Crash on load {FIXED}

[Yig]

So I started a new game yesterday and did a mission or 2.

When i try to load my saved game, I crash soon after it starts.

I'm on Windows 10.

[Yig]

So there is an easy fix!

Before you load the game you want to continue, start a new game in a new slot.

As soon as you can, quit back to the main menu.

Then load your game.

[Irish]

Thanks Yig, worked for me.

[KieSeyHow]

Okay, after MUCH testing, and great amounts of research, I have collated the useful info for this annoying crash.

If you have more than 8 "logical" cores in total (this means physical cores PLUS Hyper-threading cores AND you are using a 64b version of Windows (7, 8, 8.1, or 10), then you have two options. Either run the Prototype game directly with a custom shortcut, OR, run Steam itself with the custom shortcut. I will explain the Steam version, and you should be able ot figure out the other one easily.

BONUS: this tweak actually fixed startup crashes on a few other old classic games also! older games don't run any faster on more than the first 8 logical cores anyhow. Four cores with hyperthreading gives you 8 logical cores. By limiting the main Steam Launcher itself with a custom shortcut, all other Steam assets inherit the same settings which greatly inproves compantibility with older games. So, let's start...

--> Start by making a NEW shortcut on the desktop, and browsing to Steam with the "create shortcut" widget. right-click -> New -> Shortcut -> then click "browse" and go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe , then select the main "Steam.exe" program (ignore the others) and click "OK".

--> Now, right-click that NEW shortcut and select "Properties" from the mouse context menu.
--> In the box marked "Target" replace
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe"
with the following that matches your OS:
Win7 and 8.1: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 0xff C:\PROGRA~2\STEAM\STEAM.EXE
Win10: cmd /C start "steam" /affinity 0xff "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe"


--> Now, in the box marked "Start In" replace
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\
with:
Win7 and 8.1: C:\PROGRA~2\STEAM\
Win10: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam"
--> Now click on [ OK ]
--> On Win7 and 8,1 you will see the steam icon change to a simple black box. On Win10 the Steam icon stays the same. Your custom Steam shortcut is now actually pointing to the Windows Command Processor (CMD.exe) instead of Steam itself (remember you edited it).

The REASON you are use SHORT DOS names for Win7 and 8.1 is because of how the CMD processor syntax requires no spaces in file or folder names. Windows 10 removed that restriction, and needs a slightly different syntax to work correctly. Remember the differences in case you need that in the future for something else.

You can do this for each annoying game, but I found it much easier to just make a second custom shortcut for SteamOldGames instead. ;)

--> Launch Steam with your custom shortcut, then start the Prototype game from inside the Steam library.

--> When you get into the game, FIRST go to the sound settings and change the "latency" to "32ms", click "SAVE" then "BACK" then exit the game.

--> Now, open your audio properties for your sound card. Change the advanced audio properties, on your "default" "playback device", to 44khz instead of 48, 96, or whatever it says. This addresses the stuttering sounds and crashing that may happen in MANY old games because of an incompatibility between how sounds are buffered in newer 64bit systems, compared to older 32bit systems the devs used years ago. It's basically a compatibility tweak. You are not capable of noticing anyhow, unless you have alien hearing. (perfect human hearing is only about 12bit raw)

Use this custom Steam shortcut to play older classic games to greatly reduce crashing. It seemed to fix several games that always crashed on start-up or after playing a few minutes.

If you want to play your latest modern games, just exit your custom Steam and launch it the normal way. You probably wont need to as all my games seem to run perfectly fine limited to 8 logical cores instead of the 24 cores my system has. I could not tell the difference at all.

Prototype ran insanely fast, like 200FPS after this. Now, I am going to reinstall some other old games I had given up on and try those also!

IM me on Skype or Hangouts, and if worst comes to worst, I might be able to help you using Teamviewer if you are completely confused, and I have time.

Special thanks to Warmaniac_209 with his help in testing and research on Windows 10 systems!

