Games pauses randomy for a split second and the screen goes blurry?

[00Rubberducky]

Games pauses randomy for a split second and the screen goes blurry?

Recently been getting this issue (it happens mostly, if not exclusively in Novigrad, doing a lot of quests there and i've experienced it 1-3 times so far).
Basically the game pauses and the screen goes blurry for a split second (it looks like it's auto saving or loading or something of the sort).

Is this common? Should I be worried? It's not intrusive and happens very occasionally but i'm curious/slightly worried.

Specs:

• 980
• 4690K
• 8GB RAM

 

[Dude27]

Its ok, you just move too fast and game has to stop to load stuff

 

[prince_of_nothing]

Yeah it's common I'd say, but how often it happens depends on how fast your rig is and how much RAM it has. On my own machine, I usually have it only once and only if I'm riding towards Novigrad's town center, which is perhaps the most densely populated single area in the game . The screen pauses for about half a second and then it continues. I don't get that pause if I go through the area again, even if I exit the game and restart because the data is cached in system RAM. But if I reboot the PC, I can get it to happen again..

 

[prince_of_nothing]

4930K, GTX 980 SLI FTW, 16GB DDR3 2133, Samsung 850 Pro..

I think the pause is due to the game loading A.I entities, and not textures, which means it would be related to RAM and not VRAM. Like I said above, the pause only happens when I approach the Novigrad main square, which happens to be very densely populated. I haven't seen it anywhere else..

And the fact that even after restarting the game the issue does not return. I have to reboot to make it come back.. So basically, upping your RAM MIGHT help to reduce the frequency and severity of the issue.

 

[mw.islinger]

I only had this happend after I followed some tweaking guide that increased LOD and other stuff related to image quality.
All in all it has reduced pop-in for me a lot so I can live with the occasional freeze. It happens very rarely - like when I cover a large portion of the map on Roach at full gallop. Another time was when sprinting through Novigrad. That's also a case of requiring a lot of objects and textures.

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I only had this happend after I followed some tweaking guide that increased LOD and other stuff related to image quality.
All in all it has reduced pop-in for me a lot so I can live with the occasional freeze. It happens very rarely - like when I cover a large portion of the map on Roach at full gallop. Another time was when sprinting through Novigrad. That's also a case of requiring a lot of objects and textures.

 

[Gvaz]

Could be your hard drive, potentially

 

[prince_of_nothing]

Just thought you guys might want to know, but uninstalling and reinstalling Visual C++ 2012 fixed this problem for me. I haven't seen this happen at all since I did that, so I'm assuming it's related to Visual C++ 2012 being corrupt or something..