Horizons 2.2 now crashing

[Rhaedas]

I don't know if it's tied to beta or not, so I figured I'd start here. Since beta 3 (maybe) I've had trouble loading the main game. I sent a description with one of the crash reports once I noticed it was a constant thing. I've validated the files a few times, and have gotten into the game a couple of tries, but usually it crashes while doing the graphics test.

Now before I get the whole "get latest drivers, etc., etc.", firstly, the drivers I have on my old card are it, there will be no more from AMD for it. Second, the game has not given me trouble since the first Horizons (the whole AMD bug that was fixed). And most importantly, I can still get into the beta fine, no crashes at all. That's the weird thing, the one that hasn't changed at all on the client side (I would guess) is the one that's breaking now.

My concern of course is the cause and if it's something that might filter into the next versions of either beta or the final 2.3. I have no way to tell what's wrong, short of reporting it, which I did. I'm posting here to see if anyone's noticed the same...maybe someone who, like myself, spends more time in beta right now and hasn't ventured back to the "real" game.

And, outside of drivers, wiping the OS, all those drastic things, is there anything I can check? The last 2.2 ran fine until now.

 

[MickyG1982]

Hmm, I've been on it since 8pm this evening without a single crash, in fact about the only thing I did experience was slow transitioning, everything else was fine.

That said, you might have some success removing the GpuWorkTable found in wherever you have installed ED & the ED64 client, in my case here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous\Products\elite-dangerous-64

but yours could be different.

That should force ED to rewrite it again & set the graphics card up correctly.

It might be advisable to simply rename it to something else, in case I was wrong.

 

[Thalion Solarstorm]

You could also run the File verification check from the Patcher in case something went wrong on an update or due Virus Scanners / Filesystem corruption.

Cheers!

 

[Rhaedas]

Could be coincidence, but I think your suggestion worked, MickyG. So far I've started and restarted a number of times, and have gotten to the main menu fine.

As for why and when that file messed up, if it's true, and why the launcher can't figure out when it needs to redo it, I don't know. Any time the game is run, it has that new time stamp, so I'm not sure why it was getting hung up.

Thanks for the solution!

Edit: well, maybe not. It did work a number of times, but now it's back to crashing, and doing the same deletion of the file isn't working this time. Sigh.

Thalion, yeah, I did the validation a few times beforehand, never had success afterwards.

At least I have beta to occupy my time for now...

 

[d8veh]

I get the same. Since the Beta, I get a lot of crashes, and everything that needs communication with the servers gives massive delays. It was the same last time (2.2 beta). The 2.3 beta runs fine. I suggest that the problem is more something to do with server access rather than anything on our PCs.