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I can't go more than 20 minutes without the game either completely locking up my system or crashing. This is really annoying me because the rest of my co-op team is waiting for me to solve the issue.
I've done all the easy stuff like making sure anti-virus/firewall/background programs aren't messing with the game. I've verified the game data and done a fresh install and yet the same crash keeps happening. In the event viewer it says that
nvwgf2vmx.dll is at fault.
Since that is an nvidia file I reinstalled the drivers. Not fixed. So I reinstalled them again, this time using driver sweeper to wipe out any trace of the old drivers. Game works for 45 minutes then goes right back to crashing every 10.
I play a bunch of other games and none have this problem.
I'm out of ideas short of reinstalling windows and if I do that and still have the issue I might go insane.
Last edited by Solidan; 17/09/17 01:45 PM.
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The dll you're linking is nvidias video card dll. Get new video drivers and this will likely fix your issue.
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I've completely removed the drivers and reinstalled them twice now. Using the latest ones as well.
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I am getting the same issue
AMD FX-6300 @3.5 GHZ 16gb RAM (DDR3) GPU AMD R9 200
After a lot of testing my pc will crash and lock up after every battle. Its rather frustrating since I cant play with my friends.
seems to be happening to a few people both intel and AMD from what I can tell by searching the steam forums
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I have the same exact problem and it is the same as stated in this thread: http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=610874#Post610874This problem has been in the game since EA and there is no solution to it and it's all on Larians side things. Updating or reverting to old drivers does not fix the problem. Trust me I've tried, a lot...
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If you are having troubles with random crashing (not loading levels) with DOS 2 then look to your CPU. If you have your CPU overclocked set it back to stock or turn down your overclock some. This game is showing an unstable overclock very easily.
I played for 4 hours straight where a usual play time was 20 minutes before removing my overclock. Removing your overclock or turning it down will make minimal impact on this game i believe. I don't think any patch will fix this issue, its a user inflicted issue.
I was very frustrated but still loved this game but not I enjoy it so much more!
Your mileage may vary.
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Same issue with me, basically. I'm getting a complete lockout crash on Win7, with an AMD card (I think it's a 7950 - definitely a 7900-series). CPU is an i7-3770K at 3.5, stock clocked.
Sorry to get anecdotal but I'm still fairly limited when it comes to hardware so hopefully my little story can help the boffins at Larian figure out where the issue may be.
First it happened when I was reloading a save (I was hosting) after one of the two people I was playing with decided he wanted to test some things and roll back, and it gave me a light blue screen, I was able to reset my computer. Next it crashed after successfully loading, while in the connectivity opening the invites so my friends could join, to a grey screen with white bars, I was able to reset. The third time it crashed in the menus while I was experimenting with lowering my graphics and settings, thinking it was maybe some sort of processing issue. It crashed to a grey screen with brown bars, and I had to manually hold the power override to shut down my system.
I've had three more crashes since then experimenting with different things, verifying the game, etc. The only thing I haven't tried is a full re-install because I have Australian internet - it took me over a day to install the game in the first place. All of these crashes were hard lockups (keyboard turned off, unable to ctrl+alt+delete, etc.). We're in Driftwood, but I've already progressed through this area on another save that another friend is the host of, so I don't think it has anything to do with the area itself. The only other thing I can say is that most of our sessions have been very long ones, proper gaming nights, but I'm not getting issues with any other titles, even on long sessions on poorly-optimized games like PUBG. I've not seen any overheating, etc. either. And since I've had crashes in the start menus and on the game initializing load screen I don't think it has anything to do with the saves themselves.
EDIT: Should have also probably mentioned that after the last few crashes the game has disappeared from my Steam list and I've had to run the .exe or start a re-install to get it to pick it up in my system. Steam does that sometimes, but it's happened three times with Divinity, I'm not sure if it's related to the issue or just the fact that the game is crashing.
UPDATE: Just tried it for another 30-45 minutes today after work, and I've noticed that the crashes seem to consistently happen around 3 minutes after initialization of the game, regardless of where I am (in a save, on a menu, at the title screen, during a load). I don't want to fuck with it too much and risk corrupting my save or doing any damage to my system (seems like all the power cycling is probably bad, right?) but hopefully this issue can be resolved soon since we've all been really addicted to the experience so far and are desperate to continue playing. Honestly I have no idea what the problem could be, I've never experienced anything like this with a game before, barring the very rare and random occurrence of a lockup crash.
Last edited by VodkaHellstorm; 30/09/17 08:13 AM.
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Having a similar issue but after my game locks up it resumes where it locked up at, like i can hear the music/sounds continue to play and if i'm not in combat at the time of a lock up, upon resuming, my other three characters will come running from off screen as though they were sent other places then told to meet up with the one i am currently controlling.
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***SOLUTION***
Disconnect Joystick. (Logitech freedom 2.4 cordless, in my case) I can confirm: No more crashes after this. Check you peripherals!
I now played some hours without crash, after having had freezes repeatedly.