[julioharima]

Originally posted by KieSeyHow:

Okay, after MUCH testing, and great amounts of research, I have collated the useful info for this annoying crash.

If you have more than 8 "logical" cores in total (this means physical cores PLUS Hyper-threading cores AND you are using a 64b version of Windows (7, 8, 8.1, or 10), then you have two options. Either run the Prototype game directly with a custom shortcut, OR, run Steam itself with the custom shortcut. I will explain the Steam version, and you should be able ot figure out the other one easily.

BONUS: this tweak actually fixed startup crashes on a few other old classic games also! older games don't run any faster on more than the first 8 logical cores anyhow. Four cores with hyperthreading gives you 8 logical cores. By limiting the main Steam Launcher itself with a custom shortcut, all other Steam assets inherit the same settings which greatly inproves compantibility with older games. So, let's start...

--> Start by making a NEW shortcut on the desktop, and browsing to Steam with the "create shortcut" widget. right-click -> New -> Shortcut -> then click "browse" and go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe , then select the main "Steam.exe" program (ignore the others) and click "OK".

--> Now, right-click that NEW shortcut and select "Properties" from the mouse context menu.
--> In the box marked "Target" replace
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe"
with the following that matches your OS:
Win7 and 8.1: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 0xff C:\PROGRA~2\STEAM\STEAM.EXE
Win10: cmd /C start "steam" /affinity 0xff "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe"


--> Now, in the box marked "Start In" replace
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\
with:
Win7 and 8.1: C:\PROGRA~2\STEAM\
Win10: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam"
--> Now click on [ OK ]
--> On Win7 and 8,1 you will see the steam icon change to a simple black box. On Win10 the Steam icon stays the same. Your custom Steam shortcut is now actually pointing to the Windows Command Processor (CMD.exe) instead of Steam itself (remember you edited it).

The REASON you are use SHORT DOS names for Win7 and 8.1 is because of how the CMD processor syntax requires no spaces in file or folder names. Windows 10 removed that restriction, and needs a slightly different syntax to work correctly. Remember the differences in case you need that in the future for something else.

You can do this for each annoying game, but I found it much easier to just make a second custom shortcut for SteamOldGames instead. ;)

--> Launch Steam with your custom shortcut, then start the Prototype game from inside the Steam library.

--> When you get into the game, FIRST go to the sound settings and change the "latency" to "32ms", click "SAVE" then "BACK" then exit the game.

--> Now, open your audio properties for your sound card. Change the advanced audio properties, on your "default" "playback device", to 44khz instead of 48, 96, or whatever it says. This addresses the stuttering sounds and crashing that may happen in MANY old games because of an incompatibility between how sounds are buffered in newer 64bit systems, compared to older 32bit systems the devs used years ago. It's basically a compatibility tweak. You are not capable of noticing anyhow, unless you have alien hearing. (perfect human hearing is only about 12bit raw)

Use this custom Steam shortcut to play older classic games to greatly reduce crashing. It seemed to fix several games that always crashed on start-up or after playing a few minutes.

If you want to play your latest modern games, just exit your custom Steam and launch it the normal way. You probably wont need to as all my games seem to run perfectly fine limited to 8 logical cores instead of the 24 cores my system has. I could not tell the difference at all.

Prototype ran insanely fast, like 200FPS after this. Now, I am going to reinstall some other old games I had given up on and try those also!

IM me on Skype or Hangouts, and if worst comes to worst, I might be able to help you using Teamviewer if you are completely confused, and I have time.

Special thanks to Warmaniac_209 with his help in testing and research on Windows 10 systems!

Thanks men this works for me =)

[KieSeyHow]

You are most welcome!

[Alex]

Originally posted by KieSeyHow:

Okay, after MUCH testing, and great amounts of research, I have collated the useful info for this annoying crash.

If you have more than 8 "logical" cores in total (this means physical cores PLUS Hyper-threading cores AND you are using a 64b version of Windows (7, 8, 8.1, or 10), then you have two options. Either run the Prototype game directly with a custom shortcut, OR, run Steam itself with the custom shortcut. I will explain the Steam version, and you should be able ot figure out the other one easily.

