Seems like the new patch didn't fix it, it only made it worse. Now it's 10 second freeze every 1-2 minutes in above normal-heavy battles. It'd be...
You do realize that there was another thread about this freezing and it was moved here...
But not only it randomly freezes, the game suddenly also uses my CPU a LOT more.
There is a thread already about it. https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/hitching-or-freezing.206026/#post-2994585
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