MEGATHREAD: A Collection of fixes for various issues.

[Roland]

Stuttering fix:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2767030/discussions/0/596260472619016088/

Originally posted by MikeRocksTheBoat:

For Windows 10 (likely works the same with 11)
Type "Exploit Protection" in your search bar. Exploit Protection should show up at the top, so open that up.

Click on program settings.

Click the plus sign next to "add program to customize"
Select "choose exact file path"

This will open up a browser and you'll have to locate "Marvel-Win64-Shipping.exe"
It's usually in "steamapps\common\MarvelRivals\MarvelGame\Marvel\Binaries\Win64" unless you've moved your steam library around.

Double click on "Marvel-Win64-Shipping.exe"

A program settings window will pop up. Scroll down until you find "Control Flow Guard (CFG)"

Tick the box that says "Override system settings"

Click the toggle to "Off"

Hit apply and you're done!

Make sure to restart Marvel Rivals if it was open while you were doing this.

(edited to point to the correct exe file)

Stuttering Fix 2:

-Make sure D.O.C.P. (for AMD CPU users) or XMP (for Intel CPU users) is Enabled in your bios settings.

Unfortunately I cannot give detailed instructions on this as BIOS menus vary by manufacturer and model. Please refer to your Motherboard manual to find this setting.

Crashes eating up disk space:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2767030/discussions/0/596260472619085940/

Originally posted by cooper:

It's important to know that as of right now (12/7/24) and until the next update (which I hope fixes this,) the game crashing dumps a huge file into your PC's appdata folder.
In my multiple crashes, this file ranged from 6GBs to up to 20GBs.

Another thing about the game crashing that I learned:
If the game freezes and you know it's not coming back (I say give it 10-20 seconds),
then immediately kill the game process with task manager.
What it's doing (I assume,) is reading the (now frozen) scene/engine data and compiling that "fulldump" in your appdata folder.

During this, the memory usage for the program skyrockets over time until you're out of memory, and the dump file will fill a huge chunk of your disk space.
If you're like me and have low disk space on your OS drive, this is really bad.

So, clean your crash log folder!

It's located at OS:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Local\Marvel\Saved\Crashes
You can also open your file explorer and type %localappdata% in the navigation bar to get there, then find the "Marvel" folder from there.

Go find specifically the "UEMinidump.full.dmp" file! The other .dmp file is fine to keep or send to the devs in bug reports. (or just delete these folders when you crash if you don't care to send reports.)

I assume this is some debugging development thing they just forgot to turn off because UE5 games don't output files this big, ever.

Script below I marked as an answer is a temporary solution to this.
It'll remove the contents of the Crashes folder for you.

Hope this helped!

and the script:

Originally posted by Roland:

Here's a batch script to empty the folder for you.

@echo off
setlocal
set "targetFolder=%LOCALAPPDATA%\Marvel\Saved\Crashes"

echo Deleting files in %targetFolder%
del /q "%targetFolder%\*"

echo Done!
endlocal
pause

Copy this into notepad and save it as whatever-you-want.bat and make sure you select the drop down at the bottom to change it from .txt to "All Files" when saving otherwise it may save it as .bat.txt

Change highlight save location:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2767030/discussions/0/596260472619085940/

Originally posted by cooper:

In my thread as well I discovered how to change the highlight save location.
Go to %localappdata% and find Marvel > Saved > Config > Windows and find GameUserSettings.ini
The settings in there don't have descriptions, so modify them at your own risk.
General rule of thumb is settings that use numbers use 0 as lowest and 3 or 4 as highest.

At the bottom is where you input the path to change the highlight save location.
[CareerHighLight]
HighLightVideoSavedPath=
Any path here works as long as it's connected to your PC. You can use external drive letters, ect. (ex. F:\Videos\MarvelHighlights)

Note: this can be done in game, but if for some reason that is failing or you'd rather not do it that way, this will work too.

Dr Strange causing performance issues:

• Disable Control Flow Guard as described above.
  
• Set Global Illumination to SSGI Low
  
• Set Post Processing to Low.
  
• Set Anti Aliasing and Super Resolution Type to TAAU.(possibly optional, needs testing)

Global Illumination and Post Processing are going to be the hardest hitters to performance in a game like this. I'm on a 2060 Super and have everything else set to Medium and Models set to High and at 1080p I'm having no issues as a Strange main.

Disable UAC notifications for the Launcher:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2767030/discussions/0/596260472619011433/?tscn=1733782521

Originally posted by VIANDE:

You can prevent the UAC from triggering for nothing as the launcher don't always need admin rights.
Open the registry editor (regedit)
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
Add a new String Value
Value name: Your path to MarvelRivals_Launcher.exe for example C:\Program Files\steam\SteamApps\common\MarvelRivals\MarvelRivals_Launcher.exe
Value data: RunAsInvoker

OR
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2767030/discussions/0/596260472619011433/

Originally posted by Martok:

You can also skip the UAC prompt without editing the registry, by adding the following to the game's launch options in Steam:

cmd /min /C "set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER && start "" %command%"

Black Screen On Cutscenes Fix for Linux/Steamdeck:

Use ProtonGE latest Version.

