Possible fixes for crashes and issues related to video card
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 2:46 pm
Dear players,
Because of the way the AGE engine displays the map and the version of DirectX it uses, some recent video cards might have problems causing random crashes. It don't affect by far everybody but when it does happen, it will be quite a bother for the unlucky player.
There are possible work-around these issues though. The first is to never put too much textures in memory at once. To do that, you need to open the file general.opt with a text editor (notepad or notepad++), this file is in
<installation path>\NGC\Settings
and edit the line MemUsage = 75 (it can be any number...)
to
MemUsage = 10
Another way to prevent random crashes (linked to the game being denied file writing access) is to delete the file Userpath.ini which is also in the game main directory.
With these 2 simple edits, many users have reported a vast improvement in stability.
Because of the way the AGE engine displays the map and the version of DirectX it uses, some recent video cards might have problems causing random crashes. It don't affect by far everybody but when it does happen, it will be quite a bother for the unlucky player.
There are possible work-around these issues though. The first is to never put too much textures in memory at once. To do that, you need to open the file general.opt with a text editor (notepad or notepad++), this file is in
<installation path>\NGC\Settings
and edit the line MemUsage = 75 (it can be any number...)
to
MemUsage = 10
Another way to prevent random crashes (linked to the game being denied file writing access) is to delete the file Userpath.ini which is also in the game main directory.
With these 2 simple edits, many users have reported a vast improvement in stability.
