Tu2 damage causes game to stop for a second

[FuriousMeow]

I'm not sure how to isolate this one. Its happened 3 times now, and I've restarted the game. Its just now happened twice one pass after another against two different Tu2s. I only noticed this after using API-T but this could be a false lead at this point. 

I've approached dead 6 and high 6 angle, let a burst go and then the game action stops but like particle effects are still in motion a bit.

I'll see if I can figure more out 

EDIT: Also, the Tu2 had 2x 2KG  bombs loaded but I didn't see any indication of them blowing up or anything.

EDIT2: Happened again. Doing a bomber intercept from K-50 with 2x F51 against 4 Tu2s with 2x 1KG bombs - maybe that's what I set before and not 2KG - and a pass on a Tu2 had a game pause while particle effects were still in motion somewhat - just like there was some non-physics drawing - and then game proceeded. Looks like he game load spiked though,  will attach a screenshot showing that. It went red, screenshot around 93% load then reduces back to 23% and less. 

Edited July 27 by FuriousMeow

[Husar]

I noticed that the first time a shot hits, there's a brief freeze in single-player. I remember the same issue existed in GB but was eventually fixed. It feels like the visual damage model system is being initialized on the first hit.

[LukeFF]

Please record a track file showing this issue, thanks. 🙂 

[K4tzenfr3und]

13 hours ago, Husar said:

I noticed that the first time a shot hits, there's a brief freeze in single-player. I remember the same issue existed in GB but was eventually fixed. It feels like the visual damage model system is being initialized on the first hit.

here, the same! Short freeze, after i hit the IL-10! Single Player Campaign Mode.

[FuriousMeow]

On 7/27/2026 at 1:32 PM, LukeFF said:

Please record a track file showing this issue, thanks. 🙂 

I'll try, its so random.

Load out doesn't seem to matter, had a total freeze up and the Tu2 had no load. Game load, though, spiked to atleast 250%.

[FuriousMeow]

Skirmish.2026-07-29_21-10-26_00.rar

skirmish.2026-07-29_21-10-26_00.7z

[FuriousMeow]

Here's another one, but after reviewing it I don't see the load spike - but hopefully something useful can be gleaned from this. This one is very short as once the spike happened and recovered from I stopped recording to get a smaller file and run-time. I actually had just attacked a plane prior to hitting record and the load spiked to over 300% but since it isn't being caught in the recording I'm not sure it matters?

SkirmishLoadSpike.rar

[LukeFF]

Please try lowering your graphics settings and try again, thanks. 🙂