Steam: Lockup, forced to restart computer

[Hypatian]

Aha!

I remembered last night just before I was going to bed that I had a similar lockup problem to this when I attempted to run World of Warcraft under Steam to get the Steam in-game overlay.

Today I'm playing with defaults settings, but the Steam overlay disabled in Steam config. It seems to be working so far with no mishaps. I will report back later this evening and let you know if it's still working.

[Hypatian]

Update: Nope. It lasted a good long while, but finally locked up in the usual way while I was in the middle of targeting an evil shoal. Bleah.

[duh]

Suggested Fix:

Re-release patch 1.6.5 as patch 1.7.1 (steam only) and send that to the people at steam.

[duh]

I downloaded a cracked version (dont get mad, i did this only after the version i paid for wouldnt work) And I experienced the same problem, it was patched to 1.6. Im thinking the problem isnt with steam or the 1.7 patch, but rather with the games own CD authentication, whatever steam is doing to bypass it isnt working.

System Specs:

Vista 32bit
Foxconn g33m motherboard
Intel e8400 3.0ghz
4gb 667mhz ddr2 ram
Nvidia 8600 256mb

[Houdani]

Originally Posted by Hypatian

Update: Nope. It lasted a good long while, but finally locked up in the usual way while I was in the middle of targeting an evil shoal. Bleah.

Ditto. Tried the same and was met with more computer locking fun.

As an addendum, I'm now locking up in all areas of the game. In and out of combat, with or without dialog boxes on screen. Phooey.

[kelderos]

Seems like a few people are having this problem, any official word?

[Hypatian]

My latest attempted settings change was to disable Threaded Optimization on my nVidia driver for KB. No crashes yet, but I did have one graphical glitch (flickery icons floating above things) and immediately restarted the game. Can't ever prove a negative, but it's worth a try. I'll of course report back if I do crash later, but I have some other things to do right now.

[Hypatian]

Damn. Nope, that still doesn't do it. Longest session yet with no crashes, but in the end, still the same thing.

[Houdani]

I just finished a 2 hour session with no crash and am pleased about that.

I made two changes at the same time so I don't know which one helped more, but I'm not about to undo either of them until/unless the game starts crashing again. Your mileage may vary. (Note that I'm using Win XP.)

1. Right click on the shortcut for King's Bounty. Select "Properties." On the "compatibility" tab, check the box for "Turn off advanced text services for this program." Click OK.
2. Find the GAME.CFG file in the ..\Steam\SteamApps\common\King's Bounty - The Legend\data folder. Open the file with a text editor (Notepad) and change the "setf ~windowed 0" line to read "setf ~windowed 1" instead (change the 0 to a 1).

/cross fingers