Massive freezing bug when using 3rd person view!

Post » Fri Nov 27, 2015 4:02 pm

I am having a huge issue that is making the game unplayable in the way that I like to play, namely in third person view.

When holding a weapon in third person, any slight movement of your character (either with a small push of the left stick on controller or pressing left/right with slow walk on on keyboard) causes camera/aiming movement to freeze for a moment. This means a constant stuttering and freezing while playing that essentially renders third person unplayable for combat!

I have confirmed with other players on Reddit and Neogaf that this is also happening to them. I am way over the minimum spec so this is not a framerate issue but very clearly some bug that pauses camera movement during slow character movement.

I REALLY hope there is a fix for this as it is making the game impossible to enjoy right now. I have spent 15 hours trying to fix this issue and it appears that only a patch from Bethesda will fix it.

I have made a video to show the issue here -

youtube.

com/watch?v=1CcTnsIb4RA

(I don't have permission for links so apologies for the odd formatting. Most should be able to figure out how to fix easily)

I am crouching in the video but happens the same when stood up -

0-10 - Shows that it does not happen with weapon put away

10-20 Showing the freeze. Note at all time the right stick is pushed so that the camera should constantly move, but whenever the left stick is pushed it freezes for a moment.

20-30 Shows how extreme it can be while playing. In this example I am HOLDING the right stick all the way to the right, it should spin constantly, however it freezes every time the left stick is moved!

35-40 Shows how it does not happen if you push the left stick all the way so your character moves fast.

I then proceed to show the same issue going the opposite direction.

The issue is also present with mouse and keyboard when CAPS is on to lock walking/slow movement.

Thanks

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Post » Sat Nov 28, 2015 12:37 am

I have managed to come up with a temporary partial fix while we wait for Bethesda to fix it properly.
In your Fallout4.ini under Documents/my games/Fallout 4
Add the following line under [Controls]
fLThumbDeadzone=0.9000
This will increase the deadzone on the left stick and make the area where slow movement is possible very small. Meaning you can essentially only run, but you will almost never hit the spot that causes the freeze. It can still happen, but unless you are trying to do it by being really slow and gentle it's unlikely.
This has made the game playable in third person for me, until they hopefully patch it or a real fix can be found.
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