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[summers]

Hard luck, I hope you have enough skill points in blunt weapon to do max damage.lol

[Meren]

Hard luck, I hope you have enough skill points in blunt weapon to do max damage.lol

Ha, just got back, didn't need any blunt at all, they were brilliant and swapped me a 60" plasma for it, no problems and very sorry for my inconvenience, fair made my day that has

[Harbringe]

Crash Free may not be possible but I have managed to greatly reduce the amount I have crashed and the severity of those crashes.First my system when I started.

3 GHZ Dual core processor
Nvidia GTX+ 9800
4 GB ram
SoundBlaster Value 5.1 (12 - 15 years old) - Then to RealTek HDAudio 7.1

So when first running it was having real problems ,even blue screens of death ,but wasn't sure why ,had never updated my Bios as that has its risks but no matter what I tried nothing seemed to work.So updated it (thank god my isp provider is ranked as best in North America)had to do it online.Anyway it improved less crashes.Next was my soundcard ,I have onboard Realtek HD Audio but was using my Soundblaster card cause there are issues with missing windows files and Realtek anyway found a posting on my mobo's site that explained how to get around it ,also updated all my other drivers for my system.Anyway started it up and noticed a big improvement.After that started tinkering around with the settings in the game and settled on a 1400 - 900 widescreen resolution ,HDR, basically all shadows turned off except trees (shadows at 512) ,all distance viewing on ,and most the effects in diary off ,except for the essential ones.Also its a good idea in any game really to have the game resolution match up with your system resolution and as Nehrim run off the Oblivion engine and takes its settings from Oblivion its helpful to match that up as well when you start Oblivion that one time so Nehrim will have all the files it needs.You may not think it would make a difference but a friend of mine once told me windows has the habit of checking resolutions built in its OS and it helps if all the resolutions are the same.Now one final thing Nehrim is a game basically running over another game (Oblivion) and as such its a program utilizing another program ,well from playing Third Age Total War ,a Medeival 2 Total War conversion I was informed that many Virus checkers will look upon this as a virus because it shares many of the mimicry scripts that viruses use to infect your system but because its not a virus it doesn't know what to do with it ,so it just keeps checking and checking til you crash.Anyhoo turned off my virus checker and voila can have crash free sessions lasting from 4 - 12 hours .Still ocassionally crashes but its much better ,much much better. And the crashes are just CTD no more blue screens of death.

Now when I play Its a matter of me running around like a mad man or clicking on doors and things too fast that may or may not cause it to crash all I have to do is slow up to let the processing catch up ,and with a new clean install and maybe using stutter removal I may mitigate that to some degree.All in all I'm pretty pleased with it now.

Hope this helps

PS: My install of Nehrim is in its own dir on the C: drives and its not a steam version of Oblivion I have

PPS: Also just so you know I'm using regular old QTP3 , not QTP3Redimized with its optimized meshes a,d that alone would see my game performance improve

[TheHawk]

Hi
First some are damn lucky/rich (60" !!!! gone are those days. Sold my soul/body and everything else just for a decent,well half decent graphics pad).
Secondly. Your right about SSD drives. But mine is only 40gb, bought a few years ago (those were the days). Use to keep my OS on there. Now though run 3 h/d's. OS on a decent (well decent enough 7200rpm) h/d , gamesinstalled to SSD, third drive for odds/sods and backup but also my page file.
So really even with an SSD, if you want to improve performance a little, move your pageing file to a seperate hard drive.

[Meren]

Hawk !!!

Help me !!!

I've managed to drag it out of the van and into the house but I can't manage to lift the damn thing out of the blasted box, and no way can I get up onto the unit its gonna stand on.

Been waiting for a mate to finish work and everyone else is out on the drink.

Its sat there Hawk, its sat there teasing me going oooh, look at all my lovely pixels.

I'm gonna plug it in where it is and climb in the chuffin box with it.

I've even played a bit of old Oblivion (haven't got Nehrim on this pc) to try and take my mind of it, but it doesn't seem quite as good since playin Nehrim.

Patience is not my strong point, as you can probably tell.

Over and out, gone to stroke plasma.

[summers]

Wow 60inch plazma, nice loot you've got there mate, good for you! It's also nice to hear no one was hurt after all.lol

Harbringe
Thanks for your contribution to this thread, I'm sure someone will benefit from it:)Every bit of info counts!

[Meren]

Cheers Summers, its finally set up and looks great, colours so vivid, me likee much.

Anyhoo, now my fannyfit is over, back on topic.


Harbringe makes an excellent point about the Antivirus software, think Crysis was the last game I played that AVG interfered with, had to make exceptions in the AVG advanced options pointing to the actual Crysis game data folder and the Crysis folder in "My Games" where it placed the ini files etc.


Running pretty much crash free at the mo but am gonna make exceptions to the Nehrim folder aanyway, nice one Harbringe.

[Szoreny]

I think I've had one crash with Nehrim in maybe 20 hours. And my system isn't very strong either, but its very clean.

It runs a venerable Opteron 165 overclocked @ 2.4ghz
2 gigs RAM
EVGA 9800GTX+ 512
Win XP pro ...

Nehrim on very high settings runs like a dream really, with FPS trouble in Erothim.... maybe 15fps in the crowded bits - but generally I see 40+ and no crashes!

Fallout New Vegas on the other hand....I've seen more BSOD's in the last two days then I've seen in the last ten years.

