Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-10-03T10:52:23+02:00

the same error happens with me on a single monitor (4xHD capable Dell P2815Q). I believe I have both the desktop and the game graphics set at just 1xHD resolution.
With every settings and hardware the same did not have this problem 1 month ago. I am having this problem more and more often now.

Statistics: Posted by pitiko — 03 Oct 2014, 10:52

Re: Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-05-11T17:59:18+02:00

OK, a really aggravating instance of this error once more. Happens to me on average once every 2-3 days. This time, I've got the logs, attached.

Graphics error tends to occur on larger games; game image hangs and audio continues. If you alt-tab out of the game and try to open it up, screen goes black (in other circumstances things work fine). Only option is to force-quit, but Windows does not claim that the program is not responding. Watching reps on the vault indicates that the game continues while your graphics hang, and you can no longer enter in commands, so I've been unable to tell my teammates what is going on through chat. The errors seem to occur primarily when zooming in or out, though not always.

Hardware:
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500 CPU (4X @ 3.30GHz)
RAM: 8.00 GB
Graphics Card: EVGA GTX 570HD (Nvidia)
Monitor Setup: dual monitor, one 1920x1080 through HDMI output and the other 1680x1050 VGA output.
OS: Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit SP1

Replay attached, though I doubt it will show anything special other than me unexpectedly blowing up for no reason.

Statistics: Posted by breakthosecuffs — 11 May 2014, 17:59

Re: Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-05-07T17:57:17+02:00

A mate of me (ikonnonix) has the same issue. He plays in windowed mode with an AMD card. Are there any news about it?

Greets BoB

Statistics: Posted by PsychoBoB — 07 May 2014, 17:57

Re: Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-05-04T05:38:03+02:00

I've seen this issue ALOT mostly wth duel screens, but not limited to.

I have had to really try different drivers trial and error to see what works. At one time the 12.6 Catalyst Beta drivers worked fine. After a hardware refurb I'm now running 13.1 official release drivers after the 12.6 dirvers kept causing issues even on a single screen setup.

Have you tried the latest stable release of Nvidia drivers?

Statistics: Posted by Anaryl — 04 May 2014, 05:38

Re: Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-05-02T08:32:19+02:00

same problem

Statistics: Posted by Stefan — 02 May 2014, 08:32

Re: Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-04-23T20:09:46+02:00

Having same problem, will update graphics drivers and see if problem persists.

Statistics: Posted by breakthosecuffs — 23 Apr 2014, 20:09

Re: Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-03-09T14:22:04+02:00

Hi

Have had the same problem here also, FA has been working fine for ages (I run in windowed mode), then roughly 3-4 weeks ago it seems I started having the screen randomly freeze when in game with FA. If you move away from the FA window then return the screen/window is black, you can hear the game is still running ok in the background however.
I have not changed any video settings from when it was working reliably (same vid drivers). Using ATI 7950 with 13.12 driver with I7 4770K, 16GB RAM
I get the same problem online and in skirmish using FAF.
Have removed all mods and done a clean install of FA with latest FAF and problem still occurs
It seems intermittent, I can play some matches fine without issue.
If there are any logs I could provide which could help identify cause please let me know

Regards, Neill

Statistics: Posted by Nojoke185 — 09 Mar 2014, 14:22

Re: Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-03-08T17:50:31+02:00

Looks like a GFX driver problem. Can't help you without more infos about your config.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 08 Mar 2014, 17:50

Re: Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-03-08T17:14:46+02:00

The problem continues. I run in windowed mode, I didn't have any UI mods to my knowledge. I reinstalled faf, I downgraded my driver to the april-release (I believed this helped in terms of number of occurrences). But it's still really annoying since it happens random and makes the game unplayable for me without abandoning my team mates every once in a while.

Apparently I'm not the only one with such issues and they appear to be linked with the most recent patch.

for the record: my most recent game-log in attachment.

Can anybody help us? Apparently I'm not the only one experiencing issues and it's really the kind of issue which makes the game unplayable online.

Statistics: Posted by betaplayer — 08 Mar 2014, 17:14

Re: Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-03-05T18:24:23+02:00

Same setup same problem, dif. amd hd 7850 newest stable driver.
Started after the newest FA patch, might be related to GAZ_UI and hotbuild if you have had that installed, like me, as the new patch includes these as default in a fashion.
Need tutorial to setup hotbuild because i do not know how to set it up manually, until then I will not be playing and therefore cannot say if removing those 2 mods resolve the problem.
Hope it helps.

Statistics: Posted by Commander_Adama — 05 Mar 2014, 18:24

Re: Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-03-04T01:51:22+02:00

With my Nvidia drivers, there are beta drivers, and that's what i usually use, and if there's a problem, i go back to the stable release version, maybe the reverse is true for you? can you use Beta drivers from AMD?

Statistics: Posted by xeonight — 04 Mar 2014, 01:51

Re: Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-03-03T11:28:00+02:00

There are some years that made me such a solution : Set Windowed in resolution.

Statistics: Posted by Xinnony — 03 Mar 2014, 11:28

Re: Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-03-03T11:17:07+02:00

I've had that problem, after an update of my video driver. I have almost the same computer setup as you.
In your log file are entries about DeviceD3D9.cpp, which are DirectX errors.

I could solve the issue by doing a rollback on my video driver: in Device Manager, in Display Adapters, go to Properties of your card, and on the driver tab press Roll Back Driver.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6434&p=63137&hilit=screen+freeze

Statistics: Posted by ax0lotl — 03 Mar 2014, 11:17

Game freezes, then becomes black

2014-03-02T22:00:29+02:00

Hey all

So I'm playing multiplayer, when all of sudden my screen freezes. The game continues still though. Since I can hear pinning going on, I can still pause using my keyboard, etc.

When I alt-tab to desktop and back to the game, the screen is black. Yet, cursor and sound are still working, and the game is still going on, on the other side.

I don't always have this problem and it only emerged since yesterday. I had this a total of 3 times now. It's unplayable (duh), and like most of you here, I absolutely love this game.

My system:
Core I5 (haswell)
AMD HD7870 (up to date driver 13.12)
8gig
Win 8.1 x64
single screen.

Game.log:
pastebin. com/W2mbaaY6
Forever.log:
pastebin. com/Yt0GsTVi

I've been searching around. I know this issue is very similar to issues with dual screen set-ups, but this is a single screen setup.
I tried enabling en disabling V-sync, no help. I tried windowed mode, no resolve either. I'm currently looking into previous version for my videocard-driver, although I'm not really a fan of that solution.

Also: to my knowledge (not 100% sure): I don't have any mods installed or running.

I couldn't help but notice that I had these issues since the last update of FAF.

Help me, you're my only hope!

Statistics: Posted by betaplayer — 02 Mar 2014, 22:00