i click on anything new and even when i just sitting without any actions in menu. Yesterday was without any problems, so i dont know what ...
Suggested by: Iskander (09 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 18 Feb Comments: 2

[Owl Clan] Stutters occur when playing with the Owl clan

Even before the 'Trade and Prestige' update came out, I noticed that in the game with the Owl clan (you play for the clan or your ally), stutters start to appear over ...
Suggested by: Varcklen (14 Dec, '24) Upvoted: 14 Jan Comments: 0

Snake Scorched Earth lagging

1 dedicated server/ conquest 2 win 10 3 any 4 signy burn any area all of player in lobby got screen freez for 1-2 sec and another screnn freez when it end. 5 - ...
Suggested by: Alexandr Medvedyuk (11 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 08 Apr Comments: 8

Mid-late game unplayable

During mid-late game when my population is 50+, the game begins to lag in certain ways. The menu is completely fine, system is not stressed at all, but in game all ...
Suggested by: Lobbity (16 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 10 Jan Comments: 1

Memory Leak and Freeze During Cataclysm Conquest

Game freezes during cataclysm conquest for both host and guest player. Intermittent sound once every minute. Task manager shows memory leak.
Suggested by: Anomaly (27 Sep, '24) Upvoted: 08 Mar, '25 Comments: 0

Frequent freezes and lags (2-3 times in 1 game)

I get freezes in game for almost 2 weeks now, happened only in Northgard so far. The Internet is working at the time of freeze. Villagers are running on the place at ...
Suggested by: Magnus (RLX) (08 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 07 Oct, '24 Comments: 0

Multiplayer Conquest mode has been unplayable since the "Definitive Edition" update

We have had so many issues trying to play multiplayer conquests ever since the definitive edition dropped. First, any conquest we started with one of us playing the ...
Suggested by: Tats (29 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 18 Jan Comments: 2

Game Freezing during single player custom conquest game

This is a new issue as of this past week. My game never froze before the latest update. I don't run mods. I play as clan of the raven every time. No clue what is ...
Suggested by: KingLemonVT (09 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 20 Dec, '25 Comments: 1

screen freeze

plz fix the bug for 4090 graphics card。everytime i play will freeze screen,but game and music still working。
Suggested by: Noah (12 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 23 Dec, '25 Comments: 0

Render freezes and memory leaks (specifically in Solo Conquest)

I'm getting an error popup in-game and one of two things happens 1-) Game completely freezes rendering, but it doesn't immediately crash. You can hear game sounds, ...
Suggested by: Paradox84 (29 Apr, '25) Upvoted: 22 Dec, '25 Comments: 4

catastrophic performance degradataion

This game has a serious performance problem and nothing is done about it. It slows down in multi player after about 10 minutes and gets slower and slower. In the end ...
Suggested by: A.Dent (17 May, '24) Upvoted: 10 Jan Comments: 1

Multiplayer Conquest does not work, screen frozen

Multiplayer conquest, Goat and Horse. The very first game of the conquest, got almost to the end of it, got a pop up saying the game "might become unstable", then ...
Suggested by: Tats (01 Jan) Upvoted: 14 Jan Comments: 0

FPS Drops

This game becomes practically unplayable for me on Bifrost – the FPS drops to around 5–10. My system specs: GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti TUF CPU: Intel ...
Suggested by: DeepSetup (03 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 09 Dec, '25 Comments: 0

Bifrost Muspelheim freeze is back

Other ticket is marked "Fixed," but muspelheim is still broken. Solo/p2p bifrost mode. Direct X, windows 10 Ive tried numerous times today to play muspelheim in ...
Suggested by: Curanthir (13 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 12 Jan Comments: 1

Periodic micro-freezes every ~5 seconds, even in main menu (Windows, NVIDIA)

Northgard has periodic micro-freezes about every ~5 seconds, even when idle in the main menu. Each freeze is brief but repeats indefinitely and also persists in ...
Suggested by: FRIMOR (17 Jan) Upvoted: 02 Feb Comments: 0

Dec 18 update

After Dec 18 update the game breaks completely: – simulation stops (resources don’t generate, tiles aren’t conquered) – fullscreen issues on main monitor – saving ...
Suggested by: Jon Bogevik (28 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 09 Jan Comments: 0

I am experiencing high memory RAM usage and game freezes.

