Posted December 01, 2017
Posted this info in response to a stale thread so I thought I should give it a bump for folks who are a experiencing frustrating random cutscene crashes in The Longest Journey.
I had HUGE problems with random crashes at nearly every cutscenes - not just the first one. Tried all manor of affinity and CPU settings, with almost no improvement. Tried running other apps to slow the system - still no significant improvement.
Then I noticed a pattern - some cutscenes would transition FINE the first time through, but if the game was saved and that same cutscene replayed - IT WOULD CRASH EVERY TIME.
This made me suspect that it might be something related to HD caching and the hard drives latency being too low = i.e. my modern PC with it's SSD and large ram cache was just TOO FAST, and this was creating some kind of a race condition where a process in the game was getting ahead of something else due to the HD data arriving too quickly, causing a crash.
TLJ just did not like my super fast SSD.
So I re-installed the game to a slow external drive - first an WD "elements" spinning drive - then later to an older known-to-be-slow USB thumb drive - and in both cases PROBLEM SOLVED - no more cutscene crashes whatsoever (except for the infamous "Police Station" crash - but thats a known issue).
Just to avoid confusion I am not talking about installing the game FROM an external drive - that won't do anything - I am talking about overriding the GOG installer settings to install the game TO an external drive so the game will run from, and load cutscenes from, the external drive.
As always, your mileage may vary,, but this completely fixed my issues with cutscene crashes when nothing else seemed to work, so I thought I would pass it along.
I had HUGE problems with random crashes at nearly every cutscenes - not just the first one. Tried all manor of affinity and CPU settings, with almost no improvement. Tried running other apps to slow the system - still no significant improvement.
Then I noticed a pattern - some cutscenes would transition FINE the first time through, but if the game was saved and that same cutscene replayed - IT WOULD CRASH EVERY TIME.
This made me suspect that it might be something related to HD caching and the hard drives latency being too low = i.e. my modern PC with it's SSD and large ram cache was just TOO FAST, and this was creating some kind of a race condition where a process in the game was getting ahead of something else due to the HD data arriving too quickly, causing a crash.
TLJ just did not like my super fast SSD.
So I re-installed the game to a slow external drive - first an WD "elements" spinning drive - then later to an older known-to-be-slow USB thumb drive - and in both cases PROBLEM SOLVED - no more cutscene crashes whatsoever (except for the infamous "Police Station" crash - but thats a known issue).
Just to avoid confusion I am not talking about installing the game FROM an external drive - that won't do anything - I am talking about overriding the GOG installer settings to install the game TO an external drive so the game will run from, and load cutscenes from, the external drive.
As always, your mileage may vary,, but this completely fixed my issues with cutscene crashes when nothing else seemed to work, so I thought I would pass it along.
