BATTLETECH - Game Not Responding after the first mercenary mission.

[Bendeguz76]

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Game Not Responding after the first mercenary mission.

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Good afternoon,
I have an issue with the game, it affects the campaign only so far. After I finish the first mercenary mission (MMM) and press Next on both Mission Report page, the game starts to load. The loading animation starts twice, completes twice, then the screen goes blank, reappears black, no animation, mouse pointer only, music is playing but not responding. The system doesn't generates any crash report, just not responding. Not responding in the Task Manager.
I'm already on patch 1.03, restarted the campaign a few times, skirmish battles are ok, no issues. Playing on low res, low graphics settings. After reading other bug reports, i've tried to play with disabled network, disabled sound, changed the video codecs from DirectShow to LAV, still not responding. Tried the Launcher with the alternative options, not worked. Always after that first mercenary mission.

Steps to reproduce the issue
Play the Campaign, complete the first mission as a mercenary, press Next on both Mission Report screen. Issue comes up every time.

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[Bendeguz76]

Update:

I had some time to locate the problem source. Its the AMD graphics driver.
Im playing the game on an old Acer 7750G laptop. i5 2.4Ghz, 8gb RAM, Radeon 6650M.
On a 1280*720 resolution and medium graphics the GPU runs on 81-85% (AMD System monitor) workload, I've tried in windowed mode, problem occured and I saw a Windows notification saying the AMD driver stopped to work, but succesfully restored. The only way to do something with the game is to kill the process in the Task Manager. I'm writing this mainly for myself, just to summerize, and maybe someone else have the same or similar issue.

 

[Bendeguz76]

Update:

I found a way to jump to campaign milestones http://btmodding.warriorsblood.com/index.php?title=Skip_Tutorial, I've skipped from character generation straight to the 114 milestone, where I can see the default Leopard home screen. But. If I try to click on the mech bay or captains quarters, I get the freeze again, the GPU driver crashes, but recovers.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: BattleTech.exe
Application Version: 5.6.5.64727
Application Timestamp: 5a5de904
Hang Signature: cdb4
Hang Type: 2048
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: cdb460c82a5dc9b500e7eeddccb0ef13
Additional Hang Signature 2: b6ad
Additional Hang Signature 3: b6add2f6ead8e98cf031476c91b6e05e
Additional Hang Signature 4: cdb4
Additional Hang Signature 5: cdb460c82a5dc9b500e7eeddccb0ef13
Additional Hang Signature 6: b6ad
Additional Hang Signature 7: b6add2f6ead8e98cf031476c91b6e05e

I'm not giving up.

 

[nospeake]

Hi, I'm having the exact same problem. I'm running an older AMD graphics card and the game runs smoother after turning down the resolution but always crashes after the first mercenary mission. Let me know if you find any solutions.

 

[dillonv83]

well I am running a gtx 1050 i7 16g. game runs absolutely fine for me in skirmish mode I can skirmish all day long, I can watch all the cutscenes without an issue everything works great up until that darn next mission after you finish the tutorial one, I've tried multiple things, like ffdshow trick, admin, updating all drivers of all types, played in windowed, turned graphics down to medium, got the latest nvidia driver that was supposed to help this game in particular. well none of that worked and my rig should have no trouble playing this game, im hoping paradox or whom ever will figure this out because someone made the comment in another post about this not being a small problem and wasn't a big deal to devs but I disagree its a big deal and I believe they will figure this out.