AM is crashing game to black screen
sweetjaynee:
Heya folks -- first time poster, but long time user. Try and go easy on me, eh?
I've been using AM for years, with lots of CC, on a not so awesome computer. Life was good. (I could even run AM with Twallen mods -- so long as no pedo stuff was going on.)
Then I bought Showtime, and tried to run it. Crashed to a black screen. So, I removed AM and tried again - everything was fine. At this point the only thing I could think of that I may have done wrong was installing the EP with AM in the mods folder. SO I uninstalled and did a fresh install and AM download. That normally works.
And it did this time also - sort of. With no game items installed, AM works like a charm. But who wants a game with no CC? :-\
With a few dl'd CC (installed through the launcher) it will work fine, but once the DCCache folder gets more than 3 files in it the game starts crashing to black screen again. Either when I try to play, or when I try and install more content. If I look at task manger the tsw3.exe (or whatever the game file is called) is completely frozen.
When I remove AM I can load and install more content. I don't think there is a conflict with any of the content - at least not that I have been able to identify. All the content is what I already had running with AM before the EP install. It seems to have to do with the amount of things I have installed through launcher.
Before this all happened, before I installed the EP, I must have had 11(?) files in the DCCache folder and AM worked fine. I have been screwing with this for weeks now, and I finally broke down and decided to write in. I've done everything that I can think of -- but having to choose between AM and dl'd CC items does not make me a happy girl. And thats all I can figure out. There aren't any conflicting files in my mods/packages folder either. Currently, AM is the only mod I have installed.
Hopefully I gave all the info that ya'll need -- if not, let me know.
Please, and thanks.
ETA: I'm running XP. I have all EP's installed.
Starler:
Have you updated all of your other mods besides AM? Even any obscure mods that you might not think to update?
sweetjaynee:
At this point the only mod (core or otherwise) that I am running --or rather, trying to run-- is AM. Removing Twallen's mods was one of the first things I tried doing. They aren't currently installed. However, if I remove AM and install them the game runs fine; they just aren't as good as AM. But if I can't figure this out I guess that is what I'm going to have to do.
I have also tried removing all the slider hacks (and everything else from my mods/packages folder), and that doesn't make a difference either.
Based on all my fucking around I think it has something to do with too many files installed in the launcher, but I can't for the life of me figure out why it would only start doing this once I installed the new EP.
J. M. Pescado:
Define "crashed to a black screen". At what point does it crash? What are you attempting to DO when it crashes?
sweetjaynee:
It happens either when pressing the "play" button in the launcher, or after selecting content in the launcher and clicking "install."
After doing one of those actions, it happens almost immediately. My computer is a bit on the old and shitty side, so there are normally (when it was working before w/ AM, or currently working w/o AM) a few seconds of lag between doing either one of those actions and getting the screen where there is the loading bar. Instead of getting the title screen with the moving bar I just get the black.
When trying to play the game itself, the whole screen just goes black. It stays that way no matter how long I leave it alone. When trying to install, a small black box (the same size as the launcher install box would be) appears on the screen and also stays that way.
I guess its more accurately described as a failure to continue the loading process than as a 'crash.' The file stays open, but the size of it doesn't move in TaskManager. Its like it gets to a certain point and just won't move any further.
I hope that is a better description. Thanks again for the help.
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