190 replies to this topic

[Houseckat]

Add me to the list of black screeners. Pissy 'cause I just shelled out for a catapult, too.

Australian, usually 250-350 ping range.

Tried three times, Alt-tab made no difference in any, waited 10 minutes in the final trial to no effect. Have not experienced crash to desktop or return to Mechlab frontend. And to think I was considering purchasing some MC, too.

[Affront692]

I just wanted to say i been doing testing grounds several times and this problem does not occur. So i doubt its driver related.

Also about 20% of the time and after about 1 minute of the black screen i will get this error

CryEngine Error
 
Fread did not read expected number of bye from file, only 128 of 0 bytes read

I had the CryEngone error in the previous patch but Support did help me fix it and it was resolved and i played for 3 weeks without getting the CryEngine Error. It seems to be back in this patch but only occurs 20% of the time where in the previous patch it occured 100% of the time

Edited by Affront692, 03 April 2013 - 05:30 AM.

[Devolton]

From Singapore, I must say it scary to see so many of us have the same problem. Me include and i get total black screen once enter a match. Driver all updated so is the graphic diver 314. Sad sad

[RDL Predator]

The most surprising thing is that newly added MC-stuff works fine, but basic game still has a lot of bugs. Developers continue adding new paid and well-working features, turning a blind eye to a great number of most important issues which need to be dealt with. And this makes me wonder what is more important for devs - one-time incomes or increasing players number. And I agree with the guy that said "a $35 mech but no bug fixes."

[Arkyn]

This is pretty frustrating. I only just returned over the weekend from a few months away from MWO because I was a bit frustrated by the engine bugs and game balance. After a few days of play it seemed things were better but clearly not.

[zeninsight]

hmpphhh... 6 out of 8 drop are blacksreened!! from indonesia roughly around 290 ms latency.. disaster patch

[Gaureth]

I wonder if it is mech or loadout related. Been noticing the black screen more on my D-DC

[Aristarchus]

Same problem here, usually get around 260 ping.

[ShinVector]

Same issue getting the delayed loading issue on join. I am around 250ms too.
But so far I have been lucky. The slowest load is about 1 min.

[Yel Lo Wang]

Another victim from Singapore. Usual 250-350 ping. Experience per what the above 9 pages of posts said. Nvidia 314 drivers, everything was fine before the patch.

[Delas Ting Usee]

Arcturious, on 02 April 2013 - 12:26 PM, said:

Same issue, 250 ping here. Running tests now so far tried shader cache refresh, now about to try user.cfg removal. Will post back if can isolate something non driver related, as is happening to ATI and NVIDIA. Should also mention, the 2 games I've managed to get into, I wasn't able to participate in chat, mini map was bugged in one etc. Even getting in still has weird issues. Edit/Update: Ok, not user.cfg or FOV issue, still happening. Looking at my log: ============================ PrepareLevel frozencity ============================ Initializing default materials... [Error] Runaway thread and ============================ Loading level mechlab ============================ Initializing default materials... ======== mechlab is loaded in 3.4 sec ======== [Error] Runaway thread [Error] Runaway thread [Error] Runaway thread [Error] Runaway thread [Error] Runaway thread Log is full of runaway threads. Investigation ongoing.

Same exact problem here. Same Ping numbers too!

[slightest]

same as everyone else. tried 2 matches, never managed to get past black screen on both. maybe it's the new Night Vision that devs promised.

i've always known that with each patch, PGI ends up breaking things more than fixing things. but this is so crappy, it's a whole new level altogether.

[Rocdocta]

fchicken, on 02 April 2013 - 12:38 PM, said:

I get this problem. Playing from Australia.

I've had 1 in 4 games load. And when I do load my team is half way across the map.
Training grounds has no problem loading.

fchicken, on 02 April 2013 - 12:38 PM, said:

I get this problem. Playing from Australia.

I've had 1 in 4 games load. And when I do load my team is half way across the map.
Training grounds has no problem loading.

i get this error too

[Scarpia]

I have this same problem. Updated drivers, been playing about a half hour a day for weeks with no issues. 250-300 ping times.

[Bitbiit]

Same problem, 180-220 ms usually but yesterday i had 400ms.

[Flu-Epidemic]

Same thing, from Singapore...

Suffering what our Aussie and Malaysian neighbours are experiencing. Ping of 250+, before the patch, worked fine, chalked up 2 - 3 hours. After the patch, it just showed me a black screen... Need my fix BADLY...

[NicoAboveTheLaw]

Same problem here. Australia

Random black screens - normally comes good.

