I recommend rolling back the driver…
I did. Yesterday…
As usual, i took the update and no crashes.
Game runs fine and as normal.
Ive been getting this wierd lockup bug same time most nights for about a good 5 weeks now. The game just locks up and stops, it freezes my whole pc as well. I have to restart PC. 5 out of 7 times total freeze up. may have started after a windows update Im not sure. Had a few last few days were the game just stops and Im at desktop o.O. Though it does feel its running better after the server updates.
@Picka you’re not in Fullscreen mode are you? Mine will freeze my computer if I don’t use windowed and I alt tab out.
Update: Pilchenstein suggested that I run the game in borderless window mode rather than full screen and that has made a huge difference. The game has been running pretty smoothly outside of getting the black screen bug in The Darkness War (ironic, lol!).
For the record, this is my machine which I bought around a month ago. Granted, it’s a laptop but it doesn’t suck.
Lenovo Legion 5i
- Processor: 10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10750H Processor (2.60 GHz, up to 5.00 GHz with Turbo Boost, 6 Cores, 12 Threads, 12 MB Cache)
- Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64
- Display Type: 15.6” FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS, anti-glare with Dolby Vision™, 500 nits, 240Hz
- Memory: 16 GB DDR4 2933MHz (2 x 8 GB)
- Hard Drive: 1 TB PCIe SSD
- Warranty: One Year Legion Ultimate Support
- AC Adapter: 230W
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX™ 2060 6GB
- Battery: 4 Cell Li-Polymer 60Wh
- Camera: 720p HD
- Keyboard: Backlit - US English
- Wireless: Wi-Fi 6™ 802.11AX (2 x 2) & Bluetooth® 5.0
2.6 is on the low end for specs, remember it’s single core only here.
lol, I love the internet “Are you trying to run Pong on a machine with less than 40 teraflops? *laughs derisively* Good luck with that”
When I had a 2.83 my experience wasn’t great.
Well, it’s more than enough horsepower to run Cyberpunk 2077 with the settings all jacked up to max except for a couple of annoying ones like motion blur which I turned off. SWL/TSW has been out for… eight years, I think?
I have heard the game runs better on older machines. Almost like TSW/SWL wasn’t built to be “futureproof”. Anecdotal ofc
I have seen many players who say their machine is new say they have problems.
yet my PC is new, but I have no problems, Not beyond the normal problems we get in TSW/SWL anyway.
I have actually had it run better and better with every newer computer I get. This game is an anomaly.
That’s it. I’m done. I’m done, I’m done, I’m done. 10 fps? Okay, I updated the nVidia drivers the other day and all was well until now…11 hours later after playing earlier with zero system changes. So I did the obvious - when in doubt, reboot and, if that doesn’t work, power down completely, sit on your hands for a minute, and then boot up again… Still crap. Next, roll back the nVidia drivers to the last one that was working fine… Yet STILL crap.
I’m 95% sure (most statistics are made up on-the-fly) that the problem is somewhere in my machine. But here’s the rub… everything else that is graphics intensive and I run is and has been working just fine. I am tired of having to jump through hoops for years with Funcom just to get this friggin’ game to function decently. The only other game that gave me this amount of crap was Anarchy Online. For now, I have other games that I’m playing or interested in.
All that whining aside, my chacter is nearly all maxed out in all Elaborate gear and I’ve leveled up a bunch of other weapons that I really don’t care about. There is nothing new or interesting (CONTENT!) for me to do. How many times can you run Hell blah-blah-blah? I’ve run all of the missions, done all of the holiday crap multiple times over the years, and have listened to Doctor Klein prattle on in his own vords more times than I care to think about.
Or maybe I’m just being a sour puss on top of the technical issues because I’m frustrated by the lack of new content.
I hate to be That Guy who complains on his way out and I’m sure as hell not trying to influence anyone else about what they should do. This game hads been a lot of fun but has just become way too technically frustrating and devoid of any new content for me to continue playing anymore. It is no longer fun, it’s a chore at best.
If everything is working fine for you and you’re still enjoying the game, enjoy! It’s just not working for me personally.
Well, I say all of this now but, if I ever get this heap to work on my machine again, I’ll no doubt start playing again just to hang with Pilchenstein and my other friends for some more adventures.
If you’ve tried rolling the drivers back and other games are still working fine then it doesn’t sound like the issue is with your machine, to be perfectly honest. Game’s haunted
As it turns out, it’s not the game nor my machine, I’m thinking that it is nVidia. After mucking around with the drivers and having nVidia’s largely useless dashboard reinstalled, it must have messed with the Lenovo hardware app called Lenovo Vantage. That app has a setting called Thermal Mode which automagically selects the nVidia card or the integrated one and adjusts the fan speed accordingly depending on what you’re doing. The setting choices are “Performance,” “Quiet,” and “Hybrid” with the latter being the selection I chose so the machine just deals with it on its own. Well, somehow or another - nVidia? - the setting was switched to “Quiet” so the nVidia card never kicked in when I launched SWL so only the integrated card was functioning. The short of it is that’s the game is performing again.
lol, my first thought was you’d put windows into power saver mode or something but I ruled that out cause you said other games were working fine
Admittedly, I am quick to blame Funcom but that comes from experience. Here is a revue of Anarchy Online from 2001 when it first launched; it’s very snarky but it is also pretty much how it went down without too much exaggeration. AO was actually working very well in the last stretch of beta and then… wtf? So, yeah, I’m a bit jaded.
So you’re gonna stay right??
I’m not going anywhere any time soon, though I would really like to see an update to the main story line.
Nevver say nevver.