After careful study, I have discovered that almost all of my crashes take place within the Nordenwatch scenario. I want to attribute my crashing issues with the game code alone, but I think nVidia and EA Mythic need to sync up and get some fixes into the next driver version. I wanted to take some notes on the current drivers I am using: 177.92. I will now move on to 177.79. More on that soon.
Try 175.19. I've never crashed except when alt tabbing.
These days, aside from video drivers, I find sound drivers or codecs to cause most crashes.
I had loads of sound card issues w/ Mass Effect that I fixed up... and a messed up Bink codec made Assassins Creed's sounds skip to a point it was unplayable, and common crashes.
If those drivers dont fix your problem, try removing your sound card and disabling any on board sound, and see if you still crash.
I am hesitant to use 175.19. I still play City of Heroes on occasion and with that version, the game won't load properly. I had to roll back to 175.16 in order to remedy the problem. I will try it out with Warhammer though just to isolate the issue.
Sound will probably be the next experiment since uninstalling Creative's trash drivers are more of a hassle.
lol, dont you hate how you have to switch up drivers for all your new games these days. I actually started using these damn ones because they are one of the few that didnt give problems with Mass Effect lol.. but I ended up keeping them due to good performance. I'm very tired of getting new drivers every game for the last year or 2 though.
With a little spurring on from this thread, I have actually spent the last couple hours researching drivers. Her's what I came up with. I actually grabbed the latest set of omega drivers.
I ran 3dmark before with the latest beta drivers from nvidia . Scored a 12,945
ran again with the omega drivers. scored a 13,400.
So, I am a se preorder and as such can't test in game until tuesday, but have read glowing reviews on a few sites about the omega drivers , and at least as far as 3dmark is concerned, i did see an improvement.
Not advocating them, just throwing it out there as an option.
I'm on my laptop atm, so I don't have my driver version or exact settings. However, I will note that I had to slightly lower my memory overclock with WAR to eliminate crashes. Same settings that have been fine with other games seemed too aggressive for WAR.
I lowered the memory clock on the card by 5 Mhz and had no further crashes.
I use an EVGA 8800GTX, GDDR 3, 768MB, PCI-E Superclocked that I bought a few years back when they were top of the line. At this time I have had no graphic issues with WH.
Could you post the driver version you are currently using? Much appreciated!
After trying every driver version available, removing my Sound Blaster X-Fi, and completely reinstalling the game, I finally came to a resolution.
This isn't an outside problem, dependent on drivers, hardware components, or the likes. My solution was turning the graphics settings all the way down (including cache slider). Albeit a less desirable fix, I was able to play for 2 hours without a single crash.
The game will look like crud at those settings, but at least it will work until Mythic gets a patch out. I will submit a bug report to them tomorrow.
Ya jinxed me Stellus. Last night my computer started crashing in Spore, Warhammer and then I couldn't get a picture to show up on my monitor. Did some spring cleaning and that didn't help. Let it cool off for the night and it's sorta working atm. Went ahead and updated to newest drivers, so we'll see how it will hold up. Too scarrreed to load Spore or Warhammer up.
After trying every driver version available, removing my Sound Blaster X-Fi, and completely reinstalling the game, I finally came to a resolution. This isn't an outside problem, dependent on drivers, hardware components, or the likes. My solution was turning the graphics settings all the way down (including cache slider). Albeit a less desirable fix, I was able to play for 2 hours without a single crash. The game will look like crud at those settings, but at least it will work until Mythic gets a patch out. I will submit a bug report to them tomorrow.
What Bios are you running on your mobo Stellus? Make sure it is the latest version for your motherboard. I have an XFX 8800gtx and run with no problems on an 680i Asus board.
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BIOS is updated to the newest revision, P32 I think (eVGA). Like I said, Warhammer is the only game that gives me problems. All others run fine at max settings with no problem. I suspect the game code to be the culprit and will need sorted out by the developers. LOTRO had the same issue during its launch but Turbine (finally) sorted that out.
After I turn the graphics down, no more crash. I assume the shaders or textures may not be allocated into memory correctly. I played for a little over 2 hours last night without a hitch. Heat is not an issue either - 58 C idle, 75 C load.
Hopefully this helps others who are experiencing problems. It may look cruddy, but at least you get to play :$
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Try 175.19. I've never crashed except when alt tabbing.
