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Crashing During Defend Missions! Is It My Computer??

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
I've been playing this game since it's launch with ZERO issues. With-in the past two weeks, every time I'm doing a defend mission to lvl, the game crashes at least twice an hour. I don't get it.

I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 2.2GHZ

2.5GB DDR Ram

ATI Radeon X1900 GT


I'm not huge into computers and this is my first MMO. What gets me is that the game has been playing fine.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.:)
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    You have a very low spec computer. especially your gcard. Try running the game in safe mode from the launcher. It wont look pretty by any means, but its a good way to see if it is your comp.

    Also remember that each patch could bring graphical enhancements, so while your system might work during one patch, it's not guaranteed to work during the next. Especially with a low spec machine such as yours.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    tedgp123 wrote: »
    You have a very low spec computer. especially your gcard. Try running the game in safe mode from the launcher. It wont look pretty by any means, but its a good way to see if it is your comp.

    Also remember that each patch could bring graphical enhancements, so while your system might work during one patch, it's not guaranteed to work during the next. Especially with a low spec machine such as yours.


    Tried it. the audio started to skip and the graphics froze about 15 minutes into the game.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Dynamic Lighting crashes just about everyone right now. Other than that I would check overheating issues. Check out your CPU/ graphics card heat sinks and see if they're dirty.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    eklipze wrote:
    Dynamic Lighting crashes just about everyone right now. Other than that I would check overheating issues. Check out your CPU/ graphics card heat sinks and see if they're dirty.

    Thanks, I checked them and all is well. All the fans are working fine.

    Excuse the ignorance but what do you mean by Dynamic Lighting and why would it crash a game?

    Thanks again!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Dynamic lighting is a option under your video settings in game. make sure i is disabled. It is very buggy with low end cards such as yours.

    If your game still crashes afterwards, try reinstalling your graphics drivers to the latest version. If it STILL crashes after that, you may need to buy a new Graphic card, but thats only a suggestion and should only be done in the very last case.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Thanks for the help! Hopefully, I'll be playing STO for hours to come!!
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