CTD after < 5 min in game

Have you updated your drives, did windows recently update. this problem actually seems to be in multiple places on the forums specific to windows 10 and nvidia graphics cards

I did update my Graphics Card driver recently and have version 390.65 for my 1060. I did try a rollback to 388.71 and the game crashed with that version as well. The crash dump is attached.

Windows 10 is also updated. Last update KB4023057 at the 12th.

 

SimDLL_CRASH_development_public_247630_20180114-18.58.20.dmp

the problem is between windows and nvidia, there are some options, like changing scaling or enabling legacy windows components that might get you going, I can't make any promises though. :/ 

I think if it would be a general nvidia/windows problem it would be more common.

What options are you talking about? Changing scaling? What do you mean?

Are talking about DirectDraw in regards to "legacy windows components"? That is the only thing i can think of with that term. That or Compatibility mode...

I'd like more details, please.

There is an apparent conflict going around in regards to scaling, that occurs specifically with nvidia graphics cards on the new windows 10 updates conflicting with the way unity handles scaling.  How many of your other unity games go fullscreen?  As for legacy components, ignore that, yes I meant directdraw.  Enabling it doesn't hurt anything but isn't the problem. I've recently found out the scaling is at the heart of the issue and removing one or two modifiers from the fight resolves the conflict for some users.  TLDR; disabling scaling in the nvidia control panel fixes this for some.

I don't quite know what other games I have that use unity. I have many games, but I normaly don't check the engine...

I think I found the option you mentioned in the nvidia control panel under desktop size and position or whatever that section might be called in the english version. At least that is the only thing that had any scaling stuff that I could find. (I had an AMD Card in my previous PC, so I don't know the nvidia settings not that well yet...)

Sadly setting the option to no scaling did nothing for the games stability.

Crashdumps attached as allways. This time I used the release version.

The last dump is when I puit the game in win7 Compat mode with the Full Screen scaling deactivated checkmark set. This has another funktion id causing the crash in the dump file. Still the same funktion though.

Any more ideas?

SimDLL_CRASH_release_247630_20180116-02.23.54.dmp

SimDLL_CRASH_release_247630_20180116-02.28.42.dmp

SimDLL_CRASH_release_247630_20180116-02.38.50.dmp

Can you disable your steam ui overlay, and try running it in window mode (alt+enter)

Well. That was the fastest crash yet. About 20 seconds ingame time.

First dump is 1080p windowed

Second is a smaler window.

Steam UI was already off before.

SimDLL_CRASH_release_247630_20180116-03.06.34.dmp

SimDLL_CRASH_release_247630_20180116-03.09.35.dmp

The nvidia overlay is also off.

I'm giving up for tonight. it's 3:40 in the morning here. Leave a message if you think of anything else.

Ok. I got it to work. For some reason windows decided not to install the 1709 update. I was still on windows version 1706... I will never understand Microsoft. Forcing everyone to autoinstall updates with win10 and then not installing all of them...

For other people with the same problem:

To find out what version windows is on press win-key + r and run "winver". If you don't have the newest version you can force windows update to check for new updates under settings -> update and security -> search for updates. Even if it says there are no updates it can't hurt to force a recheck.

PS: The link in the pinned "Help and technical support" thread in steam (http://steamcommunity.com/app/457140/discussions/1/133258092242338364/ ) points to a non-existant oni-alpha bugtracker. That should be easy to fix.

Edited January 16, 2018 by CS96385