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Win 10 issue

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 10:56 am
by aaron22
i had to get some new hardware and it is running win 10. after a few days of playing with it, i am experiencing crashes that seem to be caused by some graphical issue. the hardware should be more than capable of running the game. running the client extension with the auto-pathing disabled seems to help, but does not eliminate the issue.

does anyone know what might be going on here?

Re: Win 10 issue

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:05 am
by Zanniej
My first bet would be to update your video drivers.
Then I'd ask you if you're using skywings ...

After that ... no clue :lol:

Re: Win 10 issue

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:13 am
by aaron22
Zanniej wrote:My first bet would be to update your video drivers.
Then I'd ask you if you're using skywings ...

After that ... no clue :lol:
yes and yes.

windows does give me an explanation of the failure, but i do not remember what it is. when i get home, i will post the full description as given by the OS. perhaps that will help.

Re: Win 10 issue

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:36 am
by Theodore01
Reinstalling the (old) directx runtime is often a good start.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa ... px?id=8109

Re: Win 10 issue

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 1:00 pm
by Hoihe
aaron22 wrote:
Zanniej wrote:My first bet would be to update your video drivers.
Then I'd ask you if you're using skywings ...

After that ... no clue :lol:
yes and yes.

windows does give me an explanation of the failure, but i do not remember what it is. when i get home, i will post the full description as given by the OS. perhaps that will help.

Was it a BSOD? WhoCrashed can get crash dumps.

Re: Win 10 issue

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 1:18 pm
by aaron22
Hoihe wrote:Was it a BSOD? WhoCrashed can get crash dumps
way over my head. i do not know that much about computers. i can barely figure out how to install the CE.

Re: Win 10 issue

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 1:38 pm
by DM Key
You can try to play the game in compability mode

Re: Win 10 issue

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 1:53 pm
by Incarnate
aaron22 wrote:
Hoihe wrote:Was it a BSOD? WhoCrashed can get crash dumps
way over my head. i do not know that much about computers. i can barely figure out how to install the CE.
When the game crashed was it the entire computer that crashed or just the game? If it was the computer, did you get a BSOD, also known as Blue Screen of Death - Basically a blue screen with a lot of information including the error code? Though it sounds like its just the game crashing.

Update your computer's drivers, especially the video drivers, but the error can come from a variety of things.

Re: Win 10 issue

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 1:57 pm
by chad878262
compatibility mode in an earlier windows version can help, also right click and run as administrator.

Re: Win 10 issue

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 2:26 pm
by aaron22
Incarnate wrote:
aaron22 wrote:
Hoihe wrote:Was it a BSOD? WhoCrashed can get crash dumps
way over my head. i do not know that much about computers. i can barely figure out how to install the CE.
When the game crashed was it the entire computer that crashed or just the game? If it was the computer, did you get a BSOD, also known as Blue Screen of Death - Basically a blue screen with a lot of information including the error code? Though it sounds like its just the game crashing.

Update your computer's drivers, especially the video drivers, but the error can come from a variety of things.
i see. no comp runs fine. what happens is screen goes black then a second later windows shuts down the application and win10 then tells me something like the graphics caused a fault and closed the application. if i try running without CE it runs pretty well. i can try running the game all night tonight without the client extension. but with the CE but not disabling the movement prediction thing, /mpredict, it wont go 20 mins before it crashes. with move predict disabled it will last much longer. but still crashed about 6 times last night (4hrs) on that machine. once in soubar. thrice in naga cave. once in yuan-ti dungeon. and one more time in troll cave.

i will try running without CE and if it still crashes. i will then try to run on admin. after that i will try running it compatibility mode.

Re: Win 10 issue

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 3:27 pm
by Aspect of Sorrow
Download the DX9.0c redis here , run DXSETUP.exe as admin. Set in game visuals to lowest save for the resolution.

Re: Win 10 issue

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:04 am
by aaron22
ran it last night on admin mode with out the CE all night and had no crashes.

Re: Win 10 issue

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 1:57 am
by Blackman D
win10 pretty much hates games, most all old ones have to be ran in compatibility mode and admin

nwn2 and some of my others also have to be ran as windowed and not full screen or else it will freeze when you try to change settings, i dont run CE tho so not sure if you will get that one at some point