fyi have submitted an in-game log of the game freezing but wondering if anyone else has encountered same problem and/or has suggestions for troubleshooting.
most recent (started yesterday) and more serious issue is game keeps freezing after 10-15 mins of game play.
comes up game not responding and only option is to quit the game.
Have had this to a lesser degree since sovereign launch but unfortunately mentioned it not being so bad in this thread so next day it got a lot worse
troubleshooting so far:
uninstalled latest nvidia driver and installed previous one (have a 1070).
uninstalled game and reinstalled on different drive
double checked all graphic and game settings at default.
all temps are fine (under 60c)
all hardware is seated firmly and correctly
other games run fine
haven’t installed any new pc hardware for a few months
I’ve had something kind of like this before, but not with Boundless.
Most games were completely normal, but there was a couple of games (ESO was the primary one where the skybox just used to go crazy) over a short period of playtime. The problems got worse over a period of a few weeks, then one day my graphics card just full-on died.
I likewise hadn’t noticed any major problems (temp etc).
had been intending to replace my ol’ 1070 (maybe it found out and has taken offence…) but finding a 3070 or 3080 at a sensible price will be kinda tough until next year
my switch might see some use after all!
yeah, graphic card temps was first thingy on my suspect list but temps fine (tested inside case) and fans etc working tickety-boo. Other parts of it could be dying though
don’t have another graphics card to test though…might have to get a cheapy on amazon (gotta love their return policy )
Well, I was serious - usually these issues appear due to cold solder joints - which can be fixed by exposing the electronics to high temperature for short time. The solder on chips will also “reflow”.
Search “bake GPU” to see how it is done. I really fixed my SSD (although I had to replace it - NAND is damaged due to high temperatures but it was enough to recover the data - now the SSD works but at very low read/write speeds - hence replaced it after I extracted the data)
ps. Over clockers clean vaseline (used to protect from condensation during overclocking) from mainboards by using the dishwasher (no chemicals though). The microwave would destroy your electronics.
Hmm this guy makes it sound like a bad idea. No idea if he’s right but he sounds pretty knowledgable. Most of these issues I would say “eh worth a shot” but the solder in the oven is a good point, don’t want to contaminate your oven.
I’m not sure why the guy on Reddit thinks a heat gun wouldn’t work. My heat gun goes up to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit, and it’s not even that fancy of a heat gun.
@catfud One thing worth doing as a test (and I suppose technically a “fix”) would be to take the case off your computer, point a few room fans at your graphics card, and try playing.
You could also try turning all boundless settings to low, resolution to low, and try playing.
See if either of those fix the issue (just to diagnose the problem, not as a long term fix)
well, didn’t expect that to be actually a thing, but as a last, low-cost, resort to recover data then cool stuff. talking about cool stuff, I remember sticking hard drives in the freezer for similarly purposes and, off on a tangent, using a pencil to overclock a cpu back in the long distant past.
That’s a no and no (though I do have a reasonably fast intel chip server which does)
I think my enthusiasm for troubleshooting/repairing has waned over the years though…had to try straightening some cpu pins earlier this year but ended up just buying a new one…getting old and impatient
moved to topic to general as while I needed support, it wasn’t dev support.
stuck a 140mm fan under my card (thanks @DKPuncherello) and problems have greatly decreased, so I guess some overheating going on parts surrounding the gpu.
Have some thermal pads and mini heatsinks so might muck about at some point but will probably just stick another fan down there while I continue my search for a 30 series (lol).
I do blame the dev’s somewhat for having my card wearing out as they created an amazing game I play far too much…hmmmm, might have to go “borrow” one of their workstations…east grinstead is only a couple of hours drive away
Here’s what I’m curious about. Why does it produce that specific pattern of graphical glitching, only affecting the right side of the background?
My guess is boundless renders the foreground first, so it doesn’t get corrupted. Then it does the background in RGB order, rendering starting from the top left, so by the time it gets to the bottom right of the background it’s dropping calculations due to overheating. Then after rendering the frame it has a short rest, due to fixed frame rates, and cools off a bit before the next frame gets rendered, so the foreground remains un-glitched. Eventually heat builds up and the game exits.
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this guy makes it sound like a bad idea. No idea if he’s right but he sounds pretty knowledgable. Most of these issues I would say “eh worth a shot” but the solder in the oven is a good point, don’t want to contaminate your oven.
