As instructed by Askray (who seems to have taken a special interest in harassing me), starting a new thread:
I have been suffering excessively frequent game freezes since the (infamous) Tau Dewa patch. It has gotten to the point where the game is almost unplayable, and I can't be relied upon in a team action because of them. I wonder if it might have something to do with physx?
NVidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti card.
Courtesy of Advanced SystemCare I note a Disk % spike at the time these freezes occur. I'm not even sure what that means. This is the only correlation I've been able to find so far. I have to click until the game crashes and a "GameClient.exe is not responding" message appears. It never recovers. Temperatures are well within acceptable ranges, never exceeding 35C for either CPU or GPU.
Someone mentioned the "Max physics debris objects" setting. I will turn this way down and see, but I don't even harbour hope anymore, and (of course) Cryptic won't tell me anything. Are there any other settings that rely on physx?
I guess it doesn't matter now. In an effort to fix this, I removed everything Arc, including STO, and now I cannot reinstall. Full system crash in mid-update.
This could be minor or major... your hard disk could be going bad, for example, or it could be as simple as malware or a bad driver... we don't know, you did not tell us much.
Blaming cryptic for what is probably your local machine is not helping. Test your disk for problems and if it comes up clean try to install again, this time watch for network problems.
For the record reinstalling stuff is over-rated. People spend countless hours deleting and reinstalling software to end up right back where they started 99% of the time. The only time reinstall should matter is if your disk got corrupted (or someone deleted stuff by "accident" ).
Blaming Cryptic is pretty much a reflex action at this point. This is a result of the adversarial relationship Cryptic has so carefully developed and nurtured with its players.
I have gone from game freeze to no game and blue screens on attempts to update new installs.
If the latest efforts I have made, based on new advice, do not work, I will try installing something outside Arc to see if the same problems arise. I have had it suggested to me that STO may run systems diagnostic data collection stuff that some anti-virus programs might see as virus like.
Other sources have suggested issues with anti-virus programs. I was using AVG.
I know nvidia geforce released a driver update and any lense flair now and sto locks up for 30-40 seconds now, wasn't happening the day before. I got a report into nvidia, also waiting to see what the have to say.
only thing that changed for me was this.
Summary
Operating System
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 4770 @ 3.40GHz 65 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Graphics
LG TV (1920x1080@59Hz)
DELL ST2320L (1920x1080@60Hz)
DELL S2330MX (1920x1080@60Hz)
Intel HD Graphics 4600 (Dell)
1535MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (NVIDIA) 62 °C
Storage
1863GB Seagate ST2000DM ST2000DM001-1CH1 SCSI Disk Device (SATA) 36
°C
29GB LITEONIT LITEONIT LMT-32L SCSI Disk Device (SSD)
3726GB Seagate Expansion Desk USB Device (USB (SATA)) 44 °C
Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST DVDRWBD CH20N SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Intel Display Audio
Found a way to reinstall, by replacing AVG with something else. So now I have the game again, but it still freezes periodically wrecking any hope of consistent gameplay. No grouping or relying on staying in the same zone (where applicable) for me.
Windows 8.1 Pro
4x Intel Core i5-4440 CPU @3.10 GHz
64 bit OS.
8 GB RAM
NVidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti
N.B.: Lens Flare setting makes no difference for me.
Comments
Well played, Cryptic.
Blaming cryptic for what is probably your local machine is not helping. Test your disk for problems and if it comes up clean try to install again, this time watch for network problems.
For the record reinstalling stuff is over-rated. People spend countless hours deleting and reinstalling software to end up right back where they started 99% of the time. The only time reinstall should matter is if your disk got corrupted (or someone deleted stuff by "accident" ).
Blaming Cryptic is pretty much a reflex action at this point. This is a result of the adversarial relationship Cryptic has so carefully developed and nurtured with its players.
I have gone from game freeze to no game and blue screens on attempts to update new installs.
If the latest efforts I have made, based on new advice, do not work, I will try installing something outside Arc to see if the same problems arise. I have had it suggested to me that STO may run systems diagnostic data collection stuff that some anti-virus programs might see as virus like.
Other sources have suggested issues with anti-virus programs. I was using AVG.
only thing that changed for me was this.
Summary
Operating System
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 4770 @ 3.40GHz 65 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Graphics
LG TV (1920x1080@59Hz)
DELL ST2320L (1920x1080@60Hz)
DELL S2330MX (1920x1080@60Hz)
Intel HD Graphics 4600 (Dell)
1535MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (NVIDIA) 62 °C
Storage
1863GB Seagate ST2000DM ST2000DM001-1CH1 SCSI Disk Device (SATA) 36
°C
29GB LITEONIT LITEONIT LMT-32L SCSI Disk Device (SSD)
3726GB Seagate Expansion Desk USB Device (USB (SATA)) 44 °C
Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST DVDRWBD CH20N SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Intel Display Audio
Windows 8.1 Pro
4x Intel Core i5-4440 CPU @3.10 GHz
64 bit OS.
8 GB RAM
NVidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti
N.B.: Lens Flare setting makes no difference for me.