Game crashing every couple of hours
By
Kron,
Posted on: 2011-10-11 24:54 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at October 11, 2011 20:50 (+01:00)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.101209-1647)
System Manufacturer: Acer
System Model: Aspire 3690
BIOS: Ver 1.00PARTTBL
Central Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M CPU 420 @ 1.60GHz
Memory: 2038MB
.Net Memory Report: 1532MB out of 2038MB available
Page File: 5380MB (541MB currently in use)
C Drive: (TOSHIBA MK6034GAX) 3294MB out of 25857MB (12%) free
D Drive: (TOSHIBA MK6034GAX) 11564MB out of 26351MB (43%) free
E Drive: (PHILIPS CDRW/DVD SCB5265) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DirectX Diag version: 5.03.2600.5512 (32-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Video Device Name: Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family
Manufacturer / Chip: Intel Corporation / Intel(R) GMA 950
Video Memory: 64.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.4926
Driver Date: 01/01/0001 00:00:00
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Realtek HD Audio output
Driver File: RtkHDAud.sys
Driver Version: 5.10.0000.5273
Driver Date: 01/01/0001 00:00:00
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Acer
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: Grapevine
Motherboard Version: N/A
BIOS Manufacturer: Acer
BIOS Name: Ver 1.00PARTTBL
BIOS Version: PTLTD - 6040000
BIOS Release: 20061110000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1024x768
3D Resolution: 1024x768 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes
Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: Unknown (0)
Anisotropic Filtering: None
Texture LOD Bias: Crisp
Water Effects: None
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: No
Shader Detail: Unknown (4)
World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Medium
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Disabled
Shadow Map Shader: Low quality
Environmental Reflections: Disabled
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Off
Blur: Bilateral
Ambient Resolution: Performance
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.600
Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1850.201009101722.11T2
Installation Directory: D:\Games downloaded\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
. has 50 files
.\sound\ogg\powers has 4 files
Only other program running is MS virus protection. Have tried it with that switched off, still crashes. Like I say can play fine for a few hours, or crash quicker, but never immediately.
Hmmm, temperature maybe?
It looks like the same problem a lot of people are getting at the moment which is that 2Gb basically isn't enough RAM to run the game and all the other bits and pieces needed to keep Windows up and running.
The real "solution" is to stick a 64-bit operating system and a couple of gigs more RAM into your PC, but in the interim there is a "workaround" posted here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=273543 which might help you. Please read the whole thread so that you're aware of the caveats.
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My Characters
CoX Chatlog Parser
Last.fm Feed
I know my rig is ancient, but I was playing CoH reasonably enough at the beginning of the year. Since coming back I presume some new function in the game is affecting me.
Repeatable crash that I have now learnt not to do, but may be related. Going up two lvls, eg level up to 5 add the enhancement slots and then quickly click on lvl up again and start to choose your 6th lvl power the game crashes when the lvl 5 contacts pop-up. Does not do this if I only level up to 5.
Other crashes are far more random. The latest was me superspeeding in City Hall in Atlas -I hope it is not a speed of travel/graphics draw problem. Like I say I have a bit of game lag, and mothership raids are an amusing still life picture but never used to actually crash on me
Clipboard text from the latest crash -possibly out of Virtual memory? - I was allowing Windows to control it, but have customed sized it to 2 gigs as per forum suggestion.
Also should I have Virtual memory on both partitions of my hard? I didn't and CoH is on the second partition.
./piggs/stage3f.pigg: Failed memory allocation
Read failed for file: texture_library/WORLD/organizations/phalanx/interior/phalnx_cielingglow01.texture
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The game ran out of memory and must now exit.
Either that or because ceiling is spelt wrong in the piggy file...