drasticontrast: I installed Complete 2009, and now, inevitably when I'm running or in combat, the game will freeze. It will take 30+ seconds for it to unfreeze. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, 8Gb RAM, Radeon HD 6670. Game is at 1080P, but most other settings are reduced.

Sachys: Short freezes are common in SoC anyways due to the a-life (though 30 seconds is a bit much), but also SoC only works on one core. Presuming with that setup you have a dual core (or more), set the affinity to a single core in task manager and see if that helps.

Sachys: If its places like the entrance to bar, halfway across dark valley, inbetween the village and the train car / small bridge in cordon etc... thats normal - as far as I remember it can help to add the no prefetch command line, but ive never bothered myself. I can tell you theres a notable difference between running SoC on my old PC and the new one in regards to freezing though - the pause is greatly reduced so i'd definately see if you can optimise your settings a little more (likely complete mod won't be helping either).

drasticontrast:

ekj7: 30 seconds is pretty extreme. Usually it's a half-second pause and maybe 2 seconds when you come close to a large group of NPCs and it has to run the scripts for all of them.

Any idea what your system is doing during this 30s wait? Is your hard drive light going crazy? If so, maybe there's an issue with your page file and the system is swapping back and forth between memory and disk excessively. Check your page file settings (usually, "let windows handle it all" is just fine) and that you have some space free on the drive that holds your page file.

Another thing to try is disable your anti-virus before playing the game to see if it makes a difference. Sometimes anti-virus will scan large files every time they are accessed and cause long wait times.