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6 years ago

Lobby kick causes crash (?)

Hey. I'm writing this because it's the third time this happened to me. In the beginning, I just thought it was more of a game design flaw than an "issue" but when the game crashed immediately after kicking me out of a lobby I'm now thinking this might be the appropriate place to talk about this. 

First off, let me tell you that being kicked from a lobby without any warning is becoming super frustrating. I 'sort of' understand there might be a technical need for lobbies to be shut down or reset, but I've noticed the game only feels like warning you about this eventual shutdown while I'm just idling in the game, because when I'm actively racing, it fails to warn me about it every single time. It's the third time now that I'm racing or going through the story mode and (almost like it's on purpose) near the end of the race the game just kicks me out, not even letting me to at least finish it.

And with that it leads to this crash. This time, I got kicked out while I was finishing a story mode event. It brought me back to the game main menu, so I pressed the online mode button to try and re-do it, it successfully loaded me into the garage, but it wouldn't let me do anything inside of the game, the game wasn't really freezing, it just wasn't responding to my inputs at all. A few seconds after, the game crashes. 

What I'm thinking is maybe the abrupt kicking while doing something in story mode might have made the game go bonkers and crashed. I'm not sure because the game was fine after I restarted it.

I think regardless, the kicking is something that should be thought about as an issue that should be looked at to find a workaround. It's a shame because honestly, it's a great game, I've been having a blast, cops are actually tough as nails again! But every time this surprise lobby kick happens it just makes me wanna quit the game.

I wish I could send a crash report of some sort, if there's any way to slap in a crash log of the game, please tell me and I'll be more than glad to post it. 

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  • Hey @jffs92  Thanks for the very detailed post! 🙂 

    I have a few questions for you after the kick back to the main menu do you have an error message and how often have you seen this happening for you? 

    Do you get random game crashes outside the server warning you are getting? 

    /Atic 

  • Hey @EA_Atic, always glad to help out;

    I did get 2 more crashes apart from this one, but on those 2 cases I was tabbing in and out of the game, turning on streaming on discord and messing with the settings. Having NFS Heat on while streaming does take a toll on my CPU (it spikes to 98% usage. I don't wanna blame the game straight away for that. but I do have to say that other games like bf5 and others never put such a workload on my cpu before, even while streaming), and In those cases it might've crashed because of that? I'm not sure.

    Apart from that, and taking the crash after getting kicked out of the lobby out of the table, I didn't get any other sort of crashes or bugs. Oh, almost forgot, I got no error messages in any of the crashes. It just closes like I Alt F4'd out of the game.

    Also, not sure if this helps in any way or not, after the kick and when I reentered online and was stuck on the garage, I noticed the car was shaking oddly, not the normal shake the car has while the engine's working but, like the car physics were about to bug out. Maybe it was just a random unrelated crash that just managed to appear after I got kicked?

    Appreciate the reply, cheers!

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