Game crashes

[finite crescent]

Not sure what info you need, but i have the crash dump. Campaign runs for a few minutes then the game crashes without warning. It is not like getting stuck then closes but rather, you blink and it is gone.

[knotty girder]

border_line has been warned

Reason: Posted a link

[finite crescent]

uhm i cannot post the crash dump, cause of the wetransfer link...

and don't have nitro so cannot upload without

[shadow vessel]

Old security measure that we have to probably revert by now.

Recovering the link: https://we.tl/t-HRhh4djmS6

Are you on a laptop and windows 11 by chance?

[finite crescent]

no, Windows 11 yes, but my wife is on her PC... wait gonna get the specs

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Ram: 16 gb
Motherboard I don't know but can find out if needed, game is on a HDD if relevant

[shadow vessel]

It is something about Windows 11 killing the game's DirectX implementation. We are looking into this, but it might take a while honestly. Thanks a bunch for reporting though. (:

[finite crescent]

Is there any workaround? (also thanks for the fast reply!)

[shadow vessel]

Hard to say, we can't think of anything other than getting a VM that runs Win 10 . :s

You can also try finding Battle_Realms.ini file in the game's folder, opening it with Notepad and trying to change the following:

D3D9On12 =1
to
D3D9On12 =0

Then try to launch the game and see if the issue persists.

[finite crescent]

ok thanks will try

[knotty girder]

@finite crescent has learned a new technique and is now level 1!

[finite crescent]

It doesn't but... we will wait patiently for the fix, thanks for all your work

[shadow vessel]

Hi there!

Don't want to get your hopes up, but here's something we could try...

This is a wrapper that converts render output, used to solve a large number of issues with the game before, but we've solved all of them by now, except for resolution stuff, and now whatever this is with Windows 11 making our lives difficult. Game can't advance as fast as the modern tech 😅

• Unpack this into your BR folder. Launch dgVoodooCpl.exe, set Resolution to MAX.

• Launch the campaign and see if it still crashes.

• If it does, change the values in Battle_Realms.ini file in the game's folder, opening it with Notepad:

D3D9On12 =1
to
D3D9On12 =0

• If it's already on 0, set it to 1. What's important is that dgVoodoo2 files stay in the folder.

• Report back if it works when possible. Thanks!

[finite crescent]

Ok will try this later this evening.

[finite crescent]

It took a bit longer but now I got to try on my wives pc. It does not work. For her at least. I am gonna test out if it crashes for me too and if it does I will try the solution on my pc too. I think it did crash for me in the past, but she is more into the game bc she played it as a kid... I am more interested to the technical aspects of such things 🤣 well and mp...
Do you need the crash reps with the wrapper? I tried a bit more after your solution did not work. Got different but also same results. It crashed everytime, just the time span until it crashed, changed a lot

[shadow vessel]

Crash reports not needed. But your Windows 11 builds (full versions) would come in handy.

[finite crescent]

ok one sec. (also *wife's... i ofc only have one 🤣 Sometimes my english dies apparently.)

[ocean steeple]

I am the wife 😄

this is the info you need?

[shadow vessel]

Hello, wife. Precisely, thank you very much both.

[finite crescent]

Good. Feel free to let us know if we can be of any help. Might sometimes take a day or so, but we are glad to help as we really appreciate all the work you put in. 😄

[shadow vessel]

Ok, so this is 100% not necessary, but if you could do that, that could come in handy. I get word that the problematic versions are 22H2, and 23H2 somehow works. It is strange because there should not be significant differences between the two in terms of our issue.

So the build difference is 22621.2715(22H2) on yours and 22631.2715 (23H2) where the game supposedly works.
https://pureinfotech.com/kb5027397-windows-11-change-22h2-23h2/

If you could update and check if the issue persists, that could be big for us, but again, this is not necessary.

https://pureinfotech.com/upgrade-windows-11-23h2/

[lilac dragon]

sorry if this is late, but even with updating windows to 23H2, the crashing is still there, but if this important, I undervolted the cpu.

[shadow vessel]

This is definitel going to be difficult... Thanks for the intel though!

[lilac dragon]

I'm also playing with this mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2289036743

idk if a mod can crash a game by any chance

[shadow vessel]

it can

[lilac dragon]

I'll try playing a game with no mods and see if it's just the mod or is it the game

[lilac dragon]

Yea, still crashing

[shadow vessel]

Could you do this please?
#1148668057464606730 message

[lilac dragon]

It stopped crashing after some crashing later

So I guess either the game or windows fix itself

[shadow vessel]

@finite crescent @ocean steeple Hi there!

Would you guys be able to test this one out? Just unpack it into your BR folder and see if the crashing persists. :)

[finite crescent]

Sure will do it tomorrow probably as time today is a bit tight.

[finite crescent]

Sorry we didn't get back to you yet, we both got sick.

[knotty girder]

@finite crescent has learned a new technique and is now level 2!

[shadow vessel]

Oh no worries, get well soon! ☕

[shadow vessel]

Hello once again, I hope you guys have recovered and in thriving in good health now. 😅

This is a test, not a solution, but could you set your Windows 11 to "High Performance Plan" for BR? And see if it helps with the crashes?

**Setting > Gaming > Game Bar > Graphics > Browse BR and select High Performance. **

[shadow vessel]

We have just released a patch with the goal to address this. If possible, please check if your situation has improved.