Game freezes constantly

Waaagh · #1 07-12-2011, 01:55 PM

Hello, 1C forums.

Following problem: after a short search, I´ve not found this adressed, so I´m not even sure there´s other people who have this problem.

The game freezes after an amount of time, stopping dead in its tracks. It doesn´t respond to any commands, but I can alt-tab normally and kill the launcher via ctrl+alt+del. I have recently installed new drivers for the gfx card and updated COD via steam: neither of those had any effect on the freezes. The more planes, the shorter the amount of time til a freeze, however, this is largely unpredicteable. Sometimes the game freezes shortly after starting a mission, sometimes after 20 minutes, sometimes it doesn´t.

It also freezes no matter what background processes are running.

My rig is the following:

Intel Core2Duo E8400 @ 3ghz per core.
Nvidia 260GTX with latest driver set (DLed Saturday)
4 gigs of DDR2 RAM
3 HDs.
Running WIN XP pro edition.

What other information should I provide so you can adress this problem, 1C

Looking forward to the responses. :>

Cheerio

Waaagh

(And no, I´m not angry anymore, but still very disappointed. Some thing seem to have been fixed now, though, so I´m hopeful that this too will be alleviated soon.)

AMVI_Superblu · #2 07-12-2011, 02:59 PM

hi,
you may try your rig running ClOD on Win7 partition..
i read around the forum that XP is causing a lot of problems with this sim (but i may be wrong)

BadgerSmedly · #3 07-12-2011, 03:31 PM

Waaagh

Go to the Steam library and check the integrity of your install. It will check your game and then fix any issues. I doubt if it's this, but it's worth checking.

Also, turn down your settings to low across the board and then test and turn them up incrementally etc.

Good luck!

Badger

Waaagh · #4 07-12-2011, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AMVI_Superblu

hi,
you may try your rig running ClOD on Win7 partition..
i read around the forum that XP is causing a lot of problems with this sim (but i may be wrong)

Unfortunately I do not possess Win7 yet, so I can´t try this. I´m getting it soon, though, to prepare for Arma 3.

Maybe that will fix this, if nothing else does.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadgerSmedly

Waaagh

Go to the Steam library and check the integrity of your install. It will check your game and then fix any issues. I doubt if it's this, but it's worth checking.

Also, turn down your settings to low across the board and then test and turn them up incrementally etc.

Good luck!

Badger

Verified the integrity of the cache. Graphics settings seem to be unrelated to this from preliminary testing, but I will try all the options again for a longer duration now.

Any other ideas/fixes?

Help is really appreciated.

skouras · #5 07-12-2011, 04:23 PM

W7 is a priority for you
you will surprise

Ataros · #6 07-12-2011, 04:31 PM

Same advice http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...92&postcount=4

I think Win7-64 has a demo mode which runs fine.

ElephantGuts · #7 07-20-2011, 09:28 PM

I have the exact same problem, running XP and game freezes extremely often to the point of being unplayable.

I don't mean to sound hostile here but if it's a known fact that running XP or less than 4GB of RAM would cause serious performance issues with this game then why were the game requirements listed as including XP and 2GB of RAM? I bought this game knowing my specs fit well inside the minimum requirements but I'm now left with an unplayable game because apparently the listed minimum requirements were well below the actual specs needed to play the game. Very poor show.

Rattlehead · #8 07-20-2011, 09:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ElephantGuts

I have the exact same problem, running XP and game freezes extremely often to the point of being unplayable.

I don't mean to sound hostile here but if it's a known fact that running XP or less than 4GB of RAM would cause serious performance issues with this game then why were the game requirements listed as including XP and 2GB of RAM? I bought this game knowing my specs fit well inside the minimum requirements but I'm now left with an unplayable game because apparently the listed minimum requirements were well below the actual specs needed to play the game. Very poor show.

I'm afraid to say that nobody should pay attention to the minimum specs. Folks need to try and get as close to reccommmended specs as possible.
Sorry to hear about your troubles.

Crashlight · #9 07-22-2011, 04:00 AM

I have this problem also on Windows 7 32bit. AMD Phenom II X3 2.80 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia 250 GTS 1 GB, 570 GB free on 1 TB HD. Gigabyte MA790X-UD4P mainboard.

That is sufficient to run any game. In fact I can run Age of Conan and City of Heroes at the same time at full graphics.

I have run into this same discussion in a few games. Everyone says, "your machine doesn't have enough memory", "you need 64 bit to run games now", ya-da, ya-da, etc.

Then the bug is found and the game runs fine. Now one of the bugs I have heard of that is causing this type of crashing is the Windows 7 SP 1 patch which has some conflict with Nvidia and ATI drivers. Devs might want to check this one.

Anyway, Cliffs of Dover crashes so often I can't even play it. It is the only game that crashes on my system at the moment, every other game runs at full graphics at high FPS. That includes games like Shogun 2 Total War so my system certainly has the specs to run CoD at medium and low settings, but it crashes every 3 minutes or so.

I have no 3rd party apps and the only add-in card is the graphics card.

Crashlight · #10 07-22-2011, 05:18 PM

Just saying I have run into this type of problem alot recently in other games and always the response is, your system is too low, this game requires at least 1.5 GBs of free ram and yours doesn't have it, etc.

Now actually the system monitor says I have 1250 MBs of available ram left over, while the game is using 2 GB's ram, so plenty of memory, while the CPU load is 34% to max of 52% usage. This is during combat over land. That is a very stable setting/platform for running CoD.

What the problem has turned out to be sometimes is a conflict with recent drivers from Nvidia and ATI with Windows 7 changes related to SP 1. That's why I mention it.

Now the types of crashes I get from CoD are not typical memory related crashes. They are more like halt errors. They happen at loading sometimes too and at times when memory usage should be lower not higher. This is what the other games did also, halt on error or a corrupt file that wasn't actually corrupted. Then they fixed the bug and suddenly everything runs smoothly again.