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zKiller0106
Seasoned Veteran
2 years ago

Re: Game constantly freezes and drops frames since late November

@VIP-REDACTED-I fixed it by re-enabling Meltdown and Spectre protections using this tool: https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
By running it as administrator then clicking the button "Enable Meltdown Protection" and "Enable Spectre Protection" and restarting the PC. No more freezes... Don't ask me how or why but this is the fix that worked for me.
P.S: Both should be enabled by default on fresh installs of Windows but I disabled them a year ago to get more performance out of my old i7-3770 CPU and somehow the devs did something to the game code since late November that makes it do that annoying freezing if Meltdown and Spectre protections are disabled.

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  • Salo_MnK's avatar
    Salo_MnK
    Rising Veteran
    2 years ago

    Easy Anti Cheat sertificate got old 28.11.2023 so how come the problems started 29.11.2023.. just wondering.

  • This didn't help for me. Never disabled Meltdown or Spectre, when I dl'd the app they were both enabled.

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    zKiller0106
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 years ago
    @VIP-REDACTED- Maybe you are using an old Bios? I remember years ago I had a weird problem where only Apex Legends stuttered every 10 seconds on Windows 10 v2004+ but it worked perfectly fine on v1909... The only fix for me was updating my motherboard Bios to the latest version.

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