# Game hangs on enemy turns **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Discussion\ **Created:** [December 17, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563 "2019-12-17T18:47:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pr8Dator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Pr8Dator](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/Pr8Dator)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/41 "2019-12-23T20:39:22Z")
I have 16gb ram and runs the game off an SSD and it still freezes. This is not about your RAM but that poorly optimized games like this one has memory leak issues that eat into virtual memory rather than your physical memory. So when your virtual memory gets overwhelmed, the program hangs. ---
**Author:** ![riddick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@riddick](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/riddick)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/42 "2019-12-24T08:52:32Z")
yeah I get the occasional (sometimes frequent) return fire or overwatch kill / critical turn hang also. VERY frustrating, ---
**Author:** ![Vashie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Vashie](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/Vashie)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 9:04am UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/43 "2019-12-24T09:04:56Z")
Yes this happened to me to yesterday, return fire killed enemy soldier and then the turn doesn’t end and then I tried to replay the mission and it happened again, very frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![piggyken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cdc98d/32.png) [@piggyken](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/piggyken)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/44 "2019-12-24T09:59:20Z")
This happened to me just now. My game hangs after an Arthron lobbed its grenade and died on my “Return Fire”. From my observation I’m gonna guess that “Return fire” or “Overwatch” killed the last unit on the enemy’s turn, and some part of the logic couldn’t process that because it is waiting for an event to happen. (ie. enemy end turn event, but it didn’t fire cause the enemy died before it could do that) Another edge case (that might not be true), is that the enemy died during a non-targeting move (arthon grenade attack). ---
**Author:** ![Hidetoszi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bcef8e/32.png) [@Hidetoszi](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/Hidetoszi)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/45 "2019-12-25T11:32:31Z")
For me it happening quite often, once per 3-4h of playing. Laptop user. When I posting it last time was same as above post ( return fire (PP shotgun) after Arthon throw granade ) but it is not a rule as I remember it after Chrion throws flame worms or my sniper kill someone with return fire. Loading autosave and repeating missions mostly helps but is really annoying and frustrating. I could assume that i might be caused by last enemy in pandoran turn. ![freez](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/snapshotgames/original/2X/a/a6b0573de2ff0dd37b5f38d4cbc4ba8623af141b.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Andriy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Andriy](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/Andriy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/46 "2019-12-25T13:26:49Z")
> [@Pr8Dator](#): > > Issue to be explored: > > 1. Shotgun overwatch? (anyone can take note of this and provide an update please?) I have same issue in my game after patch. -The game hangs on Pandora’s turn when some of my troops kills pandora`s creature with “Return fire” ability. (No matter what kind of gun it was shotgun or rifle) P.S. I usually play on my desktop with win 10 but some times I use macbook. ---
**Author:** ![Girshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dec6dc/32.png) [@Girshin](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/Girshin)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/47 "2019-12-25T22:12:47Z")
Try to increase you page file size. So far it has worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![LockDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@LockDown](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/LockDown)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/48 "2019-12-26T18:13:49Z")
It does not matter what the weapon is, if you kill an enemy with return fire it freezes. I am guessing its waiting for the enemy to complete the rest of their action but cant because they dead 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LockDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@LockDown](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/LockDown)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/49 "2019-12-26T18:14:37Z")
Whats this page file size you speak of? ---
**Author:** ![Shiftee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Shiftee](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/Shiftee)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/50 "2019-12-26T20:26:03Z")
Happens to me way too regularly. Definitely happens without shotguns. Was happening to me before the patch and it’s still happening since the patch. ---
**Author:** ![Girshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dec6dc/32.png) [@Girshin](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/Girshin)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/51 "2019-12-26T20:46:17Z")
In windows 10, I go to settings and search for performance and select the option Adjust the appearance and performance Windows. Pick Advanced tab and increase your virtual memory value. Mine is set to 15000 min 20000 max. ---
**Author:** ![Southlane](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forums.snapshotgames.com/southlane/32/1809_2.png) [@Southlane](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/Southlane)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/52 "2019-12-28T14:21:46Z")
Yep, bug is back. The hotfix worked for the most part but it is still occasionally locking up on enemy movement. ---
**Author:** ![riddick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@riddick](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/riddick)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/53 "2019-12-28T15:44:54Z")
THe issue happens for me sometimes when I return fire, I think its related to return fire kills which have critical damage involved. ---
**Author:** ![SovereignTlayuda](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forums.snapshotgames.com/sovereigntlayuda/32/2224_2.png) [@SovereignTlayuda](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/SovereignTlayuda)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 5:11am UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/54 "2019-12-30T05:11:42Z")
Tried the pagefile fix and while it did speed up the game in general, the minute I got a return fire kill the enemy turn just hung. ---
**Author:** ![rangerguy631](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/47e85d/32.png) [@rangerguy631](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/rangerguy631)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563/55 "2020-05-23T06:07:05Z")
was looking on google and the same after half a year still has this bug [Previous page](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/game-hangs-on-enemy-turns/7563.md?page=2)