Coh crashing

Hey sorry if this is in the wrong section.

So I just recently started playing city of heroes again. I haven't played it since I got my new gfx card (I think) so idk what's going on.

It seems it crashes around 4 times a day, and someone the display driver will fail and recover.

My graphics card is a Radeon HD 6950 2 gb which I believe is up to date.

That sucks...what should I do?

Uninstall your drivers, reinstall earlier drivers. It's about all you can do until ATI fixes the issue.

Here are download links for 11.4, which is the last driver that has worked for just about everyone.
Vista / Windows 7 64-bit
Vista / Windows 7 32-bit
Windows XP

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

Do you know when they released the latest driver? Because maybe they will release a new version soon.

Alright I'm on 1.4 now. Hopefully the crashing stops and hopefully a new driver that fixes it will be released soon.

I'm still crashing like once or twice a day, this is ******* pissing me off :|

One more thing worth mentioning - I'm using the 11.3 drivers, which are stable, and I've been avoiding updating them since, because every single version since then has had problems reported with CoH (though for most people the 11.4 works). Might be worth going one further back.

I'm going to try 11.3. This is ******* pissing me off, I've crashed 3 times, one of which required me to restart my whole ******* computer, within the last 30 minutes.

I crash all the time hoping next patch fixes it. I am on an NVidia GTX 460 and had old drivers and tried new.

In Praetoria I literally crash everytime after exiting a mission. In the normal world I crash about every hour or so.



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Ultimus: I know very little about drivers or why they crash, but judging by the error message in that screenshot, you were victim of a memory leak, rather than a crashed driver. That's an issue with the game itself, and has been around for awhile. Here's hoping they can find it and plug it soon.

Also, holy <insert deity here> that's a large screenshot. Maybe shrink it down next time?

1 make sure you used the driver cleaner. If any bit of the previous drivers are still active it will mess with City of.
2. If 11.4 doesn't work , 11.2 should.
3. If you are using windows 7 you should set aero to disable during play (yeah it makes the desktop so plain but it will auto reset afterward). You do this by right clicking the icon you usually use ->properties->open file location.. then find cityofheroes.exe again right click->properties->compatibility-> and uncheck desktop themes and composition.

Technically composition alone should work but if you have some funky icon/widget things going on you want to disable the theme too. City of also prefers to run as admin and will require it to disable the desktop theme (so check that too).

I seem to recall people complaining that the NCLauncher can be a bit of a resource hog if left open. If you haven't already, it might be worth opening the launcher; then File, Settings, and switch the "After launching a game:" dropdown to "Exit Launcher".

There isn't really anything that can be done to avoid it entirely, but to increase the amount of time between crashes, run as few programs as you can get away with while playing. Use of /unloadgfx after zoning may or may not help. If upgrading system memory is an option, you can do that.

Basically, maximize the amount of system memory the game has available to it. The game, over time, uses more and more system memory, until it reaches the point where there isn't anymore. Then it crashes. This is a flaw in the programming code of the game, so it's on the devs to find the problem and fix it. The more memory your computer has, the longer you can go without running out.