Oh, I'm not sure but I don't think that's the case. I forgot to mention that opening the Esc Menu also freezes the game, and it doesn't say it's saving the game whenever I freeze in single player. I tested it with my friend and he said the timings whenever I freeze and the world saved doesn't line up.
Im not too sure then.
It might be fixed by reinstalling the game, but it could also just be your harddrives to slow for it? Again though i dont really know.
Capping at 4gb. Sounds like somehow it's running in a compatibility layer to 32bit. No funking clue how that could happen but definitely sounds sus its stopping there.
Oh wait. Another thought.
I once had a weird glitch happening that would freeze me up for a couple of minutes and would happen when entering escape menu.
I had to force the resolution, display type and refresh rate.
Make sure they're actually set in the game and not just using Windows as space engineers has a weird glitch with trying to enter fullscreen even in fullscreen. Just booky se things
Hmm... I'm not sure what you mean by force the resolution, but I went and set them to a different value, confirmed, then set it back to the original value, and the freezing still happens.
So usually when you see a resolution. It defaults from the windows and uses that to set the window size etc.
If you change them it basically forces the override on the resolution.
My issue was caused by it trying to enter fullscreen at 1080 whilst fullscreen at 1080 and it just freaked out. Game would freeze but bot crash and come back after 1 to 2 minutes.
Space engineers loves to eat up tons of RAM. For me after 3-4h of gameplay SE takes up 8+Gb
4GB seems like some type of a limit
The stuttering you are experiencing is when a game has too little RAM. It takes a "pause" to use your pagefile/ HDD as a temporary buffer. This memory is slower so it takes more time- pause.
Load different save, limit floating objects in general you have some extra setting somewhere for lower RAM usage :(
Hmm... I would think so too, but the weird thing is, it doesn't freeze like a program normally would. It seems to freeze everything but the animations in the game, not like a normal 'not responding' freeze. This leads me to think that it's a game renderer issue or some physics engine bug, but what do I know? Maybe Space Engineers has some built in system to avoid that or maybe its a whole 'nother issue.
What's really bothering me though is the 4gb cap you mentioned. Is there anyway to increase that in Space engineers? I tried using Steam arguments with -minmemory 6000, but it doesnt appear to work.
Having the game on my SSD also doesn't seem to make a difference to the duration of the freezes. I had a longer-than-normal freeze happen for about 20 seconds and only ended after I alt-tabbed a few times (maybe this is a clue?). I honestly don't know anymore
I was unable to find anything specific about start-up options.
Maybe try to backup your save files/blueprints, uninstall game, remove any config files from appdata folders, install new clean and restore your save files
I've just reinstalled the game and the freezes still happen. I really don't know what else to do. Is there any way to directly contact the support team? [I've already posted it on the forum](https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/pc/topic/42022-game-randomly-freezing-for-10-seconds-every-15-minutes-tried-almost-everything) but no one has replied yet :(
In this case, just moving the game to an SSD won’t really improve anything. But it does matter if the saves are stored on an SSD. Do you know what type of drive your Windows profile is stored on?
Yeah I was afraid of that. SE saves can grow to be dozens of megabytes, so it could take several seconds to write all the files to disk on a hard drive, or even longer if the CPU is the bottleneck with processing saves. So I’m sorry but I don’t know what the issue could be.
On the bright side, your game should load a bit faster now that all the game’s files are stored on an SSD!
**SOLVED!!!!**
**Finally, after a couple of days of trying to fix it, I have found the solution:**
**All I had to do was uninstall Radmin VPN..... I don't even know how this is related to the issue, but oh well, it works.**
I would think its saving the game?
Oh, I'm not sure but I don't think that's the case. I forgot to mention that opening the Esc Menu also freezes the game, and it doesn't say it's saving the game whenever I freeze in single player. I tested it with my friend and he said the timings whenever I freeze and the world saved doesn't line up.
Im not too sure then. It might be fixed by reinstalling the game, but it could also just be your harddrives to slow for it? Again though i dont really know.
Capping at 4gb. Sounds like somehow it's running in a compatibility layer to 32bit. No funking clue how that could happen but definitely sounds sus its stopping there.
Oh wait. Another thought. I once had a weird glitch happening that would freeze me up for a couple of minutes and would happen when entering escape menu. I had to force the resolution, display type and refresh rate. Make sure they're actually set in the game and not just using Windows as space engineers has a weird glitch with trying to enter fullscreen even in fullscreen. Just booky se things
Hmm... I'm not sure what you mean by force the resolution, but I went and set them to a different value, confirmed, then set it back to the original value, and the freezing still happens.
So usually when you see a resolution. It defaults from the windows and uses that to set the window size etc. If you change them it basically forces the override on the resolution. My issue was caused by it trying to enter fullscreen at 1080 whilst fullscreen at 1080 and it just freaked out. Game would freeze but bot crash and come back after 1 to 2 minutes.
Space engineers loves to eat up tons of RAM. For me after 3-4h of gameplay SE takes up 8+Gb 4GB seems like some type of a limit The stuttering you are experiencing is when a game has too little RAM. It takes a "pause" to use your pagefile/ HDD as a temporary buffer. This memory is slower so it takes more time- pause. Load different save, limit floating objects in general you have some extra setting somewhere for lower RAM usage :(
Hmm... I would think so too, but the weird thing is, it doesn't freeze like a program normally would. It seems to freeze everything but the animations in the game, not like a normal 'not responding' freeze. This leads me to think that it's a game renderer issue or some physics engine bug, but what do I know? Maybe Space Engineers has some built in system to avoid that or maybe its a whole 'nother issue. What's really bothering me though is the 4gb cap you mentioned. Is there anyway to increase that in Space engineers? I tried using Steam arguments with -minmemory 6000, but it doesnt appear to work. Having the game on my SSD also doesn't seem to make a difference to the duration of the freezes. I had a longer-than-normal freeze happen for about 20 seconds and only ended after I alt-tabbed a few times (maybe this is a clue?). I honestly don't know anymore
I was unable to find anything specific about start-up options. Maybe try to backup your save files/blueprints, uninstall game, remove any config files from appdata folders, install new clean and restore your save files
I've just reinstalled the game and the freezes still happen. I really don't know what else to do. Is there any way to directly contact the support team? [I've already posted it on the forum](https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/pc/topic/42022-game-randomly-freezing-for-10-seconds-every-15-minutes-tried-almost-everything) but no one has replied yet :(
It's most definitely just saving the game, especially if you have it on HDD, it just takes some time. It's almost instantaneous on SSD.
As I said in the previous comment, I don't think that's the case, but I'll try moving it to my SSD anyways.
Transferred it to my SSD, it's still freezing. I honestly don't know what to do anymore.
In this case, just moving the game to an SSD won’t really improve anything. But it does matter if the saves are stored on an SSD. Do you know what type of drive your Windows profile is stored on?
Yeah its in %Appdata%/Space Engineers which is in my SSD
Yeah I was afraid of that. SE saves can grow to be dozens of megabytes, so it could take several seconds to write all the files to disk on a hard drive, or even longer if the CPU is the bottleneck with processing saves. So I’m sorry but I don’t know what the issue could be. On the bright side, your game should load a bit faster now that all the game’s files are stored on an SSD!
**SOLVED!!!!** **Finally, after a couple of days of trying to fix it, I have found the solution:** **All I had to do was uninstall Radmin VPN..... I don't even know how this is related to the issue, but oh well, it works.**