Fatal Error..crash

[Stone066]

I started a new game 2 days ago and played some hours. Ther were no problems.
The next day and today too i wanted to continue and all i got was Main menu and as it started loading it crashed and a window popped up "Fatal error ... crashed". After some tries it loaded and after a few minutes of gameplay the same window. I put the graphics and the other stuff down to high and it worked a little bit better. But between 10 minutes and and hour of gaming the lovely window pops up and says "Fatal error.....crashed".

Are there any things i should know or whats wrong ?
Its a cool ame but this crashes are more frustating than get eaten by the bear
greetings from an old gaming guy.

[Maconijnr]

Only crashes I have experienced myself, have all been system temperature related, particularly my GPU I have had to start using a custom fan curve for this game since 0.3.x landed, all other games its fine on default fan curve, I just assume this latest release is pushing my card harder than it used too in the previous releases :) If any of that helps you out :)

[Stone066]

ok thx. I will have a look at the temperature. thank you very much

[Stone066]

Ok it was absolutely amazing how fast the Grafcards temperature climbed to the 70 degree celsius mark.
I screwed down 2 or 3 things to medium and now it about 60° C . Its not the nice look from the start but i find the leaves and the feathers more easy hehe.
lots of thanks for the tipp with the temperature.

[Maconijnr]

It was your initial comment about lowering the settings and getting to play longer made me think of it lol when you lowered the settings you reduced the GPU strain and lowered the heat :)
I would recommend getting MSI's afterburner and just use it to adjust the fan curve and you should be able to put the details back up then.:)
The amd wattman thing is crap for controlling the fan it don't work half the time lol, not sure how good any nvidia fan control stuff does as I have an amd card lol :)

[Stone066]

Hmm. I think its not the graphiccards temperature. Set all to medium and foliage to low for test.
Lovely 40-50 C°.
But the crashes are still there. Sometimes dirctely after loading and sometimes after half an hour.
It crashes. UE4Mist crashed......Fatal error.
I don´t know what to do anymore.

[Kanaro Min]

70 hours in Mist now and not one crash - all settings Ultra.

I would suggest it's one of four things:

1) Heat, as Maconijnr suggests. You can monitor with MSI Afterburner, and with RealTemp. It may not even be the GPU or CPU - other parts like memory can overheat just as easily. A low-brow solution if you've tried everything else is to remove the side of the computer (assuming you're not on a laptop - if you are then it's almost surely a heat problem), and point a fan directly into the case, then try playing a while.

2) Drivers - make sure everything is updated, including your BIOS. Be sure to remove old driver files with programs like DDU.

3) Running out of resources. i.e. if you only have 2GB of video memory (vRAM), the system may be choking when it tries to load new assets, and occasionally crashes. You didn't post system specs, so it's hard to say.

4) Weak hardware. You can test for this with both benchmark programs, and heat/stress software. 3D Mark is okay for stressing the system, the GPU in particular. And Prime95 is good for the CPU and RAM.

There is the off-chance it's a corrupt game install, or corrupt save file, but that's slim by comparison. If you do have a Laptop as mentioned, heat is your #1 enemy and can crash it for any reason at any time. They require laptop coolers to play demanding/unoptimized games correctly.

[Stone066]

hi,
Intel Core i7 3770 CPU 3,40ghz 3,40 ghz
16GB Ram
MSI GTX 1070 8GB Graphcard
got Afterburner with the card and manually put the fancurve higher

Win 10 / 64 Home edition

Temperature is no prob .
Installed the whole game new at steam
Started the game and the first crash came before i had seen Main Menue.
Next try after 3-4 minutes in game.
Started a new game...bye Scott(sniff). 10 minutes and crash.
What makes me wonder is the fact that i played the first day about 6 hours and nothing crashed,
I played everything on ultra.Saved normal and quit.
The next day this error ♥♥♥♥ happens till now.

I go now and test it with this §D Mark and Prime95 thiings. I am interested if my old PC explodes or make it.

[Kanaro Min]

Originally posted by Stone066:

I go now and test it with this §D Mark and Prime95 thiings. I am interested if my old PC explodes or make it.

Yeah, if you are crashing before even seeing the main menu there's definitely something going on. Let us know what happens with the stress tests!

[Geauxboy]

Have you checked the file integrity?

[Deli]

Originally posted by Stone066:

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You system is more than able to handle Unreal 4 and Mist. The first thing I would do is Verify files in Steam. If verifying the files does not fix the crash then Uninstall Mist and reinstall. Verify the files before running for the first time.

The fact that you were able to run fine before indicates that maybe a file was corrupted during play and is causing the crash. With that said, it still would be a good idea to get a can of air and clean out your case good. You may have had dust buildup over a long period of time that could be the culprit as well; dust buildup + Unreal 4 even on good hardware will cause untenable temps and cause error.

Take care to not get to close to any hardware when using compressed air. You want to spray from a distance.

[Kanaro Min]

The thing is - he indicated he did a fresh reinstall of the game, so that rules out a corrupt installation. And starting up a new game rules out corrupt saves. So.... I'm still thinking an instability somewhere else in the system.