[Meren]

Good to hear your systems having no problems with it, its odd though, I'm running an ATI 5970 and can usually sit at 80 or so fps while out and about but Erothin still has me down to 15 fps too, running pretty much crash free now though.


As for Fallout NV, yeesh, can't believe they released that in that state, tons of people are going nuts about it, and I dont think Steam is doing it any favours either, and as long as it needs Steam, it won't be going on my rig.

Hope the Bethsoft guys bring out a worth while patch soon so you guys can sit back and enjoy NV, maybe they should ask SureAI how to do things the right way.

[Szoreny]

I don't mean to hijack the thread by harping on New Vegas, - but I actually fixed my BSODs by lowering hardware sound acceleration to 'basic' through dxdiag. Runs very well now, now there's just content bugs nothing catastrophic.

Fun game, very strange mechanical decisions w/ the game systems but, its good -- feels like a theme park though.

[roxon_55]

I Will stick my neck out Nehrim has Crasked ((3)) times, this is straight out of game panel (58 days,5 active quest,62 completed quests,321 skill increases,86 training sessions,Overall amount of experience points 796387,LEVEL 43)
the computer was built in 2004, AMD Athlon 3000,2200ghz,K8Vdelux mother board,ATI Radeon xt950 gt 512mb,3gig DDR2,
160 gig seagate hard drive IDE, running VISTA. Oblivion memory extended TO 2gig ,Stutter free, under Oblivion mad Manager and oBSE since the day i downloaded the english version Have Played the Game 3 times 2 in german with Google help.... Game bogs never crashes on this computer only trouble i have had is with Nehrim speed mech, solver problem by player.setAV speed 01 and work my way UP till FRAME RATE was more even with less bogging Players run speed is 73,light armor 94, crafting 104... type tdt in consol uSE scroll lock go through panels till you find COMBAT INFO-SPEED in one of the panels with players run speed at 73, the panel teles you the walk speed 138.79,run 538.49,swim 71.84,swinfast 316.63,,,,
problem is I AM riding a race horse you cannot use your video to it full extent without it overloading and crashing,,,Itend to overload Nehrim,the same as Oblivion, running CMpartners,PCBcache cleaner,Advanced mark and recall,stickerenemytargeting,timekeeper,Henpori,hentari,Akatosh mount,inital glow, Kt_costum race fix,bikini,Advanced magecraft,unlimited rings,unlimited amulets,reduced spellcost,dg jewerly for all, nehrim windmill,chasecameramod, noflicker,animal resize and attitude adjustment,mecb body files, race to suit one handed on back,dance synceng,umpa animations,mp3player,EagleEye,nehrim levation, these are running Nehrim has reason to crash,,,,,ALL patches were puton on after level 35 at end of main quest .

nehrim HAS BEEN flawless..
Wayne.
CRASH FREE problen i only get to playe 20 hours a day HAVE to Sleep these days.

[q0rra]

Oh boy. I played the first 40 hours of Nehrim with 3-9 crashes, now I'm experiencing crashes every other minute or so and I have no idea what-so-ever what might be the cause of it.

EDIT: Turned out it was my Oblivion Stutter Remover settings who caused it.

[Scooby_Doo]

Ugh I'm getting hit now with lock-ups, controls completely freeze up, mouse quits working. If your walking you can't stop walking and just end up running into something. I can't even play for 10 minutes without it dieing. It seems to have started when I ended that Ayliad ruins in the dead zone

Something that might help: I've notice that after a while the game starts getting lagger and lagger. I wonder if a script is running out of control.

[TheHawk]

Hi

I've notice that after a while the game starts getting lagger and lagger

Try "purge memory" option in your diary settings when this happens. Might help.
The game uses a lot of cpu/memory ( a lot of new games do).

[himmelslicht]

Question is what to consider new. This game is a Memory hog compared to other games of the same year. I remember it being called one of the most resource eating games ever when it first came out. And Nehrim is just maximising that feat.

[TheHawk]

Hi

Yep. Sometimes I forget it was 2006 when it was released. Just brought back memories of firing it up and not knowing wether to laugh or cry. When Bethesda gave the pc specs required, 1gb of memory - haha. How many people had to run out for a second stick just to play the game and then found after half an hour all memory was being used. lol.

p.s. If Bethesda improves the engine for the next release?? Would that improve Nehrim as well????

[himmelslicht]

Nope, Nehrim is based on the Oblision Nehrim. If they just modify it for the next release, it might evenyually be possible to convert Nehrim to the better Engine, but most likely its another Engine, or the Engine is so heavily modded, that you would have to redo Nehrim.

[Scooby_Doo]

Hi

I've notice that after a while the game starts getting lagger and lagger

Try "purge memory" option in your diary settings when this happens. Might help.
The game uses a lot of cpu/memory ( a lot of new games do).

PCB offers no help, besides memory usage is only 85% out of 2GB total. When the game starts it's buttery smooth then slowly goes down hill until the controls freeze up. You have to basically ctrl-alt-delete to get out of the program.

Edit: reboot seems to have solved it *crosses fingers*
But I am getting incrediable lag whenever magic is used in the dead forest (I'm guessing too much transparency effects going on for the engine to handle)

[himmelslicht]

Its a problem with the light sources. For some reason the engine starts to stutter if there are 3 different types of light effects at the same Moment.

[arvisrend]

Its a problem with the light sources. For some reason the engine starts to stutter if there are 3 different types of light effects at the same Moment.

For some reason it also has to do with Distant Land, since otherwise there is no lag in the dark forest.