"Downfall" Crash

[jblakeney17]

Reached the last stage of the campaign and about ten minutes in it freezes, forcing me to exit.
The next time it did the same. Then I played again and this time it was about five minutes in. At this point, it freezes within 30 seconds of the stage starting. When this happens, the audio and video kinda cuts, occasionally turning black. Exiting the window is often impossible, forcing me to reboot.

This problem is exclusive to "Downfall" for me, and has not touched the other Campaign stages, Zombies, or Multiplayer. I installed WaW as I would any other game on Steam, and have not attempted mods in any shape or form.

Kinda hoping somebody has a solution that doesn't require me to reinstall, would like to avoid restarting the entire campaign.

Any advice is appreciated.

[Alastora]

Before I clicked, I thought this was about multiplayer because the Downfall map crashes players' games often. It's weird to have that problem in the campaign. I'd try a search engine to see if anyone else had that issue and if they fixed it.

[[NX]Marks600]

have you tried to verify cache?

[NoGlasses Nobeauty]

Did you fix this problem? I have the same :(((

[jblakeney17]

Originally posted by mangmang2:

Did you fix this problem? I have the same :(((

It just kind of worked on its own, but barely. I may have had to move the game to the background then go back.

[Princess Kenny]

open console and paste
bind f2 "SelectStringTableEntryInDvar FPS FPS r_fullbright
the bug happened to me and that cmd fixed it
(it increases fps and stops lag)
if it doesnt work, im sorry. hope it helps

[jblakeney17]

Originally posted by KillerBeast208:

open console and paste
bind f2 "SelectStringTableEntryInDvar FPS FPS r_fullbright
the bug happened to me and that cmd fixed it
(it increases fps and stops lag)
if it doesnt work, im sorry. hope it helps

I found a temporary roundabout solution that got me through the campaign a while back, thanks for the help though.

[ma-ko]

I had precisely this problem (as well as similar issues on another level - games seems to be full of bugs as a matter of fact). I solved it by enabling no-clip at the first moment of the level before it froze, then floating down the hallway away from the spot you start in and dropping back in before the first combat area, when the opening spiel was finished. The rest of the level went smoothly.

in detail:
-enable the console in the main menu under options/game options
-press ~ to open it
-while in the main menu type "devmap ber3b" and enter (this runs Downfall, in cheat-friendly mode)
-wait for the opening monologue to finish and the level to begin. open the console, type "noclip" and enter. then as described above. enter the same command to disable it.

[nitemareb4helloween]

^doesn't work I've tried this and it still crashes on me

[N8TVDEADLY]

i thought i was the only one experiencing this

[Sinnex]

For me, it worked... after around 15 attempts, crashes, restarts. Haven't experienced any further issues since then, so that's good.

[Nóra]

I'm a bit late to this but the best fix I've found is to lower the graphics settings to low at the start of the mission. You should be able to bring it back up at a later point though this does seems to crash the game more often.