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redsea1000redsea1000 Member Posts: 24 Arc User
So with that said, one of the main reasons to play this game is for the dungeons, but after 3-7 crashes per dungeon in CN, and newer dungeons, thats been taken away. Currently running Net Uptime Monitor, not my internet, running dual radeons in R9 290 x, not my graphics which are independently watercooled, Rampage 5 MB, few terabytes of storage, and so on, tried everything from running clock blocker on vid cards to flashing bios, not my machine, unfortanately the only thing left is to find another mmo that is stable since none of the others i have played has had this continual problem for almost 2 years now.

Thanks for the memories.

Red

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  • sandukutupusandukutupu Member Posts: 2,285 Arc User
    I will respond to this issue for anyone else experiencing these problems, apparently Red won't be reading it anytime soon.

    Red is running dual Radeons (brand name graphics cards) I have a Radeon in this desktop, and they are not very compatible with Neverwinter or the game is not Radeon friendly (your choice). My husband is going to buy me an Nvidia next month to replace this one. The issue is floppy bits of cloth flicker a bit, sometimes texture lose their color. Not a big issue, but I asked my hubby to look and he says it is the "HAMSTER" Radeon drivers, which is his words not mine. I don't blame Radeon or the company that makes it, the software/hardware industry is very competitive about insuring their cards work and only work for the ones they sink money into supporting. This means when you boot up that game and it says, "Nvidia the way games are meant to be played" they really mean to say, "If you are not playing with an Nvidia card, we will break both your legs and run you over.".

    Red is also running a high end machine from the sound of it. But this game wasn't running so well on my new Windows 10 HP, so my husband set it up on an older spare Windows 7 PC he had laying in the LAN room. So I can vouch, that Neverwinter doesn't work well with new PCs and Radeon cards. I don't know about clock blocker on video cards or flashing bios?? But my resident geek is out of the house today on business.
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  • poisoncloudpoisoncloud Member Posts: 489 Arc User
    I have Nvidia card and I randomly crash several times per day so the cards replacement might not help you... I also run in with Windows 10 with the Fall's Creators Update and I've been informed that might be the reason of the problems. If I could, I would probably reroll to Windows 7...
  • strathkinstrathkin Member Posts: 1,798 Arc User
    edited April 2018
    Yea I use NVidia EVGA GTX 1050 4GB Ti SC (Superclocked) and I not having crashing on it, but still texture's don't always render like they should even for NVidia using ... 391.35 latest drivers from Mar 27th 2018.

    But I was getting crashing on the NVidia EVGA GT 1030 2 GB which was using 388.13 Drivers from that were current up to Feb 2018. I'm also running Windows 10 as well on 64 bit processor & OS like I'm sure most people are.

    Still it seems top end AMD Radeon's sound like they also have issues with crashing from time to time. They really need to FOCUS on fixing rendering issues with textures &/or things that cause the game to crash. They too regularly have had various issues that randomly cause crashing of the game client for a number of years and it often takes months to correct if your lucky.

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    Goodness Cryptic: A big thing go long way to correct rendering:
    ╘ Allow you to select the MAX Weapon &/or Armor FX Visuals render rank you see for everybody.
    ♥ Max Armor Render Quality: R7-R13 applied Globally to everyone on that computer.
    ♥ max Weapon Render Quality: R7-R13 applied Globally to everyone on that computer.

    Similar to how today everyone can choose what Companions skin, only this would apply to everybody... So if you set Armor at R8, you'd see it's normal visuals at R7, and then again increase to R8 but nothing render's higher, regardless what quality or rank of enchantment was slotted. Or for Weapon's if you set to R9 so they increase up to that but no higher for you or others.

    Then you'd not see the massive bright flashes, overdone whiteness, or many other effects. I stop using most enchantments simply because I don't like bark flying around me, or seeing the 3 white shields circling me, I wish I could even TURN THEM OFF on most. I don't even like the look of bark circling me even if I think the Enchantments offer nice bonuses. So many are far too overdone on FX I find I wished I could often greatly tune them down or OFF entirely!

    <3<3<3

    My goodness Vorpols may cause Siezures for some people with their constant bright flashes on every enemy they hit especially once they get to R9 or greater. Dread, Terror, and others cause dark area's, and not everybody enjoys seeing them, or find they destroys far more than it actually enhances. I'd rather just see most of my armor &/or weapon without FX, or set them to 50%-75% transparent, or a maximum render rank for FX globally. o:)
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  • maruda#1373 maruda Member Posts: 168 Arc User
    I have the same problem r9 380 on win 10(2-3 crashes per day). On win7 zero problems (1 crash per 2-3 mounth).
  • poisoncloudpoisoncloud Member Posts: 489 Arc User
    I have Nvidia 950M, Windows 10 x64 Fall creators, 8 GB RAM and nothing helps crashing - neither changing compatibility mode (none selected, Win 8, Win7...), neither updating Nvidia drivers, neither switching to 3D9. The graphics settings are on lowest. And still several times a day I get a random sudden game freeze followed by the system freeze (either immediately after game freeze or after trying to send crash report to Cryptic) or system crash (Video Scheduler Internal Error).
  • sandukutupusandukutupu Member Posts: 2,285 Arc User
    strathkin said:

    I stop using most enchantments simply because I don't like bark flying around me, or seeing the 3 white shields circling me, I wish I could even TURN THEM OFF on most. I don't even like the look of bark circling me even if I think the Enchantments offer nice bonuses. So many are far too overdone on FX I find I wished I could often greatly tune them down or OFF entirely!

