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Posted January 04, 2020
Honest question: is there something going on with GOG / GOG galaxy that is causing games to crash?

I've noticed that my GOG games have been quite prone to crashing recently. I usually don't think too much about it if a PC game crashes every now and then, but it seems like I am seeing an abnormal ammount from the games I get off GOG.

Here is all the games I have been playing off GOG since I got back into PC gaming about 8 months ago: Battletech, Frostpunk, Shadow warrior 2, Merto 2033/Last Light, Outward, and Bloodstained. Outward being the only one that I can't remeber giving me any problems, but I only realy played that for a couple hours (but considering that Bloodstained just shit and died on me 26 minutes after the first time I fired it up, that sounds HIGHLY reliable).

My system is a Ryzen 7 2700 + a GTX 1080 & 32bg of RAM ... which is pretty overkill for most everything you can get off GOG (till cyberpunk comes out), but I am open to the idea that there is just some shit drivers / half assed windows update floating around that don't know about. Like I do have a sneaky suspiscion that the latest drivers Nvidia put out have been flakey, but seeing an abnormal ammount of crashes from titles I get off GOG (VS games from Steam / EA / Ubisoft / assorted MMOs) predates the december drivers.

I don't really think it is GOG galaxy causing all this, because it stays running and then updates my cloud saves even after the games will shit and die, that is why I am asking out here insted of the Galaxy thread.
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Posted January 04, 2020
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Sogi-Ya: Honest question: is there something going on with GOG / GOG galaxy that is causing games to crash?

I've noticed that my GOG games have been quite prone to crashing recently. I usually don't think too much about it if a PC game crashes every now and then, but it seems like I am seeing an abnormal ammount from the games I get off GOG.

Here is all the games I have been playing off GOG since I got back into PC gaming about 8 months ago: Battletech, Frostpunk, Shadow warrior 2, Merto 2033/Last Light, Outward, and Bloodstained. Outward being the only one that I can't remeber giving me any problems, but I only realy played that for a couple hours (but considering that Bloodstained just shit and died on me 26 minutes after the first time I fired it up, that sounds HIGHLY reliable).

My system is a Ryzen 7 2700 + a GTX 1080 & 32bg of RAM ... which is pretty overkill for most everything you can get off GOG (till cyberpunk comes out), but I am open to the idea that there is just some shit drivers / half assed windows update floating around that don't know about. Like I do have a sneaky suspiscion that the latest drivers Nvidia put out have been flakey, but seeing an abnormal ammount of crashes from titles I get off GOG (VS games from Steam / EA / Ubisoft / assorted MMOs) predates the december drivers.

I don't really think it is GOG galaxy causing all this, because it stays running and then updates my cloud saves even after the games will shit and die, that is why I am asking out here insted of the Galaxy thread.
I cannot say I have noticed this myself (using Galaxy 2 Beta), but PCs are PCs and each one is different. :)
So there are a few things you could try:
a) You can try to turn off the Galaxy Overlay. If anything, that is the only part of Galaxy that is directly interfering with the game while it's running.
b) You can also try to launch the games without Galaxy directly from the Start Menu (while Galaxy is closed)
and then see if things get better.
Also, since you have an Nvidia card, which driver do you use? I recently updated to 441.66 and I noticed some oddness with that thing, too in combination with my 1080Ti. Maybe it is a driver problem.
Posted January 04, 2020
Personally I haven't had any issues with Galaxy.
But since you have it with non gog games as well it sound like either a hardware or software issue.
Nvidia drivers are pretty reliable in my experience and if they were the cause of the crashes they would have issued better drivers by now.

Maybe your PSU (powersupply) isn't capable of powering your PC under load or maybe open up the box to see if everything is connected and seated properly. Also try running SSD and HD diagnostic tools from your drive manufacturer to see if it's maybe that.

As for software, which seems less likely if you get hard black screen crashes, but if it are crashes to desktop maybe it's antivirus or some software that using ingame overlays like MSI Afterburner or recording software that causes the games to crash.

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Talking about MSI Afterburner, you might want to try this in a few crashprone games to see what your PC temps are doing, because sometimes with uncapped framerates the temperature will go through the roof and then your GPU will shut down.
Post edited January 04, 2020 by Strijkbout
Posted January 04, 2020
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8BitChris: Also, since you have an Nvidia card, which driver do you use? I recently updated to 441.66 and I noticed some oddness with that thing, too in combination with my 1080Ti. Maybe it is a driver problem.
Yeah, that is the driver version I have too ... waiting to see how this month's driver works & if it doesn't get better then I am just gonna roll back to one from last year and turn off the updates.
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Strijkbout: Maybe your PSU (powersupply) isn't capable of powering your PC under load or maybe open up the box to see if everything is connected and seated properly. Also try running SSD and HD diagnostic tools from your drive manufacturer to see if it's maybe that.
My PSU is a 1,000 wat, so it shouldn't be that ... if it was then the whole system would croak, but this is just the game crashing to desktop.

I think I will try afterburner though & see what temps I am hitting.
Post edited January 04, 2020 by Sogi-Ya
Posted January 04, 2020
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8BitChris: Maybe it is a driver problem.
I poked around on the Nividia forums abo8ut it and saw some people complaining about how the GeForce "experence" program wasn't included in the driver pack anymore and you had to get it off the windows store. which doesn't mean much to me, because I don't use the damn thing except for drivers. But it did give me the idea to kill it since that is what runs Nvidia's overlay + their prifiles for the games it detects & I can see that causing problems since I have yet to see one of those things that wasn't tailored for Steam titles & gog titles only get included by hapenstance.

*shrug*

Managed to play Bloodstained for over an hour without crashing & only quit because I need to get some sleep before work.

I'm not gonna say that my problems are all gone after just an hour with no problems in one game, but it seems hopeful.
Posted January 04, 2020
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8BitChris: Maybe it is a driver problem.
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Sogi-Ya: I poked around on the Nividia forums abo8ut it and saw some people complaining about how the GeForce "experence" program wasn't included in the driver pack anymore and you had to get it off the windows store. which doesn't mean much to me, because I don't use the damn thing except for drivers. But it did give me the idea to kill it since that is what runs Nvidia's overlay + their prifiles for the games it detects & I can see that causing problems since I have yet to see one of those things that wasn't tailored for Steam titles & gog titles only get included by hapenstance.

*shrug*

Managed to play Bloodstained for over an hour without crashing & only quit because I need to get some sleep before work.

I'm not gonna say that my problems are all gone after just an hour with no problems in one game, but it seems hopeful.
Keeping my fingers crossed for you!
Posted January 04, 2020
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8BitChris: Maybe it is a driver problem.
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Sogi-Ya: I poked around on the Nividia forums abo8ut it and saw some people complaining about how the GeForce "experence" program wasn't included in the driver pack anymore and you had to get it off the windows store. which doesn't mean much to me, because I don't use the damn thing except for drivers. But it did give me the idea to kill it since that is what runs Nvidia's overlay + their prifiles for the games it detects & I can see that causing problems since I have yet to see one of those things that wasn't tailored for Steam titles & gog titles only get included by hapenstance.

*shrug*

Managed to play Bloodstained for over an hour without crashing & only quit because I need to get some sleep before work.

I'm not gonna say that my problems are all gone after just an hour with no problems in one game, but it seems hopeful.
Underclocking hardware invidually as best as you can (video card, CPU/bus speed/memory), can sometimes help in identifying items that might be going out. For memory, depending on how many sticks you are using, removing one at a time. Run the games that are most prone to crashing while underclocked and see if it does any better.

Hopefully it's just a software issue.
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