HD2 Crashing system

[roughrider]

So, I was just trying to play HD2, even though nprotect gives me a lot of problems I tried to play anyway. This time around, HD2/nprotect crashed my system *AND* caused my computer to go into a repeat loop of trying to restart after crash. I had to physically unplug the power cord from it to stop the loop in order to get it to start up properly. After doing so, it *also* caused one of my drives (which is fairly new) to not be recognized by my computer and I had to disconnect data/power cable to it and reconnect for my computer to even see it.
Wth is this s***!

[barrett_fodder]

Yup, I've had nothing but problems since the latest "patch". About to ask for a refund because AH broke the damn game for me. I've even reinstalled the game on a separate NVME drive and it still breaks and crashes out.

[roughrider]

Originally posted by barrett_fodder:

Yup, I've had nothing but problems since the latest "patch". I've even reinstalled the game on a separate NVME drive and it still breaks and crashes out.

I never had any problems until ,roughly, 3 or so patches ago which broke the game and/or nprotect for me and only way I can play it is by changing start options for the game to run as administrator, which I never had to do before, and when I do that it totally screws my system. This is the 2nd time I tried it in 'start as admin' mode and each time, it has crashed my system and caused it to go into a restart-loop. The difference this time is that it caused the ssd controller to fail and a fairly new ssd was not recognised by my computer. AFter the first time that happened, I completely removed HD2 and didn't plan on messsing with it anymore but then I changed my mind for some awkward reason (probably because I spent money on something and I like the game). I have thought about trying it on a different computer I have sitting here but to be quite honest, if THIS gaming rig I am on is having problems, the other one wont fair much better being a stock pre-built hp system, so not even going to try that.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by roughrider:

HD2 Crashing system
So, I was just trying to play HD2, even though nprotect gives me a lot of problems I tried to play anyway. This time around, HD2/nprotect crashed my system *AND* caused my computer to go into a repeat loop of trying to restart after crash. I had to physically unplug the power cord from it to stop the loop in order to get it to start up properly. After doing so, it *also* caused one of my drives (which is fairly new) to not be recognized by my computer and I had to disconnect data/power cable to it and reconnect for my computer to even see it.
Wth is this s***!

Not a game issue.

[roughrider]

definitely a game issue, I have other games that are very RAM and cpu/gpu intensive and I don't have a problem with any of them, only this game. More directly, it was caused from actions that nprotect was doing during it's "scans, shown in log files, it caused the issue.

[Dr. Nefarious]

its the anti-cheat

[Skix]

Didn't have any problems before this patch. Restarted PC and modem, reinstalled the game, closed crash report process, flushed network catch. Nothing helps. It's always the squids, never bot or bugs. And yes it's the game. If you duo or solo I think you'll be fine. Since I play with my friends, one of us is going to get kicked every 5 min or so.

[Dr. Nefarious]

for me after 30 minutes of playing my PC goes into a blackscreen the only thing u can do is press CTRL+ALT+DELETE but that just changes your screen to the blue u cant interact with anything and the only way to get out of this state is by restarting the PC

[Excalibrrr]

Its the anti-cheat. Its always been the anti-cheat. Since the developers wont acknowledge this established fact, it will always be the anti-cheat.

[Dr. Nefarious]

3th of January the Gameguard Licence ends i hope the devs dont extend that anti-cheat

Maybe use the VAC?

[Murder Inc 1776]

I am here with over 210 hours into the game with frequent crashes causing my PC to reboot. Not sure what has changed all off sudden to cause this, no prior issues before with this.

[roughrider]

Originally posted by Murder Inc 1776:

I am here with over 210 hours into the game with frequent crashes causing my PC to reboot. Not sure what has changed all off sudden to cause this, no prior issues before with this.

Not sure if you have looked in your pc logs after a crash but for me, it is always nprotect/GameGuard causing system fault.

[roughrider]

One other thing to note, in a previous update, maybe 3 or 4 patches ago, AH said they did an update that dealt with nprotect to resolve issues that some players were having with nprotect giving them problems. Ever since that update, it has messed up my game and it wont start unless I play in admin mode. If I play it in admin mode, it gives nprotect too much auth on my computer and it starts messing with system functions and causes the crashes.

[Bowling4Kleers]

It's always a driver crash or restarts my pc, but I noticed it only happens on the super destroyer?
Either it crashes within a minute of starting the game, or I'm able to play one match no problem, then after I get back on the ship I have about a minute before it hard crashes again.
Thought it was my 5700XTs fault, but now I'm not sure

[roughrider]

Something that I think a lot of people misconstrue as a computer problem here. When something like this happens, with this game in particular and especially when it doesn't happen with any other games, just this one, it most definitely becomes a game problem. Whether it has to do with something in the actual game code, or the anti-cheat software, it relates to this product and not the computer system it is running on. More so to point, the anti-cheat is accessing and attempting to do things with the computer and any program that is running on the computer. If the anti-cheat mis-flags or contends any part of your OS's legit processes are 'cheating', it will attempt to force kill that process. When it isn't running in administrator mode it can't force stop anything, but when in administrator mode, it has access and permissions to kill any process or routine/sub-routine it wants.

[Excalibrrr]

Yeah whoever that asian girl is, they dont know anything about computers other than what google tells them. Dont listen to anything that they say.