Slowdown and crashes

[tjmaze]

Not sure if this helps in the overall diagnosis but I was having extremely laggy transitions and stuttering framerate during game. For some reason the screen panned smooth while jumping but jerked a lot when walking/running. The area transitions dropped to a tiny framerate.
This was TOTALLY FIXED after changing VRAM to normal (was originally set to use all) and now the game works just fine in fullscreen mode.

Win7 x64
Core i7 930 @ 4.2ghz
NV GTX 560 Ti
6GB 1600mhz RAM

[Narmy]

I was having the transition crashes 24/7 that prevented me from even getting to the mountain caves till i decided to reinstall;
-my gpu drivers
-change the sotes.exe (located in steam-->steam apps-->common-->fortune summoners) file to be running in window xp sp3 compatibility mode, and as administrator.
Been smooth so far for the past 2 hours without crashing on transition from entrances. Give it a try and see if it works~

If you have an Nvidia graphics card, which version driver did you install? I want to play but I still haven't made it to the second save point without crashing. 

Not sure if this helps in the overall diagnosis but I was having extremely laggy transitions and stuttering framerate during game. For some reason the screen panned smooth while jumping but jerked a lot when walking/running. The area transitions dropped to a tiny framerate.
This was TOTALLY FIXED after changing VRAM to normal (was originally set to use all) and now the game works just fine in fullscreen mode.

The default for VRAM is "normal use", they tell you in the manual not to change it unless you have problems:

If you find the game runs slowly with default settings, set the graphics quality to "low" and VRAM usage to "all". (Using all available VRAM can cause slowdown in other cases, so if the game runs smoothly on default settings, don't change this option.)

If screen changes happen too quickly at default settings causing the screen to cut, set VRAM Usage to "Partial" or "Full."

Most users will find the best visual quality and highest framerate comes from "Visual Quality = High" and "VRAM Usage = Partial."

[SpaceDrake]

Alright, so as an update: we've definitely confirmed in testing now that having multiple monitors plugged in through one card will cause interface slowdown. We're going to let Lizsoft know about that one ASAP.

The crashes are still driving us mad - our test clients are rock solid - but we'll mention them to Lizsoft and the fact that XP mode seems to help in Win7 and see if something is happening there.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! Hopefully these'll be all sorted out soon.

If you're still crashing, I do recommend updating drivers and the like, though I imagine most people have tried that already.

[doubletaco]

I'm experiencing the screen transition crashes. I've gone down that first road to school a good dozen times now and I can never make it out of the school after class without it crashing. Running dual monitors without any slowdown on a ASUS NVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti on driver 290.36.

DxDiag: http://pastebin.com/AZuVnE98

Edit: I updated my video card drivers to the very latest beta (295.51) and the problem persists.

[SpaceDrake]

Wait, doubletaco, is that report correct, do you run your cards in SLI.

[PeaCake]

-change the sotes.exe (located in steam-->steam apps-->common-->fortune summoners) file to be running in window xp sp3 compatibility mode, and as administrator.

I've only recently completely removed my gpu drivers so I ditched that step, & I'm actually using XP SP3 so instead I set the compatibility mode to Windows 2000 (anything before that & the game will give you an error message refusing to start)
I can't be absolutely certain if this helped or not. I played a lot longer than I have without crashing, at least 30 minutes, but after that was surprised with another transition crash.

[doubletaco]

Wait, doubletaco, is that report correct, do you run your cards in SLI.

Er, no, I'm not sure why it would say that. I have one video card and two monitors.

[SpaceDrake]

Wait, doubletaco, is that report correct, do you run your cards in SLI.

Er, no, I'm not sure why it would say that. I have one video card and two monitors.

Are you attempting to run the game with both monitors active? If you are, try disabling one monitor and see if the game still crashes.

[VNV_Nightmare]

Hi everybody,

my problem: whenever I start the game and have the option "Disable Sound" not selected, then the game crashes before the main menu. But if I have enabled the option, then starts the game and I only have the 'slowdown problem'. (two monitors)

To see if the crashes comes through the music once I please all the people with these problems to Disable the music. Maybe it works then.

here my  DxDiag

[supervegeta]

i also have the random crashes

i do not have slowdown problems

do someone have a fix that stops the random crashes

please?

[PeaCake]

Hi everybody,

my problem: whenever I start the game and have the option "Disable Sound" not selected, then the game crashes before the main menu. But if I have enabled the option, then starts the game and I only have the 'slowdown problem'. (two monitors)

To see if the crashes comes through the music once I please all the people with these problems to Disable the music. Maybe it works then.

here my  DxDiag

Sounds like a problem with your sound driver/card, or possibly even the installation. Try reinstalling just in case?

This is a long-shot, but would the CF people know if Fortune Summoners is a non-unicode program, & if so, what localizations work?

[supervegeta]

please answer my problem

[PeaCake]

please answer my problem

A lot of us including me are suffering your problem at the moment, we're waiting on CF to do more tests & give us a fix. Stay tuned!

[doubletaco]

Wait, doubletaco, is that report correct, do you run your cards in SLI.

Er, no, I'm not sure why it would say that. I have one video card and two monitors.

Are you attempting to run the game with both monitors active? If you are, try disabling one monitor and see if the game still crashes.

I've tried it both ways and unfortunately the game still crashes. The crash in the Event Log looks pretty generic, too, but I'll post it in case it can give you or Lizsoft any insight into the problem.

http://pastebin.com/aGCgk5QA

Please let me know if you need any other information for tracking down the cause of this crash.

[Atomizer_Zero]

I'm wondering if the crashes might be related to sound cards..
Only way to confirm or debunk what i think is by all those with crashes, post if you have onboard sound or a dedicated sound card.

My reasoning for this is because, there was a game, which i cant remember the name of, that also had a similar crashing problem, and it was because of sound cards. only those with dedicated cards had the crashing problem. Might be completely unrelated, but, maybe worth looking at?