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.

[fermioff]

Originally posted by xSelloutx:

My brother in sin. What do you mean by "make sure you have ~size of your RAM as free space,". Are you saying to manually change the amounts to match the same about of GB's you have in ram? For instance, i have 4096 when i get deep into those settings (my other two M.2.s weren't being managed at all.).

Because i have 48GB of ram, should that number be 49,125 instead? Please god add me on discord and let me know xSelloutx#8548

Sent, but, if you're setting it manually, min at 1x RAM (49125) and max at 1.5x (73728) should be more than enough, unless you want to go all in and set the max at 2x (98250), but this also definitely depends on how much VRAM you have and what all you're typically doing while gaming. If all of your drives are relatively fast and have enough space, you can just set it Automatically Manage or whatever that check box says.

Or, you can decide which ones and then set to System Managed, and remember to click Set, and then do a reboot so Win can finish setting it up. If you choose to use multiple drives, Windows will usually use OS drive first, but it may allocate space on another drive if that's the drive being used, idk, I've never really analyzed that lol.

[Diomed]

I solved my crashing (3 in about 40 hours) by setting the exe to Run as Administrator and by turning off ray tracing in the game. No crashes in almost 60 hours since.

[fermioff]

Originally posted by Diomed:

I solved my crashing (3 in about 40 hours) by setting the exe to Run as Administrator and by turning off ray tracing in the game. No crashes in almost 60 hours since.

To each their own, but others shouldn't read "run as admin" and consider it a solution because if it were, the game would request to run in an elevated state natively. Games shouldn't need system-level access and steam doesn't inherently install games in system-protected directories.

If I see a .dmp or crash log from when those crashes were occurring, would probably see that RT was the issue as its incredibly resource-dependent, eating through memory causing crashes related to either thread lag or memory exhaustion, which can be easily fixed, but I would advise against running anything, in this case a game, in an elevated state, as this can cause problems for applications/services that aren't running in an elevated state that may also need to access the process (overlays, mods, anti-cheat, etc). Just a warning, it may seem like a fix but it's better to troubleshoot the actual problem instead of relying on presumptions. If you were to remove "Run as admin" and keep RT off, you would most likely continue playing crash-free. Cheers!