A Possible Fix for Dialog-related Crashes

digitalithium · 08-16-2010, 11:46 PM

One of the problems with RotA is the apparently random crashes. For me, it seemed to be related to dialog. I searched and searched for solutions to this problem, and I eventually found one. There is a possible fix a user posted on the Codemaster forums that works for me. It hard to find if you don't know what you're looking for so I thought I post it here as well. (Credit goes to BugMeNot who was the original poster on the Codemasters forum.) It's a simple fix:

1. Open the file baseEngine.ini located "<your steam folder>/steamapps/common/rise of the argonauts/engine/config/".

2. Change the line which reads

PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=False

to

PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=True

3. Play.

You might want to make a backup of the baseEngine.dll file first.

Hope this helps you like it helped me!

Kexin · 09-07-2010, 12:53 AM

It doesn't work. The game is still a crash fest in Win 7 64

jaymian · 01-11-2011, 07:58 PM

Did not work for me. I have Vista 64. I was starting to like the game too. But crashing on about every fifth conversations or so...? No good. Any other possible fixes out there besides playing the game on a console?

soundcreepy · 05-16-2011, 10:53 PM

The OP forgot to add that uninstalling OpenAL tends to help along with the .ini changes, before these changes the game crashed randonmly for me. (sometimes only 1 hour, other times 4 or 5) With these fixes though it tends to be almost non-existent (only once out of 5 extended plays)

If nothing else it is worth a shot, game is highly under-rated.

Win7 64-bit

08-16-2010, 11:46 PM	#1
digitalithium Join Date: Dec 2009 Reputation: 0 Posts: 30	A Possible Fix for Dialog-related Crashes One of the problems with RotA is the apparently random crashes. For me, it seemed to be related to dialog. I searched and searched for solutions to this problem, and I eventually found one. There is a possible fix a user posted on the Codemaster forums that works for me. It hard to find if you don't know what you're looking for so I thought I post it here as well. (Credit goes to BugMeNot who was the original poster on the Codemasters forum.) It's a simple fix: 1. Open the file baseEngine.ini located "<your steam folder>/steamapps/common/rise of the argonauts/engine/config/". 2. Change the line which reads PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=False to PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=True 3. Play. You might want to make a backup of the baseEngine.dll file first. Hope this helps you like it helped me!

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09-07-2010, 12:53 AM	#2
Kexin Join Date: Nov 2008 Reputation: 24 Posts: 378	It doesn't work. The game is still a crash fest in Win 7 64

01-11-2011, 07:58 PM	#3
jaymian Join Date: Aug 2010 Reputation: 0 Posts: 16	Did not work for me. I have Vista 64. I was starting to like the game too. But crashing on about every fifth conversations or so...? No good. Any other possible fixes out there besides playing the game on a console?

05-16-2011, 10:53 PM	#4
soundcreepy Join Date: Feb 2009 Reputation: 3 Posts: 538	The OP forgot to add that uninstalling OpenAL tends to help along with the .ini changes, before these changes the game crashed randonmly for me. (sometimes only 1 hour, other times 4 or 5) With these fixes though it tends to be almost non-existent (only once out of 5 extended plays) If nothing else it is worth a shot, game is highly under-rated. Win7 64-bit