Game Freezes

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Game Freezes

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At certain points in the game, it would just freeze. However, this would happen only if I killed a certain NPC under certain conditions which I am unaware of. For example, during the ABI mission, I would kill a guard outside and after 10 seconds my game would freeze. According to Task Manager it would use 100% of my CPU and eat away all my memory. During my second run, while on the spaceship, I killed a few aliens and robots and saved the game. The next time I would load it would freeze after around 10 seconds. But this time I loaded and quickly ran and saw an alien who was still in combat with me, however he was located on the top of a few desks and computers in a room (Level 2 of the spaceship) - after killing him it didn't freeze anymore.

My computers specifications are:

ASUS M2N (Socket AM2)
AMD Athlon 3500+ 2,2 GHz
Memory DDR2 667 3GB
- Nanya Technology DDR2 667 1GB RAM
- Nanya Technology DDR2 667 1GB RAM
- Samsung DDR2 800 1GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Silent (512 MB DDR2)
C-Media CMI8738 5.1 Sound Card (16 bit, 44 KHz)
Logitech X-530 5.1 Speakers
Seagate 250 GB 7200rpm Hard Disk Drive

While playing the game, I have the following custom processes running in the background:

Windows Live Messenger 9 (wlcomm.exe, msnmsgr.exe)
PunkBuster (PnkBstrA, PnkBstrB.exe)
GoogleUpdate
Avira AntiVir

I am up to date with my hardware drivers, DirectX and Visual C++.

Thank you for reading this, I hope you have a solution to this. Also I would like to know if this has been happening to anyone else?

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Re: Game Freezes

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This is pretty painful to debug, but mostly for you. What I'd like you to do (the painful part) is wait. When the game freezes, wait until it crashes - it will crash eventually, but it may take upwards of 10 minutes. Then it gives you an error message. Make sure you screenshot it or write down what it says. Then post it here and we'll look at it.

They're pathing errors - for some insane reason, Deus Ex crashes when the pawns get into an infinite loop, rather than just terminating it. We tried to track this down and fix it, but we never managed it.
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Re: Game Freezes

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Re: Game Freezes

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This sounds like the same error in a different place http://www.offtopicproductions.com/foru ... lit=freeze

Got this at the start of Day 2:

edit: Got another one on the same map, mostly identical except for the part (State DeusEx.ScriptedPawn.Patrolling:00FB) in the first line being 00CC.
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Re: Game Freezes

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Similar thing happens to me at the ABI, the game freezes up after some time.

Here's the error message:

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Re: Game Freezes

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Found the subway multitool bug.

It seems to do with bot pathing. Do you know which person this is? I think if I kill him I'll be allowed to advance.
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Re: Game Freezes

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Uh... this doesn't actually seem to specify a character. Which is interesting (in a bad way) because it usually does.
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Re: Game Freezes

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Knocking out/Blowing up the civillians seemed to work. Don't know if that helps though.

Perhaps they get set to that erroneous path after the trigger is used?
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Re: Game Freezes

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One more
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Re: Game Freezes

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eenter wrote:Similar thing happens to me at the ABI, the game freezes up after some time.

Here's the error message:

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I can confirm this. In ABI on my 2nd playthrough now, used killall tnmdoberman, mucked around a bit, no freezes... even after re programing the bots and stuff like before.
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Re: Game Freezes

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I too encounter freezes, but only after I have been playing for a while.

I never get an error message. just a freeze that I have to use Ctrl-Shift-Esc to close...
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Re: Game Freezes

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Freeze and ...
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Happens when I do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqiDhLHe454
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Re: Game Freezes

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kahdeksan wrote:Happens when I do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqiDhLHe454
Proposed solution: Don't.
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Re: Game Freezes

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That's the error that I get at the place Sergeant Kelly mentioned here - that is to say, the power panel in the slums at the beginning of the second day. The incoming PM window shows up, and then the game hangs. If you want, I can screenshot where this takes place.

Ben

EDIT: And, of course, I now realize that Sergeant Kelly has already posted the exact same error not ten posts above me. Stupid Ben.
SECOND EDIT: But, I've discovered something new about the bug - it only seems to happen if any of the hostages are still conscious. Knocking all of them out seems to allow me to progress, as does killing them.
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Re: Game Freezes

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Thank you for your thorough bug report - with your information, Nick has located the cause of the bug, and we'll work on fixing it for patch 1.0.2.
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