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Mister_Freakout
6 years ago

Re: Game Crashes and Totally Locks up PC

Bumping this again because I see that multiple people are having this issue and it seems like the number is rising while EA still hasn't released any information, apologies, or anything on the issue. Honestly, quite disappointing that a company like this would choose poor transparency over reaffirming publicly that they may have screwed up and are actively rooting to problem out. In my opinion, this is a terrible business practice and is quite infuriating. This is the first NFS game I have bought in YEARS because after seeing gameplay and playing friends' copies of the majority of the more modernized games, I wasn't impressed. Having this issue happen to me like it is definitely has left a sour taste in my mouth and has definitely made me reconsider ever buying another NFS game full priced and not on sale. With the amount of $$$ I have spent to get this game, I could have bought 3-6 fully WORKING games on my Steam wishlist, Star Wars, or The Crew 2 (although, I've never liked the crew but at least I KNOW it would run flawlessly for me).

@3DiE9djua2 The audios have since been disabled nonetheless, as I enable them and disable them as I need them generally. They shouldn't have anything to do with how the game handles for the most part anyways, as if I can play every other game on my PC without even touching them. My IGPU never has messed with anything before and I'd rather not fiddle with my BIOS settings just for one game, as I don't want to risk messing something up with my inexperience. When I played in Origin offline mode, the issue still persisted. Thank you for your advice and help, though!

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  • 3DiE9djua2's avatar
    3DiE9djua2
    6 years ago

    @Mister_Freakout 

    You mention every other game works and that is usually the case. Most games wont crash for you but there are always that one game. Im sure if you google issues for the other games you have you will see plenty of users having issues with crashing even tho you dont. basically each game is programmed differently and behaves differently from system to system. In this game you are the unlucky one while I for example haven't had one single issue.

    I'm think EA will refund you when you are not able to play the game even if the refund period should be over. 

    Audio issues is often an issues for a game to crash hence why i suggested you both update all drivers and disable the ones you do not use. I have multiple audio devices myself and in some games I have had to unplug some of them previously.

    Also since you are playing on a desktop computer you will not use the igpu ever (unless you for some reason prefer to use the inferior gpu). turning it off will be beneficial regardless of this game. Less drivers to load and less components that may or may not interfere with your daily use and your dxdiag do indicate that something with your intel gpu is crashing. If it solves the crash with this game is unknown but having a component causing random crashes in windows is good to disable regardless as long as you do not need it.

    I'm not going to convince you to do whatever I suggests. Just trying to help out a flellow gamer

    Its all up to you and you may just as well wait for the next patch and/or nvidia driver and see if that fixes things. Usually things are patched eventually. 

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