.5 sec stutter/freeze every 6-10 seconds

It only seems to happen when the camera is moving for me as well.

Yeah. Same. It's super consistent and I have had no luck messing with the settings. It keeps making me walk off of ledges and into walls.

Any idea what system settings could cause issues with the camera? Honestly I have been messing with windows mouse settings/ DPI settings and nothing has helped.

I scrubbed the NVIDIA Drivers from my computer and reinstalled them without physx or the audio drivers. No change... Man I wish the people who made the game would actually help solve the problem they made. At this point I wish I could just get my money back.

Ok new evidence. It looks like the camera is freezing, but only from the mouse input. I am holing down E in this video and the roll continues even when the mouse input freezes. So the game is not freezing just the mouse input.

For me, it's the only reason I'm not playing it. I know I can have fun building in this game, but the game hasn't felt smooth to me, and I have these input issues all too often; it's just not an enjoyable experience sadly.

I was hoping it would have been fixed by now, but that's not the case. Hopefully soon, but all we can do is hope. At least the developers are aware that this is affecting more people than they originally thought

Also just tried streaming the game with the steam deck to test Steam input, both the joystick and the trackpad (emulating a mouse input) trigger the issue (With and without the computer mouse turned off).

Attached the logs of that session to that reply.

This is still occurring with 2.3

I believe you are right in suggesting it is a mouse issue, I have no fps drop at all really and if I just move my character left to right there is no stutter at all. Seems to be purely mouse input, it drops out as you say for just a half a second causing what looks like a stutter

Hello,

I am adding this information in the very minor chance that it might help, only because it sounds very much like what I struggled with in the original Space Engineers: stuttering and random glitchy mini-freezes that would occur, go away, freeze for a fraction of a second, or occasionally a full second, and in particular long delays on the menu screen - which made one of my favorite games unplayable. It may have nothing to do with your issue but demonstrates how far outside the box you might have to look to identify such things.

In my case, it was because of the nature of my home network and internet connectivity: I have two computers set up, with home ethernet configured to connect them – while my internet connection comes via Wi-Fi. This results in two separate network configurations for the computers, and Windows in all its glory (and thus SE) keep prioritizing any attempted internet calls FIRST on the ethernet network (which does not have an active internet connection), before looking at the Wi-Fi connection. In most applications, such a delay wasn’t noticeable, but for whatever reason, SE seems to make a lot of internet-based checks at various times. For me, the resolution was to dip down into the OS settings, and manually force Windows to re-prioritize which network it accessed first: doing so returned the game to previous smooth functionality, no stuttering, pausing, etc.

This issue being described here might have nothing to do with what I experienced – but demonstrates that issues that show up in the game may come from the most unexpected of things outside the game. Good luck with this.

Is there anything I can provide in order to help replicate this issue and come to a solution?

I am using a PC with specs:

CPU: Intel 13th gen 13-900KS

GPU: Nvidia 4090 32GB

RAM: 32gb 4800mhz not overclocked

Storage: NvMe: Samsung SSD 990 PRO 2TB (Tried moving to my Windows 11 install NvMe as well and this did not work)

Mouse: FinalMouse ULX Sakura - 2000hz Polling rate (Tried lowering this and it did not help) 1600DPI

Hope this helps in any way if not please request what you need from me to help this matter.

This is a legitimate question. Can we get refunds? I mean the game is not playable. I purchased it day one of early access and I basically set my money on fire.

You don't even have an idea of the issue. Which means you can't fix it. I was a fan of SE1 and it runs great, I waited a year for a fix that will probably never come.

Random freezes but only if I move my mouse.

Any other input works as intended, frames are good, everything runs smooth but when I move my mouse it starts to decently regularly freeze up for a bit.

Attempted fix were:

- changing every setting in game possible to narrow it down (inconclusive)

- changing mouse (inconclusive)

- closing every background application (inconclusive)

- changing every setting in my mouse, dpi, button mapping, polling rate, etc (inconclusive)

- going to every possible different zones in game (inconclusive)

- custom launch commands on steam for the game to force some stuff, which I forgot what I did honestly (inconclusive)

-redownloaded several times (inconclusive)

pc specs:

- Z790 Aorus elite ax motherboard

-two 16gb sticks of g.skill ddr5

- Nvidia geforce rtx4070 super

- intel core i7 13700kf

I have a razer basilisk v3 as my mouse/logitech pro x2 superstrike and a strafe rgb mk2 from corsair as keyboard

Like Mack S, I am also starting to wonder about the possibility of refunds at this stage. I bought the game a while ago wanting to support the team, but the input drops makes it unplayable, and knowing it can't even be reproduced in-house after all this time is quite discouraging.

That being said, I tried Calexar7’s suggestion about network adapter priority and tested it out, but it didn’t change anything on my end. To dig a bit deeper, I disabled my network adapters entirely and even ran Wireshark in the background during a session to see if any network spikes or packet activity correlated with the timing of the mouse freezes but there doesn't seem to be any correlation.

Since you cannot reproduce this on your end, I'd be more than willing to get on a debugging call with the dev team, share my screen, run debug tools if you have any, or collect custom logs in any way that'd be useful for you while the bug is actively happening on my machine. Please let us know what you need to help get this sorted.

This is a common issue for me as well, but it is accompanied by 4-5 second long input lockups where the game continues running but I lose all control. It's infinitely more frustrating than a stutter.

I see this too now that you mention it, I assumed it was some kind of planet or something lol

I just want to add. This is only in space engineers 2. It's fine in SE 1 or any other game. The cursor moves smoothly on screen so the input is getting to the system fine.

Do your engineers have any recommendations on things to test for how the program receives input?

Good observation—it seems like only the character freezes. I watched the shield at Vallation Station, and the animation ran smoothly.

As much as i'd like to agree and get some lead on this so it can be fixed, it happens on fresh saves as soon as you load in. It is specifically ONLY on mouse input, be it during character or ship camera movement, first or third person, The stutter does NOT happen in other input methods such as moving the camera with the arrow keys on the keyboard. None of the game settings have any impact on the issue. And it seems that it isn't system specific as people on both AMD and Nvidia systems have reported having this issue. But it could also be a hardware bug of other components such as Motherboards or Ram kits, I've not tried running it on other systems other than my main or changing My Systems Speeds In Bios, I've already gave up on it.

As much as I'd Like to blame windows spaggeti, i did not find any driver crashes, and while there was some semi consistant gpu power dips, aka waiting for further instructions, a very likely driver dying, it wasn't consistant enough for me to link it to the issue.

One thing i was looking into but didn't get to check was how windows 11 has made a change, a reversable change in Regedit, where applications can no longer request a specific cpu frequency for the application, and all fall under a unified frequency, but this info is as random as it gets and didn't find much on it without trying it out.

I've seen one person also mention how network adapters in SE1 had something similar could be an issue, funny windows spaggeti code, since the game does send a good amount of data thru for what i can assume is as it does run game instances somewhat similar to what minecraft does with local world servers.

I've not seen any people who got the game to open on Linux report this but there is few to look at so it's hard to tell if the issue is OS specific or not, If that can be rulled out and it also happens on other OS, so then that would leave the game Engine itself and Hardware, which is still a lot.

Linux user here, I get those stutters as well sometimes.