Games crashing after the prologue? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by redimk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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EDIT - After trying everything there is, I decided to make a new clean Windows Installation and everything worked again. So the problem was a bad Windows installation. However, I don't know why every single game stopped working specifically after the prologue and not before or after, but it's fixed now.

Has anybody had problems with games specifically crashing after the prologue? It doesn't even throw any errors or anything. I can play the game and even leave the game open **for hours ** without issues, or even start the game again and replay the prologue, but after that, all games crash.

These are all the games where that has happened:

Dying Light 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Resident Evil 2 & 4 Remake, Atlas Fallen, Fallout 4, DMC HD Collection, 4 SE and 5, etc. The only games where it has not happened are Mini Metro, Mini Motorways, and Universe Sandbox (none of those have prologues)

Some downloaded from FG, some from SteamRip, Empress, El Amigos, sometimes I even download different versions of the same game and end up with the same result.

The only "weird" thing I did before all this happened was doing a clean Windows Install. And the only weird thing I've noticed is that Steam has been really slow, but still, all the games are pirated so Steam shouldn't have anything to do.

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[-] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago

Unlikely to have anything to do with piracy

[-] MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

How are you specs compared to the requirements? Particularly the RAM and GPU

I seem to remember a game (probably Deus Ex Mankind Divided) that I bought before upgrading my PC. I could play the beginning at 30 FPS lowest settings (maybe even reduced the resolution), but there was a cutscene that I simply could get past. I assumed it had something to do with how, up to that point, the map was small and manageable, and how I was reaching the more open parts of the game with simply too much stuff to remember/render

[-] redimk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Specs are fine

AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, RTX 3050Ti, and 32GB RAM, it's a Legion 5 (2021)

All games mentioned run 100fps+ on High and I was watching the graphs, temperatures of 60-80C on the CPU and 50-75C on the GPU so those were fine (at least for a laptop)

What you're saying makes a lot of sense, but, the weird thing is that, except for Baldur's Gate 3, I already played all these games in my laptop before. I was just replaying them for fun, I just didn't know if somebody else had the same issues.

I think I'll just make another clean install and see what happens, this situation has me so confused tbh haha

[-] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Could be a failing harddrive/ssd. Often times games will load a shitload of assets right after the intro cutscene, and hit the storage for a bunch of shit. Try installing a game to a different storage device (a flashdrive would be slow but if it has enough space it should work as a test) and see if the issue persists.

[-] redimk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I'll definitely try that tomorrow when I wake up, I just did a fresh install of Windows 11 and it still won't work, thanks for that recommendation, I have an external ssd so maybe it'll work like that.

[-] blaq_stoo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Dumb question, but your gpu drivers are up to date correct?

[-] redimk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, every driver is up to date. In fact I just did a fresh windows install once again, updated all drivers once again, and the problem still persists.

The games however are stored in a secondary ssd, so the next thing I'm gonna do is install them on the main, and some of them on an external one, just in case it's a faulty SSD.

If that's not it then I have no clue.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Couldn't tell you what the problem is, but I once had an issue with BioShock. The rerelease to be precise. The game would boot up just fine and I could access the bonus museum thing just fine, but as soon as I tried starting the actual game, the screen would go black and the sound of after the loading screen.

Couldn't figure out what happened and just ended up deleting/uninstalling it because I didn't have the time to fix it/diagnose the problem.

[-] redimk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm about to give up with these games as well and just not play them, I just finished a clean Windows install again and it still didn't work, I feel like I'm going insane here haha