Possible fix for crashes

[blackphoenix82]

Guys, the stutters are not gone but going on playing was crashing over and over. And you know what i did to stop that? I put nier automata process to high priority and disabled the second core of each couple. So open the game go on the task manager and find nier automata process, set affinity to only to core 0-2-4-6 (because even if i have 8 cores, task manager sees them as 7, since the first core is 0...) So far no crashes. Some guy posted this on reddit. Not using f.a.r. but at least i can play

[Aemony]

Originally posted by metalfenix:

I'm also following this discussion. It might be the fix that lot of users wanted.

Not really. That changing core affinity can "fix" the game has been known for months. I even forgot when I added it to my tweak guide. Probably a month and a half ago. It, however, showcases the same issues with most other "fixes": it "works" for some and usually only for a short while.

The challenge in following all of these "fixes" being reported everywhere is filtering out the unrelated noise as well as the placebo effects that players mistakenly attribute to their actions. There's a reason why my tweak guide makes it clear that there currently isn't any solutions but only various ways of mitigating the issue.

One of the causes of this is actually that we can't effectively reproduce the error at will. So testing and verifying the result of an action taken is pretty much impossible right now, because it's entirely possible that the game would've worked just fine that one time even without the action being taken.

[metalfenix]

Originally posted by Aemony:

Originally posted by metalfenix:

I'm also following this discussion. It might be the fix that lot of users wanted.

Not really. That changing core affinity can "fix" the game has been known for months. I even forgot when I added it to my tweak guide. Probably a month and a half ago. It, however, showcases the same issues with most other "fixes": it "works" for some and usually only for a short while.

The challenge in following all of these "fixes" being reported everywhere is filtering out the unrelated noise as well as the placebo effects that players mistakenly attribute to their actions. There's a reason why my tweak guide makes it clear that there currently isn't any solutions but only various ways of mitigating the issue.

One of the causes of this is actually that we can't effectively reproduce the error at will. So testing and verifying the result of an action taken is pretty much impossible right now, because it's entirely possible that the game would've worked just fine that one time even without the action being taken.

Thanks Aemony (I forgot to thank you for your tweak guide, it's awesome). It's a pain that this issue can't be reproduced at will. I get the white screen mostly after 1 or 2 hours of continous play, but yesterday I got it almost inmediately. Ugh, I hate it.

[blackphoenix82]

never got that while screen bug, my game just stops to respond if crashes

[kostyanius]

Hello, please advice which cores should i deactivate for Xeon (6 cores) in total? Also every 2-nd?

[Aemony]

Originally posted by kostyanius:

Hello, please advice which cores should i deactivate for Xeon (6 cores) in total? Also every 2-nd?

Yes.

[Caramello]

Oh look, using a technique found by pirates in a effort to fix the crack... to fix the legit game. You welcome.

[Aemony]

Originally posted by 𝓒𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓶𝒆𝓵𝓵𝓸:

Oh look, using a technique found by pirates in a effort to fix the crack... to fix the legit game. You welcome.

Pfff, oh, you're hilarious. The HT/CPU affinity thing was known about a month and a half ago, and have been included in my tweak guide since then. It was mentioned by a legitimate user here on Steam in one of the many threads on the topic.

[Aemony]

Originally posted by 𝓒𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓶𝒆𝓵𝓵𝓸:

Oh look, using a technique found by pirates in a effort to fix the crack... to fix the legit game. You welcome.

I'm sorry, it turns out I was wrong. It was only a month and 5 days ago.

11 Apr @ 12:13am:

Originally posted by Aemony:

Originally posted by lejarak:

yep. still working. I gave it a go again no crash at all.

My specs:
cpu: i7 3820
gpu: gtx 780ti
ram: 16GB

Yep it was using HT but I have disabled it to reduce number of cores.
My cpu has 4 phisical cores. With HT enabled windows sees it as 8 cores.
In BIOS i have disabled HT and then windows sees only 4 cores.

I have tried 2 setings. In both I was able to play for aover an hour. Before it was max 20min.
1. in msconfig i have set number of processors to 4 (This gives 2 phisical cores with HT enabled)
2. in BIOS i have disabled HT. (This gives 4 phisical cores)

A tip for next time: open Task Manager, locate the game process under the Details tab, right click on it and click on Set affinity. Remove the checkmarks besides each odd CPU (so 1, 3, 5, 7 etc) and you've basically disabled HT for the game without affecting other processes.

But damn, those pirates really held off on releasing the game! Having it for almost a whole month before releasing it online? The nerve of those people! /s

Edit: The quote link is screwed up, so here's a direct link to the quoted comment.

Edit 2:
I just noticed that I myself can be argued to be the "original" founder of the CPU Affinity "technique" since the guy I replied to disabled HT outright while I mentioned the CPU affinity part! Worship me!

[blackphoenix82]

Originally posted by kostyanius:

Hello, please advice which cores should i deactivate for Xeon (6 cores) in total? Also every 2-nd?

switch off 1-3-5 core

[DaPhuuLz]

By turning off Hyper Thread in the BIOS. what will it effect?

I'd like to know if i should just do the Affinity thing everytime i launch the game or is it worth turning off the whole hyper threading just for this game.

[Aemony]

Originally posted by DaPhuuLz:

By turning off Hyper Thread in the BIOS. what will it effect?

I'd like to know if i should just do the Affinity thing everytime i launch the game or is it worth turning off the whole hyper threading just for this game.

HT permanently disables every second "core" of your CPU for all applications. So that CPU affinity stuff you do every time? It does that for all applications, including Windows.

[DaPhuuLz]

welp.. i guess i'll just do it for Nier process then.

Thank you.

[forrallion]

Originally posted by Captain Buzzkill lPaladinl:

Originally posted by kandi:

maybe buy it? the crash is because of the crack

Oh? Then explain to me why the game that I bought 2 months ago still doesn't work with my specific model of GPU installed, that is above the recommended hardware.

Setting core affinity doesn't help me in this case. People who have reported this helping them are those running the game on CPUs that support Hyperthreading (i7's and Ryzen).

I am running an AMD FX 6300, there's no hyperthreading for me.

The fix posted by OP fixes the crash caused by the crack, so of course it won't help you with your problem. I made this comment because I already saw that "solution" on warezsites and therefore knew that it was irrelevant for non-pirates.

[Kala]

How is it irrelevant? It got me through the Prologue lol.

[DaPhuuLz]

Originally posted by kandi:

The fix posted by OP fixes the crash caused by the crack, so of course it won't help you with your problem. I made this comment because I already saw that "solution" on warezsites and therefore knew that it was irrelevant for non-pirates.

i'm sorry but you're not correct there. I got a lot of crashing from this game. until i did this solution. It's pretty real to me.

also this "pirate solution" talks was mention in earlier replies and it's already been explained.