Constant Crashing

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I'd thought I'd give this game another go since I could play my old account on Steam, but I'm getting constant crashes, especially at the end screen when the scores are shown. Sometimes it even reboots my PC! Anyone know what is going on here? It didn't crash like this when I played outside of Steam.

[Ace42]

If the WGC was working immediately before swapping over without problems, then the problems have to be a consequence of your fresh Steam installation.

Without more information (check the Windows Event Viewer to see what the faults being generated are), some possibilities would be:

Corrupt installation - revalidate the game files via Steam, it'll reaccquire any corrupt ones;
Hard drive hardware faults that have been exposed by installing to a different drive - do a Windows full scan of the drive to see if there's corrupted sectors, etc - check the drive performance, think about virtual memory settings on the drive potentially, etc;
Different GPU driver profiles triggering due to the different launch location - check your GPU software to see if there's some weird settings being applied to the new installation (different power consumption settings could cause a reboot if it's causing PC to go under voltage or over-temp);
or depending on how long its been between switching installations, could be any sort of hardware fault developing in the meantime, or change in system configuration - possibly a change in device drivers in the interim.

Modifications could also be an issue - and reinstalling them to a fresh installation may well be a factor in exposing flaws with whatever mods you may be using - so could try uninstalling them or running the game in safe mode if that's a possibility, too.

[christof]

WoWs itself cannot reboot your PC. If that is happening, there's something else going on in the background causing it.

[Tommygun]

Its quite a good game for revealing a failing PC early. Often a HD issue, specially if you are not on an SSD.