[SOLVED] Consistent, repeatable crashes, saves become unplayable after ~1:00h

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SOLVED - likely a intel CPU issue, was resolved by updating BIOS to a version that accounts for the extra serving of jank intel has decided to include in all their new CPUs.

I've tried 3 separate games now, size ranging from 3-10 players. Every single game begins crashing sometime between 1:00-1:30 of game-clock time in the save.

The crashes then start happening randomly every 2-10 mins, some crashes are straight to desktop, some crashes hang the entire system and the PC just reboots itself (never seen any kind of crash/error screen via the game or windows). As soon as this happens once, the save is shot. Load into it again and I have a guaranteed crash a few minutes later. If Instead I start a brand new game crashes go away once again until 1:00-1:30 in game time before crashes start happening.

I've updated drivers, tried changing to the test patch in steam, disabled v-syn/variable refresh rate, turned down the settings the crashes persist.

Playing on steam, windows 11, 3080ti, 13700k, 64GB Ram.

Anyone have any idea what's causing this? I've wasted ~8h at this point playing the slow part of the game, only for every. single. save. to start doing this as soon as the games good. Happy to post save/log files, just provide instructions.

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Reply #1 from Sins2 Forums Top

Hello! May I ask if this is occurring on the public build or the test build, and if you are running any mods at this time?

Reply #2 from Sins2 Forums Top

Stardock,

I am currently experiencing the same issue, but I suspect this has to do with the Intel CPU instability issue (https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/July-2024-Update-on-Instability-Reports-on-Intel-Core-13th-and/m-p/1617113). My experience is basically the same as OP and I can tell you when he describes, "some crashes are straight to desktop, some crashes hang the entire system and the PC just reboots itself (never seen any kind of crash/error screen via the game or windows)", I've managed to check Resource Monitor and Sins appears to use ~95% CPU, the remainder of available memory, and the disk is pegged at 100% with Sins executable using it. I suspect his CPU overheats and the system shuts down.

You might check if there's a correlation of users who CTD & have Intel 13th/14th gen CPUs.

I am currently in the process of an RMA myself and I've updated my BIOS, so I plan to wait and see if that fixes my problem.

 

EDIT: The test branch seems to help so I guess I don't know what I'm talking about. Cheers!

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Reply #3 from Sins2 Forums Top

Reporting back in - the test branch did not resolve the issue, but updating BIOS did, likely a CPU instability issue.

Reply #4 from Sins2 Forums Top

Thats very useful to know, thank you for the update!