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[Leone]

@Op, you might wanna check your machine or connection. That sounds like a personal problem.

~Leone.

[Dragonporn]

Can't remember last time my game crashed... I think it happened only once from my whole playtime. Disconnects happen, game just throws me out of match, saying there's no connection, I re-log and re-join normally. Still, happens very rarely but crash? Nope.

[Anjian]

I rarely get a disconnection, if ever at all. I could not remember the last time I was disconnected.

I do see others though, either going AFK or getting disconnected almost one of every two matches. Many will return, some won't.

[LordNothing]

this game will cook an appropriately rated power supply to death in less time than it takes pgi to roll out a major feature. always was a flaw with cryengine, always will be. it just has a way of brute forcing things that have since been streamlined. if you play mechwarrior on a computer that does not sound like a jet engine you are doing it wrong.

Edited by LordNothing, 27 June 2018 - 10:24 PM.

[TheCaptainJZ]

Mechwarrior1441491, on 27 June 2018 - 03:42 PM, said:

OH HELL YA IT IS!

64 bit systems seem similar enough that it still works. I was actually playing a lot of windows 7 64 bit compatible games up until recently. Age of Conan being one of them. Worked fine until a patch put me out of business and as there are no more updates for vista and haven't for a long time, no more playing that game. Hopefully PGI doesn't take an interest in seeing me suffer and do something making Vista Ultimate 64 not compatible, because I assure you, it is.

Also, I can't update my video card. NVIDIA driver installation won't work. haha

I'm far more concerned about the fact you are not getting any security patches.

[Mole]

MWO causes my video driver to crash every once in a while. Not that often though. And I've researched it, this is a cryengine issue. Not a MWO issue.

[JC Daxion]

LowSubmarino, on 26 June 2018 - 08:50 AM, said:

I have changed my rig - the complete rig from cpu to board to rem to gpu and hardrive - 3 times in the last 6 years.

3 times my man.

Guess what.

Mwo crashed on all systems with various and different windows versions.

You telling me that its gotta be my system?

Please....

How many times have you sent PGI your DX-diag? What has support said? Have you asked them to run a trace?

I like many never have an issue and that does not mean i don't feel for those that do, but it almost always comes down to something in hardware or a conflict with software. I swear most games i play have people saying, game doesn't work, i crash all the time, the game won't work.. yet i never to seam to have any issues outside of the random CTD which does happen maybe once a month which let's be honest everything can hickup on occasion.

Edited by JC Daxion, 28 June 2018 - 12:18 PM.

[Ajantise]

Don't alt tab to win. MWO has a problem with it. More you do it, more crashes you get.

[Hammer71]

I found a fix for in game crashes. Someone on youtube posted a video on how to regedit a file that fixes the issue. I was getting random game crashes with some kind of error verbage. Search youtube with verbage. PGI should have fixed this..

[ingramli]

The truth is, this game is extremely sensitive to overclock stability and network connection. I find that ram or gpu overclock, even only over pushing it by a tiny bit, can cause the game to crash, i even consider use mwo as a tool of stability check for overclock now. The network connection also matters, even a fixed cable connection, the lag can sometimes cause you trouble, especially if u are riding a light which a single mistake can cause u a death.

[Phlaago]

2 watercooled titans and average 1 in 10 gamecrashes, only in MWO, no other games.
(I downssampled the speedtest in "For honor" from 8k to 4k and still got 60-70fps in it)
my old pc with a i7-960 and gtx970 also had similar crash behaviour running win 7... i run win 10 on this machine.

the fact that people try to tell you "its your hardware" is laughable... the crashes are almost always on mapload as the mech is dropping, right when it focuses on your right hand on the dashboard. -> CTD.
and yes of course I alt-tab to windows, waiting is boring... proper software does not have a problem with it.

Edited by Phlaago, 06 August 2018 - 02:04 PM.

[Ensaine]

Ok, look, I try to trip up PGI as often as earned... just happens to be often, BUT.......

I play this game on the exact same PC i started playing it on in Closed Beta......RAM now at 16 Gigs, and Vid Card now a 960 GTX, so nothing fancy.

The only time I, or any of my friends get anything like a crash, is when we munch on ALT+TAB, which obviously we stopped doing.
MWO hates you, and kills a kitten every time you alt tab. I know the pain of watching the 'Searching Sphincter of Death', but there we are.

Do you have invasive cats? Or fluffy dogs? If so, then do not fool yourself, your rig needs blown out at least every month.

Do you have your Steam friends list open, with 7 chats going while in MWO? Origin too?

So, assuming your rig is so up to date, no malware, or rootkits, hardware or driver issues, no clump of cat hair on your junk sufficient to make another cat, and you're not doing all of your social media stuff while the game is running, game should run fine.......this is of course assuming you've also run through various in game settings.... just stepping in and setting everything to MAX ULTRA OMG settings because your rig SHOULD run it that way doesn't mean you are helping matters......

[Aidan Crenshaw]

ALT-TAB ist your enemy there. I read that switching the game to run in borderless window does improve stability with alt-tabbing.

[LordNothing]

im stable for now but im convinced that cryengine is the second best software for destroying power supplies. you run it and the caps start cooking off.

