And now, a show stopper, for me anyway...

[CharveL]

Most likely imho it's a combination of factors which is why not everyone is having crashes. I haven't bothered to play online yet even since release because I don't have the time or patience to waste 20 minutes getting prepped for a fight only to crash so I'm pretty much going to wait until things are mostly sorted out.

I've been getting the odd crash in SP as well so it's not a MP only issue

I'm also thinking that there is a memory leak, but that it exacerbates some other issue affecting the video causing crashes. El's experience suggests - and we've all probably noticed significant FPS drops with close-in explosions, clouds, and smoke effects - that it might be something relating to the video buffer getting overloaded.

Just a suspicion really but I think a good test would be to significantly drop video settings to lighten the load and see how long it takes for a crash, if at all.

Either way, it's definitely a coding issue and I think the devs are well aware of it, just that they are probably working furiously to implement the new engine in order to give the efficiency needed.

Just speculation.

[=FI=Scott]

Originally Posted by CharveL

Just a suspicion really but I think a good test would be to significantly drop video settings to lighten the load and see how long it takes for a crash, if at all.

No, I tried this. I had everything on lowest settings and still got the CTD's and just about exactly in the same places in the same circumstances.I tried lowering the res too- no dice. What escapes me is that if it is a memory leak why would lowering the graphics clock fix the issue ?

I suspect you are right about there being some common thread that is causing this but I am as confident as I can be that there is an issue within CloD causing this rather than it being down to so many users PC's.

[CharveL]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

I know you read and understand English. You twisted my words.

You know to post in sticky threads where Luthier will be reading, if expect him to possibly read your postings.

Lighten up Francis, and maybe stop trying to be a forum cop. If El wants to post a separate thread which is actually bringing up a reasonable discussion topic why not let him?