Mirror's Edge Crashing

[sheeepie2]

Hello. I recently bought Mirror's Edge on sale for £2.19, and I've had a good few hours with it so far. However, it kept crashing randomly. Sometimes I'd get 1 minute, sometimes 15, but nonetheless it crashed to desktop after a short time.

To try to fix this, I downloaded the latest patch from the EA website. Opened the .exe, and it said the game had not installed properly, a problem I have seen other people having.

I gave up with the patch, and turned PhysX off in-game. This lead to me playing it for a good hour without crashing, but then it crashed again. This time, it didn't crash to desktop, but rather the BSOD ("Blue Screen of Death") which stated that a display driver had failed - something that's never happened before.

I have a Geforce 8800GT GFX Card and I fit all of the minimum requirements, apart from the processor. The requirement is a 3.0GHZ processor. I have a 2.7GHZ Three-core processor, which almost fits the requirement, so I'm guessing that isn't it.

Any solutions? To be honest, I'd rather have it crash sooner than have me reboot my computer with a risk of corruption....

[😎Macula😎]

Why the heck people just don't use good old search there are threads covering quite a number of bugs and their solutions specially because its old game try this thread:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/17410/discussions/0/540744934991380592/
If it doesn't work well tough luck get yourself refund then.

[5M0k1N]

couldnt find many results on google (coincidentially 2 of the 3 ive got had youre same video card) and only one guy managed to solve it but it involved switching the RAM. if you have 2 sticks of ram id try taking one out, playing and see what happens. if it still crashes then put that stick in and remove the other

it just seems unlikely that this is a software issue but if you want to try more stuff theres a possible list of solutions (not aimed at your specific problem though) http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=788621
(also, start by updating video card drivers, that fixes more probs that youd imagine)

@Macula that thread doesnt even mention random crashes though, which is quite a different beast (id even say the worst kind of beast ^^)

[😎Macula😎]

Heh that link shows how much this game is old when solutions are written on old forum.

[sheeepie2]

Originally posted by 5M0k1N:

couldnt find many results on google (coincidentially 2 of the 3 ive got had youre same video card) and only one guy managed to solve it but it involved switching the RAM. if you have 2 sticks of ram id try taking one out, playing and see what happens. if it still crashes then put that stick in and remove the other

it just seems unlikely that this is a software issue but if you want to try more stuff theres a possible list of solutions (not aimed at your specific problem though) http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=788621
(also, start by updating video card drivers, that fixes more probs that youd imagine)

@Macula that thread doesnt even mention random crashes though, which is quite a different beast (id even say the worst kind of beast ^^)

Thanks. I think I have 2 sticks of RAM, if I remember.... I might try that later. Can't be bothered to do it right now :P

[sheeepie2]

Found a fix - go to the MirrorsEdge application (in Binaries) and go to properties > compatibility.

Then check "run in 256 colours". It goes all pixellated when you launch it, but once it starts it works fine with no crashing.