Concerning Crashes

[Divergence_Z]

There's a few mentions of crashes here and I really just came over a silly question I had.
Recently someone I was watching play the game gave it up because his kept crashing on him too. The person actually stopped playing do to the crashes before I found him and said he currently believes playing this specific game, Avowed, made him need to get PC repairs.

I also tend to seek out any kinds of game anomalies that might give me a tough time or make me be compelled to buy one version over another because when I bought SubNautica for one of my consoles instead of the PC and ended up getting addicted to playing it then it ceased being able to load. If you waited out the ten minutes of loading time it would then crash. I spent hours trying to load the game until i just ended my frustration and bought it for what it ran well on. The PC.

This game appears to have a good bunch of save corruptions, constant crashes and glitches. One video the guys character could only move backwards and right and while it was funny for the video and janky walking your character through the world is not the worst thing that can happen in a game is Avowed really that bad just running? I'm thinking if I get it I will get a few hours in and it will never play again if it even gets that far.

My stupid question is are the "godly deformities" (I cant remember what the plant stuff is called) color customizable? A lot of the videos I seen were very bright in the pink for these attributes and it is a bit much for my eyes. I would have asked the guy I was watching in the playthrough this but he was really enjoying the game before he stopped playing so I didn't want to rehash any negativity about the PC with this. To fresh.

[Jabroni]

Extremely customizable and this game's crashes aren't frequent enough to get me to rage quit like CKIII or Cyberpunk

I mostly crash exiting the game and see the UE-Alabama box pop up

[Divergence_Z]

Originally posted by Jabroni:

Extremely customizable and this game's crashes aren't frequent enough to get me to rage quit like CKIII or Cyberpunk

I mostly crash exiting the game and see the UE-Alabama box pop up

That's comforting to know mostly about the customizable options. Thank you!

[Plagen]

Never had a single crash. I use an Nvidia card tho. I think a lot of people experiencing crashes use AMD.

[Flüüüümpel]

60 hours and not a single crash

[Divergence_Z]

Originally posted by Plagen:

Never had a single crash. I use an Nvidia card tho. I think a lot of people experiencing crashes use AMD.

I have the same so im feeling even better! Thank you!

Originally posted by Flüüüümpel:

60 hours and not a single crash

I think I was too paranoid now and am feeling more positive about the game running for sure thank you!

[fermioff]

Use win + r and go to %localappdata%\Alabama\Saved\Crashes\ and then there will be a UECC folder for each crash. They need to open the crashcontext.runtime-xml and either "open with" Notepad++ or change the name to crashcontext.txt and then search for "iscrashed>true" and it will take you to the stack that caused the crash...and the cause will be next to <threadname>
It will look like this:
</CallStack>
<IsCrashed>true</IsCrashed>
<Registers></Registers>
<ThreadID>[some crash ID number]</ThreadID>
<ThreadName>[cause of crash]</ThreadName>
</Thread>

-The ThreadName/Cause of Crash is sometimes something ambiguous like:
<ThreadName>EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION</ThreadName>

But UE5 doesn't know that it ran out of memory until after it's getting told NO by Windows. Which leads to my next point.

One of the most common causes I see for persistent crashes is running out of memory. In that same file you can check it out by searching for "memorystats" and you should see something like looks like this:

<MemoryStats.TotalPhysical>34281295872</MemoryStats.TotalPhysical>
<MemoryStats.TotalVirtual>140737488224256</MemoryStats.TotalVirtual>
BAD<MemoryStats.PageSize>4096</MemoryStats.PageSize>
<MemoryStats.TotalPhysicalGB>32</MemoryStats.TotalPhysicalGB>
BAD<MemoryStats.AvailablePhysical>0</MemoryStats.AvailablePhysical>
BAD<MemoryStats.AvailableVirtual>0</MemoryStats.AvailableVirtual>
<MemoryStats.UsedPhysical>0</MemoryStats.UsedPhysical>
<MemoryStats.PeakUsedPhysical>0</MemoryStats.PeakUsedPhysical>
<MemoryStats.UsedVirtual>0</MemoryStats.UsedVirtual>
<MemoryStats.PeakUsedVirtual>0</MemoryStats.PeakUsedVirtual>

-First BAD, he didn't have his page file set to System Managed so he only had 4gb
-Second BAD, he ran out of RAM
-Third Bad, he ran out of page file....bc it was only 4gb lol

In this case, you would win search for advanced systems settings>under performance clcik settings>go to advanced tab>under virtual memory click change>
from here if you only have one drive you can just click on "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives"...if you have multiple drives and they're all equally as fast, you can do the same; HOWEVER, if, like me, you have a really fast one and a kind fast one and then two really slow ones, go to your main gaming drive, or your fastest one, make sure you have ~size of your RAM as free space, and then click System managed size and click set. This should help!! Restart and try again.

