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Endless crashing on Cold Call mission
renebrehmer
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Long story short: Late last night I decided to play my romulan captain for a bit. I get to the part of the Out in the Cold mission (Breen invasion) where you have to engage the Breen down in the dilithium mine (on Zafira? forgot the name of that planet). All goes well until I enter combat. Instantly the game crashes. Rush back in, skip the file check, and manage to get back into my session. Continue down the mine to the next battle. No problem there, then get to one of those consoles you need to fiddle with. Game crashes again.
This time I switched the game to windowed (maximized) - aka borderless window to everyone but Cryptic - tried again. Crashed within 5 secs of getting into the game. Tried again with DX9 EX. Same thing. Crashes after a short moment. Tried again twice with DX 9 (since I realized the first time I hadn't actually restarted like it tells you to). Still crashes constantly as I move through the mine. Combat, no combat, just standing around waiting for health to regen, it makes no difference. Had six total crashes in less than 30 minutes before I had enough and went to bed.
Now this morning I updated the graphics driver, did the file error check, double checked that the game is set to DX9 borderless window, and went back in. At first it was fine. Then suddenly it crashed again.
With each of these crashes there's no error message. The game just freezes, offloads, and then the error reporter show up.
Either way I cannot get through that mission. My romulan is very oveleveled - she's 53 - but I haven't done any of the stuff past the Borg missions. I did the Nukara dailies and a Borg encounter with her without problems. Did the first parts of the Cold Call without any issues. But as soon as I get to that mine the game just keeps crashing again and again and again.
I haven't played in about three months, but since I got back to the game on Thursday I've been playing my Vulcan science captain. The only problem I had with her was the normal game crash due to the graphics driver restarting (which is caused by incorrect coding of the game. Under the DX11 specification the game is supposed to fully recover from a driver restart). And that crash only happened once during a cutscene, which is also fairly normal for STO.
Hardware:
AMD FX-8350 @ 4.1 GHz / AMD FX990A chipset
16 GB DDR3-1600 Kingston HyperX RAM
Asus Geforce GTX 960 Strix 2 GB overclocked (driver 352.86. Crashes with 350.12 too)
CoolerMaster Silent Pro M2 620 W (55 A)
Old WD black harddrives (but work like new)
Windows 7 x64 SP1
EDIT: Fixed the mission name
Long story short: Late last night I decided to play my romulan captain for a bit. I get to the part of the Out in the Cold mission (Breen invasion) where you have to engage the Breen down in the dilithium mine (on Zafira? forgot the name of that planet). All goes well until I enter combat. Instantly the game crashes. Rush back in, skip the file check, and manage to get back into my session. Continue down the mine to the next battle. No problem there, then get to one of those consoles you need to fiddle with. Game crashes again.
This time I switched the game to windowed (maximized) - aka borderless window to everyone but Cryptic - tried again. Crashed within 5 secs of getting into the game. Tried again with DX9 EX. Same thing. Crashes after a short moment. Tried again twice with DX 9 (since I realized the first time I hadn't actually restarted like it tells you to). Still crashes constantly as I move through the mine. Combat, no combat, just standing around waiting for health to regen, it makes no difference. Had six total crashes in less than 30 minutes before I had enough and went to bed.
Now this morning I updated the graphics driver, did the file error check, double checked that the game is set to DX9 borderless window, and went back in. At first it was fine. Then suddenly it crashed again.
With each of these crashes there's no error message. The game just freezes, offloads, and then the error reporter show up.
Either way I cannot get through that mission. My romulan is very oveleveled - she's 53 - but I haven't done any of the stuff past the Borg missions. I did the Nukara dailies and a Borg encounter with her without problems. Did the first parts of the Cold Call without any issues. But as soon as I get to that mine the game just keeps crashing again and again and again.
I haven't played in about three months, but since I got back to the game on Thursday I've been playing my Vulcan science captain. The only problem I had with her was the normal game crash due to the graphics driver restarting (which is caused by incorrect coding of the game. Under the DX11 specification the game is supposed to fully recover from a driver restart). And that crash only happened once during a cutscene, which is also fairly normal for STO.
Hardware:
AMD FX-8350 @ 4.1 GHz / AMD FX990A chipset
16 GB DDR3-1600 Kingston HyperX RAM
Asus Geforce GTX 960 Strix 2 GB overclocked (driver 352.86. Crashes with 350.12 too)
CoolerMaster Silent Pro M2 620 W (55 A)
Old WD black harddrives (but work like new)
Windows 7 x64 SP1
EDIT: Fixed the mission name
Post edited by renebrehmer#9819 on
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I have sent crash reports twice and one bug report.
Yeah, that's the one. Sent a ticket in-game too.
Did a bunch of other missions and other stuff today, without any problem, so def something wrong with this Breen one.
I want to say it has something to do with combat. I will be testing a few theories with this next crew I run through - but if I don't fight at all and just let the away team handle it I tend to not crash.
Apparently. Haven't been bothered to try this myself, yet, but if no fix is announced soon I guess I'll have to.
look at video :mad:
I really hope a fix is coming. How much stuff I've missed out on the Featured Episodes just sucks. I really would like to do a mission where it doesn't close to desktop.