[Fix] Map crashes fixed.

[Lavalampdrinker]

As few may know, I am the guy whom game crashed on every map except Apartments, Grainelevator, Spartanovka and Butovo (custom map). I have had this problem since the first patch and had recently given up on the game, waiting for a new patch (the problem persisted in the current beta).

For reasons of destiny, yesterday I did some updates and played with my computer settings a bit. I randomly decided to launch RO2 and when pavlov´s house was loading and I was expecting the typical crash, the amazing happened: It didn´t crash and I could play every map non-stop. Here is what I did, which from I suspect something has done the trick.

A) I upgraded my nvidia GFX drivers to 296.10 (look up at Nvidia´s driver site)

B) I did the W7 '3gb switch' which means to:

1. Right-click Command Prompt in the Accessories program group of the Start menu. Click Run as Administrator.
2. At the command prompt, enter "bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072"
3. Restart the computer.

C) I installed Gamebooster 3.5 beta, realeased on April 28 (look it up in google) Notice I had been using previous versions of GB 3 until now.

D) I updated my Realtek Audio driver with the just released R2.68

Theese are the steps I did yesterday and somehow fixed my RO2 horrible crashes. I hope this is clear (I tried hard because my language is Spanish) and will help someone else too.

CPU: Q6600 @2.4
GPU: XFX 9600 GT
RAM: 3 GB
OS: Windows 7 32 bits

[[TW]redeye]

Thanks for coming back and posting your results. I recall multiple posts from you regarding struggling to run the game. This should definitely benefit other people with similar problems.

Can you mention once again whether you are running 32bit or 64bit Win7? Also, can you isolate which change exactly fixed your issue? I wouldn't recommend downgrading the drivers to test, but can you turn off the '3gb switch' to see if that is what fixed the issue for you? It would be great to know the cause for this problem (you know, for science :P)

[Lavalampdrinker]

Hello Redeye! It feels awesome to be able to play all the maps , it´s like the release day for me. Of course I will try the switch thing and see whether or not it was the fix cause. I will post the results here.

Results: It it definitely the "3g switch" thing which fixed my game. I did "bcdedit /deletevalue IncreaseUserVa" in cmd, restarted, loaded Comissarshouse and crashed like I used to do. I think that without that command line the game strangles itself using way less memory than I actually have.

[Crusader762]

I found the command prompt. I enter bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072 and it says:

An unknown command was specified.
Run "bcdedit /?" for command line assistance.

Ok...

I'm trying "set IncreaseUserVa 3072" and it says:

Environment variable IncreaseUserVa 3072 not defined.


I'm confused.

[Crusader762]

subscribe...

[Mike_Nomad]

Google bcdedit and read.... in MSDN there's a great tut.

[Major_Day]

Isn't bcedit/ thing the same as, or similar to the Large Address Aware application:

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=112556

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/at...2&d=1269231650

[Crusader762]

"The boot configuration data store could not be opened.
Access is denied"

What is that?

Am I doing this right? What EXCATLY do I type in the cmd prompt?

[Lavalampdrinker]

You have to start cmd with administrator rights and type bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072 . The you have to restart.

[Crusader762]

Originally Posted by Lavalampdrinker

You have to start cmd with administrator rights and type bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072 . The you have to restart.

I went to cmd and typed "administrator rights" and it didn't work.

It's not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

how do I start cmd with administrator rights?

When I just type this: "bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072" it says "An unknown command was specified."

[Dr.Phibles]

just copy and paste whats the guy types in the first post into the command thing for this to work (you have to use right click past as alt V doesnt work)

just recently started crashing since i gotta new gfx card sent all the reports this seems to have fixed it gonna need to do more testing to be sure tho

[Crusader762]

It worked! Every map runs great! Thx!

[[TW]redeye]

I'm making this a sticky. We'll look at this more closely and see what we can do in our end.

[FpsRix]

Yeah only tryd command prompt and now it works great!
Thanks!