RO2 Hangs up (See details)

[M4R10zM0113R]

No log file filled with ending the process
it just posts:

DevDataBase: Connection to "Provider-sqloledb;Data Source=production-db;Initial Catalog-EngineTaskPerf;Trusted_Connection=yes;Connection Timeout=2" or "10.1.20.20" failed

and then stays on splash screen, without Continuing at all, hogging all my CPU and staying at ~18MB of usage of memory.

Attachments give a better detail of what happens, since Log is completely empty, and there's no dumpfile.

Specs Are: (Out of Steam, Not posting installed soft.)

AMD V160
Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 2394 Mhz
1 logical processor
1 physical processor
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Windows 7 (32 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 323 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 Graphics

DirectX Driver Name: aticfx32.dll
Driver Version: 8.743.2.5000
DirectX Driver Version: 8.17.10.29
Driver Date: 15 Mar 2011
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
DirectX Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 Graphics
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x9712
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1366 x 768
Desktop Resolution: 1366 x 768
Primary Display Size: 18.98" x 10.67" (21.73" diag)
48.2cm x 27.1cm (55.2cm diag)
Primary Bus Type Not Detected
Primary VRAM: 256 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x

Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers / HP (IDT High Definit

Memory:
RAM: 2809 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Microphone: Not set
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 305242 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 41636 Mb
OS Install Date: Jan 04 2012
Game Controller: None detected

[TheMatless]

Same happens to me. I bought this on the free-to-play weekend. Steam downloaded both the full game and the beta. Both of them get hung up on the start-up splash and display the exact same message in the log box.

This is so frustrating.

[=GG= Mr Moe]

And you have all verified the game cache etc?

[oldslowguy]

Try
Navigate to: \Documents\My Games\RedOrchestra2\ROGame\Config and delete the contents.
..and upon restart of the game, a new config-content is created....the files themselves are created by the game and not downloaded..
Then go through your settings again, incl. Controls.
This has probably been mentioned here before, but make sure your anti-virus isn't getting in the way of loading any game files. Give your anti-virus permission to skip the RO2 files from scanning (both the ones in the steam directory and in you My Games directory).

Also, rightclick on the game in you steam library, go to options, select 'Set Launch Options' and add '-windowed' (without the quotes) to it. This will launch the game in windowed mode. That way you'll be able to see any warning/errors Windows pops up when launching the game.
Also, you might grab this http://majorgeeks.com/Iobit_Game_Booster_d5952.html ( http://www.majorgeeks.com/story.php?id=34508 )check the video tutorial about setup, you can disable programs etc not needed for gaming, then go back to standard mode after the fraggings done.

[M4R10zM0113R]

Originally Posted by oldslowguy

Try
Navigate to: \Documents\My Games\RedOrchestra2\ROGame\Config and delete the contents.
..and upon restart of the game, a new config-content is created....the files themselves are created by the game and not downloaded..
Then go through your settings again, incl. Controls.
This has probably been mentioned here before, but make sure your anti-virus isn't getting in the way of loading any game files. Give your anti-virus permission to skip the RO2 files from scanning (both the ones in the steam directory and in you My Games directory).

Also, rightclick on the game in you steam library, go to options, select 'Set Launch Options' and add '-windowed' (without the quotes) to it. This will launch the game in windowed mode. That way you'll be able to see any warning/errors Windows pops up when launching the game.
Also, you might grab this http://majorgeeks.com/Iobit_Game_Booster_d5952.html ( http://www.majorgeeks.com/story.php?id=34508 )check the video tutorial about setup, you can disable programs etc not needed for gaming, then go back to standard mode after the fraggings done.

Tried everything above, Deleted folders, checked cache, Changed some settings to see if it could log them on somewhere...
But still, no response.
Redownloading, hopefully will help, because it's the only solution I could find after trying everything suggested.

[M4R10zM0113R]

Redownloaded the whole game, and I get the same hanging problem

[M4R10zM0113R]

Started Steam today, but instead of now having the "-log" with the game launch addressing the issue, it just stays completely blank.

Downloaded 6.6MB, it installed Punkbuster

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Wish I could help more, but the only thing I can see is the connection time-out and I wonder if there is a problem there and that is why the game hangs hogging the cpu...

[Ducky]

Originally Posted by M4R10zM0113R

Started Steam today, but instead of now having the "-log" with the game launch addressing the issue, it just stays completely blank.

Downloaded 6.6MB, it installed Punkbuster

There might be something else wrong on your system. If you look at that screenshot, then you will notice that Explorer.exe is consuming 25% of your CPU time. I did not see an open explorer on your task bar, so it is probably your desktop. You might look into that, cos a high CPU usage for the explorer.exe process while it's just only your desktop can influence the performance of other software.

[M4R10zM0113R]

Originally Posted by Ducky

There might be something else wrong on your system. If you look at that screenshot, then you will notice that Explorer.exe is consuming 25% of your CPU time. I did not see an open explorer on your task bar, so it is probably your desktop. You might look into that, cos a high CPU usage for the explorer.exe process while it's just only your desktop can influence the performance of other software.

That just happens for a sec randomly, but there's nothing different from a normal setup.
I had nothing but the game trying to run at that moment.

