# BF1 Intermittent freezing **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [October 24, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/bf1-intermittent-freezing/102555 "2016-10-24T07:46:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mackieson](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Mackieson](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Mackieson)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/bf1-intermittent-freezing/102555/1 "2016-10-24T07:46:00Z")
Hi all, been having a very annoying issue with BF1 on PC..during both campaign and multiplayer, I experience a lot of small freezes, usually they occur every 5 minutes or so for about a 3-5 second freeze. I’m confident it’s not my PC, sure it’s a few years old but I’ve had friends play it on a hell of a lot less specs than mine. GPU: i5 4570S GFX: Radeon 290X 4GB RAM: 16GB OS: WIN 7 64 Bit I realize the OS is old and I am running it on direct x 11, but so are many others. I usually see an fps of around 40-50 if I play on Ultra, it runs fine..maybe gets a bit choppy when the action gets intense but it’s very playable and not even that noticeable. Not expecting anyone to have an answer, but for someone who has been inactive with computers..some basic troubleshooting advice would be appreciated, all I’ve done was upgrade to the latest drivers and free up some space which didn’t seem to do much. ---
**Author:** ![Mackieson](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Mackieson](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Mackieson)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 7:47am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/bf1-intermittent-freezing/102555/2 "2016-10-24T07:47:00Z")
Oh and I’ve had a few of the other Battlefield games now and this is the first one I’ve ever experienced any issues with. ---
**Author:** ![Mackieson](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Mackieson](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Mackieson)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 7:37am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/bf1-intermittent-freezing/102555/3 "2016-10-26T07:37:00Z")
Anyone ? ---
**Author:** ![megadupek](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/megadupek/32/102782_2.png) [@megadupek](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/megadupek)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 8:27am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/bf1-intermittent-freezing/102555/4 "2016-10-26T08:27:00Z")
Try turning off GPU memory restriction in the advanced settings. Helped in my case and I also have a 290 4GB. ---
**Author:** ![Mackieson](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Mackieson](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Mackieson)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 8:35am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/bf1-intermittent-freezing/102555/5 "2016-10-26T08:35:00Z")
> [@megadupek](#): > > Try turning off GPU memory restriction in the advanced settings. Helped in my case and I also have a 290 4GB. Yeah I tried that, no dice, thanks for the reply though. ---
**Author:** ![SilverKidPoweh](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@SilverKidPoweh](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/SilverKidPoweh)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 8:38am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/bf1-intermittent-freezing/102555/6 "2016-10-26T08:38:00Z")
Cancel windows update, some one had post on this here ---
**Author:** ![bromazing12](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bromazing12](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/bromazing12)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/bf1-intermittent-freezing/102555/7 "2016-11-01T15:31:00Z")
[BF1 ]That’s my problem too the game freezes 3-5 secs during campaign and multiplayer i always get killed because of that even when im not moving it still freezes ive tried all the suggestions even turning off the memory restrictions, i have a decent rig windows 7, is it my copy of the game? First i thought it was my internet connection but i have a very good ping, need help guys! i want to play and enjoy this game without any issues… ---
**Author:** ![Jonibruudi](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/jonibruudi/32/102420_2.png) [@Jonibruudi](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Jonibruudi)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 12:21pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/bf1-intermittent-freezing/102555/8 "2016-11-05T12:21:00Z")
I think I got a fix, I will sound strange but when my status on origin is set to invisible I get this annoying freezes, when I set it to normal the freezes are suddenly gone, try it out ---
**Author:** ![G-Gnu](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/g-gnu/32/102029_2.png) [@G-Gnu](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/G-Gnu)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/bf1-intermittent-freezing/102555/9 "2016-11-05T15:07:00Z")
Have the same problem, might very well be Origin that F´s things up. Those that made and support Origin, must be a bunch of monkeys, worse preformance issues and GUI then that is hard to find out there. ---
**Author:** ![Mackieson](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Mackieson](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Mackieson)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/bf1-intermittent-freezing/102555/10 "2016-11-11T00:53:00Z")
For anyone that is interested, I cancelled the windows 7 updates indefinitely and It now seems to work fine, been playing the game on ultra with decent FPS ..I know it sounds strange, but I had cancelled them from task manager in the past or had the updates paused..that didn’t work, I read somewhere that it was causing issues for another person as well, they cancelled the updates and it seemed to do the job. Don’t exactly understand how it would effect it but somehow it does, might be worth a try for some people. ---
**Author:** ![k0ss1ty](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@k0ss1ty](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/k0ss1ty)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/bf1-intermittent-freezing/102555/11 "2016-11-14T23:23:00Z")
> [@jobrojoni](#): > > I think I got a fix, I will sound strange but when my status on origin is set to invisible I get this annoying freezes, when I set it to normal the freezes are suddenly gone, try it out Thank you sooooo much for your tip! Had the same issue! Now it works! God damn Origin!