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[Taj the White Tiger]

After the server maintence which occurred a couple of hours ago i jumped on to play a few games and these were the results.

Match 1 Stalker LRM boat Freeze after 2 minutes

Match 2 Stalker LRM boat Freeze after 1 minute 43 seconds

Match 3 SRM4 Cat A1 Freeze after 6 minutes

Match 4 Cicada 3M No freeze round complete at 6 minutes

Match 5 Cicada 2A No free round complete at 4 minutes

Match 6 SRM4 Cat A1 Freeze after 3 minutes



When i say Freeze i am referring to the bug where the game client freezes mid round and the only option to solve it is by using alt f4 or task manager


Before server maintenance i was having this issue but much more sparring. More of a ratio of about 1-4 rounds.

My theory behind why this is occuring is its somehow related to mechs which are capable of very high damage output. Both times in the LRM stalker i crashed after landing large LRM salvos on opposition mechs. Previous to the server maintenance i was also experiencing the same issues using PPC Stalkers. I should also note while playing in ravens and commandos previous to server maintenance the freeze crash was quite rare for me but did happen occasionally while in these mechs which fits the theory.


Suffice to say this is currently a major game breaking issue for me and no doubt anyone who is experiencing it. It makes playing the game with any regularity impossible while receiving these kinds of crashes

Rig specs are

i5 3570k
GTX 670
16 gb ram
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

[sycocys]

Don't know if it is related, but I did lose server connection while running dual lrm20s but not after I switched them out for 15s a few matches later.

[Slab Squathrust]

I am having a crash to desktop bug probably 1 in every 5-6 matches. It doesn't seem to matter which mech I use. They all yield the same results. It is getting rather frustrating. I wondered if it has to do with some recent overclocking but I really didn't have the problem before the maintenance today.

qx6700
6gb ram
ATI 5870
Windows 7 HP

[sycocys]

Slab Squathrust, on 12 February 2013 - 08:40 PM, said:

I am having a crash to desktop bug probably 1 in every 5-6 matches. It doesn't seem to matter which mech I use. They all yield the same results. It is getting rather frustrating. I wondered if it has to do with some recent overclocking but I really didn't have the problem before the maintenance today.

qx6700
6gb ram
ATI 5870
Windows 7 HP

Revert back to your normal clocking and let us know if it clears up your issue.

[Accused]

"Session Lost"

It's happening to me too. I get kicked to mechlab during the middle of a match. Frustrating. It was this latest maintenance patch too.

[Taj the White Tiger]

I get the session lost problem as well though i'm not sure if thats ISP related more thean MWO. The Freezing bug is the real kicker at the moment seems to be happening way to much

[Shade4x]

After patch i'm crashing whenever i select a mech. Also only the sparks show in the mech lab, which crashes shortly after i enter it, not mech's, all stats are grey'ed and at 0. I can't launch or do anything.

[mekabuser]

Slab Squathrust, on 12 February 2013 - 08:40 PM, said:

I am having a crash to desktop bug probably 1 in every 5-6 matches. It doesn't seem to matter which mech I use. They all yield the same results. It is getting rather frustrating. I wondered if it has to do with some recent overclocking but I really didn't have the problem before the maintenance today.

qx6700
6gb ram
ATI 5870
Windows 7 HP

its not OC related.. I reverted everything back to stock and it persisted.. Didnt get a chance to test post maintenence as i only had time for one round today due to them taking 6 hours for fix. THe freeze issue forced me to do my first re instal of game today.

[sycocys]

Sometimes a fresh install is a good thing for beta games, never know when a patch corrupted sometimes.

[Rattazustra]

Seriously, the current state of the game is just sickening and there is no community management to deal with it?!

I just had a game where it eventually ended up to freeze and crash the video driver TWENT TIMES IN A ROW!!!

It was like watching a movie from 1612 where some dude shows you a slightly different painting each week.

A match where I have just ONE full freeze at the most inopportunate moment is now a lucky strike. The rule seems to be closer to 2-5 freezes. It might actually be even more, but these freezes have the habit of getting me killed in the most ******** and helpless ways, so I never find out if that is the maximum number.

It is as much fun as playing a seriously epileptic mountaineer.


