Game freezes on battles on Multiplayer.

131 votes

Game screen freezes, but it is still possible to hear the game in the background running like there is no issue. It is not a sound loop since we could hear new things happening.
Replicated this 3 times, crashed on the same place (the battle).

Game Type: Northgard, 1v1, Lynx VS Stag, All win victories enabled.
The battle was mainly, if not all, Stag Einherjars VS Lynx trackers and spirt beasts.

The first time this happened, the game was able to catch up after freezing, fast forwarding how long was needed. That game was Stag VS Snake Vs Ox.

IMO: Something on the AI of the STAG clan might be causing it.

I will try to get a replay or something.

Dev Noted Multiplayer Suggested by: Eduardo Preto (09 May, '22) • Upvoted: 16 Feb • Comments: 20

Comments: 20

29 Sep, '22
Erik Kubica
mine crashes/freezes even not battling. I just connecte to the game, after 2 minutes, it completely freezes.
20 Oct, '22
Rodney
the is an issue where after a while of build up in the game that the same thing described happens but its like the games UI stops everything cannot alt f4 or shift tab to steam. Its acting as if theres too many units or buildings in a region that freezes the UI and it locks that area as a freezing point. you can move to a different spot and the game then runs terrible. Feels like theres a unit count that the AI cannot handle. also to add all GPU's reported cold durring the instance. Also to add all CPU's in the lobby were cold so my assumption is AI. This bug happens on all multiplayer games does not matter what the seed of the map. All machines are running windows 10. It takes a 2 to 3 hour build up of multiple players in a map preferrably 8 doesnt matter if they're AI or not.
10 Jan, '23
Aldo
This just happened to me, the game froze while attacking Thor. The Valkyrie kept re spawning with ghost which i thought was weird but you the UI kept working but they wouldn't stop fighting everyone just fighting in place forever... the game froze for all players... once the enemy team left it counted as a victory which is messed up.. i won GP +34 cause of a freeze.

Players: Team 2v2
Game Mode: Northgard
Difficulty: Hard
Generation: Balanced
Team Grouping: Grouped
Game Type: Foothills
Clans: 4
Map Size: Medium
Victory Conditions: All
Time Played: 45 min.
Game Seed: 2025915194
Version: 3.0.10.30418
Server Name: Smebifa2862_6004_eu
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04 May, '23
Orion
Problem is still in game, Screen is frozen... but game carries on. You can hear everything going on in background.
IS it problem with AMD? direct?
25 Aug, '23
fabrice
I just had similar issue twice today. The game and music continue but screen goes completely blank. First noticed this from continuing a conquest map today that i had started 6 days ago. I saved, closed, restarted the game but same issue. I then completely restarted the map which seemed to work, until 15 mins in and the screen went black again! To note: when pausing using the escape key, the screen reappears and all actions taken when the screen was black seem to have occurred. Never had this issue before - my guess it's related to recent update.

1 - conquest
2 - Windows 11
3 - OpenGL
4 - see above
5 - described above
6 - I now can't get back into the game. Steam just says "stopping". Restarting does nothing.
7 - have it but don't know how to upload
26 Aug, '23
selroa
I've experienced the same problem lately. As far as I can remember, it started happening after the update. I play single player games on a small map. After a while, the screen freezes but you can still hear things happening in the game and if you pause the game using the escape key it shows things happening like a slideshow. From my experience, it happens no matter what clan I use and it usually happens right after I decolonize one of the enemy territories.

1 - solo
2 - windows 10
3 - directx
4 - no
5 - currently uploading as of the time of writing this. here link: https://youtu.be/1RPi4DqpOQo
6 - 979398675 (small)
7 - dunno how to upload
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26 Aug, '23
Artanu
I got the very same issue with Selroa and Fabrice above since yesterday. Since the update and new DLC. Screen freeze and the game sound still on and seems like running in background.
1. solo and conquest
2. windows 10
3. both DirectX and Open GL. Tried all, same issue.
4. no. It always occured when play solo or conquest at random time for me.
5. cannot take screenshot, screen freeze, game running, screenshot button does not work.
6. blank when I'm loading the game, cannot see the seed.
7. Have it, but do not know how to upload.
27 Aug, '23
Hannes Rathje
Same Problem since the last patch.
1 - Duo Conquest
2 - Windows 10 / Windows 11
3 - DirectX
4 - We played the first Conquest Mission 2 times. Both times the error happend. Happend in different times.
5 - no video. No visible problem on screenshots
6 - N/A
7 - N/A