    I don't know how many of you play or have played Cryptic's Champions Online, but the "Auras" are special effects on your armor (no buffs just eye candy) but you can enable and disable the effect. I fail to comprehend how a game made by this same company, about a decade ago, can have the best solutions just sitting there, and nobody at the company can see this as a solution.

    Something makes me think Cryptic has bitten off more than it can chew. They have a total of 3 games and are now at work on Magic the Gathering MMO for WoC. Unless they are running hire mode, I don't see how the company can juggle 4 games in the future, not to mention the ports to popular consoles. When you have a set amount of manpower spreading it too thin can make things even worse.


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  • redsea1000redsea1000 Member Posts: 24 Arc User
    So to respond, it all happened with forced dx11, before then i had seamless play never crashed at ultra settings, I dont buy the nvidia theory, but they are probably looking for a good saleswoman, now back to play.

    I can play without crashing in safemode although the game looks horrible, the guy standing at armslength from you is basically a blob, and why only in dungeons is this a problem? Lets take CN for instance, in safemode never crash, with graphics set higher crash at least twice and sometimes crashes when trying to log back on after a crash so your team is naturally in kick me mode. I can switch to mechwarrior online at highest settings with no problems even though they push nvidia cards at log in.

    We need help Mr/Mrs Mod, maybe you can buy the engine used in city of villians, not like they are using it anymore, and it performed very well with the graphics almost matching your on except theirs worked.

    Thanks in advance for any help at all.
  • sandukutupusandukutupu Member Posts: 2,285 Arc User

    So to respond, it all happened with forced dx11, before then i had seamless play never crashed at ultra settings, I dont buy the nvidia theory, but they are probably looking for a good saleswoman, now back to play.

    I am not trying to push Nvidia, just stating their obvious connection to the Mafia in general. I am glad you returned, I thought it was a suicide mission for sure. To clarify, my Windows 10 laptop was also able to run this game, without issue, before they did that whole Direct X 11 or else move. I wouldn't be able to play this at all, if it wasn't for my husband dragging out old Mr. Clunky here and getting it set up.

    I can play without crashing in safemode although the game looks horrible, the guy standing at armslength from you is basically a blob, and why only in dungeons is this a problem? Lets take CN for instance, in safemode never crash, with graphics set higher crash at least twice and sometimes crashes when trying to log back on after a crash so your team is naturally in kick me mode. I can switch to mechwarrior online at highest settings with no problems even though they push nvidia cards at log in.

    I have several friends that reported issues like you are talking about here;
    • One is running an older duo core machine with 2 GB of RAM and his graphics was just the built in Intel. He was playing in safe mode until he got a 1 GB graphics card and while I have no idea what the display looks like, he says the game runs much better.
    • Another was running this on a Linux machine (that is like Chromebook but not) he said everything worked fine until they forced the Direct X upgrade and he quit playing all together. My husband says that the Linux system it is working now for this game, but he doesn't recommend it unless you also like a lot of mental pain.
    • The machine I am on now is HP i-3 core with 4 GB RAM and 1 GB Radeon something running Window 7. Currently the only problem I am having crashing is messing with the Guild Bank. You can see the thread here.
    I am not saying your machine or your software is at fault. Just that I can see a trend in the forums about this game being a brat with newer systems and Radeon processors. Most gaming companies don't buy into making their software backwards compatible. It would appear Cryptic doesn't believe in making it forwards compatible either.

    We need help Mr/Mrs Mod, maybe you can buy the engine used in city of villians, not like they are using it anymore, and it performed very well with the graphics almost matching your on except theirs worked.

    Thanks in advance for any help at all.

    LOL I agree with you, it would seem the more they fiddle with the game, the more bugs it gets. I seriously doubt they are going to replace the whole engine to fix it.
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  • redsea1000redsea1000 Member Posts: 24 Arc User
    So, I went back into options, turned off multicore rendering, set others that had a medium option to medium, ones with low or high option left on low, turned on underwater view and a cpl more settings, ran CN without crashing once, then went to bed. Will try some other settings today, but seems the multi rendering has a big deal with the crashing, i will push it to high across the board today and see how that goes.

    Oh, and sandukutupu, thanks for the fun spirit you apparently have, that saleswoman crack would have pissed any other personality off.
  • bloodygeorgebloodygeorge Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited April 2018
    I am also crashing multiple times a day using i7-8700K, with 64GB of ram and two Radeon R9 295x2's. I am starting to get angry. I have tried everything I can think of and followed every suggestion that I have found so far. I'm starting to think it is a Radeon compatibility issue.
  • heraldfayez#8520 heraldfayez Member Posts: 227 Arc User
    i got crashes starting after last patch tbh never had them before on new pc
  • poisoncloudpoisoncloud Member Posts: 489 Arc User
    I'm actually crashing less after this week patch, although this could be due to new drivers. Still, I am crashing now and then with 110527253 error something like once-twice a day.
  • redsea1000redsea1000 Member Posts: 24 Arc User
    First game I ever played where I had to dumb down my computer.
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