Almost exclussively during Away missions (maybe once or twice in space)
Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Intel i7 920
Radeon 5870 Latest Drivers
6GB RAM
DXDIAG:
http://pastebin.com/m4b78f38c
Game sounds stop, music continues, game locks up, then I get a grey screen, then client closes and sometimes I see the systray pop up regarding ATI driver hung and was recovered. Othertimes I don't see the systray balloon, but all the behavior was the same.
Rarely I get a gameclient.exe has stopped responding, but these are probably different issues.
Any thoughts?
Edit: Please note that I resolved this by rolling back to driver Catalyst pack 9.11 for the 5800 Win7 64bit
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What I did is rolled back my driver, I am currently using 8.12 with no issues in this game or any other. Using the latest drivers did improve the quality of the gfx but it ran slower and crashes alot.
Btw this is regards my card in my second computer which is a ATI 3850.
Also when removing old drivers I would restart in Safe mode and use Driver Sweeper(Google) to clean out all old driver files. It could just be that the game is dare I say it BETA but this solved it for me. Shame I still get constant disconnections when our American cousins log on :eek:
I'll give that a try.
Hopefully the 10 crash notes I send in a day re: ati get Cryptics attention.
/cry
DITTO.
OK< it's not just me, all the ATI folks are having issues. Hope this doesn't get tossed on the back burner, I know were only a quarter of the community at best but hey... I only say that because I played COH (cryptic) for 4+ years and they had an ATI issue for 4+ years that was never resolved, though not a crashing issue.
Anywho, hoping this gets fixed, will watch the forums to see if folks are still complaining and will only buy if it has been.
I rolled my driver back, no dice for me. Still getting a BSOD.
I will try fiddling with the lighting and such as well to see if the severe lag stops.
Majo, were you lagging or crashing to desktop?
Also, lot of people saying "me too" except you're declaring different errors.
Lag or a BSOD is different then a driver hang and recovery.
Windows Vista & 7 have the ability to recover from Graphic Hangs, XP doesn't, at least not normally. Also, anyone with Windows XP64 are in an entirely different boat. The drivers and application are in a different universe.
But just clean your computer first with pressure air and a vacuum cleaner, you'll do yourself a favor.
(From the inside)
I also have filters on my fans to prevent dust in the system. I'll avoid the STFU noob.
That being said, it could be heat, but it's not because my case is dirty.
Not sure how to monitor my GPUs temperature over time, just while I'm in the Catalyst Control Panel.
Prior to this I've only gotten 1 Away team mission completed (with combat) without a crash.
Cryptic, you listening? there's something up with the December Catalyst Drivers
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=1519814&postcount=8
And yeah the servers are busy, but a lot of people wanna play beta
My game runs pretty smooth with no problems. Her game runs pretty smooth too but with one exception: whenever we are in space combat, hers always crashes
She has the latest drivers and they don't seem to work very well.
A bit of work needed on Cryptic/ATI's part here methinks.
Since doing that I had not had a single crash in an away mission and everything runs smooth.
Still ahve all the toher settings maxed out.
This is on a ati 4870 with the latest drivers.
When you say you went from a big screen to a smaller one, I am guessing you mean physically?
So in doing this did you reduce the resolution your game was running in? IF so try plugging your big monitor back in and lowering the resolution will do exactly the same thing. At least then you can still use your big monitor.
Feel sorry for any ATI users that bought a 12 month or life time subscription. Maybe they will fix this problem in four years.
It's not temperature related, core temps weren't going above 70 on stock clock and fan speeds and reference ATI cards run hot anyway.
You also have to enable V-Sync in your CCC under the 3D -> "All" tab section, at least set it to the 2nd notch if not higher. It should be there by default, but can't hurt to check.
Running a single 4890, btw, 1050MHz/950Mhz, factory OC. Does great in every other game, only issues were in STO so far, hopefully optimized by launch time.
UPDATE: Following the 1/21 patch last night, I am able to set AA to 8X on my ATI 4890 and now the game runs ~85-90% GPU on Away Missions and 92%-99% in space, BUT, my GPU temps run a fairly steady ~76C-80C, fan maxes at ~65%, so no more blaring noise or excessive heat issues. This is with Dynamic Lighting ON, Post Processing ON and V-Sync ON. Turning V-Sync OFF pretty much pegs out the GPU at ~99%, but the temp still never gets much above ~80C.
I also tried the "/perframesleep 10" switch and did not notice any change, but since my GPU temps are acceptable I didn't try increasing the sleep rate to see if it had any effect.
Hopefully everyone else out there is having similar better luck with this new patch!
I played for 4 hours today, multiple away missions, no crash with my rolled back drivers.
I'm currently using what Windows Identifies as 8.671.0.0 the 11/4/09 Release for a Radeon 5800, which is packaged as Catalyst 9-11. This is under Windows 7 64bit.
The 5800 series uses a slightly differnet driver pack then the 4X series, so it may or may not resolve the problem for you.
One thing I did notice though is that the DirectX error window started recently after the last patch, and after I updated to 9.12 Catalysts. Before when I was using 9.11's I never saw this crash error, but the game still did crash. Just it wasn't guaranteed on ground missions like it is now, and was extremely random.
However when I run 9.11's, and start the game up for the first time of each day, my screen flashes a rainbow array of colors while the "Cryptic" logo is on my screen and loading. It's probably my badass PC telling me this game is TRIBBLE, but I'll ignore it for the time being.
I'm running two HD 4890's in Crossfire, 6 gigs of DDR3 Triple, and a 2.66 i7 proc. Obviously I can run anything thrown at me at max settings with 8x Antialiasing, and 16x Aniso for the most part and I have. But not this game. No antialiasing and it still runs like ****. It's a good thing I got charged the full amount for the Pre-order on Direct2Drive, huh?
Wow, ATI users must unanimously have the dirtiest cases going since there are non stop threads about this.
Now on to a serious reply, the dynamic lighting thing does indeed help with the ground mission crashing issue, at least it did for me.