BONUS: this tweak actually fixed startup crashes on a few other old classic games also! older games don't run any faster on more than the first 8 logical cores anyhow. Four cores with hyperthreading gives you 8 logical cores. By limiting the main Steam Launcher itself with a custom shortcut, all other Steam assets inherit the same settings which greatly inproves compantibility with older games. So, let's start...

--> Start by making a NEW shortcut on the desktop, and browsing to Steam with the "create shortcut" widget. right-click -> New -> Shortcut -> then click "browse" and go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe , then select the main "Steam.exe" program (ignore the others) and click "OK".

--> Now, right-click that NEW shortcut and select "Properties" from the mouse context menu.
--> In the box marked "Target" replace
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe"
with the following that matches your OS:
Win7 and 8.1: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 0xff C:\PROGRA~2\STEAM\STEAM.EXE
Win10: cmd /C start "steam" /affinity 0xff "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe"


--> Now, in the box marked "Start In" replace
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\
with:
Win7 and 8.1: C:\PROGRA~2\STEAM\
Win10: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam"
--> Now click on [ OK ]
--> On Win7 and 8,1 you will see the steam icon change to a simple black box. On Win10 the Steam icon stays the same. Your custom Steam shortcut is now actually pointing to the Windows Command Processor (CMD.exe) instead of Steam itself (remember you edited it).

The REASON you are use SHORT DOS names for Win7 and 8.1 is because of how the CMD processor syntax requires no spaces in file or folder names. Windows 10 removed that restriction, and needs a slightly different syntax to work correctly. Remember the differences in case you need that in the future for something else.

You can do this for each annoying game, but I found it much easier to just make a second custom shortcut for SteamOldGames instead. ;)

--> Launch Steam with your custom shortcut, then start the Prototype game from inside the Steam library.

--> When you get into the game, FIRST go to the sound settings and change the "latency" to "32ms", click "SAVE" then "BACK" then exit the game.

--> Now, open your audio properties for your sound card. Change the advanced audio properties, on your "default" "playback device", to 44khz instead of 48, 96, or whatever it says. This addresses the stuttering sounds and crashing that may happen in MANY old games because of an incompatibility between how sounds are buffered in newer 64bit systems, compared to older 32bit systems the devs used years ago. It's basically a compatibility tweak. You are not capable of noticing anyhow, unless you have alien hearing. (perfect human hearing is only about 12bit raw)

Use this custom Steam shortcut to play older classic games to greatly reduce crashing. It seemed to fix several games that always crashed on start-up or after playing a few minutes.

If you want to play your latest modern games, just exit your custom Steam and launch it the normal way. You probably wont need to as all my games seem to run perfectly fine limited to 8 logical cores instead of the 24 cores my system has. I could not tell the difference at all.

Prototype ran insanely fast, like 200FPS after this. Now, I am going to reinstall some other old games I had given up on and try those also!

IM me on Skype or Hangouts, and if worst comes to worst, I might be able to help you using Teamviewer if you are completely confused, and I have time.

Special thanks to Warmaniac_209 with his help in testing and research on Windows 10 systems!

I love you <3
I wanted to play this game for years, finnaly bought it and didn't run at all on my machine. I tried fixes, hacks, patches, but only this made it work.

THANKS

PS: My specs in case it helps anyone
Win 10 64bit
16GB DDR4
i7 8700k
GTX 1080ti

[KieSeyHow]

You are most welcome... You will find that can fix other games also

[Jammarson02]

Originally posted by KieSeyHow:

Okay, after MUCH testing, and great amounts of research, I have collated the useful info for this annoying crash.

If you have more than 8 "logical" cores in total (this means physical cores PLUS Hyper-threading cores AND you are using a 64b version of Windows (7, 8, 8.1, or 10), then you have two options. Either run the Prototype game directly with a custom shortcut, OR, run Steam itself with the custom shortcut. I will explain the Steam version, and you should be able ot figure out the other one easily.

