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[Zaqew]

I've been plagued with constant freezes that render the client unresponsive. This usually fixes itself after a minute or two, but after a while, I get this massive freeze that completely locks me out of the game. I've even left it alone for a half hour or so to see if it would resolve itself. It's rather depressing because I keep losing hours of work on this.

[Shonai_Dweller]

What version are you playing? What mods are you using (including lazy newb pack usage, etc)? What spec PC/mac are you using? What is your OS?

Basic information can help others help you. 'My game freezes' says nothing. It's only your game which is freezing. If it were happening to everyone, it'd be all over the bug tracker.

[Zaqew]

v0.44.12
LNP: Default Options, Spacefox 16x Graphics, Only running Dwarf Therapist, Running on Windowed 75x45 Normal Processor Priority, DFHack is running Enhanced Gameplay and Multilevel View

PC: Win 10, Ryzen 5 1600x, GTX 1070, 8g Memory clocked at 3000

[Shonai_Dweller]

Are you playing Adventurer? TWBT, which is allowing multilevel view, often crashes adventurer. Try turning it off.

If not, try turning it off anyway.

[Zaqew]

Only running Fortress Mode; Ill see with TWBT off.

[Robsoie]

There are some other sources of the performance getting destroyed since several years unfortunately, mostly pathfinding going wrong

One is locked doors and animals, when animals (domestic animals or wild ones or caverns animals) insist in trying to path through locked doors, it just kill the performance.

Another one is when a dwarf is getting stuck on a tree for some reason (often when a dwarf is fighting an enemy or an animal he can follow up a tree but once there he calms down and so become unable to go down by himself  ) and said dwarf got a mood or is a part of a squad that you sent to a mission : performance is dead.

I observed on a fortress an invasion came, several trolls went into a hole i had dug (i wanted to make a pond later) and stayed there while my fortress bridge was raised, framerate was halved for all the time i left those trolls alive and my bridge raised as once it went down and i sent my military to kill them performance was back, so i guess there was another case of pathfinding going wrong.

[Zaqew]

As far as I can tell, I haven't encountered those performance problems (as of yet), I just keep my livestock in pastures and I haven't locked any doors. I have kept an infected Dwarf in a box to keep it from the general populace.

[Zaqew]

Well, it's unresponsive again. Print Mode is on Standard, TrueType is off, Multilevel View is off.
I'll look at possible solutions later as it is getting late.

[Shonai_Dweller]

There are some other sources of the performance getting destroyed since several years unfortunately, mostly pathfinding going wrong

One is locked doors and animals, when animals (domestic animals or wild ones or caverns animals) insist in trying to path through locked doors, it just kill the performance.

Another one is when a dwarf is getting stuck on a tree for some reason (often when a dwarf is fighting an enemy or an animal he can follow up a tree but once there he calms down and so become unable to go down by himself  ) and said dwarf got a mood or is a part of a squad that you sent to a mission : performance is dead.

I observed on a fortress an invasion came, several trolls went into a hole i had dug (i wanted to make a pond later) and stayed there while my fortress bridge was raised, framerate was halved for all the time i left those trolls alive and my bridge raised as once it went down and i sent my military to kill them performance was back, so i guess there was another case of pathfinding going wrong.

Which of these froze the game for half an hour? I'd guess none of them, right? Yes there are vanilla fps killers out there but this thread is about actual crashes.

[Fleeting Frames]

Regarding absolute freezes: I'm reminded how making taverns in a channeled hole in the ground results in game freezing. I've gotten out of those by using dfhack's fpause and then deleting the tavern. It might be worth trying to diagnose the freeze next time one occurs like this, while using handy tools like gui/liquids, gui/teleport and exterminate.

[Zaqew]

I seem to have avoided most of the longer freezes (the 30mins+ ones) by saving and reloading frequently for fear of a time-wasting, unresponsive client.
Print Mode: 2D, TrueType is on
I also waited for the client to respond, though it took an amazing 40+ mins and I don't know if resolution is a factor in this, since I went from 75x45 to a maximized screen (not fullscreen)
somewhere mid-playthrough.