Crashing since todays small patch

Virusboy · Post by **Virusboy** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 08:32

Right, not sure whats happening here. Played aome more of the campaign lastnight. Was going great but I had to go to sleep. Saved the game and logged off. Woke up this morning to a 500kb ish patch and now my save crashes the game everytime.

Come on guys, what ya broke now?

EDIT. Tried lots of different things. Cleared temp folders, changed settings. Verified game cache. Nothing, all my saves crash the game. Can start a new game but cant load any old ones? Please guys, don't make me start the campaign over again

Post by **CBJ** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 09:57

The timing of your crashes is almost certainly coincidental. The patches we are putting out at the moment contain small changes to fix specific crashes and problems only, and we are not making big changes that could cause your savegames to stop working. If you upload your savegame somewhere then we can take a look, though the problem may well be something we're fixing in a forthcoming patch anyway.

Mastercyclone3D · Post by **Mastercyclone3D** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 10:08

Virusboy wrote:Right, not sure whats happening here. Played aome more of the campaign lastnight. Was going great but I had to go to sleep. Saved the game and logged off. Woke up this morning to a 500kb ish patch and now my save crashes the game everytime.

Come on guys, what ya broke now?

EDIT. Tried lots of different things. Cleared temp folders, changed settings. Verified game cache. Nothing, all my saves crash the game. Can start a new game but cant load any old ones? Please guys, don't make me start the campaign over again

I done the same things man you might have the same problems as I did

Restart computer after update 1.13
This is what I did after restart computer
Clean temp folder
C:\Users\blahblah\AppData\Local\Temp
C:\Windows\Temp
Then start the game from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\X Rebirth\ Rebirth.exe and run as Admin rights
Change the Graphic setting
If you have a crappy cheap video card then leave the setting as it was in the game. Or change it as you know it will run.

1680x1050 or 1920 x 1080 the 1920 never work for me
4x AA or 2AA << this is all deepens on how strong is your video card is.
V sync Off
SSAO On
Shadows On
LOD setting 100 or 50
View Distance 100 or 50
Effect Distance 100 or 50
Shader Quality High or Normal
Gamma 100

Game setting
Rumble 100 or 50

Then push Alt and Tab
Then push Ctrl and Alt and Del go to the task manger
Right click on XRebirth.exe under process Set priority to (High)
Then right click on XRebirth.exe and (Create a Dump File) wait for the dump is done
Then go back to game load your saved game. Then save it.

Draaven · Post by **Draaven** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 10:53

I have the same issue since this small patch. Save games from yesterday work fine, but now if I play and save, it takes longer to save and then it won't load them.

Game crashes everytime, regardless of where you are when you save.

I'll try and find someplace to upload the file, or I can email it to you zipped.

Draaven · Post by **Draaven** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 10:56

Just found the save games. All of yesterday's saves are about 25mb

Today's saves with very little gameplay in between is 100mb !!

Draaven · Post by **Draaven** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 11:14

Okay not sure if this will work for you, but I've uploaded 2 save games to DropBox and here's the share link:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ly6nnj95fslpmt7/qldT878Im6

Save 005 is from last night and loads fine
Save 006 is from this morning and won't load.

Zetoss · Post by **Zetoss** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 11:34

I seem to have the same problem, until today all saves were almost exactly 25mb (regardless of 1 hour or 10 hours gameplay) and loaded nicely but the last ones I made jumped to 28mb and can't be loaded at all. Tried running a quick comparison between some saves using an automated tool but nothing stands out enough that I notice it between the saves I compared... as if I know what the heck I'm looking for but it was worth a shot. Draaven's saves are probably sufficient so I'm not uploading anything unless requested.

Maybe not a good idea to micropatch without giving us a notice?

Scoob · Post by **Scoob** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 13:52

Draaven wrote:Okay not sure if this will work for you, but I've uploaded 2 save games to DropBox and here's the share link:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ly6nnj95fslpmt7/qldT878Im6

Save 005 is from last night and loads fine
Save 006 is from this morning and won't load.

Hi,

Tried your save, it crashes for me too.

It seems to load but then freezes and I have the crash dump popup on the desktop when I flip back to it. I do see something partially rendered on the screen, but it's barely noticable against the otherwise black screen - almost like a stencil effect, if you get what I mean.

