Crashing often during the LGTF
By
Coyote_Seven,
Posted on: 2009-08-12 02:42 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Because it only happens after you've been playing awhile, it could be an overheating issue, but that's just a guess since you supplied no information about your system.
SpeedFan was on and monitoring my GPU temp, which tended to stay around 52C last night, only reaching 60C at one point. My videocard (GeForce 7800 GS) has gotten as high as 65C with no ill effects. Likewise, my CPU (Athlon XP 3200+) never got any hotter than about 53C last night.
Playing for a while isn't the sole cause, because before joining the TF last night I had already been playing the game for a while, and I also played it for two hours the night before, and there were no crashes at all during those times. I crashed once during the second to last mission on the TF, and several more times during the final mission. The only thing I can think of is that each time, there was a flurry of combat activity around me, and heavy lag.
If it was a RAM issue, I'd have expected such crashes to happen a lot more randomly. I suppose it could be a driver issue, thought a few nights ago I had participated in a zombie raid in Steel Canyon, which was also a flurry of combat activity around me and heavy lag, and there was no crashing that time.
I would try an uninstall and reinstall of the video driver...not sure which exactly is going to be best for your 7800gs, probably stick with the version you have. Also, you could try updating your Direct X.
If you still have problems, I would run at least 5 passes with memtest86 to rule out the RAM.
The game has been unstable for me since just before double-xp weekend. It has nothing to do with my computer, it's the game client that is buggy. I've /bug'd it a few times to no avail.
In case you're wondering it crashes on both WindowsVista SP2 and Windows7 RC. ATI HD4800 series video card with the latest drivers. Yes I tried the suggested video driver crash fix and no it didn't help because it isn't the video driver.
I am on a verge of having to find a new game to play and it makes me sad.
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I did this about two months ago when I was having problems with Caesar IV, of all things. Because the game would crash and cause a reset if I tried to play it in windowed mode. Attempting to update the video drivers caused a whole other set of problems to occur; most notably, the 7800gs would not respond to the most recent nVidia drivers, no matter what I tried to do. They'd install ok, but there was some apparent bug with trying to get the drivers and the video card to actually communicate with one another. I finally had no choice but to re-install the older drivers.|
Originally Posted by darksky7700
I would try an uninstall and reinstall of the video driver...not sure which exactly is going to be best for your 7800gs, probably stick with the version you have. Also, you could try updating your Direct X.
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| If you still have problems, I would run at least 5 passes with memtest86 to rule out the RAM. |
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At this point I'm more likely to believe it's instability in the game itself, as no other game I'm currently playing is causing this kind of behavior, on my computer. Still, it's perplexing; my friend who lives downstairs from me and who also plays CoH on a computer with very similar (but not exact) specs as my own has not been experiencing these kinds of crashes.|
Originally Posted by dansul
The game has been unstable for me since just before double-xp weekend. It has nothing to do with my computer, it's the game client that is buggy. I've /bug'd it a few times to no avail.
In case you're wondering it crashes on both WindowsVista SP2 and Windows7 RC. ATI HD4800 series video card with the latest drivers. Yes I tried the suggested video driver crash fix and no it didn't help because it isn't the video driver. I am on a verge of having to find a new game to play and it makes me sad. |
I suppose when I get home tonight, I ought to put up the exact specs of my machine here, which might help to figure out exactly what's going on.
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I didn't suggest you use the most recent drivers, but do a fresh reinstall of the version you have.
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Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
I did this about two months ago when I was having problems with Caesar IV, of all things. Because the game would crash and cause a reset if I tried to play it in windowed mode. Attempting to update the video drivers caused a whole other set of problems to occur; most notably, the 7800gs would not respond to the most recent nVidia drivers, no matter what I tried to do. They'd install ok, but there was some apparent bug with trying to get the drivers and the video card to actually communicate with one another. I finally had no choice but to re-install the older drivers.
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Well, I just finished the LGTF, which shouldn't have been a big deal really since I've done it so many times already. But as the TF wore on, the game would totally crash more and more often. It was the kind of crash where the screen would go black and the soundcard would loop what was in its buffer over and over. The only option was the reset button.
It must have happened about a half dozen times, most of those on the final mission. It was very annoying.
I should note that didn't happen until I got late into the TF, and no one else seemed to be crashing (though there was one team member who mysteriously disappeared early on and never came back, so who knows). I'd been running the game for about two hours before I decided to join the TF, and there were no crashes at all at that time. And I'd been playing just fine for the past week now. So yeah, I have no idea!