[M4R10zM0113R]

It downloaded 6.8MB of files today...
Logging still displays same error as top post.

[r5cya]

Originally Posted by M4R10zM0113R

It downloaded 6.8MB of files today...
Logging still displays same error as top post.

HAVE YOU TRIED GETTING RID OF ALL THE JUNK RUNNING IN THE BACKGROUND? YOU GOT 68 PROCESS'S RUNNING AND USING 100% OF THE CPU. I'D BE SHUTTING OFF EVERYTHING I DIDN'T HAVE TO HAVE RUNNING A.S.A.P. I EVEN TRIED TO START DOING IT ON THE SCREENSHOT YOU POSTED!

p.s. sorry about the caps!

[Ducky]

Originally Posted by M4R10zM0113R

It downloaded 6.8MB of files today...
Logging still displays same error as top post.

Your system has only 2GB of memory. I believe that's RO2's minimal requirement, but you do have so many open/active processes, that it won't surprice me if there is too less available memory for RO2. That does also explain the high CPU usage. It's probably because windows needs to do a lot of data swapping between physical and virtual memory.

I second R5CYA advice. You really need cut down the number of active processes. If you don't know how to, then a tool like GameBooster can help you with that. It will create a gaming mode for you to which you can switch when you want to play RO2. In the gaming mode it disables a lot of overhead processes. This will reduce the CPU usage and frees memory for RO2.

[Ducky]

Never mind my previous post. I only noticed now that you are using an AMD V160. That is a single core processor. Minimum requirement for RO2 is dual core. I don't think RO2 will ever be able to run on your system.

[=GG= Mr Moe]

I'll third that. Looking at your task bar, you have way too much going on there for your system in addition to running cpu intensive game.

[M4R10zM0113R]

Originally Posted by Ducky

Never mind my previous post. I only noticed now that you are using an AMD V160. That is a single core processor. Minimum requirement for RO2 is dual core. I don't think RO2 will ever be able to run on your system.

Well... Unless they solve that, I've wasted dosh on them :/

[r5cya]

Originally Posted by M4R10zM0113R

Well... Unless they solve that, I've wasted dosh on them :/

did you do like i suggested and delete all the unnecessary stuff running in the background? you never know, just because you only have one core, doesn't mean it wont work, if your computer is optimized. it surely isn't optimized now. they aren't going to be trying to make the game run better on computers that don't meet the minimum requirements. if you want to play, you'll have to work on it.
i wouldn't be so quick to give up. you'll miss a great game!

can you post a screenshot with the task manager open and no ro2 running? i wanna see how much cpu is being used before you even try and run the game. is this a laptop?

p.s. i'd be doing what old slow guy suggested, to clean up all those things running in the background with this stuff.
"Also, you might grab this http://majorgeeks.com/Iobit_Game_Booster_d5952.html ( http://www.majorgeeks.com/story.php?id=34508 )check the video tutorial about setup, you can disable programs etc not needed for gaming, then go back to standard mode after the fraggings done."

[M4R10zM0113R]

Originally Posted by r5cya

did you do like i suggested and delete all the unnecessary stuff running in the background? you never know, just because you only have one core, doesn't mean it wont work, if your computer is optimized. it surely isn't optimized now. they aren't going to be trying to make the game run better on computers that don't meet the minimum requirements. if you want to play, you'll have to work on it.
i wouldn't be so quick to give up. you'll miss a great game!

can you post a screenshot with the task manager open and no ro2 running? i wanna see how much cpu is being used before you even try and run the game. is this a laptop?

p.s. i'd be doing what old slow guy suggested, to clean up all those things running in the background with this stuff.
"Also, you might grab this http://majorgeeks.com/Iobit_Game_Booster_d5952.html ( http://www.majorgeeks.com/story.php?id=34508 )check the video tutorial about setup, you can disable programs etc not needed for gaming, then go back to standard mode after the fraggings done."

I'll have to post you a Direct link to imageshack, since this forums resize images, and that'd screw up the screenshot :/
Also, it doesn't change anything to get rid of all those processes, for me (already tried your suggestion.).

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/9...screenshot.png

[M4R10zM0113R]

Originally Posted by Ducky

Your system has only 2GB of memory. I believe that's RO2's minimal requirement, but you do have so many open/active processes, that it won't surprice me if there is too less available memory for RO2. That does also explain the high CPU usage. It's probably because windows needs to do a lot of data swapping between physical and virtual memory.

I second R5CYA advice. You really need cut down the number of active processes. If you don't know how to, then a tool like GameBooster can help you with that. It will create a gaming mode for you to which you can switch when you want to play RO2. In the gaming mode it disables a lot of overhead processes. This will reduce the CPU usage and frees memory for RO2.

It still didn't solve the hanging problem.

[r5cya]

you got all that stuff running while trying to play ro2? even without you posting the amount of cpu being used, i can imagine most of it's used up allready. i don't see how you can play any modern game with that much stuff running. and that's after you cleaned it up? you need to lose that stuff.
try running the program old slow guy linked to and see what happens.

edit.... you tried the program and it didn't help? is that screenshot after you used the program? if so, it didn't work.