Constant Crashing since i19 pre downloader

As the title says I have been constantly crashing since I downloaded the pre i19 download.

I can stay in the game for up to 10 minutes at best before the game decides to crash.

As you can imagine it has become unplayable, Is this a known issue?

I have an ati Mobility Radeon HD 5870. Could that be a part of it? Athough I have not had any problems with that card so far.

Also: The game will come screetching to a halt everytime i open the contacts window. Have tested this multiple times and it happens everytime.

I've been having the same problems, I'm not at my main computer right now but as soon as i can I'll post any specs that might be needed if needed. also it's not just the game that crashes it crashes my entire computer forcing me to restart.

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I've got a 5870 as well, so it's not that. All fine here.
My stuff:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
AMD Phenom II x6 (the big one.. 1090T I think? I'd have to go check) at standard clock speed (3.2GHz).
8 GB RAM (DDR2 800)
Sapphire 5870 Vapor-X
Latest drivers.
No problem on the Live servers.
more HDD space than is good for me...

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Originally Posted by McNum Between the Loyalists and Resistance, I'd be tempted to support Praetorian Hamidon. One side uses mind police and will "disappear" you and the other uses poison gas and bombs on civilians. Hamidon? He'll just have a tree eat you. Much simpler. If we're all going to be oppressed and/or killed by someone, it might as well be the walking trees. At least they don't speak in annoying code or doublespeak. They just devour you.

Yup getting the same problem here too.

Apparently quite a few people ingame that I know have been having this problem.

Have you tried deleting the downloaded file?

So heres the thing,

After much faffing around I still havn't solved the problem.

So far it is only affecting one character that just so happens to be my main character!

The problems are detailed above.

What I have done so far is:

Deleted the MAJORPATCH file. - Problem persists

Uninstalled COH and reinstalled from Ncsoft - Problem persists

Have Fully updated graphics drivers - Problem persists

Unistalled and deleted all files relating to COH and copied over from older laptop that has not recieved updates - problem persists

Vflashd BIOS as last resort, I own a G73jh which can have problems with GSOD so did the fix - Problem persists.

I'm starting to believe it has somthing to do with my ultra mode settings as I can log in to my affected character on lower end machines and close the contacts window which triggers a crash. This enables me to log in on my main machine and move around normally and try changing to lower settings which have resulted in grey lines.
Even if i do not open the contacts window I will still crash within 10 mins.

Like I said this is only affecting ONE character that just so happens to be my favourite and most played. Other characters on the same acount with the same graphics setting on the same machine are problem free.

UPDATE: I can play as normal, apparantly until I open the contacts window (was playing for around an hour with no upset untill touching contacts tab).

I just came in to see if anyone else was having issues while opening the contacts list. Mine started after the small patch the other day. After the Halloween event, I first started having a problem with crashing during the Ritki raids, which had not been an issue for a very long time before that. I updated my graphics driver, again (there was another a few weeks ago), and that seemed to help. But, since the raids are over and there was some kind of mini-update the other day (after I logged off), I cannot open my contacts list (especially tips) without crashing. I have had problems with WW and a few other things which open separate windows being sluggish as well. All seem to be possibly text related or that need to open a separate window, if that makes sense. Today, I tried 3 times to log in a toon and as soon as I went to the contact list, it immediately froze up. This is really getting frustrating.

All of my graphics settings are on the lowest levels, set for performance. I can't even think about using ultra-mode because it puts me in slo-mo.

Seems I'm not the only one.

Has anyone else gotten the same problem when they also try and access the Tailor or select a new costume using the Options dropdown? (NOT when you just use /cce 0 or somesuch)

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Hey, something that folks might want to try (since this seems to have worked for me):

I tried disabling the Geometry Buffers to see if that would resolve the issue for me (while leaving everything else maxed out in Ultra Mode), and voila, no more problems. Contact windows, dialogue boxes, tailor stuff, all of it now works. If you're running into the same problem, give it a go and see what happens.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Just to confirm, neither disabling the Geometry buffers or applying the AMD hotfix has worked for me

Me, too. And I'm not happy.

I'm an advanced user and I know how to troubleshoot. And I know how to obtain and post the data that is customarily used by the experts here to help people get their bugs fixed. And I really appreciate that people are willing to help.

Trouble is, this has always been a crashy game and it doesn't help that the builds change regularly. Sometimes they work for me 100%, and the next one comes by and breaks it. I just today realized that, although I enjoy the game very much, I'm no longer willing to put the effort into getting it to work that it seems to require.

It's not my rig. It runs everything else, including apps that are much more demanding from a 3D standpoint, without breaking a sweat or dipping below 30 fps.

Anyway, I'll try it again after the release of i19 - which is a large part of the problem, I suspect - but if it doesn't become much more stable very soon I'm inclined to move on.