When the error occurs, the screen freeze, but everything is working in the background. For the first 10-20 seconds the screen only freezes for me, then also for my mate. If you press "p" for pause, that is working. you see what happend and where the curser is and so on. After pressing "p" again, the game "foreground" freezes again.
30 Aug, '23
Skifarim
In solo conquest mode on windows 10 pro, both directx or openGL(mostly), always screen freezes around 20 min playing(ending winter on 801 AD) on one of second missions with stoat clan where bonus is - less cost for buying zone. I still hear the game continues, but picture on screen freezed, if i load screen is fully black and still can hear game continues. Contact my email if u want my save, cant attach it here.
I think bug can appear after winter or after steel mining ending or else.
Very love ur game but after buying new Stoat clan this bug happens and even retry mission didnt help to resolve it, fix it asap plz.
31 Aug, '23
Chris
This is happening to me, on multiple computers. Happens when i try and play from the autosave as well. Happens basically everytime i play it now, it's impossible to finish the game. The game lags a bit, then the screen freezes or goes blank, you can still hear the sound, responses to clicks etc, sometimes if i wait ~5 or so it will start working again but freezes again. I can open menu, and save, tried to load savegame and it was just a black screen.
1. Single player, Custom, northguard, hard, Domination& map special, no mods
2. Windows 11
3. Direct X
4. Yes, when it freezes seems random, but if i play savegame it will freeze about the same place.1
5. N/A
6. 324992739.
7. N/A
04 Sep, '23
Brad
1) Multiplayer 3v3 (three human versus 3 AI)
2) Mixture of Windows 10 and Windows 11
3) All DirectX
4) Reproduction seems to be - Play the game, about 40+ minutes in, one of the three computers will hard lock. It is not always the same computer. Background sound will continue to process and the other two players can keep playing, the third person will eventually disconnect.
5) or latest one. Server Name was Ssetexa6821_6004_na
6) Game Seed was 569908125,
7) See attached (if I can get them to upload)
12 Oct, '23
Asher
This bug is still happening.
1. Multiplayer (Conquest 2P and Multiplayer 3v3,4v4 for me)
2. Both in Windows 10 and Windows 11
3. DirectX
4. Start a multiplayer game. Play it. At some point, anywhere from five minutes in to when the Victory/Defeat logo appears, the game will lock. Hard lock. As in have to hard power down the computer, it is so completely locked.
5. Can't take a screenshot, computer is completely hard locked.
6. Any seed. Happens on most games I've played since somewhere around July.
7. Again, PC is hard locked.

As an aside, my spouse has the exact same hardware package I do and their computer has never done this. Mine does. It does not matter if I am 2p or any other combination of multiplayer, it is my computer which locks up.
27 Nov, '23
darkyy92
Same problem as everyone else. Multiplayer with 3 friends, peer-to-peer. It just freezes at some point (mostly after 10min), sound is still on, and others can still play, but laggy. We tried different settings, clans etc. Happened in every of our 3-4 battles now.
08 Dec, '23
qwertoya
Hello

Yesterday i tried a new clan of owl
SP game, 3v3
dont remember clans ... i think its
owl+lion +dragon VS goat+ horse + stag
everyting went well
till i got enought gold army and suplies to get rid of the enemy with a new unit Guardian of the Realm
i defended teamate ai player
and right after that i went to attack an enemy
the battle was fine ,
but right when i decolonize enemy 1st zone it freeze
19 Jan, '24
JJ
Hi,

My husband and I were playing the conquest map Myrkalfar Uprising and the game tends to freeze repeatedly for me (server owner) but the sound continues in the background. I hear alerts, villager complaints, being attacked, and the like. As many other people in this thread have pointed out, the game just goes on in the background but you are unable to do anything. Sometimes it comes back after a couple of minutes. but then it freezes again and at some point, you just cannot get it unfrozen.

We tried lowering the graphical settings and disabling shadows, grass, and such but nothing seemed to work. We never experienced this before and have been playing for at least 15 hours over the last 2 days. Is there any way to resolve this? We just lost 3 hours and were unable to get the game finished and do not feel like going in again to "try" it. As the game progress does not save in multi-player conquest, we would have to keep starting fresh!
I do not have a seed screenshot. Please assist
03 Feb, '24
anon
I had this problem a few times now. I usually play 3v3 or 2v2v2 with a friend against bots. I'm not quite sure if my friend, who usually hosts, selected p2p or dedicated servers. The freeze happens always late game, when we're about to take the base of a clan. Units are stuck in place and dont respond, the UI keeps working fine. It may have been randomly but after pausing the game (which actually took 30 seconds after clicking "pause") and unpausing units moved a bit and the froze again. Repeating it with the second pause resulted in the same. After about 5 minutes it just worked again, but later that game it froze again and wouldn't come back. At this point quitting was the only option.
I see that this is a long known issue, but it only happened to me since december.

Since this is a server problem its probably pointless but here are some infos:

- DirectX version
- conquest MP 2v2v2 or 3v3 with 2 human players, rest are bots
- clans: varied
- either p2p or european servers
03 Apr, '24
icebane
I've been doing a solo campaign and every time I try to play, the game freezes in match much like the previous comments here. I'm on year 2 of a warg mission, but that doesn't seem to matter too much. When checking what was causing the game to stop moving but still have audio, I found that it was MAXING MY GPU... I have a 4070 with the latest Nvidia drivers. I don't know what could possibly be maxing my gpu harder than any super-modded minecraft ever could, but it was primarily the 3D simulator getting maxed according to my Task Manager. When I say maxed, I mean 100% load.

But ye,
- solo
- OpenGL
- Win 11
- Happens every time I've played since I updated my graphics drivers.
- Screenshots are pointless since it's just a frozen screen of gameplay with nothing noticeable if SCed.
- I don't have the rest of the stuff rn, but could get them if asked.
11 Apr, '24
gameislaggingsomuchicantplayatallforaboutaweek
Yeah same for me imagine trying to have an army then all of a sudden they will die because you got delayed for 2months
28 Nov, '24
Randy
Hi,
Is there any update on this issue? Still happening to me.
Can't even finish a game before the screen freezes.
16 Feb
Curanthir
Freezes for me as stoat often, usually when I select my duchy fort, sometimes randomly at year end or something.