Star Wars EAW RE Crashing after like 5 to 10 mins

[TheJokerIsComing]

I installed the 4gb patch and everything, the game works great, also I did it from ModDB not steam, although I am subbed it just seems a bit annoying the things you have to do to run it with Steam. I downloaded it installed it, set the modpath in the launch options, the game works great and is amazing. I have just noticed a recurring problem, it crashes, usually after I bring in the big ships like the Purifier SSD. I mainly play Skirmish, so is it the game engine? or something else? Any insight and ideas would be great. If it is because of the big ships like SSD's I will gladly just use Imp SD 2 for my big ship fetish lol. Anyways thanks and sorry for the long post. :)

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It's the engine. The game seems to only be able to use one CPU core and is limited in the extent to which it can utilize videos cards, so having a very fast CPU and RAM is crucial to avoiding crashes in intense mods like RE.

Closing all other programs can help, as can setting the game priority to high and affinity to one core in Task Manager.

[TheJokerIsComing]

Ok thank you. I have tried the priority setting's before and stuff but I still get crashes, I will check the affinity see if that makes any changes, if it doesnt work it doesnt matter, I will just be more careful with what ships I bring in :). My PC is way above the recommended specs so thats definitely not the problem. :)

[Nickle]

I DON'T EVER, recomend downloading it from moddb. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ developer haven't fixed the problem with not being able to install a 4 gb patch. You better download it from workshop. It atleast works there.

[Nickle]

*For a steam version. Mod on moddb is for GOG version of the game*

[TheJokerIsComing]

Well I installed the 4gb patch, worked fine.

[TheJokerIsComing]

Ok, just tried the Steam version from the workshop. Works fine, no problems at all with the game, but still crashing after a while. It seems like after 10 minutes you just have to hope it doesnt crash lol.

[TheJokerIsComing]

Still havent tried setting it to one core though in the Task Manager I will try that. I am going to be honest I have no experience with setting affinity, I know how to do it, but I dont know what it could cause, do I need to pick a certain core, or what? :)

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Originally posted by Demon:

Still havent tried setting it to one core though in the Task Manager I will try that. I am going to be honest I have no experience with setting affinity, I know how to do it, but I dont know what it could cause, do I need to pick a certain core, or what? :)

It's probably best to set it to Core 0.

[TheJokerIsComing]

Well right now it is running on all cores, so should I just uncheck all other cores and leave core 0 checked? It wont affect steam will it? Like will Steam still be able to start the game as normal?

[TheJokerIsComing]

Ok so far no crashes (In-game right now) I am mid way though the battle, I have 2 ISD's spawned in 3 Victory class Destroyers in and fighters, not crashed, yet....But my biggest enemy now is FPS lol, I have a gtx 1080 and a lot of RAM, so I have no idea what to do. I had great fps before when I was using all my cores (Obviously lol), so now I dont know what to do lol. Affinity is on one core and Priority is High, so idk :) lol. Just quit the game the fps was terrible couldnt play it lol, no crashes though. But I would rather have crashes I be able to enjoy the game then look at that again. :) Anyone got any ideas anymore? lol

[TheJokerIsComing]

Maybe using 2 cores would help? Would a good solution/test be to use more cores each time to see if the game crashes so I can find the optimal amount of cores without having to deal with bad fps or crashes?

[TheJokerIsComing]

Ok quick update: Used 4 cores, I got through the entire Skirmish with no crashes my one complaint is that the fps, once the battle really started off, dropped below 25 frames and didnt go above that for the remainder of the battle. It is playable but not amazing. But either way I am happy it didnt crash. :) I might try 5 cores see how that does, I want to try and stay above 30 for most of the battle at least, anything above 30 for this mod and I am happy.

[TheJokerIsComing]

Ok another update: I went on ModDB found a patch for the mod v0.95, applied it to the ModDB version of the mod, tried it out and it worked flawlessly. I have yet to apply it to the Steam one but even if it doesnt work I will just play the ModDB one. Either way whatever the patch did fixed it, and now I can play it without altering anything, no more crashes. In short: WORKING NOW BECAUSE DOWNLOADED A PATCH FROM MODDB WORKS FOR STEAM AND MODDB VERSION OF THE MOD.

[Nikomer]

Originally posted by Demon:

Ok quick update: Used 4 cores, I got through the entire Skirmish with no crashes my one complaint is that the fps, once the battle really started off, dropped below 25 frames and didnt go above that for the remainder of the battle. It is playable but not amazing. But either way I am happy it didnt crash. :) I might try 5 cores see how that does, I want to try and stay above 30 for most of the battle at least, anything above 30 for this mod and I am happy.

You can set the CPU affinity to whatever you'd like; the game will only physically use one core despite being told it can use a number of cores. Windows may offload parts of the game onto other cores, but that is because it is doing other stuff in the background while you are playing and it will not increase the performance of the game.

[TheJokerIsComing]

Ok, it crashed again, maybe it's not a problem, maybe it just happens, maybe we cant fix, maybe its just the mod and the game having a fight with eachother and the winner is never a guarantee, you just have to play and hope that the mod wins and you dont crash. Either way I will keep looking for solutions. Thanks for all the help you have given me, if anyone else has anymore ideas, I am open to them lol.