funcleb

Wanted to give an update on my original post concerning my constant game crashes since the patch. It was a rough 5 - 6 weeks. Constant crashes back to the Windows 11 desktop... no pattern at all. A couple of weeks ago, got a serious crash during play, where my entire brand-new, high-end desktop PC shut off during play. Ouch. I knew that was serious, so called CLX tech support. Initially, diagnosis was a faulty CPU chip - would need to rebox desktop and ship it back for further testing/diagnosis/part(s) replacement, then send back to me. However, a few days later I played for 2 straight days with no crashes. I called to inform them, since I thought some BIOS changes might've eliminated the need for the RMA. A different tech spent 2 days researching & diagnosing with me, with me unplugging connectors on motherboard, etc. He finally determined the real issue was that my 10 case fans were never ramping up under load - ever. They all spun at a slow RPM but never changed. This caused the CPU chip to overheat & crash. The shutoff was auto to prevent damage to the hardware. So he reviewed my desktop build with the guy who built it. Come to find out, because I have Lian Li case fans, they require a specific version of L-Connect 3 software in order for the case fans to be able to talk to the BIOS and/or Windows software. Once we downloaded & installed that version and he setup a ramp-up schedule, voila! All of a sudden, the case fans roared to life under load and kept the CPU chip cooled. Even since then, CoH has never crashed. I now run the game with every possible Ultra setting available, plus all the other max graphics settings with no issues. My CPU chip never gets above 35C, even on an AE farm map fighting +4x8 foes with all the Fire powers going off everywhere. So, while it turns out the patch wasn't technically the issue for me, it DID initiate a weeks-long path to finding out the root issue... so I'm thankful. This was all ignorance on my part - I've never had a high-end desktop before (my last desktop was built in 2008 and only had 1 fan in the back to blow out hot air). I had no idea case fans were supposed to ramp-up based on load. Hopefully this post helps someone with a similar issue in the future. Thanks for looking into this previously weeks ago!

Glad you found them and yes, I was on my Billy Eyedol character. I played for a while today, had the same type of crash just once but just didn't feel like sending it in again. I think these are game crashes for CoH. I get kicked back to Windows 11 Pro and a panel is displayed, asking me to click one of 5 or 6 options for reporting the bug crash. I played another 2 hrs after the crash tonight, planning to send in the report if it crashed again, but nothing happened. I am still on Medium graphics settings (inside CoH) for every single option that allows it. I wanted to see how long this "base" style setting would work before tweaking it. I'll play around with it some tomorrow as it's time for bed now. Thanks for the information and it sounds very strange to me what all the crashes are. I just got this gaming computer 2 weeks ago (new) from CLX Gaming - all hardware is new. I don't have any issues with any of it except for CoH. I'd still like to see the game with values at the Highest Quality settings but won't try it since I can't get High settings to work.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4080 (ROG Strix OC Edition, 16GB memory). I went into video options and turned every single option from High to Medium and it seems to have stabilized things. Not sure why I'd have to do this on a high-end video card but I actually got to finish one mission, which took about 40 mins solo. I need to logout for the night for work tomorrow. Tomorrow night I'll start changing each option one-by-one to the next higher setting and see how it goes. I might eventually figure out which one triggers the crashing.

My game crashes every 3 minutes since the 2-27 patch. I have the latest video card drivers. Game never crashed prior to this patch. I'm playing around with the game's video options to try and figure out which one(s) cause the crash... almost impossible. This is miserable as I literally can't play. I've sent 2 crash reports already. I may have to reset everything to the minimum and then try each option one-at-a-time to find the culprit.