Stability, game settings?

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Hey, I'm wondering if there are some video settings I could change to make the game more stable? Currently it crashes when I start a game, when I load a game, when I mouse over certain things, when certain music starts, ect. I'm wondering if anyone has found that turning off sound, running at certain resolutions, or turning off certain options would help make the game a bit more stable?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

The game is fairly stable for me (running 1600x1200 with maxed graphics on Win 7 x64) - I haven't had any crashes beyond the know Alt-tab problem and when trying to load a corrupted save done after some other bug hit me.   So I don't have any specific suggestions, but I can give some tips on how to debug the problem: 

A good place to start might be to disable and/or set to minimum everything that you can.  After doing that, does the game still crash?  If so, maybe it might be a corrupt installation or not having enough ram.  (Does your computer meet the system requirements?) 

If the game works OK with everything disabled, then you can try gradually enabling or increasing one or two features at a time and re-testing the game.  If it starts crashing after you've enabled or increased some setting, back off on it, write down which setting it was, make sure the game works again, and then try enabling some other feature.  Keep testing things, because it's possible more than one feature may be causing your problem.  In this way, you'll get a picture of which options cause the problem, which then hopefully will give a clue about what the cause is.

 

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Alright, sounds good! I'll try your method!

I've got a i5 quad corre 2.6mhz and 4 gigs of ram, with a Geforce GTS 250. Also runing on win7 64-bit. I wonder if it could be my video drivers? I had to revert to a more stable driver as the current drivers were giving me graphical errors and distortions.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

In addition to LintMan's suggestions, some have had luck with playing in windowed mode.  I didn't see you mention if you tried it, so if you haven't...

Your system is similar to mine so you should be ok. 

Regarding drivers, it is mentioned in the journal post 'Elemental Beta 2 Update Schedule':

"Certain nVidia cards with newer graphics drivers (how’s that for a change?) are having lighting issues. If you turn off advanced lighting, that’ll fix it as a temporary workaround."

Other than that they say use the most recent (but if you're having trouble with them for other purposes, that's a dilemma).