C217/C218 Applying Low quality setting causes graphics crash

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

I usually play AWS in the auto-detected High quality setting but I tried using the Low setting yesterday for the first time in a long time. Every time I set quality to Low and click Apply I get the same error message below and when I click OK the game closes. If I restart the game right away I get the error again. The only way to prevent the error is to delete my Preferences.cache file and reset all of my game options and window positions and sizes. I customize almost everything so this has been a real pain. I tried again today after the C218 update and it's still happening.


I do not get this message with any other quality setting including Minimum, Medium, High, and Ultra.

[Event "Janе" Horizon]

All settings Minimum --> Ultra work for me.

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

Yeah I haven't seen any other reports of this so I'm wondering if it's something particular to my hardware. My GTS 250 isn't feeling so well lately so maybe that's the problem but why it would crash only on Low and not the other settings is a mystery.

[Teesa "Teesa" Fisher]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I vaguely remember back in closed testing there was an issue similar to yours. I thought it was something to do with settings, but my main memory is it was a pain in the butt.

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

There were so many different bugs back then that it's hard to remember! I just switched my buggy GTS 250 with a GT 520 (a much less capable card) and the bug is now gone. I can pick any quality setting with no crashes so case closed.