Really disappointed

[Drizzt Do Urden]

I updated my vga drivers (GTC 660 ti) to the new Nvidia driver for GTA and i had crashes to desktop. Rerolled the drivers and everything is fine now

 

[Slopey]

Thanks for everybody's help. But since I can't log on it doesn't make any difference now. Thanks again.

What *exactly* happens why you try to log on? How far do you get? Where do you get the error, or does it simply not do anything? "Since I can't log on" doesn't provide enough information for anyone to help you I'm afraid.

 

[Wavey]

Thanks for everybody's help. But since I can't log on it doesn't make any difference now. Thanks again.

Enable Upnp in router ,turn off all firewall AV ect .Can you then log in ?

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

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.

The only other thing which consistently hang my over clocked 980 was an app written to prove the design flaw with the gtx970. It basically hammered all 4gb of the memory and benchmarked its speed block by block (the last half GB on the 970 is crippled).

Obviously in my case the over clock issue was to do with my memory and presumably elite makes better use of your GPU ram or is less tolerent of errors.

This is the downside of PC gaming unlike a console which is a stable consistent and closed platform PCs are all over the place.

If a game works on a revs console it works on everyones where as in the case of the OP

He could have a hardware issue
Corrupted install.
Dodgy driver
Virus
Conflicting software
Or simply an obscure piece of kit which FD did not anticipate.

No offence meant to op but its why a post like ops has to have as much info about crash as possible

Presumably if FD say it is a hardware fault it is because that is what your crash log states?

 

[Gold Member]

Like I said, I've gone thru the forums, and have turned down my settings to stock. I have no problems running anything else. Rolled back my driver. Chec k my internet connection. I didn't know we have to connect to a server in the UK. I live in Idaho. that's a hell of a long way. No NA severs? Is that the problem? Hey spend some of those profits.

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Now I can't log on. "failed to parse server response"

That's a message I've seen if my router craps out. The launcher lost the connection and has to be restarted. You can't simply re-establish an internet connection and carry on. That works for your browser but not for ED. You may want to consider just re-booting your computer since ED has (imho) a terrible caching problem.

 

[Surly_Badger]

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

It indicates that the problem may not be particular to the game, but rather particular to the OP's system.

I understand your not understanding that; next time try thinking harder.

 

[Roybe]

It is really disappointed and upset. Having spent $60.00 on a pc game that is so buggy. You would think after months of gamma, bate, alpha, ect. And a couple of months live that I could expect a game that doesn't randomly crash to desktop. Or refuses to allow me to even log in. And b4 you say it I have read the forums, and have gotten the crashes down to once every hour or two. But it seems the devs all say it's our equipment and not their software and close the threads citing them as solved. I put a ticket in today for the not being able to login problem, as I had no other choice. I like the game, so fan boy, don't yell at me to uninstall and leave. 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

Get a hold of EVGA Precision X 16 and see if you can get your fans to be recognized. It will help all your games. Most of the crashes In elite have been with my NVidia card and are related to poor fan performance on the cards and overheating. Good luck with your problem.

 

[Oveja-Negra]

I work in IT and have installed/uninstalled loads of apps, and have finally come to the conclusion that a fresh install of the OS would be best, but am waiting for Win10 to come out!

have you got another HDD, install a fresh copy of Windows and try playing again? has your BIOS been upgraded? (I know this is small stuff but a lot of peeps forget the BIOS and that has a lot todo with how the hardware interacts with the software, and I always upgrade to the either the very latest (if it has been out for a while or at the very least the one before...

I used to have a lot of problems before when I had a Dell (from hell), then I build my new system (4790K 8Gb Ranger VII R9 280x), it's still slow to load windows but the game run fine and I have had no issues since beta!

 

[Surly_Badger]

I work in IT and have installed/uninstalled loads of apps, and have finally come to the conclusion that a fresh install of the OS would be best, but am waiting for Win10 to come out!

That's a good point.

I once had an insane string of crashes in World of Warcraft, that turned out to be a result of a buggy SATA controller that was corrupting the file system (!!!) Warcraft's cached object files were getting whacked and when it would re-load the corrupted areas -bammo-
Computers' internal interactions between software and hardware (and the software running in the hardware) are so insanely complex that it's more or less impossible to understand them, any more. That's why organizations like Amazon and Google treat the system as a disposable unit: the second it acts the slightest bit funny, it goes in the bin and is replaced. It's not worth figuring out what's wrong - merely that something is wrong.

 

[Riktar]

That's a good point.

I once had an insane string of crashes in World of Warcraft, that turned out to be a result of a buggy SATA controller that was corrupting the file system (!!!) Warcraft's cached object files were getting whacked and when it would re-load the corrupted areas -bammo-
Computers' internal interactions between software and hardware (and the software running in the hardware) are so insanely complex that it's more or less impossible to understand them, any more. That's why organizations like Amazon and Google treat the system as a disposable unit: the second it acts the slightest bit funny, it goes in the bin and is replaced. It's not worth figuring out what's wrong - merely that something is wrong.

Anyone know the address of the disposal site?

 

[Gold Member]

I work in IT and have installed/uninstalled loads of apps, and have finally come to the conclusion that a fresh install of the OS would be best, but am waiting for Win10 to come out!

have you got another HDD, install a fresh copy of Windows and try playing again? has your BIOS been upgraded? (I know this is small stuff but a lot of peeps forget the BIOS and that has a lot todo with how the hardware interacts with the software, and I always upgrade to the either the very latest (if it has been out for a while or at the very least the one before...

I used to have a lot of problems before when I had a Dell (from hell), then I build my new system (4790K 8Gb Ranger VII R9 280x), it's still slow to load windows but the game run fine and I have had no issues since beta!

I have never in my life found installing a clean copy of an OS a reasonable solution since it throws all the work of fixing the problem in the lap of the customer.

You're asking someone to basically re-install every piece of software that they currently own, back up files, etc. and imho that's the lazy way to offer technical support.

It's not reasonable that any software can be tested to account for all possible computer variations including both hardware and software, but that doesn't mean more information wouldn't help. A problem with one person can be indicative of a potentially larger issue because of a specific driver, the way a program handles memory, or any host of other issues. A clean install doesn't solve anything since it tries to fix everything and nobody learns anything.

All things being equal, I have over the years had issues running various games and never had to re-install the OS. If everything was working properly before, why would I up a week of my life because one program doesn't work?

The most likely possibilities with the OP:
He's behind a firewall that isn't letting him update the game. Some AV or firewall programs produce a lot of false flags depending on how they are configured, or you have to manually allow a specific program to run in order to get all the features. An auto-updating launcher that calls home to check for news and updates could look very much like malware.

He's trying to update the program in a wifi connection. It may not be stable enough for the type of chunky bits being transferred. I can play ED just fine on wifi but find a hard line works better if there is an update.

Everything else is moot if he can't log in.

Worst case scenario, he should uninstall ED and download a fresh copy, then leave it alone when he installs it. Then leave it alone again when it inevitably updates.

 

[Nonya]

I run E: D off a dedicated SSD (get on my level!). Never ever had a problem with the entire game crashing.
Now crashing to the menu when the ED servers bounce or the internet dies somewhere, that's not the game's problem that's a networking issue outside the PC itself.