BONUS: this tweak actually fixed startup crashes on a few other old classic games also! older games don't run any faster on more than the first 8 logical cores anyhow. Four cores with hyperthreading gives you 8 logical cores. By limiting the main Steam Launcher itself with a custom shortcut, all other Steam assets inherit the same settings which greatly inproves compantibility with older games. So, let's start...

--> Start by making a NEW shortcut on the desktop, and browsing to Steam with the "create shortcut" widget. right-click -> New -> Shortcut -> then click "browse" and go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe , then select the main "Steam.exe" program (ignore the others) and click "OK".

--> Now, right-click that NEW shortcut and select "Properties" from the mouse context menu.
--> In the box marked "Target" replace
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe"
with the following that matches your OS:
Win7 and 8.1: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 0xff C:\PROGRA~2\STEAM\STEAM.EXE
Win10: cmd /C start "steam" /affinity 0xff "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe"


--> Now, in the box marked "Start In" replace
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\
with:
Win7 and 8.1: C:\PROGRA~2\STEAM\
Win10: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam"
--> Now click on [ OK ]
--> On Win7 and 8,1 you will see the steam icon change to a simple black box. On Win10 the Steam icon stays the same. Your custom Steam shortcut is now actually pointing to the Windows Command Processor (CMD.exe) instead of Steam itself (remember you edited it).

The REASON you are use SHORT DOS names for Win7 and 8.1 is because of how the CMD processor syntax requires no spaces in file or folder names. Windows 10 removed that restriction, and needs a slightly different syntax to work correctly. Remember the differences in case you need that in the future for something else.

You can do this for each annoying game, but I found it much easier to just make a second custom shortcut for SteamOldGames instead. ;)

--> Launch Steam with your custom shortcut, then start the Prototype game from inside the Steam library.

--> When you get into the game, FIRST go to the sound settings and change the "latency" to "32ms", click "SAVE" then "BACK" then exit the game.

--> Now, open your audio properties for your sound card. Change the advanced audio properties, on your "default" "playback device", to 44khz instead of 48, 96, or whatever it says. This addresses the stuttering sounds and crashing that may happen in MANY old games because of an incompatibility between how sounds are buffered in newer 64bit systems, compared to older 32bit systems the devs used years ago. It's basically a compatibility tweak. You are not capable of noticing anyhow, unless you have alien hearing. (perfect human hearing is only about 12bit raw)

Use this custom Steam shortcut to play older classic games to greatly reduce crashing. It seemed to fix several games that always crashed on start-up or after playing a few minutes.

If you want to play your latest modern games, just exit your custom Steam and launch it the normal way. You probably wont need to as all my games seem to run perfectly fine limited to 8 logical cores instead of the 24 cores my system has. I could not tell the difference at all.

Prototype ran insanely fast, like 200FPS after this. Now, I am going to reinstall some other old games I had given up on and try those also!

IM me on Skype or Hangouts, and if worst comes to worst, I might be able to help you using Teamviewer if you are completely confused, and I have time.

Special thanks to Warmaniac_209 with his help in testing and research on Windows 10 systems!

Trying this but it dont work for me, it wont let me change the target path.

[KieSeyHow]

Check your syntax VERY carefully. The quotes are important and slightly different for different versions of Windows.

[Speedhands]

Originally posted by KieSeyHow:

Okay, after MUCH testing, and great amounts of research, I have collated the useful info for this annoying crash.

If you have more than 8 "logical" cores in total (this means physical cores PLUS Hyper-threading cores AND you are using a 64b version of Windows (7, 8, 8.1, or 10), then you have two options. Either run the Prototype game directly with a custom shortcut, OR, run Steam itself with the custom shortcut. I will explain the Steam version, and you should be able ot figure out the other one easily.

