OK BEEN dealing with this issue for i donnu how many months but yeah i was thinking something was wrong with my hardware though its only this game mostly, i kinda get issue in cs2 but thats a hard freeze and i have to restart game which i figure thats cause of my hardware etc since running 2 gtx 660 ti’s in SLI mode . any who though here is how i fixed my FREEZING for 10-20 secs or so then the game comes back.
OK So i did the manual launch mode and changed my game settings to WINDOW MODE, not fullscreen window because i tried that one and it didnt change anything i was still freezing hard for 10-20 secs even at just the HANGER. it was ridic. anyways though JUST CHANGE your game to WINDOW MODE. fullscreen window didnt work only WINDOW MODE
For whatever reason this fixed it. SO I HOPE THIS SOLUTION Helps anyone else also. if so please let me know yall thanks for reading and hope this helps anyone with freezing etc.