Scenarios & Open RVR Still Causing Crash to Black Screen

Edit: Note to self not to post late at night.  Sorry for all the typos in the original

I "think" Mythic is still working on why some players are still experiencing crashes that require a hard boot recovery.  I say "think" because the lack of official Mythic forums makes knowing for sure difficult.  I've submitted tickets but I haven't had a response yet.  From what I've gathered from the MANY sites I've visited (reason why I'm not a fan of there not being at least a Support forum) is that there are problems playing WAR on some of the NVIDIA graphics cards.  In my case, I'm in the group of players crashing w/ the 9600 GT.  I've tried the suggestions from the sites I've found but nothing has worked so far.  I upgraded to the 9600GT to play AOC and gave my older card away.  I'm really not in the mood to buy a new card only a few months later for WAR.

I'm still enjoying the but doing nothing but leveling is starting to wear thin.  I can't enjoy such a one dimensional game experience long term.  It's a credit to Mythic that I've done as much questing as I have done since questing is never my preferred in-game activity.  Unfortunately right now questing is about all I can do.

I've seen little bursts of PVP this weekend.  Once you move past the first quest hub in Troll Country and beyond Felde Keep, you'll be doing PQs and quests in an area that sees Destruction traffic.  It's also very easy to get RVR flagged traveling around this zone if you're not careful.  It's common to see fellow adventurers RVR flagged (name is yellow).  When I notice a Destruction player passing thru I'll keep an eye out to see if the attack flagged players.  They often will if the player is lower and seemingly alone, at which point I'll DOT them up which flags me for RVR and join in the fight.

Unlike WOW, players are jumping into PVP to help instead of just running by.  But man the good guys still have lots of healers that don't heal!  Anywho I'm still having fun but if a lot more time goes by without being able to do RVR I'm not going to be so cheery.   The other thing that sucks about this is that I can't participate in the COW guild RVR events!  :-(

Comments

[Sente]

That is not fun, driver related crashes is always painful.

I am not sure if this helps or if you have tested it, but with the latest 177.79 Nvidia drivers there have been some crashing and graphic problems in City of Villains for the series 8 & 9 cards together with Vista (I have a 9800 GTS+ myself).

However, downloading the beta drivers (177.92) and using them fixed those problems. Might not be the same problems, but at least there seem to have been _some_ issues fixed there.

[nosedive51]

That has to be computer smashing annoying. It's a shame too, it's such a great game.

[Jon]

I was getting this crash with public quests every single time on an ATI powered iMac running XP and I lowered the graphics settings to see if that would help. I haven't seen the crash since, which of course may or may not mean it's actually fixed.

[JoBildo]

I'm going to look for those beta drivers tonight, Sente, thanks.

I still have the problem myself, though not as extreme as Saylah. Mine seems to occur after about an hour of play, though one time as soon as I rebooted and joined a Scenario it happened again.

Keeping Vent Overlay off "seems" to help me prolong crashing. But it's downright annoying for me, so I can only imagine how bad it's getting for Saylah.

[Saylah]

@All - No it's not fun. I would be less annoyed with just the game crashing to the desktop. It's the hard boot recovery that is troublesome.

I did drop back to the 177.79 driver since I saw that somewhere as a suggestion. I lowered graphics to low quality and downloaded a program to under clock the card but I still crash. Late last night I saw something about playing without sound enabled so I'll try that this evening. When I was out shopping for the upgrade to play Conan I wanted the 8800 series but the on-board power supply in the Dell XPS couldn't support it.

I'll keep trying different things and cross my fingers that a resolution or reliable workaround appears very soon.

[grimm]

hi, its not just your nvidia card matey. im suffering the same issues with my ati 3870 card at the moment. it is crashing totally at random atm. i heard somewhere that it was down to some ddr3 nvidia cards what were a faulty batch which can be RMA'd. dont know for sure, just what i spotted after googling black screen crash in warhammer online...

anyhow. sort of mixed blessing tbh, was fearing that my system was dying now i just think i wasted the cash on a fantastic game i cant play :(

[Saylah]

@Grimm - Yes, I saw those same posts about video cards using DDR3 which my Nvidia uses which is why I followed the down-clocking once I saw which three settings to adjust. Initially, I saw a post that only had me change 1 setting which didn't improve my situation. But using the sync'd change of core, memory and shader did the trick for me.

I was also wondering if I was going to find myself having purchased a CE game where I couldn't play a good percentage of the content. I'm just hoping this fix holds. Good luck in finding something that will work for you. *crosses fingers*