BATTLETECH - Unplayable With Constant Crashing Every 5-20 Minutes

[Hammerchuckery]

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Unplayable With Constant Crashing Every 5-20 Minutes

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Game is unplayable. It crashes during gameplay within 5-20 minutes. Should I ever tab out and have the game in the background, I have a bsod within minutes WHY!?. I have reproduced this three times. FML.

I crashed at the opening campaign cutscene, at the first tutorial level loading screen, during the tutorial, after the tutorial, the scene where you get rescued by the mercenary group, and at the second mission three years later.

I've tried turning Steam overlay off. No effects. Vsync on/off, Windowed/Fullscreen. Nada.
Oh and why is this game chugging with a R5 2600x and gtx 1070? I'm averaging less than 45 fps and as low into single digits at 1440p high settings.

I have the latest nvidia drivers, even did a clean install after seeing the intro cutscene flash black and white once.

Steps to reproduce the issue
Just play the game longer than five minutes.

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[Hammerchuckery]

My game was running perfectly fine prior to the latest update. On the new patch I haven't been able to complete one mission because of the amount of crashes occurring. -snip-

My experience was the opposite. Stability improved with the previous beta patch (which is now the current patch), rolled back my drivers to 391.24 for my nvidia gpu, and removed hundreds of save files from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\15514318\637090\remote\C0\SGS1 and turned off Steam Cloud for this game.

This 'fixed' my game performance as by the time I finished a mission and got back to the mech bay. Screen transitions would take ten to fifteen seconds to load even with the simple action of changing paint patterns.

Now my game just stutters during animations... yay. Probably caused by the older drivers, but at least I'm not blue screening anymore.

P.S. - Another issue that I haven't noted before is that enemy attacks still affect my camera even though I've slid the slider to never. So the camera pans randomly to nowhere and I get a great view of nothing as my mechs gets shot. -__-

 

[Paragon Traxis]

My experience was the opposite. Stability improved with the previous beta patch (which is now the current patch), rolled back my drivers to 391.24 for my nvidia gpu, and removed hundreds of save files from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\15514318\637090\remote\C0\SGS1 and turned off Steam Cloud for this game.

I did remove tons of save files but that didn't help. Also I went on to the latest beta patch that looked like it was going to help but it just took longer to crash and burn. I'm on radeon drivers and they are up to date, not sure about rolling them back.

So sad that I can't play....

 

[TheDesertFox44]

My Problem
The game keeps freezing up every 10-30 mins at any point in the game. Usually in battles but I left the game in the contract tab and with zero input and after 7 mins the game froze up. Prior to updating to the most recent beta patch my entire computer would completely freeze up, not even alt+ctr+del would work and Id have to hold down the power button till it shut down. However, since I updated to the beta patch the game just freezes and not the whole computer. I can just alt tab and kill the program via task manager.

I've taken all visual setting down to their lowest points, I have done a clean GPU driver update, my CPU is in the stock configuration, windows is up to date, I even made sure my audio drivers are current.

At this point I'm turning to the internet for advice on what I should be doing/may be doing wrong. I'm patient so if the solution is just wait for a now patch to come out that I can accept that and go back to dicking around in the Warhammer II laboratory. Alternatively if their is a way of making the game autosave more frequently (and in battles) I can live with that.

My Specs
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X (liquid cooled, it never over heats)
GPU: XFX R9 380 DD XXX OC 990MHZ 4GB DDR5
Memory: 16 GB (8x2) 2400MHz (CMK16GX4M2A2400C16)
Mobo: ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero

 

[Sarinoth]

My Problem
The game keeps freezing up every 10-30 mins at any point in the game. Usually in battles but I left the game in the contract tab and with zero input and after 7 mins the game froze up. Prior to updating to the most recent beta patch my entire computer would completely freeze up, not even alt+ctr+del would work and Id have to hold down the power button till it shut down. However, since I updated to the beta patch the game just freezes and not the whole computer. I can just alt tab and kill the program via task manager.

I've taken all visual setting down to their lowest points, I have done a clean GPU driver update, my CPU is in the stock configuration, windows is up to date, I even made sure my audio drivers are current.

At this point I'm turning to the internet for advice on what I should be doing/may be doing wrong. I'm patient so if the solution is just wait for a now patch to come out that I can accept that and go back to dicking around in the Warhammer II laboratory. Alternatively if their is a way of making the game autosave more frequently (and in battles) I can live with that.

My Specs
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X (liquid cooled, it never over heats)
GPU: XFX R9 380 DD XXX OC 990MHZ 4GB DDR5
Memory: 16 GB (8x2) 2400MHz (CMK16GX4M2A2400C16)
Mobo: ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero

Sounds like a memory leak. basically a command that replays forever until the memory buffer fills up. (In this games (and several other Unity engine games) case its "direct3d attempting to set null buffer")

The causes of memory leaks are many. From bad RAM to a bad resource call from the application.

Attached is an example, scroll down until you see "d3d11.dll: attempt to lock null buffer" repeat thousands of times

 

[Kuthooloo]

Since the latest patch it crashes constantly

 

[Thehiredgun]

Having same problem game crashes every 10 min almost like clockwork .Tried everything said here no fix. Now my rig barely meets min specs so i have everything turned off an on low settings. No fps issues just crash after crash. Saving very often helps .Really getting tired of this bull though 20 hours in and have done 5 missions in total no joke!
Oh...hiting my pc really hard seems to buy me about 30 mins extra idk why?

 

[RavenDB]

All crashes... this is very annoying!

 

[annaray]

I start to hate Battletech. As a working game it is an A+ especially when DLC will give more variety in missions
Not because of the clumsy programming of the GUI for instance in a shop you have to wait seconds up to 5 -7 seconds before the "sell" icon responds, but because of the regularly crashes to desktop or worse freezing the whole computer so I have to manually force a reboot.once every 60 -90 minutes
I play on an up to date system, Intel 7th generation top I5 CPU, newest MSI gaming motherboard, Crucial 16 G memory and MSi GTX1080 Ti on w10 and water-cooling on the CPU not yet on the Geforce card. But monitoring with MSI afterburner shows seldom a GPU above 75 degrees and mostly under 65 C. I Play Far CRy 5 and Divinity Original Sin 2 next to Battletech and those games since installing months ago never showed any problem. More crashes happen now the moment I click "Mission begins"
I bravely activate the Battletech's own crashreport program already dozens of times which by itself is a sign on the wall they do not trust Battletech to be reliable
The different updates or patches only helped in so far they lengthen playing time before a crash occurs
To be honest I lost my faith in the developers team behind the game and will think twice before I buy a next game of Harebrained Schemes. Maybe months after the release when web FB shows now problem

 

[MISTAYODA]

Audio access violation....... "we'll fix it in the next update." thats Paradox support. Well that didn't happen... again. Is there an eta on when Paradox will be fixing AkSoundEngine or can i get a refund? Honestly I don't even want to play anymore. Maybe work with modders something.

 

[AndrewT]

Have you tried the workaround a user found here?
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...ksoundengine-dll.1141662/page-3#post-25108418