Crashing every time

[SuperMikey]

The game keeps crashing upon starting a mission, and i've tried going to steam properties and setting compatibility to win 7 and 8, tried updating the graphics card, trying different resolutions, settings, but to no avail. Can i get any help on how to stabilize this game?

[Axonteer]

I just hit the same issue, game ran without problems in free missions and campaign and SUDDENLY in the second part of the spooky mission, where you start in your fighter and are supposed to Land on a airfield, it always crashes the second an event should happen. Im out of ideas what i could do to continue... it just CTD every damn time yet when i play free missions (the few i can select) no problem.... its like there is an error in the event script in that specific mission :-(

i wasted now two hours trying to fix this, i tried fake borderless window, actual windowed, i tried different resolutions and aspect ratios (assuming it could have been an issue with that) forcing the game to run at 60Hz... nothing, always crashing +-1 second around the same spot.


Edit:
Setting the game into copmatibility mode for windows 7 got me past that mentioned reproducable CTD, yet it still crashed a mission later once. If i find anything else that might fix it ill report it but so far... its still random if the game holds up... :-S

[SuperMikey]

I'm guessing you're talking about the mission in africa, after you fight bigbear squadron and then have to land while damaged. i had it crash right there too, and got past it by switching to win 7, and then later on switching back to win 10. thing is such a pain in the ass

[Swissski]

I have the exact same problem: the game crashes all the time, in any mission, at any time. Do we know how to solve this problem ?

[Elias Auxilibus]

Just tried to get back into this. For me it crashes either on the main menu or during the first cutscene when starting a new campaign. This is odd, I used to be able to play this just fine like two years ago.

[Klingsi1992]

Just installed first time and crash on first cutscene(((

[Elias Auxilibus]

I got it to work somehow! I'll list what I did in order:

-Right click the game in Steam's library.
-Properties
-Betas
-Select the NO G4WL option.
-Went to Local Files tab on the same window
-Clicked Browse
-Right clicked Ace Combat_AH.exe
-Clicked Properties
-Selected Compatibility tab
-Selected Windows 7 for Compatibility mode
-Run it from that .exe directly (it'll ask to be ran as an administrator since it's using compatibility mode. Accept it).
-Affter starting the game, I manually went through the different settings for graphics. Turned on VSync. For some reason for me it was set to a different resolution than what my monitor was.


I've had some issues crop up in certain missions forcing you to restart at a checkpoint (my favorite being the cruise missile you have to destroy, as sometimes the game thinks it's escaped much earlier than it should), but no crashing or freezing for me. Unfortunately this won't work for everyone as this game seems to react to everyone's computer's setup a little differently.

[Woodrich]

I answered this on another thread but this worked for me. Go steamapps, common, ace combat, right click on .exe, go to properties, then click on compatibility mode and switch to windows 7 from 8. Hope this helps.

[Ebenwolke87]

Thanks, switch to Windows 7 for Compatibility mode works fine on win 10, very good;)