my game constantly freezes and crashes | Balatro | Page 1

orchid mango Sep 23, 2023, 8:54 PM

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played 2 pair, game crawls to a standstill, eventually it freezes and i have to kill the process

hushed wasp Sep 23, 2023, 8:55 PM

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Did the game ever work properly for you?

orchid mango Sep 23, 2023, 8:57 PM

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i don't believe so - it froze and crashed at the beginning when i first started a run

hushed wasp Sep 23, 2023, 8:58 PM

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What computer are you on?

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Like OS, specs, etc

orchid mango Sep 23, 2023, 9:00 PM

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hushed wasp Sep 23, 2023, 9:00 PM

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Okay none of that should be an issue

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There's a year-old AMD graphics card driver that has had issues in the past. Did you notice these issues before modifying any of the video settings?

orchid mango Sep 23, 2023, 9:02 PM

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i did just update my nvidia card drivers - i can try rolling those back

hushed wasp Sep 23, 2023, 9:02 PM

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I doubt that would be it but you can give it a try! You said this is the first you've played?

orchid mango Sep 23, 2023, 9:02 PM

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correct!

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i missed the last demo playtest

hushed wasp Sep 23, 2023, 9:03 PM

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And you haven't been able to play a run?

orchid mango Sep 23, 2023, 9:03 PM

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it's intermittent, sometimes i'm able to play for 30 minutes at a time without a crash with no changes made to settings

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any time I have to kill the process I'm getting an application hang error in event viewer which makes sense

hushed wasp Sep 23, 2023, 9:18 PM

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That almost sounds like a memory leak

orchid mango Sep 23, 2023, 9:19 PM

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I deleted my save game and reinstalled - no crashes so far during the first run

hushed wasp Sep 23, 2023, 9:19 PM

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Which I really doubt is actually in game since thousands of people haven't had this issue - maybe it is possible it's the video drivers?

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Oh

orchid mango Sep 23, 2023, 9:21 PM

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nevermind, as soon as i clicked boss blind it froze again

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very strange

hushed wasp Sep 23, 2023, 9:21 PM

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What is your pixel art smoothing?

orchid mango Sep 23, 2023, 9:21 PM

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default i believe, should i try turning it all the way off?

hushed wasp Sep 23, 2023, 9:21 PM

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No that shouldn't be it

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Default should all be fine

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I guess if you deleted settings yeah leave that as is

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Any issues with other games today?

orchid mango Sep 23, 2023, 9:22 PM

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i don't believe so

hushed wasp Sep 23, 2023, 9:23 PM

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You can also confirm if it is a memory leak - have task manager open and see what the memory for balatro does as you keep playing

orchid mango Sep 23, 2023, 9:31 PM

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correction - my pixel smoothing was still set to high. i lowered it to the default of medium and am now running the game in true full screen. no crashes yet (also i just played 5 of a kind aces for the first time, love that)

hushed wasp Sep 23, 2023, 9:32 PM

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I am going to remove High as an option

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I have seen a couple issues with it

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And the difference isn't perceptible

orchid mango Sep 23, 2023, 9:36 PM

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ah. the game froze again. no sign of a memory leak

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right as i hit play hand here

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the memory dropped to 55 MB as soon as i clicked in-game to have windows kill the process though

hushed wasp Sep 23, 2023, 10:08 PM

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Did you try rolling drivers back?

orchid mango Sep 23, 2023, 11:06 PM

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not yet - i will tonight in about 5-6 hours. i'll let you know how it goes!

orchid mango Sep 24, 2023, 3:47 AM

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hm - still freezing even after rolling back to the drivers i was using last week, tried disabling G-sync, V-sync, turning all the settings down as well

orchid mango Sep 24, 2023, 8:14 AM

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something very interesting is happening this time

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it's very weird when this happens because the music still plays and i can even hear sparse sound effects playing as the game tries to "catch up"

hushed wasp Sep 24, 2023, 2:27 PM

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Is your computer haunted by any chance?

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It might be worth trying to play some other game made in the same engine (love2D) to see if this happens, but I can't think of any free ones in exe form

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This problem is kind of stumping me

orchid mango Sep 24, 2023, 8:06 PM

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my PC might be haunted too yeah. i'll see if i can find another love2d game i can test

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apparently i have Move or Die

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i don't seem to be having any issues - i'll try to find another one

orchid mango Sep 24, 2023, 8:35 PM

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the FUNG Demo seems OK too (interesting sci-fi post apoc game about fungus being the only way to get food/energy)

orchid mango Sep 24, 2023, 9:42 PM

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I MIGHT BE ONTO SOMETHING

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i have two monitors, one runs at 3440 x 1440 at 157hz at 10 bit color depth and the other is just a 2560 x 1440 at 120hz? 144hz?

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i turned off the latter

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no freezes or crashes yet

hushed wasp Sep 24, 2023, 9:43 PM

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Oh what on earth

orchid mango Sep 24, 2023, 9:45 PM

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my main monitor isn't validated gsync-compatible however it will let me turn it on but i really only use it for intense full-screen games, but i have turned that off as well

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i'm gonna try to match the refresh rates and see if that helps

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they're both at 144 now

hushed wasp Sep 24, 2023, 9:50 PM

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You had no issues with that 2nd monitor off right?

orchid mango Sep 24, 2023, 9:50 PM

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correct

hushed wasp Sep 24, 2023, 9:50 PM

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I have a 2 monitor setup - so I wonder what exactly it is that causes it

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Because I don't see that issue but I have 2 normie monitors

orchid mango Sep 24, 2023, 9:51 PM

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i had a similar issue on another PC where one monitor was 144hz and the other was 60hz, the screens would flicker like crazy if i had a game open on the main monitor and a youtube video or anything that was utilizing the GPU

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APPARENTLY nvidia "fixed" it (being the flickering) in a driver update

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but there's still probably weirdness going on

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no freezes so far with both set to 144hz

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well!

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so i've done all this:
matched both monitors to 144hz
turned off Gsync entirely
turned down all the settings in Balatro
changed the .exe properties to disable full-screen optimizations

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oop

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game froze when i tried to do a second run

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maybe it is my monitors

hushed wasp Sep 24, 2023, 10:34 PM

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Did the video play properly btw?

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When you clicked next

orchid mango Sep 24, 2023, 11:51 PM

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yes

orchid mango Sep 25, 2023, 3:16 AM

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no freezes throughout this entire run

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setting the settings back to default made the game froze as soon as i exited the settings menu

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let me test and see what it is that's causing that then

hushed wasp Sep 25, 2023, 3:18 AM

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Thank you. I wish I could help more but I won't be able to recreate this issue on my end

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I do suspect this could be somthing in my code though - maybe to do with how I am handling monitor information

orchid mango Sep 25, 2023, 3:38 AM

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it's so weird how intermittent it is. i have everything on/maxed except for pixel smoothing (that's at medium) and i'm doing one of those skip-every-blind challenges with no issues

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