Last edited by grimfi; 30/09/17 04:54 PM.
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I'd like to give you guys a bit of an update to my issue, which I've anecdotally detailed earlier in the thread. First I'd like to again caveat that I'm not in any way a hardware guy, so if I spread any misinformation or if some of my hunches are mechanically impossible, please let me know so others may still be able to solve this problem and to let me know if I should take this problem to the devs' direct awareness.
So after days of battling crashes and testing, trying to diagnose, even losing windows startup a few times, I'm now about 90% sure that the issue is either with the Video RAM, or possibly a fault in the graphics card like a fractured solder. Since my computer has been able to recover from the graphical issues that have plagued it after the crashes, however, I'm leaning towards it being the VRAM.
I have experienced the lockup crash once playing Rimworld now, but the system froze to horizontal red lines, which are ever-present after the Divinity crashes until they randomly decide to go away after a random number of restarts, rather than the brown/black screen with vertical bars that the lock-up has in Divinity. I don't believe it's an issue with the graphics card itself, as it's pretty much impossible that a card could just start working again on it's own (I haven't even touched the hardware, just deleted drivers). I also don't think that this is actually a crash, as I've been unable to find any crash reports in the event logs, or any CrashDumps in the DOS2 bin folder. At one point my computer even stopped recognizing I had a graphics card at all in Device Manager and dxdiag, despite the fact it was displaying from it.
Despite all this, I have experienced the "crash" far more regularly and quickly (as well as for the first time) while playing Divinity, only twice in about 20 times while the game wasn't open, and only after extended periods of activity on the PC (4hrs+). I believe that something in the game causes or has caused a catastrophic failure somewhere along the line and that these failures - coupled with the constant need to reset and power cycle - have multiplied the damage. I don't mean this in any accusatory sense as it's obviously impossible that failures like this could have been forseen and it's possible that it only occurs with graphics cards that already have some damage/have a lot of hours of use on them. The devs aren't responsible for our graphics cards. But despite this I find that it's probably beyond coincidence that so many people have been experiencing very similar hard lock-up crashes while playing DOS2 (at least one more thread on the issue: https://steamcommunity.com/app/435150/discussions/6/3223871682610323272/ as opposed to the very few threads I've managed to find on the symptoms themselves, which all point toward VRAM or card issues and are pretty much only on hardware forums). I hope this can at least serve as a caution to some that, until we know for sure, if you have an older card you might want to avoid this title.
I understand this is kind of obscure and may not even be the fault of the game at all. It may even be possible that my feelings that the game is at fault are entirely impossible and completely coincidental, and my card could have just as easily had these problems on the desktop, but I feel that the fact that almost all of the crashes have occured in Divinity, sometimes as early as three minutes into the title, and that so many people seem to have the same or similar problems, it must be more than circumstancial that the game is somehow at fault. For these reasons I also expect it to not be looked at by the devs for a long time, if they even feel they have a responsibility to look into it. But hopefully we can find some answers soon because despite the hours and money I've put into trying to solve this problem, I really fucking miss playing Divinity.
Last edited by VodkaHellstorm; 03/10/17 12:17 PM.
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For what it's worth, as someone who has been both using and fixing PCs since the late 80s, computers with the beginnings of hardware failure or something wrong with the drivers can indeed run certain games with no or little issue and yet have massive issues with another. It all depends on how the specific program works.
It generally works out best to always assume your system is at fault and do your best to troubleshoot it from that direction first, using error information you get from a program that routinely crashes. Even if it's the program that is crashing trying to utilize your specific driver or hardware combo in an odd way it's not easy to determine if that is indeed the case.
In my experience game crashes are caused by the following four issues, in order of frequency:
DISABLE ANY GAME MODS AND START A NEW GAME FOR TESTING. DISABLE OVERCLOCKING IF PRESENT.
Drivers
If a simple uninstall/reinstall doesn't work, use a driver cleaner program to clean the registry thoroughly. All else fails, back up your stuff and do a full operating system reinstall. I typically will do this if the following two issues don't resolve it as it largely rules out driver, malware, virus, and other software related causes. Almost always video card/driver related.
Memory
Try running a program like Prime95 for an hour or two and see what happens. It will run your memory at very high intensity. If it's going bad it probably won't be able to run the program for very long.
Disk Drive
Do a full hard drive scan as it's possible that some game files have been written to a bad sector(s) on the drive. You can also trying moving the game to another drive and see if the issue persists. Just be sure to re verify the files.
CPU
Specifically the memory onboard the CPU. Hard to trace without bluescreen error messages IMO. Look for CPU stressing programs and benchmarks. Also more likely to affect everything you do, not only certain games or tasks.
Last edited by BoogieMan; 03/10/17 12:58 PM.
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same here...having this problem randomly during battle/combat......my PC will just freeze up and goes black and require a hard reset.
using AMD r290x with latest driver here no problem any other games
Last edited by commander1122; 11/10/17 01:16 PM.
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