Crashing after Jasper battle

[「ai q sonim」]

Hey guys.

DQ XI is amazing, however, I've experienced a lot of crashes on my 30 hours playthorugh. And I really mean A LOT. Most of them I could avoid by simply changing the diplay option to Fullscreen. This one, though, is giving me headaches.

After you defeat Jasper you're supposed to go to the open sea. However, my game crashes right after the last cutscene where the ship is sailing north.

I've tried everything, including all the game's display options and also setting all other configs to the lowest possible. I even messed with the game's configs file and set screen percentage to 20 (the game looked really awful that way) and still had no luck.

Here are my computer's config:

i5-4460
8 GB of RAM
GTX 970

Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks.

[Zangato]

Try setting fps to 30 only for this battle and see if it works.

[「ai q sonim」]

Already done that and it didn't change anything. :/

[Zangato]

Is your GPU overclocked ?

[「ai q sonim」]

Nope, it isn't mate.

[Zangato]

Sorry, then i really dont know :S

[「ai q sonim」]

Alright, thanks for you help anyways. :)

I got tired of trying. I guess I beat him over 15 times now

[Zangato]

The last thing i found, try this:
Players have reported that the game crashes randomly during cutscenes and a “D3D Runtime error” pops up.

The issue might be with your GPU. If it is overclocked then you need to bring it back to its stock clock speed and if not then you will need to lower clock speed than the stock ones. The reason for lowering the clock speed is that your GPU might be old or not capable of running the game at current clock speed.

You can also avoid this error by locking the game at 30 FPS from the menu which will lower the GPU usage and the “D3D Runtime error” will not pop up again.

[「ai q sonim」]

Interesting. Mind explaining how I do that?

And also, just to add, I don't get any kind of message after the crash. The game just closes and that's it.

[Earthkeeper]

The game doesn't seem to be in your library. If you're playing the cracked version, the crashes are due to the cracked exe, not the game. You've to get a "crackfix" version that fixes all that.

[「ai q sonim」]

I am pretty sured I've "installed" the crackfix, but I'm going to do it. This might be the problem since nothing else fixes it. I'll let you know if it helps.

Thanks :)

[「ai q sonim」]

You were right, that was indeed the problem.

For some reason now the game takes much longer to load, not only on the actual loading screen but also to load enemies on the map and other stuff. But I guess that's better than having the game crashing, right?

Anyways, thank you again for highlighting that for me.

[Earthkeeper]

I'm glad you're able to play this game without any hiccups. Anyway, if you finished the game and love it, do buy it when it's on sales (now 22% at greenmangaming) to encourage SE to port more DQ games to steam in the future.

[「ai q sonim」]

Don't worry, I always buy the games I pirate when their prices are affordable. Specially when they are great such as this game. Have a nice week, friend. :)

[issey miyake]

Dude do you still have the crackfix ?

[「ai q sonim」]

Originally posted by alp:

Dude do you still have the crackfix ?

My man, it has been a very long time, so it's very likely that the version I downloaded isn't the same as yours. The crackfix came with the game files when I downloaded it.

However, I ask you to consider buying it, since the game usually gets a 35% discount, which isn't great but it's still very good. :)