Random Game crash's

fecklor

Hi,

would like to report since latest season 10 patch, Sto has started crashing randomly in Stf's.

What is most annoying tho, is by the time it takes to log back in and load up, which in my case is

less than a minute, the stf that i was in, ie the new ones, i get kicked from the Stf.

If more info required let me know.

Ps.. I forgot to mention also puts a 30 minute Cooldown on that particular stf.

psychickitty

I too have some very strange random crashes from this game.

At first I thought it was a driver issue....which was partially due to how I got a weird crash from marvel heroes online.

But after having so many of them....and literally noticing I am now sending almost a gig of data to the cryptic bug team from there error report automated thing....I literally am stumped with what could be causing this.

I tried a lot of troubleshooting....from checking my ram to updating my operating system and drivers to downgrading NVidia ones...

I finally noticed that my crash if it happened would sometimes result in causing the game to crash at the startup as well....almost like it caused the files to become corrupt.

Though a scan with the launcher shows nothing got effected.

I am almost thinking this could be something very similar to another problem a differing cryptic game had a few years ago.

That other game which is discontinued due to another company deciding to go a differing direction.
Had an issue with its chat system which caused an overload or error....it also had an issue that allowed players to send incompatible character fonts in messages which resulted in crashes...that literally took that team a year before figuring out what was happening because their error report thing wasn't finding it.

So I am wondering since the crash which is super random....and has no reason from a graphic stand point to be happening....is related to this somehow....though that doesn't explain why this might cause the startup to become unstable.....unless the startup becomes unstable sue to some data corruption in the character save due to the crash....hmmm....

Anywise....just wanted to reply and say you are not alone....there are some other topics along this same line....

Hopefully another forum reader might know some of those threads and give links....

Though just want to say.....those threads are each thinking the issues are due to something different.

I have as I have said tried a lot of differing things...but nothing seams to fix the issue....for this game....and its super random....but.....one thing that I found isn't random is when it occurs with the most frequency.

During high volume time of players....I find I get the client crashes more....thus my reason for thinking this could be chat client related somehow.

Forgot to mention what the other team found was the issues at that time....(this is from memory by the way so not sure of the specifics they found a few chat client issues that had caused crashes and they fixed them)

One issue was the font incompatibility....they found users could send ascii code for wingdings as an example that someone else didn't have or the engine due to regional incompatibility didn't have thus made people crash.

Another issue was an overload of players in the channels...as in too many people in a super group or clan or other channel...which caused too much traffic and literally over loaded another player's client...if they had too many channels subscribed too.

And lastly the final chat client issue they had was a font issue....as in for some reason specific resolution and graphic drivers where causing specific fonts to display either too much or too little data which resulted in crashes in un-related places due to announcements or literally non-player character idle chat or also the way the combat chat displayed specific data.

As I said that was purely from memory of those issues I think a few developers form city of heroes might recall those issues as well....thought I don't know if they had a hand in fixing them or coming up with the fix....but they might know a little more about them.

These random crashes remind me a lot of that game when that game had that issue....
its funny I also recall another player in my old super group telling me to download a Microsoft hotfix that actually fixed one of those issues.....oh well....really miss that game.
(sorry cryptic champions just is not as good as city of heroes...never felt very super in champions)

tahpow

I have this exact same issue. I Log in to the launcher, Launch the game, Click "Play" on my character and at about 90% loaded.....CRASH.

I have the game installed on 2 systems and they both are doing it. I tried a delete and clean install on one of the systems and on the first launch it did it again. At this point the game is unplayable for me.

p.s. if it makes a difference I got the game through Steam.