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Screen freezes in RES, sound continues

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:46 am
by uvelius
Currently, I am experiencing a strange behavious: Now and then, when joining the fight in a HiRes against a Wanted ship, the screen freezes -- BUT the sound continues (and is not repeating/hangup). Controls are not responding.
I always emergency-logged as quickly as possible, since I don't know whether my ship actually continues to fly. Win10.

Anyone experiencing the same lately?

Re: Screen freezes in RES, sound continues

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:50 am
by Loriath
We get that just before a crash to desktop happens. Does not have to be in a RES. Can Happen anywhere.

Re: Screen freezes in RES, sound continues

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 9:18 am
by Flip
Sometimes it doesn’t lead to a crash, here. It just freezes and I have to force-quit the client. Then only the crash reporter pops up.

Re: Screen freezes in RES, sound continues

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:01 am
by Avago-Earo
AMD GPU? I've heard there are problems with AMD and ED which I think is Driver related and not to do with the game per se.

Re: Screen freezes in RES, sound continues

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:14 am
by charlie2alpha
I get the occasional freeze myself, every time I have to kill the client when it happens. Doesn't matter where I am, happens randomly.

Re: Screen freezes in RES, sound continues

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:38 am
by uvelius
Intel CPU, i7. 750Ti GPU. And yes, manual quit required, no auto-crash; even no crash reporter shows up ... well, seems we just have to live with it.

Re: Screen freezes in RES, sound continues

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:40 am
by TorTorden
Sounds like the crash I experience at times.
Now mostly when fuel scooping...

I get a driver crash, come back to desktop but elite still has focus, it's just not rendering. From the sounds my ship is still responding. But if I slow and drop out of cruise it won't instance so I have to force quit.

I can also just quit the game via menu by pressing the right buttons but yeah this is not fun..

Nvidia 980ti

Re: Screen freezes in RES, sound continues

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 1:18 pm
by Roger Wilco Jr
This is my typical problem, either that or a complete freeze with sound too. I usually have to reset the computer as I can't get task manager to pop up. I have Nvidia cards. I'm also worried about the ship continuing to fly, maybe into an asteroid or something.

Re: Screen freezes in RES, sound continues

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 1:33 pm
by Flip
I don’t think it’s video related, because sometimes the game freezes at the same exact time for Victoria and I, and we’re not using the same GPU.

Nvidia 980ti here.

Re: Screen freezes in RES, sound continues

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 1:39 pm
by uvelius
Roger Wilco Jr wrote:I'm also worried about the ship continuing to fly, maybe into an asteroid or something.

Exactly. Or kissing the Big Master Conda I just started to attack at full throttle ... in the middle of the asteroid field.

I tend to doubt it, though. Otherwise I should have flown into something solid at least one time already.