Have enough of all the crashes....

[mestarre]

GTX1070, latest drivers. 16Gb of ram, amd 8 core.
With the above specs the game still says, could not write to memory and then a mem location number. The whole computer locks up. Needs to be reset.
One may expect that above specs are more then plenty. But nooooooo, it's not.
Pagefiles are set at max 320000 mb, double the system memory.
I really want to play the game, but only how it's intended, if that's not possible in the very near future I will ask for the dreaded refund.....

Edit: All my other games work just fine. (ARK, Subnautica, GTA5 and so on).

[matthew]

I would personally let windows manage the page file, another thing it could be is that you might have problems with one of your drives, (especailly if it has bad sectors)

what are your actual specs?

as the game runs fine for me,

16 gig of ram,
intel 4770k
installed on a spinner HD
evga 1070
windows 7 64bit

also what is your OS?

[opjose]

Originally posted by mestarre:

GTX1070, latest drivers. 16Gb of ram, amd 8 core.
With the above specs the game still says, could not write to memory and then a mem location number. The whole computer locks up. Needs to be reset.

That last statement is very telling.

It indicates you have a low level problem with your machine.

At worst all Prey could cause is a CTD.

Anything beyond that is related to low level driver problems and/or hardware issues.

I run Prey on a similiar system with a EVGA 970 card under Windows 10 with no issues what-so-ever.

[matthew]

Originally posted by opjose:

Originally posted by mestarre:

GTX1070, latest drivers. 16Gb of ram, amd 8 core.
With the above specs the game still says, could not write to memory and then a mem location number. The whole computer locks up. Needs to be reset.

That last statement is very telling.

It indicates you have a low level problem with your machine.

At worst all Prey could cause is a CTD.

Anything beyond that is related to low level driver problems and/or hardware issues.

I run Prey on a similiar system with a EVGA 970 card under Windows 10 with no issues what-so-ever.

Yeah, I also think its hardware related, there isn't any need to manually set the pagefile either, you don't need a pagefile of that size, better to let windows manage it. I have and had zero issues. that could be the issue right there, or the drive itself is dying.

[Di3zaL0t]

I had similar crashes every 5 minutes
with a GeForce 1070ti
ona win 7 64 bit machine
Running the game on a 32" monitor at 2445 resolution.
First I dialled all settings to default
Second I lowered the resolution to 1920x1080 and the random crashes disappeared.
Although exiting the game it occasionally crashes .
Try that if you haven't already.

[opjose]

Originally posted by Di3zaL0t:

I had similar crashes every 5 minutes
with a GeForce 1070ti
ona win 7 64 bit machine
Running the game on a 32" monitor at 2445 resolution.
First I dialled all settings to default
Second I lowered the resolution to 1920x1080 and the random crashes disappeared.
Although exiting the game it occasionally crashes .
Try that if you haven't already.

It doesn't sound like you had "similiar" crashes.

He reports that his machine freezes up completely which is very different.

Yours sound more like CTD's (Crashes to desktop).

You may also want to make sure you Nvidia Control Panel 3D settings is set to "Single Monitor Performance Mode" when running at the higher resolutions so that VRAM and other resources are not held in reserve for a second monitor.

[Semipalmated Plover]

Originally posted by mestarre:

GTX1070, latest drivers. 16Gb of ram, amd 8 core.
With the above specs the game still says, could not write to memory and then a mem location number. The whole computer locks up. Needs to be reset.
One may expect that above specs are more then plenty. But nooooooo, it's not.
Pagefiles are set at max 320000 mb, double the system memory.
I really want to play the game, but only how it's intended, if that's not possible in the very near future I will ask for the dreaded refund.....

Edit: All my other games work just fine. (ARK, Subnautica, GTA5 and so on).

It doesn't matter that all your other games work just fine. A hardware problem can be brought out by a single game/application sometimes.
A hard lock up points to something really serious going on, not just the game's fault. Otherwise it'd be a crash to desktop or an error message type crash.

Start with doing a full memtest with a bootable usb stick and go from there with a diagnosis.

[Disasterpiece]

not really, i remember an older game caused a hard lock up and had to turn off the hard way. anyway i later fixed it with either compat. mode to xp and run as admin. one of those (cant remember was while ago.)

so no not all hard lock ups are caused by "something serious with your computer"

[opjose]

Originally posted by Disasterpiece:

so no not all hard lock ups are caused by "something serious with your computer"

No you did NOT "fix it". You used a workaround to the original problem, which remains.

And YES -ALL- hard lock ups ARE caused by "something serious with your computer".

Google a bit about Ring 0 & Ring 1 for more info on how the operating system prevents applications from locking up the machine.

[Disasterpiece]

um no the originial problem was me changing settingsin game which caused the lock up. the game for some reason did not have permission to change (overwrite) preferences file. its not called working around a problem its called solving it by giving the game permission to overwrite files. not every single hard freeze = something serious with your computer. thats nonesense does nothing but scare people to think their computer is about to explode

im not saying OP's computer is not at fault could be i dont know, i never had problems with prey. im just saying my computer is perfectly fine and it was fine when i had hard freeze with that perticular game.

[opjose]

Originally posted by Disasterpiece:

um no the originial problem was me changing settingsin game which caused the lock up.

Uh no....

If your computer locks up, your machine has a serious problem not related to the game.

If the game locks up, but you can still see the mouse moving and/or ALT-TAB or WIndows Key to the menu or the desktop, then your computer -HAS NOT- locked up.

No amount of changing .INI settings will fix the computer lock up. That is an issue with your machine.

If the latter is true and only the GAME locks up, then fiddling with the settings may solve the problem with the game, but the computer never froze up to begin with.

Look into Ring 0 and Ring 1 for more info on how the operating system protects itself and the machine from freezing.

[Disasterpiece]

not getting anywere with you and this back and forth. agree to disagree. i jsut gave you an example why thats not always the case. but you repeat the same thing over and over again.

btw it was a hard freeze. no mouse couldnt al tab etc.

[opjose]

A hard freeze with no mouse, no ALT-TAB, etc. is caused by a serious problem with your machine.

You can "disagree" all you want but that doesn't change how things work.

Look to your machine instead of blaming the game.

[Disasterpiece]

i think you are not reading my messages. im not blaming the game i never had any problems with prey, dont get your panties in a bunch. the problem i had a while back with another game i fixed it. didnt have anything to do with my machine.

just because you and i dont have crashes doesnt mean the game is bug free.

i love the "i have a similar setup up and no problems must be you" that helps no one other than stroking your own ego.

[opjose]

Originally posted by Disasterpiece:

i love the "i have a similar setup up and no problems must be you" that helps no one other than stroking your own ego.

If you think that is somehow "stroking your own ego" you have personal problems. All you are doing is lashing out illogically because you don't like the answer given to you.

Getting back to the topic at hand. Hard freezes are serious computer issues not related to the game.

You elected to jump into someone else's thread instead of starting your own, which is never a good idea to begin with... then you claimed to have "exactly the same problem" e.g. a "hard freeze" but discounted anyone telling you that the computer is at fault.

You can either take the info and use it or ignore it. That you choose to ignore it does not affect the validity of what everyone is telling you.

If you wish a different answer, look elsewhere.

[Disasterpiece]

i "jumped" into the thread because i didnt want the guy to necessarily think his computer was about to explode because no other game other than prey was freezing. its you who seem to have personal issues. not being able to accept the fact that some people are having freezing and CTD issues with this game.

i did say i had the same problem with a different game, but i also said i fixed it and my computer was just fine. like i said i know better than going back and forth with a nut job over the internet.