Below is an image of my gforce experience, and txt files of my dxdiag and my most recent 3 crashes (i can upload more if needed) The game crashes whilst im playing and chrono cam, never has it crashed in the menu or in a game lobby. I recently changed from linux to windows (windows got corrupt in the first place) linux didn't crash appart from when i rushed into installing the game and forget new updated drivers.
Do you happen to have installed software from the following list? https://steamcommunity.com/app/233250/discussions/2/558751813508748383/ Some software is known to interact badly with PA. The DxDiag.txt shows odd PA crashes though. Once in the NVidia driver, once in the sound libraries, once just because. Could you also try running the sfc utility that comes with Windows to scan for corrupted system files? Instructions are here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929833 Finally, you appear to be running PA through Steam, so could you also try verifying the integrity of the game cache to make sure that PA's files are ok? Instructions here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2037-QEUH-3335
I have done everything, i dont have any software installed mentioned in the steam post. Images of the steam validation and windows scan. I would like to mention a "dxgmms1.sys" windows crash that i have recently had (like 1 hour before this post), Im looking for a fix for that, but i think that may be what's causing the crashes. Thanks for the reply.
Yeah, that could very well be it. That's a system file for DirectX, so if there is something iffy with drivers or DirectX, then that could crash PA as well. You might want to try uninstalling the NVidia drivers through the Control Panel, reboot, and reinstall using freshly downloaded drivers. Then reboot again and see if that works. If there was something off with the NVidia drivers, then that should fix it hopefully. (It may also be in DirectX itself of course, but sfc should have fixed that and it didn't find any errors.)
I have reinstalled the nvidia drivers, and there was a windows update waiting to be installed which doesnt install when i turn the pc off, im currently doing some disc error checking and optimising, the game did crash today, log below. I was going to play vs bots as a warmup game crashed whilst i was selecting a landing zone.
Well, that is an odd crash report. It only involves two libraries, one from the NVidia drivers and one from Windows itself (which is involved with drawing thing on the screen). Normally I would suspect file corruption, but you've already reinstalled the drivers, so that seems unlikely now. So the hard drive you are checking now could indeed be the culprit. Especially since you had that blue screen earlier.
After the hard drive check, everything was fine and i defragmented it, loaded up the game and loaded a recent chronocam from the leaderboards, left the game running in the background for about an hour, as soon as i pressed the play button on the chronocam i see the commanders drop pods spawn and another crash, im not sure if this is just PA i havent installed any other games, crash report below, ill see if any other games crash.
Hmm, it's the exact same crash report in this log. The commander landing explosion seems to trigger it for you. You may be able to follow this advice that causes Photoshop to crash in the same driver library. https://forums.adobe.com/message/2912300#2912300
that didnt work, i tried an older driver which i know used to work (had the game some time now) and that still crashed, i was playing a game at the time so there is alot of crash logs as i disconnected and reconnected a few times, ive tried removing some background processes that i know arent anything to do with windows and the game still crashes, also my pc has been the same for about a year now and a year ago the game ran fine with no crashes.
Well, I'm not sure what's going on... I have the feeling it's related to the blue screen you had with dxgmms1.sys, but I couldn't find any good solutions for that. Did you make any headway on that? It does sound like a software thing though as the game runs fine for you on Linux. You may have some luck with doing a clean boot. Instructions are here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/929135 . It's not too likely that it will work though as you already have a fresh Windows install, right? At least I assume you reinstalled after it had become corrupted.
the older driver seemed to make the game last longer without crashing, probably why its a fix for most people. I was doing some driver checks on sunday night and i found that my pc wasnt picking up my motherboard drivers(which i remember installing after windows), i reinstalled those and i played today i played two games one of which i didnt crash at all (lasted about 25mins) and the other game lasted about an hour and a bit and i crashed towards the end of the game, it seems that it was because of the motherboard drivers. Yes the game does still crash but im happy to have been able to have played a game that lasted a bit over an hour long and only have one crash, big improvement from the crash every 5-10 mins. About your question of the windows install, Yes its a new install not even been a week. It bacame corrupted about a month ago, and if failed in bits over the span of 5 mins, first my mouse stopped working, moving it to a new usb fixed it, then the keyboard followed by all the usb ports then it just wouldn't even get to the login screen before crashing (too much information is sometimes good) the only crash report of today is included below as usual, personally i havent had a look at it like i usually do simply because it didnt bother me as much as the crashes usually.
Neat! Interesting find. There is no (visible) crash report in the log you posted though. So that does seem to indicate that Windows is now happy with the driver situation at least. Thanks for posting your solution!
Also my brother used to have similar crashes on other games with the same grphics card (GTX 770) and he fixed his crashes by underclocking the graphics card, i have yet to try the game with the graphics card underclocked but my brother said barely noticable preformance drop in frames, which i dont mind turning the game to cardboard mode in order to get good consistant frames. Also ive just been into my bios and the bios settings were set to preformance rather than normal (that may also be causing the crash) I'll post my findings and if it fixed it after a 2 or 3 games today.
This sounds all hardware related. Can you give specs for your PSU? If down clocking the GTX 770 fixes the issue it could be a lack of power (as down clocking helps reduce gpu power draw a lot). If the gpu was faulty it would be over heating and creating artifacts (strange non intended stuff going on screen like 'spikes' or splodges of random colours). Also the description you gave of how windows failed is worrying- could even be a faulty motherboard. I think there is some underlying problem that caused the failure in the first place rather than just a software glitch...
hmm ill have a look into the motherboard it is fairly new about 6 months old, but the game has been running fine, no crashes. I have a power supply that has more than enough power to run the gfx card, but im having to use an adapter for the plug, that might be it. I wasnt getting any weird graphic glitches on my screen at all the game would just crash, i think it may have been something to do with the motherboard drivers, and my bios set to performance rather than normal. I would recommend the motherboard drivers to be added on the "list to check if your pa is crashing" because it did help a bit.
