NFS Rivals Pavement turns to sand or bare dirt and then car gets stuck, game freezes.
This has been happening occasionally, but still is happening. My system is a I7, 6 gigs ram, Win 7 Ult. 64 bit, GTX 260 896 mb ram, all settings on lowest.
I will be driving along and suddenly the road ahead turns from pavement to barren desert and when the car drives into this area, where previously the pavement should be (and now is sand or barren desert) the car gets stuck and will not resovle itself no matter how long I wait or what controls I try using. The only way is to start task manager and end Rivals game. It seems to happen mostly if other player are entering into my screen area and they too are stuck. The other nite two other players came into my screen area and all three of us were stuck, frozen in place, with the road in my area turned to sand or barren desert. I know I need a better video card but until that happens I'm wondering if this issue has anything to do with my weak card. But would it involve getting the other players stuck as well on their systems, or is it just my system where they appear to be stuck(?) and in reality they just keep driving along?
Makes me wonder though because there have been times when my car is frozen in this sand where pavement should be and I see another player that was stuck there before I drove into it and after a while I see that he leaves the game in order to get unstuck and his car dissappears. Once I came upon this phenomena with the road ahead sliced as if it were and the pavement gone and I reacted fast enough not to drive into it and retain control of my car. I could however see another player out there in the sand stuck. I don't remember if I drove away from it and continued playing or not.
Thank you,
AlphaBlackPnther
Well, this is an edit of the post I made below. The solution I thought was found only worked for a couple days and now back to the same problem all over again.
When driving along there will be a portion of the pavement sliced away and bare dirt where pavement should be. Also turns out that the game is near crashing and unable to drive in another direction for only short distance before the same is encountered. At the same time if I use the Escape key the game crashes and does not respond.
Opened tickets with Game Advisor and have ongoing communication with them but still unresolved as of 3-12-2014. Updated Nvidia Drivers to most recently released yesterday hoping that would solve the issue. Failed.
So, solution not found. Despite what I wrote below.
Ok, Solution finally found. I am the original poster of this thread. Game was saved onto my D drive as my C is 60gig SSD. Game advisor said they will not service problems/issues unless game is installed on C. Reluctantly I moved Rivals and Origin and MW, the games I play the most, to my small C drive.
Rivals now runs almost flawlessly and so much better than ever b4. After about 10 hours of playing I've only experienced this freezing issue twice, compared to every time I played the game previously.
Origin has to be on same drive as Rivals. I told game advisor that all my other games were on my D and would Origin find them ok. He said yes, np. Well, that turned out not to be true at all. I also had to move MW to C. don't really have room on that little SSD anymore, just a few gigs. So, rest of my games are in limbo until I get a bigger C and go through the whole OS install and all that.
But, for now Rivals is a blast and runs great.
XC_ShelbyCobra alias AlphaBlackPnther