And please, people. Do yourself a favour and stop looking for workarounds. There aren't any. You are just making a fool of yourself when you search for some quasi esoteric ailment. Reinstallation does nothing, tabbing in and out is useless too, your drivers are okay the way they are with no need to reinstall them. It is the game that is broken at the moment and there is nothing you can do about that. The Devs need to fix it and they ain't talking to us. At all. Like every single time something is completely amiss they say nothing for days. I do not know what they think a public beta is, but they seem to got it all wrong.

I can tell you what it is NOT though: It is not a money cow that you milk while at the same time you do your best to ruin your reputation.

How do you plan on launching this game after beta ends, when you got houndreds of people just waiting to slam your *** down on metacritic and co to give the game the rating it seemingly deserves?

[Quad Ace]

After yesterday's patch, my FPS went from 30 to 5 and stayed there. Tried everything I can think of, nothing works.

[Leguvan]

I used to crash to desktop maybe once a day. Today, 6 times so far...

[sycocys]

Other than the one singular incident I've had zero issues. So something has changed on some people's rigs that hasn't on mine if they are running into new issues. And plenty of us are in fact running quite stable on both deskops and laptops and have sorted out a plethora of issues over the last 5-6 months. An amazing thing is that a reinstall has often put things back into order for many people, could be windows is shuffling a file around or something - we are still trying to sort out why it helps.

If you don't want to test, don't test. Simple decision but don't discourage the people that actually do want to test, replicate and find the source of bugs.

[Vincinzerey]

Best with this payed Beta Status is. If Something went wrong, there is everytime this blue "Beta" in the Header to retreat to.
But with other words.. its already fully paid by some..
so.. as i (and others) are not able to play when crash or freeze to desktop.. is this "Beta" Status also counted when a user has Premium time payed and is not able to play because of game freeze etc?

But as Point 11 and 12 of the terms clearly say:
Be happy it is running at all and dont bug the Publisher or Coders with your Problems..
you have no right into expect an working game or get anything even when payed for it;)

[StalaggtIKE]

Yeah I froze up a couple times last night. Where as before I wasn't freezing at all. I had to Ctrl+Alt+Delete to get the game client to respond again.

[Raziel Ward]

Last night after downtime out of about maybe 20 games I completely froze twice. Today out of about 5 games today I've had 3 complete freezes. Not sure how it's getting less stable. Not sure what you patched yesterday, but it's hella unstable.

I think it may be happening on zooming out.

Seriously can't play till this is resolved.

[sycocys]

Vincinzerey, on 13 February 2013 - 07:43 AM, said:

Best with this payed Beta Status is. If Something went wrong, there is everytime this blue "Beta" in the Header to retreat to.
But with other words.. its already fully paid by some..
so.. as i (and others) are not able to play when crash or freeze to desktop.. is this "Beta" Status also counted when a user has Premium time payed and is not able to play because of game freeze etc?

But as Point 11 and 12 of the terms clearly say:
Be happy it is running at all and dont bug the Publisher or Coders with your Problems..
you have no right into expect an working game or get anything even when payed for it;)

You don't have to pay OR be part of the beta, if you want to wait until launch by all means do so. What I am against is people that have zero desire to try to help replicate and source problems and fixes during the beta process - then telling other people they shouldn't either. I'm truly sorry if some people can't grasp the concept that this isn't a patch from gold release with a beta tag like they seem to be used to, but it is an actual beta and testing, replicating, re-installing, updating/rolling back drivers and some bug sourcing is all part of being a beta tester whether you choose to offer money into the experience or not.

If you are only here to be a player and think it's absolutely unbearable to deal with beta build issues, then come back when the game goes to full launch status. Otherwise put a little effort in on your end and help to sort out some issues that other players like yourself might be having.

[xRatas]

Have had 2 freezes and 2 CTD:s after maint. Have played about 2 hours. More than last 3 week crashed together.

[Artgathan]

I never had issues with CTD or Freezing before yesterday (12 Feb) maintenance, but since the patch I've experienced both (I've only played about 10 games). Once when I alt-tabbed out the game just closed itself as well (while searching for a match), I don't know if that's a related issue or not.

Also my average FPS seems to be down (I haven't changed my settings).

Edited by Artgathan, 13 February 2013 - 09:16 AM.

[Flapdrol]

I had massive freezes before the server update as well, not sure what caused em. Sometimes I had them 4 games in a row, other times I could play 10 games in a row without issue. Not a clue as to how to reproduce them.