Game gets to 98% then crashes.

troopershades · Post by **troopershades** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:04 pm

Just got the game and decided to do the training since I dont know what I am doing. The game loads up to 98% then just quits. Any suggestions? Im about to try loading a normal game but I fear there will be no change.

Post by **Vice** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:05 pm

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Steps to troubleshoot and solve the problem are available here: http://www.starwraith.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6595

lemonrev · Post by **lemonrev** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:03 am

Vice, Can there be like a exe that you guys can like post somewhere that might have more of a debug for you guys so you can collect what you need also is there a way other from all other basic soultuions that you can have with like maxing out the system to the point where the game will run with out say reinstalling or taking a virus scanner off.

You guys could make a debug program that would collect data much like a dxdiag can be and we could just send the txt or what not to you and see if that helps but also.

With this game if it does take a lot of resouces is there a testing program that is avalible to test the system to the games specs so we know if the game works or not. and if not why does this game make it soo hard to run ?.

Post by **Vice** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:06 am

Vice, Can there be like a exe that you guys can like post somewhere that might have more of a debug for you guys so you can collect what you need also is there a way other from all other basic soultuions that you can have with like maxing out the system to the point where the game will run with out say reinstalling or taking a virus scanner off.

The game includes debugging built-in, it provides information on when and where a crash occurs and why (ie the system blocks the game from loading a media file into memory).

With this game if it does take a lot of resouces is there a testing program that is avalible to test the system to the games specs so we know if the game works or not. and if not why does this game make it soo hard to run ?.

There is a testing program available at the link I provided above. The attribute related to the game that may result it in not running on some systems is its high memory requirement (as discussed at the link above, which also includes steps to get it to work on most systems that are lean on memory or do not offer enough consecutive memory to run the game).

Most memory/interference related problems are easily solved by removing the source of the interference on the system. It's often caused by security programs and Steam even provides a list of such programs that cause problems with their service and games in general here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_art ... -SFLZ-9289 So one option that can be a good first step is to see if you're running one of the programs on that list.

When providing tech support for such problems, the user is often running a program that blocks some of their system's memory, its disk access, or both, which obviously causes problems when a game depends on accessing those system resources. And sometimes the problem is intermittent because the security program intermittently blocks resources and/or performs scans at different times. So a game might run fine one day and not the next. So a good first step when troubleshooting such problems is to see if you're running a security program that is known to cause such problems in games (particularly high resource games).

[Edited on 4-26-2012 by Vice]