Please spare the flames - this is for the devs. If other players have the time and energy to make it work and it's still fun for you, best of luck and more power to you. But I suspect that I'm not the only one reaching the breaking point with this i19 fiasco.

Sorry to hear that, Tommy. For some reason I always view those types of posts with more sadness and regret.. than relief that my system seems to defy odds and not have problems with CoH (Or whatever other program is in question at the time. Although another game I recently purchased just doesn't want to work, at all. I guess I'll wait for the US release and repurchase it, at this point).
I personally hope that i21 involves a complete code-rewrite, even if that means that we only get one new Issue next year (although they'd be silly to release only that.. so if it does -by some miracle- happen They may just aim for something like i22 and put it on slow cook).
I'm positive this game has just had too much stuff tacked on. Sort of a "feature bloat" situation (CoV, GR, Ultra Mode, new Events, etc), where re-writing the game so the code is designed with support for these features (And some "possibly in the future" ones? Please?) from the ground up instead of being extended. I don't envy them such a task though.. not having done some programming before....

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Originally Posted by McNum Between the Loyalists and Resistance, I'd be tempted to support Praetorian Hamidon. One side uses mind police and will "disappear" you and the other uses poison gas and bombs on civilians. Hamidon? He'll just have a tree eat you. Much simpler. If we're all going to be oppressed and/or killed by someone, it might as well be the walking trees. At least they don't speak in annoying code or doublespeak. They just devour you.

Questions:

Does it occur in Safe Mode?

Have you tried muting the sound in Windows?

I had issues with CoH due to a conflict with my virus scanner, which when I muted the system stopped occuring. Also running in safe mode helped isolate the issue.

I run CoX on two machines. Both have been very stable until this pre-download.

Now I am getting crash after crash. Sometimes with a message "needs to close" other times right to desktop without a message. It's on both machines.

Yesterday I crashed about five times within one hour - both machines.

This is pretty shoddy and while it seems that each issue gets more buggy this is a new low.

Please take some Dev time and go and find the problem and fix it. I pay you to play not to spend my time hunting bugs; that's what you are paid for. Nothing on my end has changed except the pre download. Nothing. Therefore the problem is at your door.

I am confused by this, the patch hasn't even applied to CoX yet. Its same as downloading a new MIDS and not installing it then having your old MIDS crash all the time. How can a downloaded un-applied file affect your game content now?

Hey I'm not alone! Well, thats sort of a relief, sort of not. It seems to happen consistently on my main on beta (Which is where I first crashed), and then sometimes on other characters.

I'm about to sprint out the door to work but I'll leave this here for you folks to check into and other techs here to comment on.

There are known problems with both the RivaTuner and EVGA Precision tool. If they are running and you try to open a contact window, a tailor window,
an auction house window or many other items then these programs cause the game to freeze.

I had this happen today when I tried to select the DayJobs Tab from that same list. FWIW, I'd started with Closest to Completion open, then I switched to Contacts, then Missions no problem, then to Accolades = fine, it was DayJobs that (seemingly caused me to crash) But, I'm starting to think it's way more random than people are guessing...

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville City of Heroes didn't fail, City of Heroes was killed. If a 747 dropped on your house, you'd say you were killed, not you failed to find a safer dwelling.

Hi all

I have been having the same problem with crashes on opening the contacts tabs

ATI 5870 here as well

I have been able to narrow it down to only toons with "The Television" as a contact crash on opening the contacts tab. (its ok in safe mode)

Everyone else is fine

Can you run in safe mode and confirm that the crashes are happening only on toons that have that contact.

Please log a suport ticket if this is the case. Im sure customer support think I'm crazy.

Recent responce from them is that no one else is having this problem

Hello,

I've returned from to CoH after about a year off....New computer for me running
WIndows 7 (64 bit)
AMD Athlon II X2 220 Dual Core Processor
4 gigs ram ((DDR 3))
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE 430 integrated graphic card

and i'm having the same problems with crashes on some characters.


I've tried reinstalling, making sure my drivers are current and so forth but nothing seems to help. I'm getting the crashes on some of my characters ((mostly villains))....i noticed something odd though...the latest patch notes say that the current version of the game is 1900.201011102104.26 but the updater says it's version 1800.201002171501.1 and when i go into the coh folder and look at what version the game is there it says 1900.201011102104.27 so this is really really weird.

I have ALL my grpahics options set for performance rather than quality and the game runs fine on some characters but other characters are flat out unplayable because it crashes as soon as i log onto them.

Any idea's?

You might want to go to your CoH folder and delete CoH.checksum. Then click your CoH desktop shorcut, and let the checksum rebuild itself. (You might have some corrupt files.) When it's done, do a defrag, verify files and try to enter the game. Good luck, and hope that works!