Game constantly crashes at the caspian level (desert)

[discworld]

Hi,

The game ran flawlessly until this point. Now I have constant crashes at the Caspian level. I have good steady frame rate and all of the sudden the game freezes. Only way is to "end task" the game exe and restart the game. And then it runs again without issues until another crash. The first crash was near the huge boat, you drive through it when you go to the light house. And the second crash was near the light house.

This is about 1 year old game and bugs like these are not acceptable in my opinion.

[Prpich25]

Yeah a lot of people are talking about it right now. Ive been crashing everywhere myself. Im reinstalling to see if that helps. Ive also had one hell of a save data corruption issue going on. This game is great, storyline wise....But this is getting a bit crazy now.

[Prpich25]

Well the re-install fixed the corruption issue. Now i have all my game progress unlocked for the chapters. Before i would have nothing but intro and Moscow, unlocked. I'll update if this does anything for the crashing issue.

[Revicodi69]

having the same issue, cant get past saving giul in the light house without it crashing. Looked into it and some people are sating that steam is having a problem running this game in directx12 (can be changed in the video settings) and instead should be set to directx11. I did this and didn't fix the issue. As for the corrupt files i did re-install but maybe i should.

I do also agree that there should be no bugs like this in a almost a year ling release date. Really bugs at all even in release are not acceptable but i know sometimes things just happen. Hope the devs release a patch for both issue were talking about soon.

[Prpich25]

Didnt do anything for the crash. Oh well. Just gonna take a very long time to get past this area i suppose.

[discworld]

could it be the copy protection is acting up ?

[Isildur]

You guys got corrupt save as well? Just started playing this game. Should I re install game?

[lifestorock]

Got savegame corruption right after the credits. No NG+ for now.

[Caracalla]

Had the same problem at the lighthouse, and I did the usual thing that everyone suggest. Like turning off tessaltion and advanced physics etc. Even the look down method. None of it worked.

The only thing that worked was keeping the advanced grafics options off and lowering the quality option to medium. I don't know why (since my pc run the game on ultra quite well), and my freezez only happend at the lighthouse as soon I exit the cave. I can only suspect it to be related to either a bugged game asset or a grafics option like antialiasing, that is controlled by the quality option.

Maybe it will solve op's problem, hopefully. Seems to be a recent issue, and some users have reported the bug to support so hopefully a patch is in the works.

Edit: Did some checking to see if I got something wrong, and the freezes started to happen after the DLC and following patches, not since launch like I thought. I did see older post about similar freezes, but on a closer look it seems that they where either patched out or caused by something else. The incorrect info in my post have been removed.

[WardenWolf]

I have a solution for you: go into the game's directory, right click on MetroExodus.exe and go to Properties, choose Compatibility Settings, and check "Disable Fullscreen Optimizations" and click Okay. BOOM. No more freezing. I was freezing up at exactly this point, and I figured this out. I have not seen this solution anywhere else, but this WILL get you past that point in Caspian. I was even able to re-enable DirectX 12 and all the other stuff I'd disabled trying to stabilize the game, and it hasn't locked up since.

[moleculo65]

hi all, I just fixed the lighthouse crash mission ! Yesterday my game was crashing over and over, today I tried to fix it, with the graphics at the minimum, didn't work, then I check the integrity off the files of the game via steam, don't know if it helped, but then I reload the game, (in "no-error" mod), with low resolution, low min texture, dx11 and so, and it worked perfectly, I finished the mission like that, and will try to put the good graph after, I really hope it'll get better now...

[discworld]

I disabled steam overlay and loaded the previous save file that I had. And everything is working right now. I c no reason to play this game @ lower settings just to make it work. Its not the settings that are the cause, its something else.

[Musashi]

@WardenWolf... your solution sucks... after I did hat I got a Bluescreen (first time i saw such a bluescreen) as I did try to take the sniper gun...The sniper was at this time at the upper position of the crane...I´ll set all back to my previous settings... DX11 , uncheck "Disable Fullscreen"

[danro]

Running this level on Win8 compatibility mode solved the problem for me.

[Caracalla]

Originally posted by discworld:

I disabled steam overlay and loaded the previous save file that I had. And everything is working right now. I c no reason to play this game @ lower settings just to make it work. Its not the settings that are the cause, its something else.

Glad that you found a solution, a simple one at that. I must have been unlucky when I tried that (probaly some corrupted saves). And I am relived that I don't have to worry about some random borked asset

[ɪᴢᴀɴᴀᴍɪ]

Nothing I have done has actually allowed me to get past the crash and Guil's bug where she does not let the elevator down. I really hope 4A devs/forum mods respond to some of these posts soon or at least get to work on a patch.