ANOTHER MAJOR UPDATE!!:
After scouring the official EFT forum I found a post from 2018 where a user was describing a similar problem for Live EFT, he also mentioned he tried alt+tabbing after launching and that it only worked for him 5% of the time. I decided to give it a try just to see and it works.
After hitting start on the launcher then hitting alt+tab and giving the game time to load I get literally no freezing! It works 100% of the time for me!!!
This just raises further questions though. Like why does deleting the .ini's work on it's own, but alt-tabbing the game at launch can bypass the issues with the .ini files?!
This is still not an ideal "fix"(better than deleting the .ini files every time) especially since
A. This never happened a few months back on 3.2.5, but randomly started happening a few weeks ago when I got back into SPT.
B. Practically nobody else is having this issue/this shouldn't be happening
New list of things that I have tried to do but failed to work:
- Deleting the .ini files, then letting official tarkov generate them, then playing and restarting spt still causes the issue.
- Checked for Windows updates, found one and installed it, issue still persists.
- Tried editing my .ini files to what someone else has for 3.4.1, but freezing still happens.
If requested I can DM individuals my .ini files(via google drive link).
Minor update:
With the help of gopher#4809 from the SPT discord, him and I have narrowed down the problem to the game.ini and sound.ini files being the culprits. Deleting either/both of them let's the game launch without freezing. So maybe it's something to do with how SPT reads these .ini's that got messed up on my and _HEELS_ computers.
Seriously if anyone can offer help at all PLEASE DO SO.