I Have found if I press ALT-ENTER and ALT -TAB twice each often come back in magically ok and quickly. Maybe someone smarter than me can figure why this is the case. (Triggering a resend of status/re-registration)?

[Lynx7725]

Ok, here's a possible workaround.

Drop all your graphics down to Low. This probably reduces the amount of stuff that needs to be loaded. Looking at the logs, Alpine and Caustic loaded just under one minute. I still see a blackscreen (my ping is 280 usually), but the shorter load duration means I can actually get games in.

This does NOT solve the problem, nor does it prevent:

• a horrendous resource locking post-end-game lockup that kept crashing my Nvidia 3.14 drivers. Yes. It crashes the latest driver... had to reboot.
  
• Chat from not working -- well at least you're in the game, you just can't chat.
  
• Or any of the new crash-possible effects that is in the game at the moment.

What it does is that it improves the chances that you do get to play.

[Verminard]

Same here, UK player 100 to 125 ping, now and then loads normally, most times huge delay, dosen't seem to make a differance what map.

[FREDtheDEAD]

Black screen (seems to be a full crash from the log below).

AU. Ping ~300. Latest nVidia drivers. 560Ti card.

Omicron log

Spoiler

BackupNameAttachment=" Build(4418) 04 Apr 13 (03 20 50)" -- used by backup system
Log Started at 04/04/13 03:20:50
Running 32 bit version
Executable: L:\MechWarriorOnline\MechWarrior Online\Bin32\MWOClient.exe
FileVersion: 3.4.1.4418
ProductVersion: 3.4.1.4418
Using STLport C++ Standard Library implementation
Added MOD directory <engine> to CryPak
Executable Command Line: "L:\MechWarriorOnline\MechWarrior Online\Bin32\MWOClient.exe" flowthru
Total number of logical processors: 12
Number of available logical processors: 12
Total number of system cores: 6
Number of cores available to process: 6
Processor 0:
CPU: Intel Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 980 @ 3.33GHz
Family: 6, Model: 12, Stepping: 2
FPU: On-Chip
CPU Speed (estimated): 3.3 MHz
MMX: not present
SSE: present
3DNow!: not present
Serial number not present or disabled
Processor 1:
CPU: Intel Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 980 @ 3.33GHz
Family: 6, Model: 12, Stepping: 2
FPU: On-Chip
CPU Speed (estimated): 3.3 MHz
MMX: not present
SSE: present
3DNow!: not present
Serial number not present or disabled
Processor 2:
CPU: Intel Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 980 @ 3.33GHz
Family: 6, Model: 12, Stepping: 2
FPU: On-Chip
CPU Speed (estimated): 3.3 MHz
MMX: not present
SSE: present
3DNow!: not present
Serial number not present or disabled
Processor 3:
CPU: Intel Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 980 @ 3.33GHz
Family: 6, Model: 12, Stepping: 2
FPU: On-Chip
CPU Speed (estimated): 3.3 MHz
MMX: not present
SSE: present
3DNow!: not present
Serial number not present or disabled
Processor 4:
CPU: Intel Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 980 @ 3.33GHz
Family: 6, Model: 12, Stepping: 2
FPU: On-Chip
CPU Speed (estimated): 3.3 MHz
MMX: not present
SSE: present
3DNow!: not present
Serial number not present or disabled
Processor 5:
CPU: Intel Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 980 @ 3.33GHz
Family: 6, Model: 12, Stepping: 2
FPU: On-Chip
CPU Speed (estimated): 3.3 MHz
MMX: not present
SSE: present
3DNow!: not present
Serial number not present or disabled
[Error] Error: ConsoleVariableGroup 'sys_spec_environment' key 'e_TerrainLodRatio' is not missing in default
[Error] Error: ConsoleVariableGroup 'sys_spec_environment' key 'e_TerrainTextureLodRatio' is not missing in default
[Error] Error: ConsoleVariableGroup 'sys_spec_environment' key 'e_TerrainTextureLodRatio' is not missing in default
[Error] Error: ConsoleVariableGroup 'sys_spec_environment' key 'e_TerrainTextureStreamingPoolItemsNum' is not missing in default
[Error] Error: ConsoleVariableGroup 'sys_spec_environment' key 'sys_spec_Quality' is not missing in default
[Error] Error: ConsoleVariableGroup 'sys_spec_environment' key 'r_ssreflections' is not missing in default
[Error] Error: ConsoleVariableGroup 'sys_spec_environment' key 'e_TerrainTextureStreamingPoolItemsNum' is not missing in default
[Error] Error: ConsoleVariableGroup 'sys_spec_postprocessing' key 'r_UseEdgeAA' is not missing in default
