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[Emig5m]

Just started getting the same thing! Changes I've made since this crash started happening-

*Got a new monitor
*Got a new hard drive (imaged the old drive to the new one and every other game seems to be working correctly so far)

When I verify the files through Steam it says 29 files failed to verify and will be redownloaded but that doesn't fix it and it fails to verify the files again....

Some tracks load, some make it crash. Don't feel like reinstalling the entire game since it took me a long time to tweak my controls for less lag for my steering wheel and don't even remember how I did it (it's been years). I'm subscribing to this thread in hopes there's a more easy fix. This is still my favorite car racer and I even have Forza on the Xbox but still like this game better.

[Emig5m]

It wasn't long after I made the post above that I fixed the game. I came across a video on Youtube with the fix. Basically all I did was delete \Documents\SHIFT 2 UNLEASHED\graphicsconfig.xml and rerun the game and reset the graphics settings and all is good now. Hope this can fix your problem as well.

[Jaanus M]

Same problem here. Keeps crashing on Win10. Hardware i7-5500U @ 2.4GHz with Nvidia 940M
"Solutions" in this and other discussions don't seem to work.

[Emig5m]

I spoke too soon, it started doing it again. Funny thing is I have 100 trouble free hours of playing this game and it just started out of nowhere. Same drivers and everything... Maybe a Windows update?

[Emig5m]

Yea but how can you have 100 hours of 100% trouble free play from the begining and then out of nowhere it just starts having constant problems? I didn't change drivers or anything... Frustrating as this is my favorite car racer I've ever played before.... Well I just uninstalled it and I'm redownloading it now. I should have time over the weekend to try the game and I'll for sure report back if it's working or not.

[Emig5m]

Ok so I have a 100% reproducible solution-

*Disabling my network adapter in the device manager, game works like normal.
*Network adapter enabled game crashes to dekstop when loading a race with the same crash report in the OP.

This is a solution I found on a Youtube video. It was the last one I tried because it didn't make sense to me. Dropping back to the nVidia PhysX driver that came with the game didn't help. Updating my video drivers didn't help. Reinstalling the game didn't help (I even installed it from Origin - Steam CD key worked on Origin). But after much fiddling, it was the stupid network adapter disable fix. Supposedly the problem is with EA's Autolog servers. Like I said, I had 100 trouble free hours into the game before this started happening, wierd problem to come out of nowhere and it doesn't matter if I log in to my EA account when loading the game or skipping the logon (like I normally would do) the game would crash either way. Going into the device manager and disabling the network adapter fixes it every time. This problem should be fixed!

[Zeris]

It's Autolog. Sadly, there's no way to disable Autolog entirely, so the only solution so far is to completely disconnect yourself from the internet and deny Autolog the ability to connect.

[sinosleep007]

If your game is crashing when the track is trying load the problem is the autolog feature which requires online, it has nothing to do with drivers. Some people have been disconnecting themselves entirely from the internet but there's a better way around it.

Go to your windows firewall settings, outbound rules, programs, select shift 2 (if you don't know where the exe is just right click in steam - properties - local files - browse local files and that will show you where it is then block all outbound connections from that program.

That way, you can disable autolog (there's no in game way to do it) without having to turn off your router or disconnect your wired connection which was a huge issue for me being as I like to have youtube or podcasts on in the background which I need my internet for. I was just having this issue and after applying a fair bit of google-fu this was my solution.

[Emig5m]

Originally posted by sinosleep007:

If your game is crashing when the track is trying load the problem is the autolog feature which requires online, it has nothing to do with drivers. Some people have been disconnecting themselves entirely from the internet but there's a better way around it.

Go to your windows firewall settings, outbound rules, programs, select shift 2 (if you don't know where the exe is just right click in steam - properties - local files - browse local files and that will show you where it is then block all outbound connections from that program.

That way, you can disable autolog (there's no in game way to do it) without having to turn off your router or disconnect your wired connection which was a huge issue for me being as I like to have youtube or podcasts on in the background which I need my internet for. I was just having this issue and after applying a fair bit of google-fu this was my solution.

Thanks for the suggestion...

[Babarob(Gesichtsbob)]

Thanks for the Tipp with the "graphicsconfig". I delete the File and now no crashes anymore :D :D. After 2 Weeks the Problem is solved, nice. Thanks

[CauldronBorn]

I had this problem and found that Autolog inside the game was causing the crash. Disconnect from the internet or disable autolog in the game and boom no more issues. Hope this helps anyone out there. All other fixes did not help me.

[Alex]

fixed it by deactivating antalias (MLAA) ingame! on high aa it runs!
activate the whole stuff on nvidia ..

[MidNightFireX®]

I just fixed my problem by disabling my internet, then I set the video filter from High to low and saved the settings.
Then I used windowed mode and lower resolution 1280x720 16:9 helps alot.
This game relies on autolog connecting to the internet and then to EA servers.
Sadly none of the programmers there had enough sense to patch that up right before selling it on steam.

[#Fumi*]

Originally posted by Zeris:

It's Autolog. Sadly, there's no way to disable Autolog entirely, so the only solution so far is to completely disconnect yourself from the internet and deny Autolog the ability to connect.

Originally posted by CauldronBorn:

I had this problem and found that Autolog inside the game was causing the crash. Disconnect from the internet or disable autolog in the game and boom no more issues. Hope this helps anyone out there. All other fixes did not help me.

so must i disable AL?

[Rexter199]

Disconecting the internet seams to have worked for me. I had tried a few other things with little luck but putting my pc in airplane mode worked.