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#4496058 - 11/05/19 05:27 AM Same crash problem again ..  
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In September of this year I posted about the game crashing to the desktop at the point where the OBD logo starts to display.

At the time I eventually found the problem was caused by a M$ update. Uninstalling the update was the fix. In late October the M$ update was installed with no uninstall option
permitted by M$.

I haven't played the game since early October for various reasons and after checking here and seeing mention of the October WOTR patch/update
I installed the update and when I launched the game I ran into the exact same issue where the moment the OBD logo attempted to display I got the crash to desktop.

Long story short, by pure happenstance I ran across mention of MSI's afterburner causign this problem this evening while searching for the crash to desktop.

I've been running MSI afterburner for a long time so I closed it before starting WOTH and the game loaded normally. When I started
MSI afterburner again and tried launching WOTR it crashed to the desktop when the OBD logo started to display.

I use MSI afterburner to monitor GPU temps and frame rate in all of my shooter games ( CoD, Ghost Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint, etc.) and WOTR is the only game that won't work with MSI afterburner running in the background.

Could this be a conflict with the base game XP version OS coding and the MSI applet?


UPDATE: Further experimenting I found It's the MSI overlay displaying the FPS, GPU temp, etc. that causes the game to crash. If I turn off on screen display of the GPU temps, frame rate, etc. the game WILL run with MSI running
in the background.

Last edited by Over50; 11/05/19 06:10 AM.

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#4496089 - 11/05/19 02:45 PM Re: Same crash problem again .. [Re: Over50]  
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Yes MSI afterburner and some 3rd party video tools that hook into the driver level to overlay info or do other things can be incompatible with WOTR, and for some WOFF.
Glad it's just the on screen overlay stuff and you have away around it. You could probably have a profile setup for that in MSI


Regards,

Polovski,
OBD Software, developers of immersive flight sims;
Wings Over Flanders Fields and Wings Over The Reich
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#4496095 - 11/05/19 04:46 PM Re: Same crash problem again .. [Re: Polovski]  
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Originally Posted by Polovski
Yes MSI afterburner and some 3rd party video tools that hook into the driver level to overlay info or do other things can be incompatible with WOTR, and for some WOFF.
Glad it's just the on screen overlay stuff and you have away around it. You could probably have a profile setup for that in MSI


Thanks for the reply Pol. I don't recall seeing mention of over lay issues - not saying it isn't - in the tech FAQ so maybe give thought to adding it ?


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#4496103 - 11/05/19 06:36 PM Re: Same crash problem again .. [Re: Over50]  
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Yeah until now no one really played with it I guess, I added it already.
Thanks Over50.


Regards,

Polovski,
OBD Software, developers of immersive flight sims;
Wings Over Flanders Fields and Wings Over The Reich
http://www.overflandersfields.com
http://www.wingsoverthereich.com

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