Game has suddenly started with heavy freezes / stuttering

thank you, i found it and i turned it off. So could this be my problem to freezing the game? I thought it was my monitor issue…

I will observe it now.

Well, tell me yourself. Try to play a couple matches and see if it’s better or worse. If nothing changes/ the performance further worsens, then revert the things i told you to do.
I had a similar issue on my PC and the things I did just to figure out it was the nvidia overlay were far more extreme. But to each their own, I just recommended you a solution that solved the problem for me personally, however there’s also a chance you’re having a completely different issue.

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do u know how to fix it for mac?

I’ve zero expertise for mac, sorry. The only thing I do know is that on mac things are iffy because of driver optimizations and limited power Hardware for most systems
So could really be anything but I can’t help, sorry again

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Months later, I still have the same stuttering. This my main why reason I haven’t spent money or played WT since February

Welp, had a driver update last month and I haven’t had stutters since. So strange…

As this is the first result when you google “War Thunder stutter” I will document my experience with this problem here.

TL;DR: Exit Vanguard anti-cheat from the taskbar menu.

Computer specs:
RTX 4080 Super
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
32GB Memory (6000 MHz, EXPO enabled)
Only have SSD’s.

My description of the issue:
Micro stuttering, basically felt like a frame was being skipped every once in a while. Exactly as what is being described/shown by the author of this thread.

The things I have tried:

  • Reinstall the different versions of War Thunder (standalone, steam, uhq, etc…)
  • Reinstall different driver versions
  • Complete fresh install of graphics drivers (DDU)
  • V-Sync, G-Sync, Framecap and any combination of it.
  • Windowed vs fullscreen
  • Disabling Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling
  • Disabling Variable refresh rate
  • Disabling optimisations for windowed games
  • Disabling nvidia overlay/capture
  • Disabling gamebar

I’m sure I’m forgetting some of the things I’ve tried, but I’ve tried it all and none of it worked. In the end exiting the Vanguard anti-cheat from taskbar is what solved my issues. I no longer have any stutters. If I forget to disable after a restart I simply exit War Thunder, disable Vanguard and launch War Thunder again and the stutters are gone.

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Once again, I’ve been talking about this constantly for the last year. Gaijin and “know it alls” on the forums say it’s my PC, but if my friends with RTX4090 cards and such have the same issue, then it’s absurd.

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Yeah the freezing/stuttering/crashing is 90% of the time because this game is badly optimised. If players with all different system specs are having the same issue and the only common factor is the game itself then it must be an issue with War Thunder, not the player. Some people just can’t seem to understand that.

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so i have stutter problems too there r small one that still ocur pretty often and are annoying as u r about to see or heavy ones that you cann see in the second clip its goddamn annoying and only in war thunder tried everything that was mentioned here and im sure its not my system

im running a

ryzen 7 7800x3d
rtx4070 super
32gb ddr5 ram with 6000mhz
and the game is installed on my onbaord ssds

pls gaijin fix this shit it just appered after the weird patch from a few days ago

video: https://youtu.be/gCW6ExsGuLU

!!!UPDATE!!!

it seems like deleting valorant and vanguard was the way to go… i dont know what causes the problem between the games but yea…

Like several posts above, I will mention that removing Riot Vanguard/ exiting Vanguard has alleviated the stuttering issue for me.

Peak gameplay:

Im having a similar problem but my game just freezes then black screens then throws me in desktop and then i need to ALT + TAB my way back in the game and suddenly my fps is down to 3-5fps???

I have tried almost every possible fix but with no effort.

Any tips how to look for the problem?

Hello guys, i had the same problem and went to display settings, and i noticed that my PC assumed i had 2 monitors, but i had only 1, removed second monitor and problem was solved. i think this is a nvidia driver instalation problem

hi there , i have microstutters in kamchatca match at early match , is che only map i get stutter , what does it happen only to me?

been having constant non stop stuttering for 6+ months

pc specs:
ryzen 7 7800x3d
rtx 4070 super
32gb ddr5 ram

i’ve also noticed alot of the people that have stutter issues have very similar pc specs (a 7800x3d and a 40xx series card) its also getting worse for me since at the start it only stuttered every 30 seconds or so now its every 5-7 seconds its gotten so bad that the game is literally unplayable for me idk why they havent fixed it yet

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same here 7800x3D rtx4090 over 6 months and no Solution found. The PC of my Girlfriend i9-13900K and 3090ti same issue

Found my solution there works since 3 hours. I need Feedback from other people.

https://forum.warthunder.com/t/persistent-fps-drops-in-war-thunder-seeking-solutions/98138/20

This is exactly what my game looks like. It’s sad to see that this issue hasn’t been addressed after almost a year.
My PC’s specs are

ryzen 7 7800x3d
rtx3060 12GB
32gb ddr5 ram with 6000mhz

This seems to have fixed it! I also have a 7800x3d and noticed a lot of people have this same issue with this cpu. :o