Mad Max.exe has stopped working...? (Fixed :)

[Pantherr]

Well, following a BSOD crash due to a non-game related issue Mad Max will no longer load. During the load sequence it freezes and I get the message that madmax.exe has stopped working.

I have never had this issue before and have reinstalled both Steam and Mad Max to no avail. I have looked online for a solution but most of what I found seems to be for cracked versions of the game whereas mine is legit...

Can anyone tell me why this has occured and how to fix it please.... Thankyou..

[lucasj1210]

what caused your BSOD?
if you didn't repair it ...it MAY cause any program to not work correctly...

[Pantherr]

my pc is having an issue accessing D drive at times, which is where all my games are, am working on it. Since the c rash it had to repair some files and other games are working fine so far, just this issue with MM.

[lucasj1210]

Originally posted by Pantherr:

my pc is having an issue accessing D drive at times, which is where all my games are, am working on it. Since the c rash it had to repair some files and other games are working fine so far, just this issue with MM.

Don't know what OS you have...but first... did you run the 'verifiy the game files' thru Seam for Max?
I know you posted that you re-installed MM but verifying the install fixes many common problems...run it at least twice
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Do the usual PC optimization stuff too(to avoid the BSOD)..
I run a registry cleaner/repair quite often
I'll run a manual scan dis...run the defrag,etc
many times when there is a BSOD the PC upon restart will set it back to the default settings
check your anti virus if it still has MM as an exception or disable it
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you could run a 'clean' install of your GPU drivers
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try running madmax.exe from inside your game folder as 'administrator'

[Pantherr]

ok, System Specs...v

Win 7 64bit (On SSD)
Intel Core i7-3770k CPU @ 3.5 ghz (8 CPU's), ~3.9ghz
32 gig ram
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 G1 (8gig VRAM)

Well yes, after I ran the "verify files" and it d/l 11 files and it still crashed, but I didn't run it again after reinstalling MM, will do that now. Will try out your othert suggestions as well, Thankyou.

EDIT; Well I tried all that and still no joy :(..

[lucasj1210]

Originally posted by Pantherr:

EDIT; Well I tried all that and still no joy :(..

Nice system..much better than mine..Win 7 is a stable OS...I'm kind of surprised you got a BSOD....are not game related....but OS related...
did you have an Win update recently?
Did you run a ful virus scan lately?
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Oh...try the 'ole' reinstall ALL the redist....in the
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mad Max\_CommonRedist
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[Pantherr]

No recent updates at all, and yeah its not a bad system, I had it built about 5 years ago now. The 1080 graphics card is recent tho, got that a few months back.

[lucasj1210]

Originally posted by Pantherr:

No recent updates at all, and yeah its not a bad system, I had it built about 5 years ago now. The 1080 graphics card is recent tho, got that a few months back.

Did you buy it during the GPU price war?
I just checked today and I see that the prices are finally starting to come down...
a few months ago my 1060 was just about double the price ...today it's only $50 more...which of course is BS...even the $150 1050 is $200...whereas a few moths ago they were close to $300

[Pantherr]

Don't know of any price war, altho the guy I got it from did say that the prices went up after he got it from his supplier. I have a guy/friend that I have know and deal with for about 25 years now. I get all my puter stuff from him and he builds my system when I need a new one.

[NuCkEnFuTs]

What does your Windows event viewer state at the exact time of the crash?

[Pantherr]

I have no idea... Have never used it before.

[Pantherr]

It's ALL FIXED and working again...

Just in case this can help anyone else, this is what I did. The first time I unistalled and reinstalled MM, I just d/l it thru Steam. However because I had bought the actual disc version I decided to try it installing it from the discs.

So I uninstalled it again and reinstalled it from the discs, which basically installs half the game and the rest d/l's thru Steam. After doing it this way the game worked again without the freeze and the mad max.exe issue...

Thankyou to all of you who posted here and tried to help me, I really appreciated it :)

[lucasj1210]

Originally posted by Pantherr:

It's ALL FIXED and working again...

Strange.....but glad you got it working again.

[Pantherr]

I know, but it's working fine now, thanks :)

[NuCkEnFuTs]

Kind of makes sense now, seeing how the disk would hold the EULA.

[Pantherr]

Yeah,, but at least it's working now. That's all that matters