Steam: Lockup, forced to restart computer

[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

[Hypatian]

Ooo. You can play in windowed mode? That's good to know in any case.

Has anybody been crashing since the Steam Client patch the other day? (2009-05-19) I haven't crashed since then, despite playing for quite a few hours.

[duh]

Mine still crashes. And unlike you guys, i cant seem to get mine to last longer than 5 mins before i have to restart the machine. If i could get the game to last for 2 hours i would just save often and deal with it, but thats not an option for me.