Blue screen of death

[Komissar Rudinov]

So I tried to get back into Bannerlord... there have been enough updates that surely taking the 4th to last town of the Imperials doesn't cause a crash anymore...

so I go to my old save, start a battle, and look at that... blue screen of death. I tried again, same result.

[Komissar Rudinov]

H e l p

[cretedog]

I think its between the game and windows 10. Since I went to win 10 I am having problems with most of the games especially EA and Beta game play.

[Komissar Rudinov]

Thanks. I'll try compatibility mode.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Komissar Rudinov:

Thanks. I'll try compatibility mode.

AFAIK, there is no incompatibility between older saves and any updates to any branch they originated within. So, if you saved game is from the Steam Public Release version, you should be just fine. If it's from the Beta Branch, you should be fine. (AFAIK, there have been no incompatibility warnings for either branch.)

However, switching between issued branches of updates is NOT saved-game compatible.

Make sure you are subscribed to the appropriate branch and have patched your game for that same branch that your saved-game is from.

You must be sure that the companion redistributable libraries (AKA "Dependencies") have also been downloaded and installed. If your game was working before, that shouldn't be an issue. AFAIK, these librareis are not going to get uninstalled by Steam if you uninstall Bannerlord because that would be... stoopid...

Note: If you are or were running mods, then it's your fault. Many mods aren't updated quickly, if at all, and you're running a very high risk of having problems with Bannerlord play if you're running mods. You can choose to accept that or not, but it doesn't change the fact that if you have a significant issue with gameplay performance then "mods" are the most likely issue.

[Operation40]

blue screens are typically hardware errors, not software.
and they actually have error info on them that you can google.

one I get a lot when pushing my overclock too far is "CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT".
another popular one is "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT" indicating something wrong with your RAM.
There's one for video card driver crash too, I don't recall what it is..
if you get a different message every time, it can be power supply..

most hardware issues are heat.. and most of that is dust.. do you have a program to check temps? they are free.. hwinfo64 is good

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Operation40:

blue screens are typically hardware errors, not software....

In systems where the user is using error-free software, this is true. :)

But, it's a good point that there's going to be some Error report, somewhere, and that could point to the problem.

Using the Event Viewers in Windows Administrative tools, the user can often track down errors that make it far enough to get reported there. If it's a recurring BSOD that can be repeated and it's not allowing the system to get a report, a pen and paper is a good "reporting tool," too.

[Komissar Rudinov]

Originally posted by Morkonan:

Note: If you are or were running mods, then it's your fault. Many mods aren't updated quickly, if at all, and you're running a very high risk of having problems with Bannerlord play if you're running mods. You can choose to accept that or not, but it doesn't change the fact that if you have a significant issue with gameplay performance then "mods" are the most likely issue.

I updated the mods to versions compatible with 1.4.1 and disabled the other two.

I had BSoD with Bannerlord long before I ever installed mods.

It's not like I have a Rimworld-level list of mods either - it's 5 or 6 mods.

[Komissar Rudinov]

Great news! I turned on compatibility mode for Windows 8 and I was able to do the battle without a crash!
Well, Steam crashed, but neither Bannerlord nor the OS crashed.

[Komissar Rudinov]

My men don't form shield wall anymore... they just stand in a very spaced out line! I lost 100 men because of this!

[Operation40]

Originally posted by Komissar Rudinov:

My men don't form shield wall anymore... they just stand in a very spaced out line! I lost 100 men because of this!

tell them to dismount (F1 -> F5). that happens when there's a horse in the group, typically a campanion and/or spouse

[Komissar Rudinov]

Originally posted by Operation40:

Originally posted by Komissar Rudinov:

My men don't form shield wall anymore... they just stand in a very spaced out line! I lost 100 men because of this!

tell them to dismount (F1 -> F5). that happens when there's a horse in the group, typically a campanion and/or spouse

Thank you! My companions were indeed in group 1.

So... no fix yet for troop groups changing every time you reload a save?

[Komissar Rudinov]

It wasn't them, though - it was one of my lords. This never happened before...

[Komissar Rudinov]

Aaaand there it is. Even worse than the bluescreen of death... everything froze and I had to cut the power. I couldn't even access the shutdown menu.

[Operation40]

Originally posted by Komissar Rudinov:

Aaaand there it is. Even worse than the bluescreen of death... everything froze and I had to cut the power. I couldn't even access the shutdown menu.

definitely hardware issue, imo..
this game uses more cpu threads than most others I've seen. grab hwinfo64 (or other free tool) and check your temperatures

[Komissar Rudinov]

This ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PIECE OF ♥♥♥♥.

I had just won 300-600 with 100-450 deaths

https://i.imgur.com/IBazeOF.png

Any way to cheat those results without having to fight the same battle again?

These ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ crashes are really getting on my nerves. Still not a stable ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game? ♥♥♥♥ this.