These days, aside from video drivers, I find sound drivers or codecs to cause most crashes.
I had loads of sound card issues w/ Mass Effect that I fixed up... and a messed up Bink codec made Assassins Creed's sounds skip to a point it was unplayable, and common crashes.
If those drivers dont fix your problem, try removing your sound card and disabling any on board sound, and see if you still crash.
I am hesitant to use 175.19. I still play City of Heroes on occasion and with that version, the game won't load properly. I had to roll back to 175.16 in order to remedy the problem. I will try it out with Warhammer though just to isolate the issue.
Sound will probably be the next experiment since uninstalling Creative's trash drivers are more of a hassle.
lol, dont you hate how you have to switch up drivers for all your new games these days. I actually started using these damn ones because they are one of the few that didnt give problems with Mass Effect lol.. but I ended up keeping them due to good performance. I'm very tired of getting new drivers every game for the last year or 2 though.
I use a eVGA 8800 GTX 768M PCI-E driver 175.16 64bit under Windows XP64
I have had a few crashes to desktop within scenario. Out side I do suffer from the stutter issue but never crash.
With a little spurring on from this thread, I have actually spent the last couple hours researching drivers. Her's what I came up with. I actually grabbed the latest set of omega drivers.
I ran 3dmark before with the latest beta drivers from nvidia . Scored a 12,945
ran again with the omega drivers. scored a 13,400.
So, I am a se preorder and as such can't test in game until tuesday, but have read glowing reviews on a few sites about the omega drivers , and at least as far as 3dmark is concerned, i did see an improvement.
Not advocating them, just throwing it out there as an option.
I'm on my laptop atm, so I don't have my driver version or exact settings. However, I will note that I had to slightly lower my memory overclock with WAR to eliminate crashes. Same settings that have been fine with other games seemed too aggressive for WAR.
I lowered the memory clock on the card by 5 Mhz and had no further crashes.
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Could you post the driver version you are currently using? Much appreciated!
I also found Guru3D's 177.98 discovery here:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/ForceWare-177.98-Vista-(64-bit)-download-2055.html
Using v. 175.16. Looked at .19, but see no reason to mess with it.
Hmm well I'm using the 177.92 from the PowerPack which integrates PhysX
http://www.nvidia.com/content/forcewithin/us/download.asp
On 64bit Vista Home Premium and don't remember any crashes or particularly bad stutter.
After trying every driver version available, removing my Sound Blaster X-Fi, and completely reinstalling the game, I finally came to a resolution.
This isn't an outside problem, dependent on drivers, hardware components, or the likes. My solution was turning the graphics settings all the way down (including cache slider). Albeit a less desirable fix, I was able to play for 2 hours without a single crash.
The game will look like crud at those settings, but at least it will work until Mythic gets a patch out. I will submit a bug report to them tomorrow.
Ya jinxed me Stellus. Last night my computer started crashing in Spore, Warhammer and then I couldn't get a picture to show up on my monitor. Did some spring cleaning and that didn't help. Let it cool off for the night and it's sorta working atm. Went ahead and updated to newest drivers, so we'll see how it will hold up. Too scarrreed to load Spore or Warhammer up.
What Bios are you running on your mobo Stellus? Make sure it is the latest version for your motherboard. I have an XFX 8800gtx and run with no problems on an 680i Asus board.
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|X| \*........*/ |X|
|X|_________|X|
You wouldn't understand
BIOS is updated to the newest revision, P32 I think (eVGA). Like I said, Warhammer is the only game that gives me problems. All others run fine at max settings with no problem. I suspect the game code to be the culprit and will need sorted out by the developers. LOTRO had the same issue during its launch but Turbine (finally) sorted that out.
After I turn the graphics down, no more crash. I assume the shaders or textures may not be allocated into memory correctly. I played for a little over 2 hours last night without a hitch. Heat is not an issue either - 58 C idle, 75 C load.
Hopefully this helps others who are experiencing problems. It may look cruddy, but at least you get to play :$
I have this same hardware and I'm running vista 64. I've never crashed even after playing 12 hours...
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In hopes of narrowing down possibilities, list off some hardware so we can see if there are some setups that cause it while others do not.
I'll get it started: Intel Quad, 4GB DDR2-1066, eVGA 680i SLI mobo - Crashes