Dead Rising 3:Day One Edition, freezes every 5 minutes

Recently I digitally purchased Dead Rising 3: Day One Edition, and much to my chagrin found that it froze 5 minutes into gameplay. Preceding the freeze, level of detail (LOD) would stop and so textures would look blocky, smaller items would stop spawning, and no voice tracks would play (with subtitles enabled, you will see the caption, no voice). As it turns out, I may not be the only one.

After discovering DR3 is continuously placing me in a "party" when I start up, I surmised the periodic freezes were online-related (barring something more pathological in their level-streaming, the fact the game is taking online action without my explicit action raised my suspicion).

Some experimentation later, I have found a technique that seems to work quite well:

1. Clear game state (eg start a different XboxOne game, or simply power console off and then back on)
2. Start Dead Rising 3
3. While it is loading or at title screen
• Start Party App, and leave party if you are a member of one
• Unplug network cable
4. Continue playing

This seems to let me play continuously without freezing, but clearly multiplayer will be completely neutered.

Update:

Not sure when they fixed this, but as of Thurs 13 Feb, DR3 is playable online.