game crash solution for nightmare remake

[Insomnyan]

Been playing for a long while , from game crash ptsd to mentally stable gradually.

Windows 11 :
Settings -> Gaming -> Game Mode -> Graphics -> Add an app (locate your MarySkelter2.exe )
Then you'd be able to change its options , toggle the checkbox "Don't use optimizations for windowed games" , ensure this option is checked.

I'm playing in borderless windowed mode , this works for me.

[Icedfate]

i just want to say, i did this, and i'm still crashing. . .

[Insomnyan]

Originally posted by Icedfate:

i just want to say, i did this, and i'm still crashing. . .

that's kinda embarrassing..... I didn't mention that I switched the performance option to "power saving" , because I didn't think that'd be a factor.
And game should be borderless windowed.
Would you mind try it once more? I hope you could make it.

[Icedfate]

well, i appreciate it, but every computer is different.
I'm on a gaming laptop.
window 10
16 gigs of ram

should have no problem.
main thing is "power saving mode" would use the integrated grapgics card, which is a big nono.
i have to set it to "high performance" so it uses my NVidia card
this is a problem in some games, they default to the integrated grapgics, but i'm 99.99% sure i'm using the nvidia card now, since i set the global paramter in the nvidia controls panel to always use that, in addition to taking all the steps i saw in your post.

in fairness, i had it on fullscreen and not borderless.

I did try borderless earlier tonight and went 2 hours without a crash, but then, that's still not entire sure it's fixed, since i went 6 hours in fullscreen and then it crashed again.

the crashes are so completely unpredictable. i can go hours without a crash and then just when i start to get careless and forget to save the game for a while, bam, that's when it happens.



edit, and i guess what i did is not exactly what you did, sinvce windows 10 doesn't have "settings --> gaming"
i went in to "settings -> system _> display (scrolled down to the bottom to see)-> graphics settings -> scrolled down to the bottom to see "graphics performance preference" -> and then had to manually search for the .exe file of the game and add it to the list and then set "high performance" on it.
(there was 2 options there, high performance and power saving. power saving would have used the integrated graphics card and not the nividia card.)

so yeah, maybe i didn't do what you did, lol.

[Insomnyan]

Originally posted by Icedfate:

well, i appreciate it, but every computer is different.
I'm on a gaming laptop.
window 10
16 gigs of ram

should have no problem.
main thing is "power saving mode" would use the integrated grapgics card, which is a big nono.
i have to set it to "high performance" so it uses my NVidia card
this is a problem in some games, they default to the integrated grapgics, but i'm 99.99% sure i'm using the nvidia card now, since i set the global paramter in the nvidia controls panel to always use that, in addition to taking all the steps i saw in your post.

in fairness, i had it on fullscreen and not borderless.

I did try borderless earlier tonight and went 2 hours without a crash, but then, that's still not entire sure it's fixed, since i went 6 hours in fullscreen and then it crashed again.

the crashes are so completely unpredictable. i can go hours without a crash and then just when i start to get careless and forget to save the game for a while, bam, that's when it happens.



edit, and i guess what i did is not exactly what you did, sinvce windows 10 doesn't have "settings --> gaming"
i went in to "settings -> system _> display (scrolled down to the bottom to see)-> graphics settings -> scrolled down to the bottom to see "graphics performance preference" -> and then had to manually search for the .exe file of the game and add it to the list and then set "high performance" on it.
(there was 2 options there, high performance and power saving. power saving would have used the integrated graphics card and not the nividia card.)

so yeah, maybe i didn't do what you did, lol.

I see.
It's such a pain in the ass , until now , I just got another crash after 5 hours play lmao. so , nevermind , that settings didn't actually fix the game , it just reduced the chance of crashing for me (It was crashing every single hour before , I only got one from total 15 hrs play , may it not be a coincidence).

[Icedfate]

well, it's nice to know i'm not alone with this problem. wow, they released such an unstable game and haven't addressed it.
and they released these fairly recently too. . .

edit : i haven't crashed in a couple of days now,
I restarted my computer to refresh my RAM and i also save and quit the game every couple of hours to release the RAM, not sure if that helps or it's just a coincidence i'm having better performance.


but now i'm rereading your title, it seems your problem was crashing in the nightmares remake. I'm playing part 2 right now and that's where all my crashes occurred.
I think it's a memory issue.
The game might have a memory leak that causes it to crash when it stays open for too long, but i'm not a computer person. i just like to play games on them.



update : i finished playing through the main game of MS2, barely crashing, except for 1-2 more times.
it seems it's mostly when switching between major zones, like going from underground cavern to city streets, or going from the art gallery to the waterside. .
if i stayed in the same major zone, it wouldn't crash.
also, reloading the save file too many times caused a crash.
so, i just quit the game and relaunched it if i had to go someplace new.

after beating part 2, i tried to play the nightmares remake and was playing for a couple hours and then in the first aone, the game crahsed during a random encounter and i got mad and turned it off. .

i'm now playing finale, whatever. I already beat the original version of nightmares.
I was only gonna play through the remake to see the new dungeon layouts and the new postgame content and i see the Finale has all the cutscenes as "bonus content", so i'll just settle for that.

also, based on the cutscenes in the nightmare remake postgame, i see why they say to play MS2 first and then play nightmares remake, it's because there's spoilers in there involving Otsuu that weren't in the original nightmares game