Bunch o Crashes

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Listen, I have told you all of the pertinent information, if there was more you would have it. If this was a recurring issue with other games or at other times I would have said so. It is a very specific and very odd problem which is why I asked for help, and I need people who actually understand what I am asking to help, I am not buying more shit or new shit, which is why you should refer to my original post. The reason it is a confusing problem is because it is an odd, unique, and singular problem.

and what have you tried to do so far?

all we know is that one game is causing your PC to crash. that is nothing to go on.

we're left scratching our heads because the obvious and simplest solutions have most likely already failed. this means that the problem is fairly major, hence us needing more information to fix. if, of course you HAVEN'T tried the simple, obvious fixes, then you should let us know. but of course, i suppose that's not pertinent information.

we're not asking you how much midget porn you got. we're trying to fix your fucking computer. you're the user. the one with the problem. you don't get to make decisions such as what is and is not "pertinent information". ffs, you're like the guy who was having random ass blue-screens and when asked "have you installed any new hardware" he neglected to tell me about the RAM or sound cards he had put in because he made the decision they didn't matter.

if i sound like i'm being an ass, understand that you are embodying one of the things i hate about society. idiot users who want help and refuse to co-operate with the people who are MUCH more qualified.

tl;dr we want to help. if that offends you in some way, then lol, enjoy that desktop

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Aco you offend me in every way, I do not want your help. You are needlessly offensive and have the IQ of a chestnut.

As I said in my first post, which has only been addressed by Brett, I am looking for something to mitigate the issue, ie any type of setting change I can do. It is not an issue with the computer obviously since it has to do with a game that is maxing out my system. If it was my computer, ie something to do with ram, hardrive, all that other shit you mentioned, it would be affecting other things. It is an old computer, I am trying to make GO usable, not upgrade my system, not fix something that is not broken. Read what I ask for, it seems all you and Kiony did was see that the game crashed any you stopped reading, now please only respond if you have any advice about what I asked, not about how much you want to tell me I need a new processor or whatever.

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It like if I told you, the trunk of my car is quite small, it can only hold about 10 cubic feet, any tips on how to maximize its use?

And you replied with, Listen you dumb fuck, whats your mpg, when did you get the oil changed and how is the transmission sounding? Have you checked the egr valve yet? It could be an Oxygen sensor, I NEED MORE INFO!

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Aco you offend me in every way, I do not want your help. You are needlessly offensive and have the IQ of a chestnut.

As I said in my first post, which has only been addressed by Brett, I am looking for something to mitigate the issue, ie any type of setting change I can do. It is not an issue with the computer obviously since it has to do with a game that is maxing out my system. If it was my computer, ie something to do with ram, hardrive, all that other shit you mentioned, it would be affecting other things. It is an old computer, I am trying to make GO usable, not upgrade my system, not fix something that is not broken. Read what I ask for, it seems all you and Kiony did was see that the game crashed any you stopped reading, now please only respond if you have any advice about what I asked, not about how much you want to tell me I need a new processor or whatever.

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It like if I told you, the trunk of my car is quite small, it can only hold about 10 cubic feet, any tips on how to maximize its use?

And you replied with, Listen you dumb fuck, whats your mpg, when did you get the oil changed and how is the transmission sounding? Have you checked the egr valve yet? It could be an Oxygen sensor, I NEED MORE INFO!

i'm assuming that you've already tried the simple stuff, such as turning down texture quality, running windowed, smaller resolutions, lowering shadows/anti-aliasing, etc etc. the standard things that people do when a game won't work. i'm assuming that because you should know to try those things first. if they didn't work (which i'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume they didn't), then the problem isn't going to be fixed by tweaking settings. its entirely possible your PC just isn't beefy enough to handle GO. or, that there is a problem elsewhere in the system which isn't allowing you to get the maximum use out of your components.

[Sin]

TBH you shouldn't really come to the IBIS forums for tech support. No one knows shit about shit here except me, and I don't like helping you faggots.

Google is your friend, or you know, the CS:GO steam discussion forums. People are pretty helpful there.

