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sfofficer123
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Hi, I was thinking of posting this in the 'crash to desktop at loading screen' thread, but thats not where I crash.
My bug is that it keeps crashing to desktop after about twenty seconds of 'gameplay'. I can log in fine, select character, etc, but for the most time, the game crashed to desktop after 20 seconds. On 2 occasions i was able to play a little longer, but no more than 5 mins and sometimes, I dont make it past the first map loading screen after character select menu.
Problem persists on both ARC and Steam.
Crash error ticket ID is the same each time - 25663486. verified files on all but a few occasions with no joy.
NOTE: not entirely sure, but running in safe mode feels like it gets me 10 or so more seconds but looks like its running at lower graphics settings.
Also, Think i have this problem as well. http://http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1251981
Hope this is the right place for this, please merge this with other threads if it needs to be.
My bug is that it keeps crashing to desktop after about twenty seconds of 'gameplay'. I can log in fine, select character, etc, but for the most time, the game crashed to desktop after 20 seconds. On 2 occasions i was able to play a little longer, but no more than 5 mins and sometimes, I dont make it past the first map loading screen after character select menu.
Problem persists on both ARC and Steam.
Crash error ticket ID is the same each time - 25663486. verified files on all but a few occasions with no joy.
NOTE: not entirely sure, but running in safe mode feels like it gets me 10 or so more seconds but looks like its running at lower graphics settings.
Also, Think i have this problem as well. http://http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1251981
Hope this is the right place for this, please merge this with other threads if it needs to be.
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I can get into the game, maybe have some 5-10 mins of gameplay time before I randomly crash. The crash occurs more often when I enter new areas and instead of the loading screen I crash to desktop. Also, as the previous poster mentioned - it seems I can stay a bit more if I just sit in space and do nothing, while if I actually try to do stuff - which requires switching areas/instances, a crash almost inevitably happens.
Yesterday I didn't have crashes, but they started today out of a sudden.
So, Cryptic. Is this how things are supposed to be from now on? Crash after crash? Your ****ty Chinese EULA may save you from "officially" taking "responsibility" but ask yourselves, is this how you want it to be? Why are you even bothering with creating anything? A normal, responsible being would make sure that everything is running just fine. Obviously, you can't or don't want to do even that.
If you're really clueless of how to fix that damn game, then maybe you should consider a rollback of whatever you did to how the game works with DirectX.
There are quite a few bad apples out there, as far as developers are concerned but you even fail help those who can't log in or play for more than a few minutes. And for what? For a new flashy but pointless graphics addon that nobody really cares about?
I do hope that at least some of you are ashamed of yourselves.
Unless you have a similar problem and are looking for help (and have infomation that might help the devs format a solution), or someone with a possible solution, please refrain from posting foul language or any content that isnt helping with the proplem/solution. I kindly ask that these threads are used to help others, Not to moan. Thank you.
Spare the white-knighting. If you had actually read what i posted you would know that i'm also suffering from the same crashes and more, all since the update.
That "foul-language" is what you can call my honest displeasure with how things are handled so far.
People won't offer you solutions because there aren't any beyond Cryptic fixing their code. That's it. If people don't call them out on it they'll just sit down and do nothing. That is the truth.
But yeah it's so much more important to get worked up over a harsh and honest post. Go figure.
But yeah, i'll repost all of my problems. Why not, it's very simple. All that were reported since the update. That is right. All.
The problems sorce: a faulty update that messed up the engines communication with DirectX and/or AMD cards. I can't speak for NVIDIA cards but from what i read so far, those are affected as well.
Their update didn't help at all. There are no solutions.
There.
When trying to log in again, the launcher always starts by verifying files but this doesn't seem to fix anything. Changing the Force Verify option to off does nothing as it always resets to on when I start the launcher again.
I am running the game through Steam on an HP Pavilion that is about 4 years old. Although it's an old machine, I've never had this problem with the client before and I didn't expect that the changes would make this game more or less unplayable. I have tried solutions such as updating drivers and verifying the files through Steam, but nothing has worked. Until this is addressed I will be playing other games in the meantime.
I am happy I didn't buy the DR pack but I was at least looking forward to playing the new content with my upgraded vet ship...
Edit: the problem persists in the game's safe mode and the error code is the same as the OP, 25663486.
They were all playable until they went to ESD...
Same here. I spent most of the my time today messing with full screen, windowed, switching between DX9 and DX11, lowering graphics, etc....just getting tired of messing with it. If I want to enjoy the game at all I've been reduced to DOFF stuff, running my rep out, or hanging out in a station. And that gets old fast. I want to FIGHT bad guys!!!!
I think the majority of us can agree though, that everything was fine until DR hit.