Don't worry, they do release patches between betas.

You do have sent them the crash messages, mini dump, etc.? Or they won't be able to fix the crash, of course.

Cool, yeah I have sent a few in.

How much memory do you have, and what's your pagefile set at? What driver and graphics card?

Sounds like an out of memory error.

As for patches, Blair (head honcho) mentioned in another thread that there might be a hotfix this week, to address the AI issue at least.

Hi, seem to be having an ID crisis at the moment (posting as FluXsUK and FluXs at work )

I posted spec before under FluXsUK, but cant find it.

Off the top of my head (at work atm) its:

2GB DDR2 (OCZ)
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT
NVIDIA NForce 680i SLi Motherboard
Intel Core2Duo 2.4Ghz (6600)
x2 500GB (SATAII)
Vista 64bit (Prem)

page file.. cannot check here, but it will be at.. 'default'

I'm using nvidias 162.18, I tried the beta ones before I formatted, but it killed the game during loading...

all my other drives including BIOS have all been checked


memory error? When I get home ill run a memory check.

If I had to guess, I would say the issue is the 64-bit edition of Vista. I've got the 32 bit running with similar CPU, GeForce 8800gtx is the largest difference, and the game hasn't crashed once, even with the beta drivers I installed for Crysis.

Give http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_163.69.html a try FluXs, they aren't beta and are what I run with with my 7800GTX on Vista x64 Ultimate, granted I have an inferior setup as far as Ram, CPU, Mobo goes.

apologies Novaburst, (I am at home now) just checked and I am already running the 163.69 drivers

Ive just installed the beta ones again (163.71) and it let me load the game but it lagged like hell, also got the blank screen from vista resetting drivers... This time the game didnt crash out with a mini dump as I only got about 4 minutes of gameplay and quit the game myself. I got the usual dialog box waiting for me on the desktop:

"Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

Which is true if you leave it long enough the game continues but you get the constant repeating sounds effects until it does.   and afterwards this time constant lag...

The error itself is very generic as seen from this 113 thread on nvidias forum
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=25381

 

/jumps out window

Funky. I started getting this once in a while with World in Conflict and Crysis, but it hasn't happened in Sins yet. I was partly right though, it does seem to be a Vista issue, just not Sins-specific.

Hmm, I didn't update to the very latest beta drivers yet and haven't had any issues. We do have a ticket in with Nvidia on previously reported crash bugs with their drivers, however.

well i got a pretty much virgin pc atm, vista, stardock central, sins and gtalk, thats it! I did a complete format and reinstall on this pc yesterday.

The beta drivers made the problem worse for me, but its the same error. vista recovers the drivers the game pauses goes blank and comes back to life. eventually after 3 or 4 times the game doesnt come back and crashes out. Im no programmer so I could not say if its nvidia with sins eventually crashing due to the numbers of resets, or vice versa...

Ive tried all different types of settings even on super high with x4 anti-alias its the same.

We need to know how much is being used to be able to evaluate it. Though on Vista, that number will be high anyway...

When I get home from work (about 1 hour from now) ill post the page file size.

Right, according to vista my page file is at 2345mb (auto manage)

min: 16mb max: 3067mb

Hope this helps?

ewww, set the min and max to like 3500

1500 should be more then sufficient, 3500 being overkill by a long shot IMO. In any event keep min/max the same.