[kionay]

Aco you offend me in every way, I do not want your help. You are needlessly offensive and have the IQ of a chestnut.

offending him back isn't going to help anyone

It is not an issue with the computer obviously since it has to do with a game that is maxing out my system. If it was my computer, ie something to do with ram, hardrive, all that other shit you mentioned, it would be affecting other things.

i don't know anything else about your computer or your activities, if you only ever play CS:S and CS:GO then perhaps your computer has never been exposed to anything comparative to how resource-intensive CS:GO is

so, all i know is that you running CS:GO is a change in behavior (a new game) and a change for your system, this change could have brought up a previously unknown issue that would now be the source of the problem, though the game is new, the problem could have been old but irrelevant if what you've done since had not affected it (such as a software up-fuckery in your GPU's driver that says when a certain address in RAM is attempted to be accessed something could go wrong, in such a case only running an application or set of applications that would cause your GPU to have to access that spot in RAM would cause the issue, where a non-resource intensive GPU task would never attempt to access it)

It is an old computer, I am trying to make GO usable, not upgrade my system, not fix something that is not broken.

if it is something like i said before, if you are so unlucky, it may be that the previous undiscovered issue, not found due to the change in behavior or use of your system, is a hardware fault instead of a software one

if that's the case then the only solution is to replace what is defective (or pray there is a magical type of driver that can mitigate or work around the issue)

you said that GO crashes a lot, not each and every time, they can be similar but are not mutually inclusive, which was important information

also, your car analogy doesn't fit, a better analogy would be to say that your car dies whenever you put it in a certain gear, you want to know of a way to start your car or change gears that will prevent this
that may be the problem, but i'll be damned if my courses in hardware diagnostics didn't teach me that it's not impossible for the unlikely solution to still be the solution

all too many times would me or one of my classmates thing "there's NO way it could possibly be $this" only for it to be that and us left stunned, but otherwise more knowledgable by the process




now, if you want to assume that your hardware and drivers are perfectly fine, if you want to assume that a setting or combination thereof is responsible for both of your symptoms, then i would try reinstalling CS:GO and/or steam and see if the problem persists, if you tried to reduce the load on your system in every conceivable way then could you at least tell us what your system specs are, because if they are below the minimum requirements, then you may simply just not have a choice in the matter

but, if your system should be able to run it then perhaps CS:GO is leaking memory, we'd find this out by asking how much RAM you have and finding out how much RAM CS:GO is supposed to take up, if CS:GO only uses 1G of memory at most and on your system it's using 3.8 of your 4 gigs then that's a big clue that the application is fucked up, or part of your operating system specific to THAT application, is fucked up

finally, like acolyte said, google is your friend, if there is a particular issue with CS:GO crashing then it wouldn't be ridiculous to think other people would share the symptoms, only if you cannot find anyone that can share your exact problem that you should think you're so unlucky as to have one really weird fucked up issue (extremely unlikely)

for example, right now i'm debugging an issue with creating an Excel worksheet in C# by a reports user on an application server, the program (which i wrote) crashes, and the error message is reminiscent of not having a particular DLL
however, i happen to be so unlucky as to be the person debugging a COM object exception in the server's user permissions related to ASP.NET's built-in permissions and how they conflict with windows defaults, especially ones related to IIS

this is not intuitive, the answers are not always intuitive, if you ever have a problem with your computer, there should always be even the faintest reminder in the back of your head that should tell you that maybe something really fucking weird is really fucked up and you're really unlucky

:-/

[SCRIBBLE]

check the amd or nvidia forums and figure out what the community considers the most stable driver release is for your graphics card (usually not the most recent release). roll the driver back, lower some video settings in game, and try to open go in window mode instead of full screen.

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check the amd or nvidia forums and figure out what the community considers the most stable driver release is for your graphics card (usually not the most recent release). roll the driver back, lower some video settings in game, and try to open go in window mode instead of full screen.

Thanks scrib, Brett gave me a fix that made it somewhat playable and the window mode seams to stabilize it a bit more.

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Got it working as long as I dont hop around a bunch of servers, kudos Brett and Scrib.

[Passarelli]

What, would you mind posting the fix you used? That information is very helpful if someone else is having the same or similar issue. Glad you got it working, and thanks!

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It was deleting some file thing and some graphics adjustments, you'd have to ask brett and scrib since i don't remember and i aint no technology guy