Client crashes every time trying to enter Ravenloft wilderness

[Lerincho]

I did a search and saw a thread from late last year about this issue, but never saw a resolution. Currently experiencing the exact same issue. Was able to run Mist of Ravenloft, and even able to teleport to the tavern, but the moment I try to leave the tavern client crashes immediately. The solutions listed was dealing with frill, well I have frill and distance details at the lowest setting if not able to disable.

[DYWYPI]

Unfortunately if you aren't running a modern 64-Bit Windows Operating System it's very likely: you are not going to be unable to, or may have major problems trying to load the Ravenloft Wilderness. I think part of the reason is they possibly went overboard with the amount of trees and the sheer size of the Wilderness. Possibly a 32-bit OS doesn't have the available temporary addressable memory space; so its not likely a hardware or Graphic card issue but rather an OS Limitation.

Most people had to upgrade to a 64-bit OS for the constant crashing to be eliminated... However, one person seemed to find a solution by editing the 'boot.ini' file to deceive the system with the /3GB switch; Increases the size of the user process address space from 2 GB to 3 GB.

See the following post entitled: Try adding /3GB /USERVA 2900 to our Boot.ini that possibly might work. :-)

[Mglaxix]

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...-memory-issues

try this if using 32 bit OS

[psykopeta]

Gonna tell you the truth:

Nobody knows the reason, nor the way to fix that trouble, that's specially pathethic when the forum had plenty threads demanding a solution a some fanboy or dumbinetard claimed it was related with the oc of the user, or the OS or even having a SSD

I played Ravenloft in 3 different laptops:

- a 10 year old Acer who crashed even when starting the game, so had to install the preloader(it took ages to step ingame) because SSG are bad even when trying to imitate the player version, that pc crashed very few times when stepping in wilderness, it has an old nvidia and 1-2 gb ram (the gpu has 512mb at most), that guy has a 32 bits OS windows 7

- a 5 year old toshiba, better than the previous one in everything except the gpu (integrated, not dedicated) , it doesn't need the preloader because was never crashing when starting the game, however it crashed sometimes when stepping in quest, wilderness but in ravenloft...it was seriously stupid, it was not only crashing when you zone in, but after relogging... Crash again, and again, and maybe my group could finish the quest while logging in/crashing (it took average 20 secs from desktop to the next crash when loading the wilderness),it uses exactly the same windows 7 32 bits

- my current laptop is a msi i use for playing new games at ultra with 16gb ram, 4 gb nvidia, SSD, windows 10 64 bits and guess what? Sometimes it crashes too, obviously not often

So, like i said before, ppl have no clue what's causing that issue but you will see lots of informatic guru suggesting stuff that may help or not, bit won't solve nothing really cause SSG are the ones who gotta check what mess of expansion they released

[Mindos]

I did a search and saw a thread from late last year about this issue, but never saw a resolution. Currently experiencing the exact same issue. Was able to run Mist of Ravenloft, and even able to teleport to the tavern, but the moment I try to leave the tavern client crashes immediately. The solutions listed was dealing with frill, well I have frill and distance details at the lowest setting if not able to disable.

When's the last time you downloaded and reinstalled the game?
What's your video card?
Drivers up to date?

[Lerincho]

When's the last time you downloaded and reinstalled the game?
What's your video card?
Drivers up to date?

Most recent reinstallation of the game was 3 months ago.

Does not matter what the video card nor the driver as the entire rest of the game plays except for one specific area. This would indicate a software issue not a performance issue. Based on research this is an issue that had been reported for quite some time during beta testing. Since the system requirements for the game has not changed, this would be a software issue.

Based on your questions, there should be different system requirements for each expansion.

[Greantun]

Most recent reinstallation of the game was 3 months ago.

Does not matter what the video card nor the driver as the entire rest of the game plays except for one specific area. This would indicate a software issue not a performance issue. Based on research this is an issue that had been reported for quite some time during beta testing. Since the system requirements for the game has not changed, this would be a software issue.

Based on your questions, there should be different system requirements for each expansion.

It does matter, as:
1) The Barovian wilderness is huge - much more to load
2) They upped the amount of trees, grasses, etc.


However, I don't see in here where you reduced the detail level and the amount of trees and grass. They added an option for that (can't remember the name).

But yeah, I had 32-bit OS issues years ago, with other areas as well (sands, eveningstar, etc), and the only fix I found before updating to a 64-bit OS using the preloader.

[Lerincho]

It does matter, as:
1) The Barovian wilderness is huge - much more to load
2) They upped the amount of trees, grasses, etc.


However, I don't see in here where you reduced the detail level and the amount of trees and grass. They added an option for that (can't remember the name).

But yeah, I had 32-bit OS issues years ago, with other areas as well (sands, eveningstar, etc), and the only fix I found before updating to a 64-bit OS using the preloader.

I have landscaping reduced to very low or disabled when available.

I did a search and saw a thread from late last year about this issue, but never saw a resolution. Currently experiencing the exact same issue. Was able to run Mist of Ravenloft, and even able to teleport to the tavern, but the moment I try to leave the tavern client crashes immediately. The solutions listed was dealing with frill, well I have frill and distance details at the lowest setting if not able to disable.

[MasterKernel]

See the following post entitled: Try adding /3GB /USERVA 2900 to our Boot.ini that possibly might work. :-)

^ This should fix it. ^
Also, you might need to set the swap file's size to 'auto'.

[Lerincho]

^ This should fix it. ^
Also, you might need to set the swap file's size to 'auto'.

Any ideas if this works with Windows 10?

[MasterKernel]

Any ideas if this works with Windows 10?

No idea, sorry. Though it should.