Ever since the last update or two, I am crashing ALL THE TIME. Before the optimization updates I could go hours and not crash at all, but now I crash every 50 minutes to 2 hours. Sometimes it will go a bit longer, but sometimes I will crash after only a few minutes, ESPECIALLY after pulling an air vehicle (which is obviously incredibly annoying). I have no changed anything about my PC since the past few updates, so I highly doubt that it is causing this; it has to be the game (I experience no instability or crashes in anything else, and my temperatures are all constantly monitored and low). I can't seem to find a pattern to these crashes, and they aren't even always the same kind. Sometimes the game will crash and I will get a "planetside 2 has stopped working" message, but other times the game will just disappear and still be running in the background, despite not being there on my desktop anymore. I believe the latter case is due to a memory leak of some kind, as when this happens planetside2.exe is usually using over 3.2 GB of memory. I have 12 GB of RAM, so I am certainly not running out of memory, but something about the game is causing it to crash when it uses a large amount of memory. These crashes are just software crashes, and not once have I had a full computer hardlock or BSOD or anything like that; the game just stops working.
You are not the only one, these started with PU1 and recently got a lot worse with ESF update. While i can't be certain i think these crashes have something to do with loading new areas. One of the most common causes seems to be flying and warping to different continents.
I had the same problem ever since PU1, mine crashes with total black or white screen, and rarely sometimes it crashes to my desktop, when it crashes to desktop I can Alt-TAP back into the game though. No error messages for me though at any time. But I Can't rule out that it might be smething on my end , just funny that it first started happening when PU1 went live right?
So you don´t get an error Code or anything I take it? It could be worth a try to see if you can force Planetside 2 to create a crash log for you. I have never tried this myself though and since my game doesn´t crash I cannot test if this actually works or not: Anyway, to try and force planetside 2 to create a written crash log, open useroptions.ini with a program like notepad and add the following lines in the bottom, then save the file: [logging] Level=5 After the next crash see if you can find a crash log in your planetside 2 directory.
Okay, thanks I'll try that. Where should the crash log be located after I try this, any specific folder?
On another note, after the latest client hotfix (Client hotfix January 23, 20014) I get stuck at character login screen (after you have chosen a character) for 5 - 8 min only for it to crash afterwords with no Crash log/error message or anything. total shutdown to desktop.
Okay so now I'll tryed it, still no crash report/log. So either I can't find it or it dosen't create one. Thansk again anyway
Exact same problem, exact same crashes, but for me, it never goes up to 60 min. Forreal, it crashed always after between 45-60 min. Even sometimes after 30 min... This is so annoying...