The dozen or so instances of this have happened while flying and while ground fighting. The screen appears to completely lock up then after 3 seconds or so, it renders another frame then freezes and so on until I die or bail out and quit to the desktop. This is the crazy part…the frame rate freezing continues unto the Windows 11 desktop and will not release until I log out of my windows account or reboot the PC. The whole time that in game it’s freezing and locking up, sound continues on normally while I’m getting plinked by enemy aircraft or shot if playing ground attack. In the video (
) the freezing starts just after I bounced and grenaded the hurricane then start to turn back in to the enemy AF and merge with a spitfire, that ends up getting a kill on me as I tried to bail out (plinks). Needless to say it’s been a real drag and it is hurting my stats! :DInterestingly, the last time I played I think I made it through about 30-40 minutes without a freeze and logged before it started again. Let me know if you’d need me to run a diagnostics tool or whatever to help gather data for this bug.
Try turning off vsync in game settings and restarting game and see if that solves it – maybe there will be screen tearing but at least see if it solves the freezing that also occurs afterwards in windows so we can figure out next step