[fermioff]

Originally posted by Plagen:

Never had a single crash. I use an Nvidia card tho. I think a lot of people experiencing crashes use AMD.

In reality, it's probably not the graphics card unless you aren't updating your drivers. Or, it seems a number of people don't like to update windows. Both of those can cause crashes and BSOD's. ;)

[Taifun_Vash]

The only crashes I have are some fatal errors after a few hours of playing it during sequences, they're irritating to the point that I just do a save before these sequences, but not enough to quit the game altogether. No save games corrupted or anything of the sort, I just need to compile the shader after each fatal error, which at this point feels like it's part of the game.

[Rfläx]

Just do Step 3 and Step 4 and your game should run fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE27Ic37hQI&ab_channel=TechFixIT

For XBox PC and Steam

[Quickdraw]

Originally posted by Jabroni:

Extremely customizable and this game's crashes aren't frequent enough to get me to rage quit like CKIII or Cyberpunk

I mostly crash exiting the game and see the UE-Alabama box pop up

UE-Alabama wiped clean all setting of my BIOS/UEFI so this is not just harmless crash.

[Videogame Jukebox]

Originally posted by Quickdraw:

Originally posted by Jabroni:

Extremely customizable and this game's crashes aren't frequent enough to get me to rage quit like CKIII or Cyberpunk

I mostly crash exiting the game and see the UE-Alabama box pop up

UE-Alabama wiped clean all setting of my BIOS/UEFI so this is not just harmless crash.

That can't happen.

[Videogame Jukebox]

Originally posted by Divergence_Z:

There's a few mentions of crashes here and I really just came over a silly question I had.
Recently someone I was watching play the game gave it up because his kept crashing on him too. The person actually stopped playing do to the crashes before I found him and said he currently believes playing this specific game, Avowed, made him need to get PC repairs.

I also tend to seek out any kinds of game anomalies that might give me a tough time or make me be compelled to buy one version over another because when I bought SubNautica for one of my consoles instead of the PC and ended up getting addicted to playing it then it ceased being able to load. If you waited out the ten minutes of loading time it would then crash. I spent hours trying to load the game until i just ended my frustration and bought it for what it ran well on. The PC.

This game appears to have a good bunch of save corruptions, constant crashes and glitches. One video the guys character could only move backwards and right and while it was funny for the video and janky walking your character through the world is not the worst thing that can happen in a game is Avowed really that bad just running? I'm thinking if I get it I will get a few hours in and it will never play again if it even gets that far.

My stupid question is are the "godly deformities" (I cant remember what the plant stuff is called) color customizable? A lot of the videos I seen were very bright in the pink for these attributes and it is a bit much for my eyes. I would have asked the guy I was watching in the playthrough this but he was really enjoying the game before he stopped playing so I didn't want to rehash any negativity about the PC with this. To fresh.

I would try looking into reshade if you want to change the way the colors are.

[Inokis]

The only time i crash is a windows issue not a game issue. The game runs really well. I think ive had one ue5 crash error. I havent had any save file issues.

I use Nvidia filters for all my games that support it. Its better than reshade.

[Quickdraw]

Originally posted by Videogame Jukebox:

Originally posted by Quickdraw:

UE-Alabama wiped clean all setting of my BIOS/UEFI so this is not just harmless crash.

That can't happen.

It can if it's followed by BSOD. Believe it or not i don't give a ♥♥♥♥.

[Videogame Jukebox]

Originally posted by Quickdraw:

Originally posted by Videogame Jukebox:

That can't happen.

It can if it's followed by BSOD. Believe it or not i don't give a ♥♥♥♥.

It really can't. Get mad at me if you want. I build computers and diagnose them for a living.