Crashing at main menu

[UseLessUK]

Greetings,

So play the game, quit to menu go sort out some food and then eat it so when you return an hour or two later and click 'Continue' you get the windows spinning cursor and then the message that Elite is not responding and do you wish to wait or Quit. So you quit returning you to the launcher you then click Play and nothing happens apart from looking at a black screen.

Only way to fix the problem is a reboot, which is a pain as it happens all the time.

 

[Gully Foyle]

Is it an old computer is something else running in the background have you done anything different to it and it started happening?

 

[wetwire]

Try quit to desktop and close the launcher before reopening elite.
If you quit to menu then directly after continue the game will it actually play or enter "not responding" state? sounds like leaving the game running is the start of the issue that ends in rebooting the machine.

 

[fishgotnosole]

Greetings,

So play the game, quit to menu go sort out some food and then eat it so when you return an hour or two later and click 'Continue' you get the windows spinning cursor and then the message that Elite is not responding and do you wish to wait or Quit. So you quit returning you to the launcher you then click Play and nothing happens apart from looking at a black screen.

Only way to fix the problem is a reboot, which is a pain as it happens all the time.

Now then old boy, have you updated your GPU drivers recently?

 

[UseLessUK]

Is it an old computer is something else running in the background have you done anything different to it and it started happening?

Well it's an I7 3820 with 64Gb RAM and it was built in 2012, so yeah its old and I have Windows 10 running so obviously something else is running in the background. And I've not done anything to the PC it's just I started noticing the problem when changing games. So I start Elite -> Quit Elite and Start No Man's Sky which may start it may not and I play that then quit NMS and try to replay Elite which refuses to start and I have to reboot.

Try quit to desktop and close the launcher before reopening elite.
If you quit to menu then directly after continue the game will it actually play or enter "not responding" state? sounds like leaving the game running is the start of the issue that ends in rebooting the machine.

Even a quit to desktop doesn't solve the issue, and if I also quit the launcher I, at times, cannot run it again only option then is a reboot.

Its like the game, and other games, are not cleaning up after themselves so when you start some other game something it doesn't like has happened and the only way to fix it is a reboot.

and in this case its just sad you leave the game running at the menu for an hour or two and the memory leak issues it has crashes it.

Now then old boy, have you updated your GPU drivers recently?

Not that I'm aware of, its all done automagically these days is it not... olde man

 

[Gully Foyle]

Try CCleaner free version. The registry cleaner and start up tool especially.

Make sure you have all the driver and win updates.

You can also check how many background game recorders are running. On my comp I found both the video card and MS games are on by default.

 

[fishgotnosole]

Not that I'm aware of, its all done automagically these days is it not... olde man

I only ask as post release of Half life: Alyx there would seem to have been some hastily rushed out GPU drivers, that have been causing some issues. Particularly on some older chip sets. There is also the possibility that your windows installation is in need of some maintenance as highlighted above. Personally, I'd be looking at backing up any saves, docs and other important data. Reformatting the windows partition for a fresh install.

 

[Oddy-B]

Is it a Steam version of the game?
If so, Have you tried Validating your game files?
Properties>local files>Validate Game Cache (I think from memory)

 

[UseLessUK]

I only ask as post release of Half life: Alyx there would seem to have been some hastily rushed out GPU drivers, that have been causing some issues. Particularly on some older chip sets. There is also the possibility that your windows installation is in need of some maintenance as highlighted above. Personally, I'd be looking at backing up any saves, docs and other important data. Reformatting the windows partition for a fresh install.

Already done a fresh install... and Windows is up to date with all updates.

Is it a Steam version of the game?
If so, Have you tried Validating your game files?
Properties>local files>Validate Game Cache (I think from memory)

Done this as well.

 

[d8veh]

Try CCleaner free version. The registry cleaner and start up tool especially.

Make sure you have all the driver and win updates.

You can also check how many background game recorders are running. On my comp I found both the video card and MS games are on by default.

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[Gully Foyle]

I'm still using it you can lock it down you can turn off the anonymous data.