The game crashes alot?

[pepega]

It keeps crashing for me.. And I have to install the game everytime I restart it.. why?

[SpookyAndrew]

Could you provide details - how far do you get? Does it crash in the same place? Do you actaully get to play?

[pepega]

yeah for 5minutes.

[SpookyAndrew]

I'm guessing you've tried rebooting.
What happens if you start the game but don't play it - just leave it on the menu screen for 5 min - does it crash?

[pepega]

It says the game wont run

[SpookyAndrew]

Do you get an error message?
Something like "This card doesn't support the HiDef profile .."?
I need you to describe what happens in detail please.
Also what are your machine specs?

[willoux_]

i know what error hes getting i think, I just bought the game, and it finished installing and everything, but on the first time set up it goes to 3 and it says im ingame, but then this console looking thing appears for about half a second and then dissapears and the game crashes, no message, no lag, no anything. also occasionally it will get stuck on Installing .NET 4.0 Runtime (step 1 of 3), help? D:

[SpookyAndrew]

@Hawks - could you try running the three setup files manually?
They should be located here:
"C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\they bleed pixels"
and are:
dxwebsetup.exe
dotNetFx40_Client_setup.exe
xnafx40_redist.msi
After the installs are done reboot the machine and please try running TBP again.
Let me know what happens.

[willoux_]

that fixed it! thanks

[SpookyAndrew]

@Hawks - Great!
@Lindail - how are things with you? Any progress?

[fox friday]

Having the same problem. Played just fine yesterday. Trying to launch it today, flashes for a second then crashes.

[fox friday]

Aaaand now it's magically working again. Never mind then.

[SpookyAndrew]

@Dr. Näbbfjun - I don't want to scare you, but if your computer keeps doing this you should scan for viruses and rootkits. Maybe give your whole machine a good look - failing harddrive/motherboard, overheating issues ... i had something similar happen a few months back - turned out one of my graphics card slots on the motherboard is failing.

[fox friday]

@SpookyAndrew: I assure you, my laptop is perfectly fine. From what I could gather from the mostly useless windows crash report window thingie, the problem lies with XACT. I've got a USB headset (a Logitech G930 to be specific) which I discovered Windows 8 keeps around in the sound devices list even after it's unplugged, for whatever reason. If I still have the headset selected as the default sound device when I launch your game, it crashes. Don't know if you have any power of what sound device XNA chooses, but I imagine this is a pretty rare issue anyway :)

[SpookyAndrew]

Thank you very much for the info - goes to confirm some things and gives an idea as to causes with certain problems.

[Jed]

I'll tell you why, cause Steam games suck ass! They DONT WORK AT ALL!!