Windows 7 64 bit SP 1 (build 6.1.7601)
System language: English
Windows Directory: "C:\Windows"
Prerequisites...
* Installation of KB940105 hotfix required: no! (either not needed or already installed)
Local time is 03:20:52 04/04/13, system running for 1180 minutes
12280MB physical memory installed, 10512MB available, 4095MB virtual memory installed, 14 percent of memory in use
PageFile usage: 28MB, Working Set: 19MB, Peak PageFile usage: 28MB,
Current display mode is 1680x1050x32, (Unknown graphics card)
IBM enhanced (101/102-key) keyboard and 16+ button mouse installed
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Stream Engine Initialization
GameName: MechWarrior Online
BuildTime: Apr 1 2013 14:38:12
Windows Error Reporting is enabled setting exception handler
Font initialization
Physics initialization
Sound initialization
<Sound> Initializing AudioDevice now!
<Sound> Initialize FMOD with dynamic memory callbacks
<Sound> Starting to initialize Windows Audio Session API output!
<Sound> Drivers found: 2
<Sound> Available drivers:
1. Speakers (2- ASUS Xonar Essence STX Audio Device)
2. Digital Output (2- ASUS Xonar Essence STX Audio Device)
<Sound> FmodEx-AudioDevice: Now running on driver: Speakers (2- ASUS Xonar Essence STX Audio Device)
<Sound> Using speaker mode: FMOD_SPEAKERMODE_STEREO
<Sound> Initializing FMOD-EX now!
<Sound> Initialized FMOD-EX
<Sound> Available record drivers: 0 Microphone (2- ASUS Xonar Essence STX Audio Device) !
<Sound> Available record drivers: 1 Wave (2- ASUS Xonar Essence STX Audio Device) !
<Sound> Available record drivers: 2 Stereo Mix (2- ASUS Xonar Essence STX Audio Device) !
<Sound> Available record drivers: 3 Aux (2- ASUS Xonar Essence STX Audio Device) !
<Sound> Available record drivers: 4 Line In (2- ASUS Xonar Essence STX Audio Device) !
<Sound> Record config is set to autodetect using record driver 0
<Sound> Using FMOD version: 00044004 and internal 00044004!
<Sound> Initializing SoundSystem now!
Renderer initialization
[Error] NVAPI: Unable to get SLI state (-113)
used GeomInstancingThreshold is 8
Localized language content(english) not available or modified from the original installation.
Localized language content(english) not available or modified from the original installation.
Network initialization
[net] using iocp socket io management
network hostname: Fred
ip:192.168.0.4
[Network Version]: RELEASE PURE CLIENT
MovieSystem initialization
Console initialization
Time initialization
Input initialization
AI initialization
Initializing Animation System
Initializing 3D Engine
Initializing default materials...
Script System Initialization
Entity system initialization
Initializing AI System
[PlayerProfiles] Login of user 'Random' successful.
[PlayerProfiles] Found 2 profiles.
Profile 0 : 'Xajorkith'
Profile 1 : 'default'
[GameProfiles]: Successfully activated profile 'Xajorkith' for user 'Random'
Patch Complete Received
Patch Complete Received
Patch Complete Received
Patch Complete Received
============================ Loading level mechlab ============================
[Error] Error: CTexMan::ImagePreprocessing: Scaling of 'textures/particles/weapons/laser_beam_1x4_lop0.dds' compressed texture is dangerous (only single mip) [File=textures/particles/weapons/laser_beam_1x4_lop0.dds]
[Error] Error: CTexMan::ImagePreprocessing: Scaling of 'textures/particles/weapons/ppc_beam_b.dds' compressed texture is dangerous (only single mip) [File=textures/particles/weapons/ppc_beam_b.dds]
======== mechlab is loaded in 3.4 sec ========
could not free all buffers from CDevBufferMan!
UnLoadLevel End: 0.3 sec
Game rules class: Conquest
============================ PrepareLevel forestcolony ============================
Initializing default materials...
[Error] Runaway thread
[Error] Runaway thread
[Error] Runaway thread
[Error] Runaway thread
[Error] Runaway thread
[Error] Runaway thread
could not free all buffers from CDevBufferMan!
UnLoadLevel End: 0.1 sec
Ammo Pool Statistics:
[Error] Runaway thread
[Error] Runaway thread
System Shutdown
[Error] Runaway thread
WER: Running CryEngine Exception Handler
WER: Creating Crash Dump
WER: Attempting to load DBGHELP.DLL
WER: DBGHELP.DLL Located
WER: Creating Crash Dump File
WER: Crash Dump File Created writing dump data
Saved dump file to 'user\crashdump.dmp'