BONUS: this tweak actually fixed startup crashes on a few other old classic games also! older games don't run any faster on more than the first 8 logical cores anyhow. Four cores with hyperthreading gives you 8 logical cores. By limiting the main Steam Launcher itself with a custom shortcut, all other Steam assets inherit the same settings which greatly inproves compantibility with older games. So, let's start...

--> Start by making a NEW shortcut on the desktop, and browsing to Steam with the "create shortcut" widget. right-click -> New -> Shortcut -> then click "browse" and go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe , then select the main "Steam.exe" program (ignore the others) and click "OK".

--> Now, right-click that NEW shortcut and select "Properties" from the mouse context menu.
--> In the box marked "Target" replace
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe"
with the following that matches your OS:
Win7 and 8.1: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 0xff C:\PROGRA~2\STEAM\STEAM.EXE
Win10: cmd /C start "steam" /affinity 0xff "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe"


--> Now, in the box marked "Start In" replace
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\
with:
Win7 and 8.1: C:\PROGRA~2\STEAM\
Win10: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam"
--> Now click on [ OK ]
--> On Win7 and 8,1 you will see the steam icon change to a simple black box. On Win10 the Steam icon stays the same. Your custom Steam shortcut is now actually pointing to the Windows Command Processor (CMD.exe) instead of Steam itself (remember you edited it).

The REASON you are use SHORT DOS names for Win7 and 8.1 is because of how the CMD processor syntax requires no spaces in file or folder names. Windows 10 removed that restriction, and needs a slightly different syntax to work correctly. Remember the differences in case you need that in the future for something else.

You can do this for each annoying game, but I found it much easier to just make a second custom shortcut for SteamOldGames instead. ;)

--> Launch Steam with your custom shortcut, then start the Prototype game from inside the Steam library.

--> When you get into the game, FIRST go to the sound settings and change the "latency" to "32ms", click "SAVE" then "BACK" then exit the game.

--> Now, open your audio properties for your sound card. Change the advanced audio properties, on your "default" "playback device", to 44khz instead of 48, 96, or whatever it says. This addresses the stuttering sounds and crashing that may happen in MANY old games because of an incompatibility between how sounds are buffered in newer 64bit systems, compared to older 32bit systems the devs used years ago. It's basically a compatibility tweak. You are not capable of noticing anyhow, unless you have alien hearing. (perfect human hearing is only about 12bit raw)

Use this custom Steam shortcut to play older classic games to greatly reduce crashing. It seemed to fix several games that always crashed on start-up or after playing a few minutes.

If you want to play your latest modern games, just exit your custom Steam and launch it the normal way. You probably wont need to as all my games seem to run perfectly fine limited to 8 logical cores instead of the 24 cores my system has. I could not tell the difference at all.

Prototype ran insanely fast, like 200FPS after this. Now, I am going to reinstall some other old games I had given up on and try those also!

IM me on Skype or Hangouts, and if worst comes to worst, I might be able to help you using Teamviewer if you are completely confused, and I have time.

Special thanks to Warmaniac_209 with his help in testing and research on Windows 10 systems!

I'm sorry but did I make or port this game? No I didn't and this is WAY TO MUCH work for a $5 game! No thanks. Refund it up as this is BS.

[KieSeyHow]

This is an old game and operating systems have changed considerably. As time passes more and more games, though still for sale for some reason, will no longer work on modern systems. This is just how life is.

[APJosh.TTV]

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start "steam" /affinity 0xff "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe"

My windows 10 changes cmd to the above... and this doesn't work.

[KieSeyHow]

This command is meant for computers with more than four physical CPU cores (shows as 8 with Hyperthreading turned on). Prototype does not work properly with more than 4 cores on many systems, it does not understand more than 4 cores. Try also some of the compatibility modes in Windows 10; try like Windows 7, Vista SP1, and XP SP3.

You may have to make sure the C:\Windows\System32\ is added to the system PATH variable, which it should be already, but not always is.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Windows+10+path+variable+C%3A%5CWindows%5CSystem32%5C

[Missed]

Originally posted by Speedhands:

Originally posted by KieSeyHow:

Okay, after MUCH testing, and great amounts of research, I have collated the useful info for this annoying crash.