During a multiplayer game with my girlfriend in conquest mode (she's playing as the Snake Clan and I’m playing as the Hippogriff Clan), the game freezes at certain ...
Suggested by: Pablitos (24 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 07 Jan Comments: 0

Lags when moving the camera away

Regardless of the map size, if you zoom out and start moving when most of the map is explored, the game starts to lag a lot. Villagers may not respond to orders. I ...
Suggested by: Kometes* (09 Jul, '25) Upvoted: 10 Jan Comments: 0

Solo conquest game freeze and loaded save performance issues/stuttering

I encounter random freezing during solo domination games, all unmodded, and it's all since the most recent patch that added the owl clan. The freezing is ...
Suggested by: KingLemonVT (19 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 19 Dec, '23 Comments: 5

Single Player "disconnected" message stopping gameplay

Hello, I'm taking umbrage at this latest update because now its canceling me out of single player games. I'm playing single player, then I get a notice that my ...
Suggested by: Britt (25 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 25 Dec, '25 Comments: 1

Game freezes when it connects to online service

Works perfectly fine in ofline mode but the moment it connects to online and gets my rank/ trys to get my rank it freezes continually, usually for a few seconds up ...
Suggested by: Tomas (13 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 13 Jun, '25 Comments: 1
Investigating Performances

Cross of Vidar Ch 10: Unplayable

Mission starts and I’m looking at my town hall on a small island. Game is frozen, not able to do anything. Eventually, game unfreezes and I have the objectives: ...
Suggested by: Bedlam (24 Feb, '24) Upvoted: 24 Feb, '24 Comments: 1

game freezing and crushing

this pathetic game can't even run a main menu without lags. directx or opengl, no matter, its just cant operate on 5070ti and Ryzen 7 7800X3D its lagging on rus and ...
Suggested by: antosha (10 Jan) Upvoted: 10 Jan Comments: 0

Many user modes do not work in Windows.

When I try to launch Conquest, it freezes and completely kicks me out. When I try to launch Bifrost, the game shows a loading screen, while other users are kicked ...
Suggested by: Nikita (01 Jan) Upvoted: 01 Jan Comments: 0

Targeting? Tower/ Zone. FPS loss / Lagg

Playing Snake-clan. Burning zones without issues. But when i try to (sometimes, more often than not) to burn a Zone with MORE than 2 specialization (Double Food + ...
Suggested by: Nievah (30 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 30 Dec, '25 Comments: 0

Never-ending unplayable stutters

Game constantly freezes for several seconds even in main menu, absolutely unplayable. Problem didn't exist before recent patches.
Suggested by: M (18 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 18 Dec, '25 Comments: 0

Stuttering with high fps + low system usage

I've noticed that the game tends to struggle, even early game when theres not much happening. Tried changing all the graphics settings, but i tend to sit around ...
Suggested by: B (07 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 07 Dec, '25 Comments: 0

Goat conquest : volcano, enemy chaman dying on lava land crashes game

Chaman from Rat clan fleeing my army into his territory covered by lava, stops then starts healing. If the chaman is healing as he's dying, the game freezes, Ram ...
Suggested by: Raiden27 (19 Jul, '25) Upvoted: 19 Jul, '25 Comments: 0

Slow performance in later stages of game since "Trade & Prestige" update

Since updating to this new version, performance in the single player custom game is woeful in the later stages in terms of jerkiness and screen lag and everything ...
Suggested by: Rob (24 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 24 Feb, '25 Comments: 0

Me or a friend lags - moonwalking

During several duo conquests with different friends me or a friend often (at least once per game) have lag when we see all units animations but at their places. It ...
Suggested by: Ivan (11 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 11 Feb, '25 Comments: 0

Game Freezes up when Selecting Military Building

I've been having this problem consistently since I first started playing a few months back: The game will suddenly freeze up when I select any military building. ...
Suggested by: The Debauchery (09 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 09 Feb, '25 Comments: 0

Bifrost performance issues

running into performance issues on the game in bifrost with 4 players. it gets really really bad in nilfhiem during the winters. the particle effects get atrocious ...
Suggested by: BakaWisdom (07 Oct, '24) Upvoted: 07 Oct, '24 Comments: 0

Titanomachy crash

Playing it as dog clan, at some point in the game the ai does something and the game crashes. Restarted twice and same thing, I heard a new explored area noise (not ...
Suggested by: Chaos (31 May, '24) Upvoted: 31 May, '24 Comments: 0

Map Creator Keeps Crashing

Whenever I enter map creator and do 1 or 2 things the game freezes, doesn't matter what or how I'm doing in creator it just keeps freezing and wont' respond. My ...
Suggested by: Alma (02 Jan, '24) Upvoted: 02 Jan, '24 Comments: 0