Okay, now I'm positive that it's gutta do with the Windows 8.1 update. When I cumpletely re-installed Windows after the crashes happened last time, it went back to Windows 8 and all worked fine, absolutely no problems.
Now I just re-installed the Windows 8.1 update again after playing the game perfectly fine for a full week on Windows 8 without any updates. The crash is telling me that I should update my video drivers, butt they are updated already.
I am using an Envidia GeForce GTX 590 with two cores. I really don't wanna re-install Windows again. It's forcing me to upgrade to Windows 8.1 ... since I can't avoid it, I at least wanna be able to play STO ... so what shall I do? I am downloading the drivers for my GFX again, butt they're the exact same drivers as before, they are supposed to run on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 ...
Well, the only way now is to go back to Windows 7 to avoid any upgrades to 8.1 or 8 at all. The disadvantage is that Windows 7 will not run in 64-bit mode. Therefore I will lose a lot of speed and I'm not even sure if Windows 7 recognizes and accepts SSD storage devices to run the OS.
Thanks in advance for helping a lost Vorta out.
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You might want to check if your w7 installation is a 32bit version, if so; try to get a x64 instead.
And don't forget; W7 and W8 allows multiboot, so you could have W7 and W8 at the same time.
Is this the driver pack you've installed?
I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
I have to run the game launcher in safe mode now and then always reset the video settings back to the values I usually have. It's a work-around to get the game running normally, butt this can't be a permanent "fix". I really hope they're gunna fix the loading screen so that everyone can play normally again.
*Sigh* I can't believe I re-installed my entire computer just for STO and now I realize it wouldn't have been necessary at all. Doing backups of so much data, waiting hours and hours for the system to re-install, putting the data back on the HD, re-installing the whole game over two nights ... oh well ... it's sumfin to learn for next time.
Original Join Date: January 30th, 2010
Just got my new laptop and place w8.1 couldnt played, your tip helped me ! Thanks a lot !