Really disappointed

[xxThe_Dice_manxx]

Greetings

I'd take a long hard look at your rig before you blame the game, ED is one of the most stable PC games I've ever played.

 

[Antmax]

ED runs very stable on my system. It's been months since it has had any freezes or the display drivers shut down. It's been rock solid since Gamma.

I also think it's something to do with your hardware.

 

[Gold Member]

Hi williamstanko. Since I don't know what you have and have not tried, the following may be of some or possibly no use to you.

Have you tried running the game without the GTX 660's in SLI? Maybe ED doesn't play nice with that?

Good Luck solving your issue.....

I use a GTX 765M and the geforce experience program optimized ED to use SMAA instead of SLI. The game will still drop to windows periodically (but has only actually crashed twice in a couple of months).

The other issue, not being able to log in, is completely the launcher hook to Frontier. I have never had a problem logging in, but the first time the game updated it took a while, and when there is a patch of any size it will appear to hang (not very informative as to what it is doing) for a bit. I don't remember what the actual phrase displayed in the launcher is but it vaguely means 'synchronizing'.

If the OP just bought the game, I will bet the log in issue is to do with updates after the recent purchase. And also, ahem, I'll also bet he bought it on Steam.

Yeah, I take my digs at Steam. Buying a game and actually playing it quickly is sometimes a challenge (I have a few dozen Steam games).

 

[Cosmos]

I have never had the game crash on me. Is that unusual?

Not in my experience. The games been really stable - not had many issues with crashing etc since way back in beta.

 

[_Flin_]

How comes people think that posting "game runs stable on my computer" will add anything to the issue? That's beyond me.

 

[Cosmos]

How comes people think that posting "game runs stable on my computer" will add anything to the issue? That's beyond me.

Well it might suggest the problem is on the PC end rather than one with the game.

 

[Zplintz]

I haven't had a single crash to desktop or hang since beta or any issues logging in. There is nothing wrong with the game. If you are getting this on a regular basis there is something wrong with your hardware or install.

If you want to get it sorted (rather than just complain about it) you should take it up on the bug forum.

 

[xDreadnoughtx]

I built a reasonable PC back in Beta after years away from PC gaming.

It was an interesting experience, and because Elite is the only thing I play on it I can report the following.

Standard beta was played on my oldish laptop quite successfully, but crash/freezes were frequent. Blue screens unknown.
PC build complete I found lots of freezes, ctd's and worryingly bsd's.
Being a new build I thought the bsd's were probably hardware. Memtest, drivers, stress testing. All OK.
Gamma and gold arrived - stability hugely improved. Very occasional freeze/ctd, and I suspect my very crappy internet connection. Possible link to background software in windows.
Once a month I still get a BSD.
My luddite diagnosis is that on my system there are a combination of issues.
1. BSD is being caused by some obscure GPU issue that only rears it head so rarely now I can live with it.
2. Freezes\ctds are down to ED code, and seems to increase with background software. I am beginning to suspect windows auto update scheduling has a part to play.

Going to finally get off my backside and switch that off.

As I said, all very caveman in a dark forest with a guttering torch.

 

[Zplintz]

You should not get BSD. They are hardware/driver issues not ED. If an app causes a BSD it is because it has tried to access the hardware/driver that has an issue.

 

[kilvenny]

I have an I7 with a gtx760 and have zero crashes. Haven't had any CTD's for months to be honest and never had a BSD.

When are you crashing - is it at specific points? In stations or rings ED makes the gpu work much harder - could be that's discovering a stability issue in your pc ,or power being favourite. Try going single card and reducing the graphics quality and see if that improves things.

 

[xDreadnoughtx]

You should not get BSD. They are hardware/driver issues not ED. If an app causes a BSD it is because it has tried to access the hardware/driver that has an issue.

Erm, fully read my post. It recognises that.

I have done all I can and it's become a non issue due to infrequency. Which was also stated.

All good.

Cheers

 

[flyright]

Try dialing back your overclock on those GPU's.
im assuming they're overclocked if they aren't look into your drivers, or the overclock on your CPU.

It sounds like a stability issue to me.

Stability issue won't generally crash one program and not all the other processes too.
Sounds like software. Could be corrupt files or just poorly optimized sw.

 

[Hawkmoon]

I think first off the OP needs to be able to log in, have they said what happens when they try to log in?

Once they get back in then maybe we can get a handle on what is causing the crashes, or it may be the same problem if they are getting disconnected rather than crashing.

 

[Dandare71]

That is a very bad idea, for a number of reasons.

First, in this case, there's no legal grounds for a chargeback, particularly since there's a very, very, very strong chance the problem is with the computer and not the game.

Second, if you try to initiate the chargeback process and the chargeback is denied, you will typically owe fees for the attempt. You can lose more than you aim to gain back.

Third, are you really going to do that to your credit worthiness over a small amount of money like a game? Doing a chargeback even once can get you onto blacklists and could potentially drop your credit score and/or lead to denials of new lines of credit. That hardly seems worth it for something this inexpensive. The one group of people you really don't want to tick off are the credit bureaus.

This is why so many pc games are half finished and barely work, too many people are scared to do anything about it.

 

[SCADVID]

Stability issue won't generally crash one program and not all the other processes too.
Sounds like software. Could be corrupt files or just poorly optimized sw.

It can and will corrupt files in use, especially if bad memory is the problem. Most BSOD errors are of corrupted files due to it.

The price for overclocking is the consequences that follow with stability problems. Especially when bragging rights are more important than 24/7 stability (too common in gaming).

 

[hems303]

I just am really upset. If it was something I bought in store I could atleast return it for a product that worked. But apparently it is "working as intended".


Intel i7 3770k 3.5
sabertooth z77 mobo
16g dominator ram
geforce gtx 660 X 2 in sli
corswair water cooling

Hi Commander
.
I really feel for you mate, because this game really rocks. I have two PC rigs, one older and the one listed below. With my old PC; Elite Dangerous is an absolute disaster: I just cannot get it to run. But the newer PC has run it without a single glitch or stutter nor crash since before BETA. You will see that my listed rig is nothing special at all. PLEASE persevere with your PC and it's settings because it should handle the game without issue! Best of luck

 

[Goilveig]

Stability issue won't generally crash one program and not all the other processes too.

Actually, that's not true at all, depending on the root cause of the stability issue. Some issues can cause ubiquitous stability problems, but others can cause problems only with very specific applications.

Games tend to be very intensive programs, meaning higher CPU and GPU clock rates, and higher temperatures. They also tend to push the drivers and the hardware strongly, and each game uses the drivers and hardware in a slightly different way.

 

[Radicus]

For the record, I haven't had a BSoD's or any issues with ED.

I do have a question though.. does ED take advantage or use the CUDA function? If so, you do know that NVidia stopped supporting CUDA a while back so all the recent driver updates don't support it any longer. I discovered this while doing some rendering jobs on my new GTX970 and found it wasn't detecting CUDA at all.

To get around the problem, you need to manually register the CUDA support .dll's. There's plenty of chatter around on Google regarding this problem.

 

[Steve50]

I play daily and the last time it CTD'd on me was way back in early beta 1.x

 

[spacedyemeerkat]

For instance I had what I thought was a stable over clock on my gtx980 I can run heaven, and kombuster as well as other games all day but elite gives me graphics driver hangs

At stock I have not had a single crash.

Exactly the same for me with my 980. Nothing causes issues with the overclock except Elite which is odd because Elite is hardly the most graphically intensive of games.