New Player > Client crashes when loaded

[Queeg "Drutoo" Connor]

Hi Guys

Just downloaded the game and created my avatar and spawned in the starter building as soon as I leave the building the game freezes for about 10 seconds and then crashes to desktop with the classic "Program not responding" error

When I relog in as soon as the world loads it crashes again.

PC Details:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Intel Quadcore Q8300
Nvidia GeForce GT 340
340gb free HDD space
6GB Ram

Updated all drivers etc and tried to  find the game error logs but failed.

Any suggestions?

[Queeg "Drutoo" Connor]

Not sure if relivent but just looked though my windows event logs and for every crash one of these is created

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

- System

  - Provider

   [ Name]  Display
 
  - EventID 4101

   [ Qualifiers]  0
 
   Level 3
 
   Task 0
 
   Keywords 0x80000000000000
 
  - TimeCreated

   [ SystemTime]  2013-02-04T16:08:57.000000000Z
 
   EventRecordID 106596
 
   Channel System
 
   Computer Dave-PC
 
   Security
 

- EventData

   nvlddmkm
   

So uninstalled graphics driver and reinstalled and still doing it with same error,

[Zwarka "Zwarky" Stonehenge]

[...] and tried to  find the game error logs but failed.

Session.cache can be found at:
C:\Users\NAME\Documents\AfterWorld Survival\Cache\

Maybe try to start the Client with other
Video Settings. After change, close the
Client and restart for Login.



Greetings - Zwarky

[Queeg "Drutoo" Connor]

[...] and tried to  find the game error logs but failed.

Session.cache can be found at:
C:\Users\NAME\Documents\AfterWorld Survival\Cache\

Maybe try to start the Client with other
Video Settings. After change, close the
Client and restart for Login.



Greetings - Zwarky

Hi

Its working now lol

I set EVERYTHING in video abd quality to minimum and resolution to same and it still crashed, so I deleted all the cache files and it let me actually login and move around which is good lol

Stupid question though is there any sound in the game as was walking round for 10 minutes in tutorial village and heard no footsteps or ambient sounds?

[Zwarka "Zwarky" Stonehenge]

[...] is there any sound in the game as was walking round for 10 minutes in tutorial village and heard no footsteps or ambient sounds?

There should be Sound ... check
Options (Ingame it's "Ctrl-O")



Greetings - Zwarky

[Ah "Chuy" Kak]

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

 This is known problem for nvidia graphic cards.
 Had the same problem about 3y ago, then there was no good fix for it. The errors started to be more frequent and after a wile I could not do anything on the laptop. So I bought a new one.
 Earlier this year I accidentally found this old laptop from a cellar. I was wondering if a fix has come out.
 And there is a some solutions.
 For me worked this http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=240901
  But best is, if you Googel it and find the best solution for your pc.

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

I get this message sometimes too but the cause is my video card slowly dying. This is the second time I'm sending my MSI GTS 250 in for RMA repair/replacement since I bought it a couple of years ago and I hope that the third card will last longer than the first two!

I picked up a GT 520 as a secondary card to use while the GTS 250 is out and I don't have any of these problems with the most recent NVIDIA driver installed.