Oh, your save is HUGE, 4x any of mine, like you say.

I tested my own game - started in v1.12 and not played since Sunday - which is v1.13 + the little update today, saved and my new save seems fine at the usual 25mb or so.

Scoob.

Virusboy · Post by **Virusboy** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 14:25

CBJ wrote:The timing of your crashes is almost certainly coincidental. The patches we are putting out at the moment contain small changes to fix specific crashes and problems only, and we are not making big changes that could cause your savegames to stop working. If you upload your savegame somewhere then we can take a look, though the problem may well be something we're fixing in a forthcoming patch anyway.

I don't mean to doubt you when you say almost certainly but, and I know this for a fact, my saves all worked yesterday. I know this because I`ve gotten into the habbit of saving VERY often because of crashes in general and having to load from them. They all loaded yesterday and today they don't, how can it change so drastically if you didn't do anything for it to happen.

Post by **CBJ** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 14:27

There's a multiplication of target point entries in that savegame. We're looking into this already.

Major Lorne · Post by **Major Lorne** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 14:58

CBJ wrote:There's a multiplication of target point entries in that savegame. We're looking into this already.

could you maybe also take a look in 3 of my savegames?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j1ka6bos3ydgjno/save_001.xml

this savegame is from monday afternoon, loading without any problems.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d9hlalllff3mpa6/save_004.xml

this savegame is one of two savegames from yesterday evening/night, loading it directly gives a crash dump message, loading first the savegame above and then from inside the game this savegame it works.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/knskm058cgem8w9/save_005.xml

this savegame is from todays morning after the hotfix, can't load it directly and also not via the method used for the savegame above.

Virusboy · Post by **Virusboy** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 20:46

Just want to add this to my problem and bump it just to know whether the Devs are aware of it. Those saves I couldn't load. Well I want to change what I was saying slightly. They DONOT load from the front end main menu. They DO load once within a game. Found a save that did load (the one uploaded for completing the first trading mission) and loaded another the one I wanted to from there. Havent tried loading from a newly started game.

Just an update

theNemon · Post by **theNemon** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 21:14

Same issue here. Worked "fine" yesterday, now I get crashed after 1-3 minutes of gameplay.

Draaven · Post by **Draaven** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 21:55

Just tried to save with the latest patch (5.9mb) that came out today and it saves to the smaller 26mb file size. But upon loading the save game, it gets into the game this time for about 10 seconds then crashes with a dump report, so still cannot play. Yesterday's saves are still loading fine.

myztkl-kev · Post by **myztkl-kev** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 22:20

I also noticed this last night, i never had any save corruption issues until after the 527kb patch and i posted a thread about noticing the patch. I had to revert to a backup save 3 times yesterday which caused me to do a new save slot every time i a quick save now. I also quit the game and reloaded it just to see if it would load before i went to bed so i didnt go on and get pissed off that i once again lost another 2 hours of gameplay of doing missions.

craigr1982 · Post by **craigr1982** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 23:39

Unfortunately I've been struck by the saves not working bug too. Both worked yesterday.
It's affected my 17hr quicksave from v1.13 but not my 10hr standard save from v1.12. Gutted I didn't save more.

I've uploaded 2x dump files and the save to dropbox. Goes through the motions of opening, gets to 100% and then I get the DMP message on the desktop.

https://db.tt/EzlWbBy7

Kind of annoying as its my first real issue with this game (small bugs aside).

PC Spec
i5 2500k overclocked to 4.1ghz, MSI P67A-GD53, 8GB Corsair Vengeance, Asus HD7970 CU II 3GB, 120GB SSD (Running as System + game install drive), TFT running at 1650x1050, Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Drivers
Sound - Realtek Onboard 04/01/2011 version 6.0.1.6282, No issue with sound as yet using headphones only.
GFX - AMD Catalyst V13.9

Rebirth Settings
Res - 1680x1050
AA - 4x
Fullscreen - On
Vsync - Off
Shadows - on
SSAO - on
LOD - 30
View - 50
Effect - 50
Shader - High

According to FRAPS getting between 30-70FPS depending on area.

Hope you can fix it, for now I'll rename the quicksave in the hopes of salvage and start a new game I think.

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