Constant crashing

[Genghis Tron]

The game has always crashed randomly, but it has been managable until now. I'm on mission 3 at the last 88 and the game crashes about 5-10 sec after loading the level. I updated geforce drivers to 347.25 thinking it would help, but there was no change.

specs:
i7 Haswell
32gb corsair vengeance RAM
Geforce 770

Not overclocking anything. Also tried changing the settings to low with pretty much everything off, no dice. Any ideas?

[Pow]

Finished Halfaya Pass on Authentic, no black screen. Run as admin from game folder .exe. Go to Task Manager/Processes, right click SniperElite3.exe, set priority "Realtime". Supersampling off, Tessellation off.
I hope someone else will try this and let me know if it works for you.

[=-Napoléon-= i9 13900K]

Rebellion really have to fix their game, especially their remastered game "zombie trilogy" is near.

[Catalyst]

Is everyone using Win 7?

I ask because I just installed Win 8.1 Pro (from Win 7 Pro) and have not experienced any freezing issues yet. Overall performance dipped slightly (expected), but seems much more stable. I'm now pulling 35 FPS with Med textures, Ultra Shadows, V-sync, Motion blur, etc.... Far better than the bare bones and crashing at 1440p before (while pulling 52 FPS until it crashed). I realize not everyone can swap OS's willy-nilly, but I had a few educational keys for developement from my school.

Also, I've been playing with Parallels (Mac VM software) and when I stuck my Win 7 into the VM, I had no crashes of SE3. Parallels is really good at only loading up the VM hardware with what it requires though also, because of mobile application of VM use. These two conditions are why I believe it may be a SE3-Win 7 interaction issue.

[Pow]

64-bit Vista here.

Originally posted by Napoleon:

Rebellion really have to fix their game, especially their remastered game "zombie trilogy" is near.

I'm not going anywhere near their re-mastered zombie trilogy until I see some effort towards fixing their broken SE III. Here's a prediction: you will be seeing the same "Game constantly crashing, black screen" etc forum posts when that zombie stuff gets released. They certainly aren't devoting much in the way of resources (none, apparently) toward fixing SE III, but hey, they've already got our money for that one. Not another dime from me until they show that they support their products and respect their customers. I didn't buy their game so I could become a crash fix dummy, and I'm not putting up with any more of it.

[Pow]

Originally posted by Catalyst:

Is everyone using Win 7?

I ask because I just installed Win 8.1 Pro (from Win 7 Pro) and have not experienced any freezing issues yet. Overall performance dipped slightly (expected), but seems much more stable. I'm now pulling 35 FPS with Med textures, Ultra Shadows, V-sync, Motion blur, etc.... Far better than the bare bones and crashing at 1440p before (while pulling 52 FPS until it crashed). I realize not everyone can swap OS's willy-nilly, but I had a few educational keys for developement from my school.

Also, I've been playing with Parallels (Mac VM software) and when I stuck my Win 7 into the VM, I had no crashes of SE3. Parallels is really good at only loading up the VM hardware with what it requires though also, because of mobile application of VM use. These two conditions are why I believe it may be a SE3-Win 7 interaction issue.

It's a strange thing that SEIII seems well optimized as far as CPU load and RAM usage. I haven't seen much ( a little though) about poor frame rates by resource starvation etc. However, even guys with monster rigs and the latest and greatest graphics cards are suffering these GPU related (I think) crashes. The fact that I changed the process priority in windows task manager and "went stable", and your OS change has given you the stability, possibly indicates that your theory about OS related issues might be correct, at least in the sense that it has something to do with how the OS processes graphics loads in conjuction with the game. I don't know, it's mildly informed conjecture at this point, but is it coincidence that we both changed something in WINDOWS and got it to work?

[Catalyst]

Originally posted by Pow:

I don't know, it's mildly informed conjecture at this point, but is it coincidence that we both changed something in WINDOWS and got it to work?

Most likely that would give Rebellion the fuel needed to say it WAS our Rigs (Windows Actually), and we need to buy $200 OS to make a $50 game work....

[Pow]

System Requirements
MINIMUM:
OS: Microsoft® Windows® Vista (Service Pack 2) or Windows® 7 (Service Pack 1) or Windows® 8 or Windows 8.1.

If they have a problem with their own published software meeting their stated specs, then they need to come up with a fix. Like yesterday.

[Catalyst]

Confirmed: Halafaya Pass completed in one sitting (minus a few deaths) with No crashes what-so-ever at 1440p with Ultra presets selected ~30 FPS in 8.1 Pro. Looks to be Windows 7 and prior to be the culprit because I'm using the exact same drivers (AMD 14.301). Please someone chime in if there is information to dispute that finding.

[Claymore]

Originally posted by Catalyst:

Confirmed: Halafaya Pass completed in one sitting (minus a few deaths) with No crashes what-so-ever at 1440p with Ultra presets selected ~30 FPS in 8.1 Pro. Looks to be Windows 7 and prior to be the culprit because I'm using the exact same drivers (AMD 14.301). Please someone chime in if there is information to dispute that finding.

I'm glad it's now working for you. But there's NO WAY I'm putting Win8.1 on my rig just for one game. I'll be sticking with Win7 Ultimate 64 bit until Win10 is launched. If the issue is OS related, Rebellion need to patch the game pronto - end of subject.

[DeerSon]

Have Windows 7 too. Will try to run with the task manager trick. No way I'm gonna change my OS!

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SE2 was a such a blast, had really high hopes for this. So far my emails to rebellion have not been answered, hopefully soon. System is Windows 7, 24 GB Memory, Hex Core CPU, GTX 580 Superclocked. I'm going to tear the graphics card apart and repaste the GPU, it does have a bunch of hours on it, just in case it's a heat thing... I've tried running it on "medium" with Tes and Samp off... No luck so far. Everything else on high and ultra work fine (Skyrim, Wolfenstien, COD etc...). If they don't get it squared away it will be my last purchase with rebellion.

[DeerSon]

Tried the whole system manager thing... putting on "realtime" etc. Though it did not solve me problem, it did in fact made it possible to run on ultra settings on a 3 year old gaming laptop on a pretty steady 23-5 FPS. However, again, after about 5 minutes (this time during the shooting slow motion), the game shuts down. So again, sadly, ♥♥♥♥ REBELLION. But now I'll try this thing with all other games so maybe I'll get better framerates.

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Just tried Pow suggestion, seems to be working so far. Will run it a little more tomorrow after I tear the card down and see how it does... system is def HOT after just a few minutes of play.

[Catalyst]

Yeah, there's NWIH I would have Paid for 8.1, but since I was in the unique position due to a agreement with Microsoft and my school, and I already run multple OS's- I figured I'd give it a try. Windows 10 is HUGE improvement, and well worth the free upgrade.

Almost 10 hours gameplay in 8.1 and no freezes. I do notice an occasional "hiccup" of the frame-rate that I could easily se being the point it would freeze in Windows 7. I can normally smooth those frame-rate drops out in all games, but cannot seem to "completely" eliminate it even when holding 59.9 average fps (60Hz Apple Cinema Display).

[Pow]

I crashed again after 10 minutes on Fort Refugio, so my "run from game folder as admin/set process priority to Realtime" fix is apparently not working as well as I had hoped. I also notice that my Graphics card fan speeds are ramping up even before I get out of the game menus. That's quite strange, as I can't see a menu screen demanding enough GPU resources to cause the graphics card to start heating up immediately. Now I'm wondering if running this game is cooking my graphics card. A fried graphics card is not what I signed up for when I bought this game.