Crash! Crash! Crash!

[Von Adder]

Gutted! Installed Psychonauts and it all it does is crash, usually at loading or following a cutscene! :(

Worked perfectly once upon a time, i'm guessing it's a driver issue...anyone?

Vista 32 (yeah i know) Core 2 duo, GTS 450!

[DonSeismo]

Use Windows XP compatibility mode and it'll work.

[Von Adder]

Originally posted by DonSeismo:

Use Windows XP compatibility mode and it'll work.

Quick reply mucho appreciated! Cheers Don!

[Von Adder]

Aargh! Still having issues!

Even with compatibility mode ticked, it's still crashing on loading screens!

[DonSeismo]

Sry to hear that, it fixed it for me :/

[Upham]

Thanks, compatibily mode fixed it

[LaGGer]

My game often crashes on cutscenes too but I just relaunch, I never lose any progress.

[elasticdemand]

Constant crashes here too. Almost every other load screen. Compat mode does nothing.

[Barx Brothers]

Try setting your CPU affinity to only 1 cpu if you have a multicore processor. So far it looks like it solved my crashing problem.

[Warlock]

Thanks. This game used to work perfectly fine, but I loaded it back up tonight and it's crashing like crazy now. The affinity thing seems to have helped though.

[Ghoulsrock]

I looked through the forums some more and one suggestion was set compatibility mode to windows 98 or 95. I tried 98 and I have not had one crash yet. It seems to have fixed it for me. The XP one didn't work though. I guess try that and let me know if that worked.

[moyako1802]

It crashes avary couple of loading screens. Thankfully it autosaves, so I can't continue just where it crashed.

[Von Adder]

Originally posted by Barx Brothers:

Try setting your CPU affinity to only 1 cpu if you have a multicore processor. So far it looks like it solved my crashing problem.

^^This!

I have set my version to compatibility for Windows 98 and one core! No crashes since.

[elasticdemand]

Originally posted by ghoulsrock:

I looked through the forums some more and one suggestion was set compatibility mode to windows 98 or 95. I tried 98 and I have not had one crash yet. It seems to have fixed it for me. The XP one didn't work though. I guess try that and let me know if that worked.

Setting it to 98 mode worked for me, thanks.

[DrV]

Mine crashes on loading screens as well... is there an easy way to force the affinity or compatibility mode from inside Steam?

[elasticdemand]

Originally posted by DrV:

Mine crashes on loading screens as well... is there an easy way to force the affinity or compatibility mode from inside Steam?

Open your C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Psychonauts

Right-click psychonauts.exe>Properties>Compatability>Windows98

It'll remember your settings the next time you launch from your library.