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Typically when games crash during transition, be it menu-gameplay or cutscene-menu or whatever, usually indicates trouble with the video card. Make sure your drivers are up to date or roll back your drivers to a version from a couple months ago.
Although without your computer specs and the error code, I really have no idea what could be wrong.
I don't think verifying the cache does anything really, how many times have you encountered a corrupted file that you have downloaded? Me? Not often if almost never.
This is what I am going to do now. I will defrag the HD, the verufy the game integrity, redownload the missing files, and see if this works. Thanks for the advice
was scandsc or similar on xp, you might need to run the cmd as administrator. can't hurt to try ;]
I'll be grocery shopping for the next hour or two but ill be kicking around later.
Definitely will let you know what happends
How big is your HD? That is pretty slow. Remember to do a scandisk after, although that program will do it for you.
From now on try to defrag every 3 weeks atleast, also reformat every year or so. You should get an SSD drive for windows, get one around 200gigs so you can just have windows on it. That way when windows starts to bog down or you get a virus you can just nuke it without losing your games.
Definitely seems funny that it's taking so long.
My HD is 2TB. Having that said, I put in a lip ,opened my text book and started the defrag program. About 3- 3.5 hours later I had about 330gb of fragged files.
My program cleaned it up, and I set it up to defrag automatically on every startup. Anyways after the defrag was done I ran the game integrity check and everything FINALLY validated. So I was like GREAT let me start up DOOM which I did, and nothing happened for like 2 min, it was just a black screen. So then I opened task manager, quit doom and steam. Started steam again, and started DOOM. And voila it worked!!!
So then I was like, well I gotta make sure that this will work for everyone else. So I restarted my PC, logged in, opened steam, opened doom, and doom crashed F##########CK. And kept crashing on the first logo screen; and I would get a submit report form like everytime.
So basically if I didnt restart to double check I would be playing it right now.
So while I am typing this I am running a verify integrity check on steam. It completed everything was verified. Opened up doom, black screen came up with nothing, I minimized it, checked the task manger and it said Doom was running. So I clicked on doom window an halelluajh it worked and ran.
So now again I quit doom, restarted the pc, opened steam clicked play doom. Steam said it waz runnning but nothing happened for like 3 min. So i task manager closed doom process, clicked on play doom on steam, and it worked!! So to make sure, I closed doom again, then opened it again it it opened again flawlesly.
So I guess the fix is as followes:
1-Defrag
2-Verify integrity
3-Open up doom
4-task manager close doom (and maybe steam as well)
5-open up doom
6-it should work
Take it for what you will. IDK why this is happening. I also noticed that after each defrag, verifying the integrity of doom increases the chances of the game running. Like I said, this is some kind of voodoo magic and Idk why the game reacts like this. I opened Deus Ex MD to make sure it has no problems; and steam crashed. I re-opened steam and Deus Ex ran fine.........
Now I'm to tired to play it lmao....
Awesome dude, glad you got it fixed. And thank you for posting your solution it will help others. It would seem to me that you probably just need to reformat and do a clean install of windows. especially if it happens frequently. I don't think your hard drive is damaged, more than likely something is corrupted in windows like directx or your sound drivers.
That program probably has scandisk built into so don't bother doing the scandisk command in the cmd prompt. Sorry I wasn't more help, but moral support is good sometimes.
Also Instead of reformatting try the windows integrity check command. It will scan for corrupted windows files and repair them as needed, and it only takes about 5 minutes.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/929833
Reformat wise, I did a clean new install maybe 6 month ago? maybe a bit more.
You mentioned SSD. You have any preferences on which to get? Also if I have an SSD how would I go about nuking it without losing all my games?
I will check it out, another good one is glary's utilities. BSOD can be caused by overheating too, it's a pain in the ass trying to write down the BSOD error code but more often than not it's a heat issue.
As for hard-drive, I wouldn't really know, just get a generic one for about 80 bucks, you only need it for windows and your favourite game. The nice thing about SSD is it won't really get fragmented and your computer will boot twice as fast.
Turn off steams auto-update, when you have alot of games updating frequently it will fragment the hell out of your hard drive. Just make sure you defrag every 3 weeks or so. I would say definitely reformat if you are having those weird issues too often. A fresh install of windows usually fixes weird stuff like that.
Anyways best of luck, and take care of yourself.
Edit: oh I forgot about your games, put windows on the ssd but leave your games on your 2 TB drive, that way you can nuke that sucker as much as you want.
devmgr_show_nonpresent_drivers then add value 1 and ok
devmagr_show_nonpresent_devices then add value 1 and ok
when you then open device manager, click view and select show hidden devices you can then uninstall any of the pale font items in the list, right click and select properties, any item that is nonpresent will have a error code 45 in the status description and you are free to uninstall, this will certainly clear up any unwanted untidiness and clear up the system, as you have a program for new drivers for system components it may be a good idea to cleanand defrag the registry to further improve your system stability and reduce the possibility of unexpected crashes.
So I finally got some time to play some doom! And ran into the same isues, and couldnt fix them. So I decided int was hard drive/windows problems. So I went and bought Crucial MX300 525GB SSD. Installed windows, steam, updtated and Doom ran fine. Took me like 2 days to get this **** working again lol. I would suggest using like 1T drive to backup your games and your SSD as your primary drive. So when you have to reformat your SSD, you will have all your games on the 1T drive. Its a lot faster to restore games from a backup then re-downloading them.....