Euro Truck Simulator 2 Crashing for no clear reason.

[BradH63]

Hi everyone. Not 100% sure If this is the correct place to put it, but I'm having a few problems with ETS2 crashes for no reason. I thought I'd ask here first, then if I cannot get a fix or a reason for the crash then I'd ask SCS directly or try a different forum.

It's safe to say in the last 3 years or so of me owning ETS2 I've had no problems with it, nothing serious anyway. Just the other day I got a new CPU and Motherboard. Due to this, I had to do a fresh install of Windows. Installed Steam perfectly fine. Although I noticed after installing ETS2 MP and doing a few jobs I noticed it would randomly crash, but not fully crash. It would crash, then it would reload.. (just like when you click drive and you're presented with the little bar going across to show progression of loading.) sometimes it would do that, sometimes if would completely crash to desktop. So I tried removing mods, etc etc to see if that was the cause. Still doing it. I also tried launching the game with Direct X and Open GL, still getting crashes. This is with or without Truckers MP, so I think it's a problem with the game itself. I did a fresh install this morning of ETS2 (uninstalling through Steam, then deleting all relevant ETS2 folders, it's still Crashing. This mornings crash was a complete crash to desktop though.

I have copied my game.log as I imagine someone will want to see it. Bare in mind this game.log is after the fresh install I did this morning, so completely vanilla game, no mods.
https://pastebin.com/Udp9rSEt

I hope someone will be able to at least pick out the issue for me

Thanks, Brad

[BradH63]

Sorry, I forgot to mention.. I have also tried fresh nvidia drivers.

My PC specs:
I7 9700k
GTX 1070Ti
16GB DDR4
I'm running ETS2 from an SSD too.

[AoD_lexandro]

Your current log is from a normal shutdown. Run the game till its crashes and then paste the log again. We need the crash reason to see whats up.

[BradH63]

Okay, I will try once I'm home. Thing is I don't know if it will show anything different. I checked the log everytime it crashed and couldn't see anything about the crash.

But thanks for the quick reply, I'll be sure to try it again.

[ivanmanu51]

This:

Command line:  D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Euro Truck Simulator 2\bin\win_x64\eurotrucks2.exe -rdevice gl

Try to remove that -rdevice gl from launch command options. Maybe you forgot about that.

[AoD_lexandro]

Your log so far only has a couple of warnings that may be related or not. If we can see what happens before or at the the crash, it usually points to a culprit and a solution.

[kaki_gamet]

The two errors at 976 and 977 are not cause of a crash (maybe, see here) while those about trailers are there because is missing a DLC (again harmless ones).

From that log I can see that last thing that happened is an auto-save on Steam Cloud. You may try as suggested above, to remove the launch parameter, and then to edit your newly created profile (without even that single mod) to save in local. Then play on it for a while and see.

[Nimir-Raj]

Your crash is silent. I would advise doing the following:

1. Go into your main ETS2 folder (where the game log is) and delete the game.crash file.
2. Start the game and let it crash.
3. Goto the SCS forum and post your problem there make sure to post BOTH game and crash log. (reason for step 1 is to make sure the crash log is new).

We cannot help you here since there is no crash message and only SCS can decode the crash log.

AoD_lexandro a écrit :

Your current log is from a normal shutdown.

There's no normal shutdown procedure in that log. In fact there is no shutdown procedure at all.

[AoD_lexandro]

I know moe, it was early on when I posted. Didnt feel like editing the post to correct the wording, since it was the advice of posting a log with the crash that was important

[HiTmAn]

u game and steam must be on same drive maybe that cause u crash.also if u use win10 disable game recording

[Wolfpig]

HiTmAn a écrit :

u game and steam must be on same drive maybe that cause u crash.

No the game can be installed on some other drive as steam itself without problems.
Have steam myself on the c: drive ( i think) and at least 3 different install locations for games on other drives....

[BradH63]

Just got home. Thanks for all the comments, will try all of the above now. I have my ETS on my Steam drive along with all of my other games so it's not that.

[BradH63]

Okay, i've just had another crash. Although again, it wasn't a proper crash. It was a crash, then a reload (bringing up the screen with the trucking screenshot and your job info underneath it) then it carried on, then it crashed completely.

Here's the game.log... https://pastebin.com/v9Xz0JeP

[ivanmanu51]

You tried with MP mod this time. Don't. Try with completely new profile on vanilla game.

Now you have those errors

00:26:06.924 : <ERROR> [dx9] Present failed. [0x88760874]
00:26:06.935 : <ERROR> [dx9] Present failed. [0x88760874]
00:26:06.944 : <ERROR> [dx9] Present failed. [0x88760874]
00:26:06.952 : <ERROR> [dx9] Present failed. [0x88760874]
00:26:06.960 : <ERROR> [dx9] Present failed. [0x88760874]
00:26:06.968 : <ERROR> [dx9] Present failed. [0x88760874]

which means that your GPU is having some troubles to run the game properly. Try to update your GPU drivers cause yours are from 2018. Even that shouldn't be a major problem, you have to reinstall them completely. Make a clean installation of the latest drivers.

[AoD_lexandro]

Looks like a graphics driver issue, your having swap buffer fails which is a graphics processing issue.

Since your card is quiet new its probably just a compatibility issue with the drivers. I would suggest checking for an updated set that has support for your card.

[BradH63]

Updated drivers to 419.67 which i believe are the latest. I've just done a 20 minute drive on regular ETS, no MP, no mods but the same profile as before and it didn't crash. I'll do some more testing in the morning, and i'll get a new profile setup.