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Murkalael

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Friday, January 26th 2018, 10:11pm

Help with the quest "Finding what make game crash"

I'm an old returning player. Played around 2012 - 1015. Back then crashes were common but like once per 2 hours. Now every 15 minutes game crashes. Doesn't matter the config. Already tested on 3 different computers and all of them happens the same. Major constant crashes happens:
-when summoning mount
-on major centers such as Dalanis, Varanas Central, Obsidian Stronghold
-when too much time in combat (by too much I mean 5-10 minutes)

So I was wondering, what makes ROM crash so often. Sometimes I have to use second virtual desktop, because crash won't even allow me to ALT F4 the game, the message of crash report stays behind the gui and won't let me click on it.
My system is up to date even is an old computer, but is the same I used to play back in 2012.

Config:
AMD Athlon II x3 400 (3GHz)
8G RAM DDR3 1333
VGA: Nvidia GT430
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bits

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Sunday, January 28th 2018, 3:41pm

I have found that certain addons cause it to crash more often. I don't remember which ones I removed.
Using too many portals will also overload the memory. I have heard that there is a thing called "memory bleed" that occurs and fills your RAM. Every time the game has to reload your video data, some of the old data remains. Eventually there isn't enough room and you're out. Anytime I portal to get to an instance, I exit the game and restart the client. If you are in an instance and the group isn't full, that's not so bad because you can restart the client and log right back where you were. That's particularly helpful with Goblin mines. If you crash running solo or a full party, you are out, but 2-5 members and log immediately back in to get right where you were.
Increasing your VRAM helps, in my experience, more that system RAM, but lots of both is a good thing. I have 2 linked video cards, 4gig of VRAM, and 32gig of DRAM. Even still I lose it on occasion.
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Tuesday, January 30th 2018, 1:17pm

having an Op computer for RoM actually hurts you more than just having a normal one seriously lol.

your Op comps are trying to run a game better and faster than it was ever designed to...

I still have a ten year old computer, with crap, crap, and more crap inside of it, and as many know, I can be logged in for weeks at a time never reclogging, and never crash.

sometimes my clients are a week old when I play lol.
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Tuesday, January 30th 2018, 8:48pm

Nothing wrong with your specs, the game should operate as well as ever.

Did you by chance change internet providers?

I find that hard resetting my router when I start to see increased crash frequency and/or lag helps a lot.
Also, limiting add-ons to only what I consider essential (you might try Vanilla RoM {no add-ons}) and see if that helps.
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Wednesday, January 31st 2018, 12:36am

I find this happens to me a lot when I have Google chrome or Mozilla open at the same time as RoM. I used to use them to listen to music while farming and found that they make me crash a lot more frequently. Just a thought.
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