It looks like your hardware should be good, however, there’s a couple of things I can think of that might have a bearing on what you’ve described.

  1. The hard drive is external which means the USB connection could be creating a bottleneck. If the HDD can’t transfer data fast enough that could cause your game to lock-up (freeze). Make sure you have the correct drivers installed for the USB port (manufacturer’s Chipset drivers), it could be that it is only acting like a 1.0 port due to incorrect drivers (try switching to a different USB port, preferably one on the back of the PC). Additionally, how full is the hard drive? Obviously if the game is installed on a drive that is now full, that can cause problems. Do you have room to install the game on an internal drive?

  2. Your hardware’s age could be a factor. A GPU that’s struggling with the chosen settings is also a possibility. If any of those three devices (HDD, GPU or CPU) is failing or operating in a diminished capacity, that could cause your game to lock up. Do you have issues in other programs (or games)? You can run a series of hardware tests (with free apps) to find out.

If I were you (assuming you haven’t noticed any hardware problems in other apps or games), I would first uninstall Conan, then run the Windows Disk Defragment tool on the drive, followed by a fresh install. If this doesn’t fix your problem then I would adjust game settings all the way down (low end laptop mode). If this fixes the problem you can slowly turn the settings back up, little by little. Your GPU (with 4gb vram) should be capable enough to handle the game but perhaps your settings are too high (open world maps are notoriously taxing).

I’m sorry but that’s about it off the top of my head. I can drag a thrall all the way across the map, into and through the “newb river” area without any issues, nor have I heard any issues from anyone I play with. I play on official servers without mods. Obviously mods could be causing the problem you described, but I’m assuming you don’t use mods because that would just be silly to modify your game and then complain that it’s not working as intended. :wink:

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