Originally posted by CaptainBasculin:

Native Installation works like this:

1. Download a release from the Releases[github.com] page.
   
2. Create a ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d directory if it does not exist.
   
3. Extract the release tarball into ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/.
   

   tar -xf GE-ProtonVERSION.tar.gz -C ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/

4. Restart Steam.
   
5. Go into Marvel Rivals' Properties by right clicking to it.
   
6. In the Compatibility tab, select Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool
   
7. Select the ProtonGE version
   
8. Launch the game.

For more detailed installations (like asdf, flatpak or snap), refer to here[github.com]

Possible crash fix:

- Set Low Latency Mode to Off

This one will take a bunch of testing because I've made all of the changes listed under the Strange fix as well, but the crashes only stopped when I did this as well as those. So far it's been almost 4 days without any crashes when previously I was seeing about 5 a day.

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If any of the ones with links were helpful for you, please visit the respective threads they came from and give them your Steam points, I do not need them. You can drop a comment below to bump the thread for visibility and that will be thanks enough for me.

I will be updating this thread as people submit stuff and/or I come across things.
We can hope this gets pinned but I doubt it will anytime soon.

[Roland]

Originally posted by cooper:

Originally posted by Roland:

So I can no longer say I haven't had crashes in over 5 days.
I was cycling different heroes to chase achievements, and Scarlet Witch has crashed 2 out of 2 matches on me...

I've started a thread to ask around if anyone else is noticing such a phenomena.

Ah, you're experiencing the SW crashes like I was.
The only thing that fixed that for me was updating my GPU drivers, but, I haven't crashed since then and I even use frame generation.
Not sure what could be causing your crashing again.

Yea...
As you can imagine I keep my drivers up to date

[Roland]

Originally posted by cooper:

Originally posted by Roland:

So I can no longer say I haven't had crashes in over 5 days.
I was cycling different heroes to chase achievements, and Scarlet Witch has crashed 2 out of 2 matches on me...

I've started a thread to ask around if anyone else is noticing such a phenomena.

Ah, you're experiencing the SW crashes like I was.
The only thing that fixed that for me was updating my GPU drivers, but, I haven't crashed since then and I even use frame generation.
Not sure what could be causing your crashing again.

So I'm doing some testing, first I started a bot match with Epic TSR, and even on Quality that ♥♥♥♥ is disgusting, so I switched back to TAAU and didn't have issues finishing the match. I then did another bot match this time with DLSS Native and it was stable, so I switched back to Quick Match and it hasn't crashed since. I even got the SW achievements done.

So I guess currently DLSS Native is the move for me; here goes another several days of waiting for it to crash and hoping it doesn't

[Tore]

Originally posted by Roland:

Originally posted by cooper:

Ah, you're experiencing the SW crashes like I was.
The only thing that fixed that for me was updating my GPU drivers, but, I haven't crashed since then and I even use frame generation.
Not sure what could be causing your crashing again.

Yea...
As you can imagine I keep my drivers up to date:zagsad:

With NVIDIA app it's too easy to not be keeping them up too date. I usually wait a couple days after release to install just to make sure there's no massive bugs that cause issues, and creating restore points with windows is a really good plan when doing any major updates to save stress.

[Roland]

Originally posted by Tore:

Originally posted by Roland:

Yea...
As you can imagine I keep my drivers up to date

With NVIDIA app it's too easy to not be keeping them up too date. I usually wait a couple days after release to install just to make sure there's no massive bugs that cause issues, and creating restore points with windows is a really good plan when doing any major updates to save stress.

When it crashed again the first thing I did was check for updates. I've been doin this PC thing for so damn long that some things just become reflex. I also tend to check any time a new big game comes out if I get it on release, and on the rare occasion I forget to check, if the game has issues the reflex kicks in.

Ironically I'm terrible out WIndows Restore Points because I'm so used to tightrope walking my disk space; even though I currently have a total of 10TB of usable space. (in my defense my OS drive was only 1TB for a very long time and only got upgraded to 2TB last year)

[Roland]

Updated the first post to now include a way to Disable the UAC notification for the Launcher without editing the registry

[Xenomorph - Drone]

Originally posted by Roland:

Updated the first post to now include a way to Disable the UAC notification for the Launcher without editing the registry

Why disabling this exactly?

[Roland]

Originally posted by Xenomorph - Drone:

Originally posted by Roland:

Updated the first post to now include a way to Disable the UAC notification for the Launcher without editing the registry

Why disabling this exactly?

Some people would just prefer to. There is no reason to do it if the pop up does not bother you or you've already lowered the UAC strictness so that you never see it anyway

[dotty ツ]

The biggest issue for me is not being able to use any shortcuts for any external apps (i.e. discord mute, OBS clipping) on my keyboard and separate numb pad I use as a makeshift Streamdeck, using PowerToys. Shortcuts only work when tabbed out, might be something to do w/ the anti cheat??

[Roland]

Originally posted by dotty ツ:

might be something to do w/ the anti cheat??

That would be correct. It's arguably a good thing, since it means cheaters can't toggle Trainers with similar shortcuts.

[Roland]

just a little visibility nudge

[Mochan]

Stop spamming. People can use the search bar.

[Roland]

Originally posted by Mochan:

Stop spamming. People can use the search bar.

I sure wish they did but they do not, every 4-5 hours I see a new thread complaining about things that have fixes listed here.
Don't believe me? copy the url for the thread and search my posts for it and see how often I end up dropping it on threads because they didn't use the search bar.

And no one is spamming, but thanks for the bump

[Mochan]

I'll be posting in a dozen other threads to bury this thread.

[Star-Platinum]

When I turned off EMP, I got less stturing, I got 4080s and i7 14k

[GoroMajima]

Originally posted by Mochan:

I'll be posting in a dozen other threads to bury this thread.

how petty of you.