If you have more than 8 "logical" cores in total (this means physical cores PLUS Hyper-threading cores AND you are using a 64b version of Windows (7, 8, 8.1, or 10), then you have two options. Either run the Prototype game directly with a custom shortcut, OR, run Steam itself with the custom shortcut. I will explain the Steam version, and you should be able ot figure out the other one easily.

BONUS: this tweak actually fixed startup crashes on a few other old classic games also! older games don't run any faster on more than the first 8 logical cores anyhow. Four cores with hyperthreading gives you 8 logical cores. By limiting the main Steam Launcher itself with a custom shortcut, all other Steam assets inherit the same settings which greatly inproves compantibility with older games. So, let's start...

--> Start by making a NEW shortcut on the desktop, and browsing to Steam with the "create shortcut" widget. right-click -> New -> Shortcut -> then click "browse" and go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe , then select the main "Steam.exe" program (ignore the others) and click "OK".

--> Now, right-click that NEW shortcut and select "Properties" from the mouse context menu.
--> In the box marked "Target" replace
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe"
with the following that matches your OS:
Win7 and 8.1: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 0xff C:\PROGRA~2\STEAM\STEAM.EXE
Win10: cmd /C start "steam" /affinity 0xff "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe"


--> Now, in the box marked "Start In" replace
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\
with:
Win7 and 8.1: C:\PROGRA~2\STEAM\
Win10: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam"
--> Now click on [ OK ]
--> On Win7 and 8,1 you will see the steam icon change to a simple black box. On Win10 the Steam icon stays the same. Your custom Steam shortcut is now actually pointing to the Windows Command Processor (CMD.exe) instead of Steam itself (remember you edited it).

The REASON you are use SHORT DOS names for Win7 and 8.1 is because of how the CMD processor syntax requires no spaces in file or folder names. Windows 10 removed that restriction, and needs a slightly different syntax to work correctly. Remember the differences in case you need that in the future for something else.

You can do this for each annoying game, but I found it much easier to just make a second custom shortcut for SteamOldGames instead. ;)

--> Launch Steam with your custom shortcut, then start the Prototype game from inside the Steam library.

--> When you get into the game, FIRST go to the sound settings and change the "latency" to "32ms", click "SAVE" then "BACK" then exit the game.

--> Now, open your audio properties for your sound card. Change the advanced audio properties, on your "default" "playback device", to 44khz instead of 48, 96, or whatever it says. This addresses the stuttering sounds and crashing that may happen in MANY old games because of an incompatibility between how sounds are buffered in newer 64bit systems, compared to older 32bit systems the devs used years ago. It's basically a compatibility tweak. You are not capable of noticing anyhow, unless you have alien hearing. (perfect human hearing is only about 12bit raw)

Use this custom Steam shortcut to play older classic games to greatly reduce crashing. It seemed to fix several games that always crashed on start-up or after playing a few minutes.

If you want to play your latest modern games, just exit your custom Steam and launch it the normal way. You probably wont need to as all my games seem to run perfectly fine limited to 8 logical cores instead of the 24 cores my system has. I could not tell the difference at all.

Prototype ran insanely fast, like 200FPS after this. Now, I am going to reinstall some other old games I had given up on and try those also!

IM me on Skype or Hangouts, and if worst comes to worst, I might be able to help you using Teamviewer if you are completely confused, and I have time.

Special thanks to Warmaniac_209 with his help in testing and research on Windows 10 systems!

I'm sorry but did I make or port this game? No I didn't and this is WAY TO MUCH work for a $5 game! No thanks. Refund it up as this is BS.

dude I agree and not to mention doesn't help people who have put steam on a different drive, Steam is not on my C drive at all. This guide is also written piss poorly. Or it could be the fact you don't take into account the fact, like I said, not everyone keeps steam on C drive to clog their SSD. So yeah to much work for a "meh" game anyways.

[Fappy-さま]

This is the easy way

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1699642265