[Abaddun]

I haven't crashed over the past 190 hours of gameplay, playing from the UK on both Europe and America North servers.

[Peter2k]

I've put MWO on a break since about half a year (checked out Solaris to quickly get bored by it)
Installed through steam new for the FP

Did like 20 matches or so
No crash or disco

Do I see people disco?
Sure.
It's also a free to play title, so you get players with very old machines and old Windows installs (and we all know the adage about reinstalling windows in cycles)

Frankly I challenge everyone who has stability problems with MWO to run Asus RealBench for 8 hours (with all RAM allocated) and post a screenshot of having passed it

It's not the toughest program to pass on the block, but it's easy to use and everyone who should be able to at least pass that or he doesn't actually have a stable system by anyone's meaning

Hell on overclock.net we had (and I'm sure still do) have lively debates about stability and an OC, RealBench isn't that hard to pass
It's more about if one needs more confirmation with more tougher tools


But then except a few dozen tabs in chrome, team speak and wallpaper engine I have nothing open that can interfere with games
Like all overlyas ever designed

LordNothing, on 27 June 2018 - 10:23 PM, said:

this game will cook an appropriately rated power supply to death in less time than it takes pgi to roll out a major feature. always was a flaw with cryengine, always will be. it just has a way of brute forcing things that have since been streamlined. if you play mechwarrior on a computer that does not sound like a jet engine you are doing it wrong.

Might want to switch vsync on then

Phlaago, on 06 August 2018 - 02:01 PM, said:

2 watercooled titans and average 1 in 10 gamecrashes, only in MWO, no other games.
(I downssampled the speedtest in "For honor" from 8k to 4k and still got 60-70fps in it)
my old pc with a i7-960 and gtx970 also had similar crash behaviour running win 7... i run win 10 on this machine.

the fact that people try to tell you "its your hardware" is laughable... the crashes are almost always on mapload as the mech is dropping, right when it focuses on your right hand on the dashboard. -> CTD.
and yes of course I alt-tab to windows, waiting is boring... proper software does not have a problem with it.

Ohh someone has money, but not a stable system it seems
Man there are still games doing SLI? Thought that fad is dying (because high fps means nothing if frame times are bad), next you tell me you want to go quad.
To me it sounds like it's your RAM that is having a bad sector or unstable settings, because ones system is more than 2 uber expensive cards.
When was the last time you actually confirmed your RAM is ok? Using memtest for instance.
That's why overclockers recommend testing stability with tools and not games.
One game passes and that one in 20 crashes, it happens.
Especially with games that are finicky like MWO.

My take away here is this

I had no frequent crashes on on my old core 2 duo, no crashes on an old q6600, not on my old ivy bridge, and not on my kaby lake running 5.2 Ghz.
Btw, notice how I haven't even said anything about my GPU?
It's not the GPU that makes or breaks MWO (as long as it's at least mid lvl card)
That's true for every other game ever, but not MWO.

Aidan Crenshaw, on 07 August 2018 - 01:17 AM, said:

ALT-TAB ist your enemy there. I read that switching the game to run in borderless window does improve stability with alt-tabbing.

So what are you supposed to do while waiting in FP outside of an event?
I thought we all browse for "stuff" in the background while waiting D:

On a serious not, played in borderless window like forever, always was able to tab out n in
Shrugs

Ajantise, on 05 July 2018 - 11:24 AM, said:

Don't alt tab to win. MWO has a problem with it. More you do it, more crashes you get.

Shrugs
I do it basically as soon as I hit the play button, probably every time.
Nice thing about windows 10 glass theme is you can see when there is something happening in MWO to switch back.

And I have run a multitude of systems over the years that weren't exactly high end.
And I used windows 10 when it was only available as beta iso.
No crash either.

Edited by Peter2k, 07 August 2018 - 03:26 AM.

[SirMad]

i switched from full-screen to border-less window and my crash rate dropped from every 10th match to almost never...

[RickySpanish]

Crashes are usually caused by faulty hardware or system instability. In many cases over the years where I have experienced multiple crashes in a finished game, the game was fine but it was an early indication of hardware failure. Most recently bad RAM was causinh Elite: Dangerous to bomb back to desktop, eventually that crash became a blue screen and I identified a faulty stick, luckily my remaining 12gb was fine. If you haven't already OP I would attempt to benchmark your PC under stress to rule that out. Oh, and consider replacing your power supply

[Escef]

Meanwhile, the game is remarkably stable for me. More so than for some games made by much larger, better funded game studios.

Maybe the problem is... you??

[GBxGhostRyder]

LowSubmarino, on 26 June 2018 - 08:50 AM, said:

I have changed my rig - the complete rig from cpu to board to rem to gpu and hardrive - 3 times in the last 6 years.

3 times my man.

Guess what.

Mwo crashed on all systems with various and different windows versions.

You telling me that its gotta be my system?

Please....

I know exactly what your problem is had a team mate with the same problem it is (UNINSTALL ALL 3RD PARTY SOFTWARE TO EXPLOIT THE GAME) then do a fresh reinstall.

I have had about 8 crashes of MWO in 5 years all my fault so there you go friend your fix of the day.