Posted February 24, 2021
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This solution got the game running stable for me on Windows 10 on an Intel i7 7700HQ laptop with an nvidia GTX 1050Ti GPU so I thought I would share it here in case it helps anyone else in the future as well.
This game is plagued by a number of completely different crash related bugs/glitches on Windows 10, so no single solution including this one will likely work for everyone experiencing problems. Rather, this solution works for me at least to fix a very specific problem, which is that the game does not appear to like or anticipate running on CPUs with more than 2 cores, nor hyperthreading being enabled.
So in short, I configure the game to run on 2 physical cores and disable hyperthreading by setting the CPU Affinity on the game process using Task Manager after launching the game executable. For CPUs that have hyperthreading/SMT enabled, the logical core count will be doubled and the physical cores are even numbered with the logical threads odd numbered. So to restrict the game to 2 physical cores without hyperthreading I force the CPU affinity on the process to restrict it to core 2 and 4, however any 2 even numbered cores should give the same result (make sure they're within the same CCX on Ryzen to eliminate other possible problems).
The end result is that the game has run for over 12 hours with zero crashes for me, and zero performance problems running with graphics on the highest resolution with all FX maxed out.
I suspect that the game has race conditions that occur when it is running on more than 2 physical cores or with HT, which don't occur when it is forced to run basically in a dual core mode similar to the environment it appears to have been developed for.
If someone is having their game crash during normal play randomly then this workaround may be worth trying, however it may or may not solve the issue as there do seem to be multiple reasons why the game crashes and the detailed symptoms of those crashes (ie: random crash after playing for some time, versus crash immediately on startup, or other issues) when researching it online.
I hope this helps others to get the game to work on modern systems a bit more smoothly, feel free to share the info elsewhere as well.
This game is plagued by a number of completely different crash related bugs/glitches on Windows 10, so no single solution including this one will likely work for everyone experiencing problems. Rather, this solution works for me at least to fix a very specific problem, which is that the game does not appear to like or anticipate running on CPUs with more than 2 cores, nor hyperthreading being enabled.
So in short, I configure the game to run on 2 physical cores and disable hyperthreading by setting the CPU Affinity on the game process using Task Manager after launching the game executable. For CPUs that have hyperthreading/SMT enabled, the logical core count will be doubled and the physical cores are even numbered with the logical threads odd numbered. So to restrict the game to 2 physical cores without hyperthreading I force the CPU affinity on the process to restrict it to core 2 and 4, however any 2 even numbered cores should give the same result (make sure they're within the same CCX on Ryzen to eliminate other possible problems).
The end result is that the game has run for over 12 hours with zero crashes for me, and zero performance problems running with graphics on the highest resolution with all FX maxed out.
I suspect that the game has race conditions that occur when it is running on more than 2 physical cores or with HT, which don't occur when it is forced to run basically in a dual core mode similar to the environment it appears to have been developed for.
If someone is having their game crash during normal play randomly then this workaround may be worth trying, however it may or may not solve the issue as there do seem to be multiple reasons why the game crashes and the detailed symptoms of those crashes (ie: random crash after playing for some time, versus crash immediately on startup, or other issues) when researching it online.
I hope this helps others to get the game to work on modern systems a bit more smoothly, feel free to share the info elsewhere as well.
