Hey, everyone....It's me, Skye...again. I know you're all probably sick of seeing me since this is my 3rd thread, and I've only been around foooorrr...what, a week? Ish?
I mean, of course, I posted an Intro thread, then I had issues with SOME, only some, items in Pawsome Pack V5 causing the game to crash once I clicked Add (examples would be the items AceHat, CHat, Irish Deer Antlers, Sunglasses2, etc..many items would crash if I went to try them on, though it doesn't matter too much anymore because I know which I want to use, and which I don't care much about).
So, here is my third thread, and newest issue: The game is crashing. CONSTANTLY. It's not like other crash threads I've read. Trust me, I read all the help threads related to my problem before I started writing this.
Let me explain: I have 10 characters, currently. I use each of them depending on what I feel like. I usually go to whatever map I feel like as well, which usually includes South Pole, Ficho, or Cape (mostly because everywhere else is ridiculously and unfairly overpopulated).
Like I said, I've only been here a short time, learned a good bit, and the game has been running smoothly despite a few Bad Tokens and random crashes here and there. However, today was different. Yesterday, the game ran perfectly fine, no issues to speak of. I downloaded MassMarkings Aug22 and Pawsome Pack V5. Did everything correctly, all works fine, and spent a couple hours here and there throughout the day, seeing what everything looked like and editing a few of my characters. There were MUCH fewer players online today, this afternoon, than there were last night.
So..Since earlier this afternoon, around noonish-1pm, I took care of an essay I had to do for an Admission officer at a college. Afterwards, I wanted to play FH. Did my usual stuff: Closed everything except Task Manager. No browsers open or any other programs. Just FH and Task Manager (I always have it open). Basically, the ENTIRE DAY, the game has been constantly crashing. I HAVE taken breaks. No, I do not sit on my computer for 10 hours straight (it's now after 10pm, writing this sentence). There were a couple rare moments where I could be in a map and everything would work like normal - no lag, etc. Everything would be fine and I'd be chatting for around an hour or so. Then, while typing, BOOM random crash. This is not EVERY time, but basically, to be simple and blunt, every single time I have tried to play FH, it crashes.
Either: Randomly while chatting; letting my character load into the map and then crashing like 3 seconds after I'm in the map, before I can even move my cam and start moving or typing, or, the most common; the game will be at one of the loading screens, sit there for a couple minutes, get a Not Responding header, then crash. So most times, I can't get into a map at all. For the most part, I've been hanging (or trying to) in Cape of Distant Worlds...which has not gone any higher than around 30ish people today. Come on. I've been in Ficho with over 50 people in it. So, it can't be the amount of people. The game has run perfectly fine before today, despite the occasional Token or crash like I mentioned.
This is the first time I'm experiencing a problem of this level, so please, NO one say it's my computer. If it were the laptop, then the game would have never worked at all from the very beginning.
Before suggesting any typical solutions, let me explain that I have read MANY crash help threads on the forums here, and I HAVE tried pretty much every single thing suggested.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling. I did that the other day because of a texture failure, which turned out to be something with my computer, not the game (lol).
I have, obviously, given it time and waited, in case it were the internet/connection/server/too many people. Hasn't made a difference throughout the day, obviously.
I have disconnected, and reconnected my internet, which did nothing. Honestly, I don't see how a connection issue would cause a program crash. I would expect something like that to just say I can't connect to the server/map, or just give me a Bad Token. Nope, crash.
I even tried changing the rendering subsystem, like many people seem to suggest. I have tried Direct3D9, and OpenGL. Still crashes, no matter which one. The one I've always been playing on was Direct3D9. OpenGL actually lowered the frame rate (I noticed while the title screen panned through the background, it was much slower and choppier). Also, on OpenGL, I couldn't even get into freaking Lonely Cave. The starter, basic map. Game crashed on the loading screen before Lonely Cave. That's some bad stuff there.
So yeah, I've tried everything I can think of, and everything I've read. Nothing works. I can't get the game to stop crashing. Yes, I have tried loading in as different characters. Doesn't make a difference. Not all my characters have MassMarkings or Pawsome Items, so I KNOW it's not the mod packs causing it.
I may be new, I may suck at playing, and I may suck at making characters. I may suck at RPing, writing, and character development. But hey, I just want to be able to play for more than a few seconds.
I'm not exaggerating, I lost count and stopped counting after the crashes hit the 30+ mark. That is RIDICULOUS. Over 30 times? *sadness*
In case anyone needs to know for sure, it's that dreaded "FeralHeart.exe has stopped working. Windows is checking for a solution to the problem.", which then goes to the message saying it couldn't be fixed, etc, and your only option is to click the "Close Program" button".
Please help your noobie white wolfie? T^T
