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[ROII4Me]

OK, so I patch up when I get home.

I get on various servers to try it out.

I did NOT get a million crashes on Punkbuster servers.

But I DID crash. Can't say if they were PB servers or not as I played both.

Twice I did not just crash the game, my PC basically restarted, without restarting. Screen went to black, monitor went to power saving mode, PC just sat there with fan whirring until I had to restart it manually.

I would also crash to desktop, usually as an enemy was running at me. I could come back by clicking on the game icon on the task bar, but I would be dead by that time and waiting to respawn.

A new bug for me is my sound would go out. Twice it went out, always at the start of a new map. I would exit game completely and come back in to fix that.

And to boot, I got my first hip shot kill, with a bolt action rifle no less.

Too bad it was a friendly.

I was in the Grain Elevator, friendly died at a door up stairs, I ran past the door sideways and fired from the hip, killed a friendly.

Not only did he ignore my apology, saying enemy fire just came from that area, he waited in spawn until I died and respawned and then he gunned me down in cold blood.

So in addition to some glitches, crashes and drops to desktop, I got my first points of dishonor. Sigh.

 

[Stahlhelmii]

Your first points of dishonor? Really? You've never had a moron run in front of you while you fired, or storm a room after you've thrown a grenade into it? Please, clean your horseshoe thoroughly and let me use it for awhile?

 

[Krasnyiarmyet]

That problem you described with your monitor going to power saving mode sounds like your GPU is pulling too much power--is your PSU powerful enough to handle the power draw on intensive graphics?

 

[Sifer2]

Yeah I have also been crashing a lot this afternoon. Though I tried playing on a none Punkbuster server an it worked fine for about 4 maps until I quit. So I dunno if its related to PB or not.

Also I got two hip fire bolt action kills on my first game I played. In hindsight I could have just used the bayonet but they were running right at me and I just freaked out an shot on instinct. lol

 

[jackastronaut]

I haven't crashed at all tonight, which is great. Instead, my audio is going out every so often. Meh?

 

[Redemption]

A new bug for me is my sound would go out. Twice it went out, always at the start of a new map. I would exit game completely and come back in to fix that.

Same thing has been happening to me for a few days, always on the start of a map, it even killed my audio from Skype and I also had to close RO2 and re-open it to get my audio back. This also happened to my friend at the exact time

 

[ROII4Me]

That problem you described with your monitor going to power saving mode sounds like your GPU is pulling too much power--is your PSU powerful enough to handle the power draw on intensive graphics?

It isn't too bad. Vista 32bit, 4 Gigs of memor and a 2.66 processor and I have a GeForce 8800 GTX that runs RO1 and Lord of the Rings Online on ultra high graphics.

But I have been playing ROII on Medium graphics since I was trying to work out the game crashes.

I had been playing for hours the previous three days without this kind of PC crash. Just game closing on me type crashes and the day after launch I played for almost 12 hours.

I updated my video driver today and will see if that helps.

And as for my hip TK - he was way down the hall way, not anything like stabbing range. Just a bad luck friendly fire shot.

I have gotten TKs from blind nades. But always forgiven. This was the first time I ended a match with Red Points. Because he did not NP me.