Constant Crashing

[Icechuck]

After maybe about 30 minutes of gameplay, my game will consistently freeze and then crash. Anyone else encounter this?

Specs greatly exceed game minimums, and this issue isn't present in any other Total War games. Temperatures are normal, CPU and GPU load looks fine, and no issues appear in event viewer.

[oOIYvYIOo]

Time for a new pc

[Icechuck]

I don't think that's the takeaway lol

[spbeards]

same

[IonizedMercury]

Worthless without giving CA your dxdiag and crash dump.

Really wonder why people think such vague and non-descript messages would fix anthing unless the complaining isn't the means but the end.

[Icechuck]

Originally posted by IonizedMercury:

Worthless without giving CA your dxdiag and crash dump.

Really wonder why people think such vague and non-descript messages would fix anthing unless the complaining isn't the means but the end.

Seems like an exceedingly silly response. This is just to ask if anyone else had encountered/fixed CTD'ing randomly before I contact support. If someone came out sand saiy "yeah I had this same issue, I did X to fix" then that closes the matter pre-emptively.

[Blizz]

Same problem here, ignore the "well im not suffering any problems!" people

[letsgetkraken45]

Mine keeps crashing too and my pc is not dated.

[Junko]

i have random crashes 2 mostly when beattle is starting or when other factions doing something only in single player multiplayer runned fine i have 13700kf oc6900 32gb all in normal temp and only this game crashes and i not had the problems in the normal pharaoh

[Icechuck]

Just for reference btw, I'm running on 64gb of RAM, a 4090, and an i9-13900k.

[Jumbo Shrimp]

Originally posted by Icechuck:

Just for reference btw, I'm running on 64gb of RAM, a 4090, and an i9-13900k.

Have you not heard about Intel bug, primarily affecting these CPUs? Try to see if one of the workarounds can fix your problems. If not, maybe RMA your CPU.

[Icechuck]

Originally posted by Jumbo Shrimp:

Originally posted by Icechuck:

Just for reference btw, I'm running on 64gb of RAM, a 4090, and an i9-13900k.

Have you not heard about Intel bug, primarily affecting these CPUs? Try to see if one of the workarounds can fix your problems. If not, maybe RMA your CPU.

I've carried out the fix by lowering max power through my Bios. It works on every other game.

[Klutch]

Nobody wants to see you get stuck with a bad chip. You got maybe 3 year warranty, and Intel is aware of the issue. Depending on the workload, I've read the failure rate is 100%. A couple game companies took part in a youtube streamers research and found 50% of the crash reports, be it gpu or cpu, or even memory all included a 13900k & 14900k.

[Aragorn]

I have the same, firts turn played 3 times - random crashes

[VenomB]

Same. So far it is NOT RANDOM... per say.

It occurs during a save of any sort, or the beginning of a new turn. WHEN ONE CAUSES IT is the random part. I played several hours without issue on the day I bought it, but the next.. well.

If it happened randomly, or when things were ACTUALLY happening, I'd think it was my chip. (Yep, latest and greatest, hoooorayy..) But the fact that it's very specific events causing it every time it occurs.. I just can't accept that as the cause unless it's specifically an issue with the game's programming first.

Since installation I've had the chip controlled by Intel's recommended power specs (not mobo defaults and no boosts) and got the update once I could. No other game gives me trouble and it doesn't seem like a stability issue.

Hell, event viewer doesn't even recognize anything happening. Like the game isn't CRASHING, it's just... closing.

[Klutch]

Originally posted by VenomB:

Same. So far it is NOT RANDOM... per say.

It occurs during a save of any sort, or the beginning of a new turn. WHEN ONE CAUSES IT is the random part. I played several hours without issue on the day I bought it, but the next.. well.

If it happened randomly, or when things were ACTUALLY happening, I'd think it was my chip. (Yep, latest and greatest, hoooorayy..) But the fact that it's very specific events causing it every time it occurs.. I just can't accept that as the cause unless it's specifically an issue with the game's programming first.

Since installation I've had the chip controlled by Intel's recommended power specs (not mobo defaults and no boosts) and got the update once I could. No other game gives me trouble and it doesn't seem like a stability issue.

Hell, event viewer doesn't even recognize anything happening. Like the game isn't CRASHING, it's just... closing.

Those are the worst. I get random crashes in Three Kingdoms, but I managed to fix them by turning off XMP in bios. I got DDR5 5600.

Before I upgraded my PSU, I would get some annoying crashes - but those would show in Event Viewer more often than not. Limiting power limit helped somewhat in that case.

There is too much happening right now, with the Intel stuff, the Microsoft stuff. I haven't experienced any crashing in Pharaoh Dynasties myself, but I doubt its as simple as turning off XMP.