*v1.5.1 ZERO SUPPORT* and Mod Runs like garbage/Constant Stack trace crashes CONT. Thread - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

I am yet again asking for your support...again

To fix this hunk of crap release.

I have spent two weeks at this point trying to get v1.5.1 to run, without crashing with stack trace errors, without success. I have now removed all mods and forced ownership in win 10, removed all backround programs, tried all of the dx options, and the damn thing still crashes with a stack trace error with 2 mins. i have deleted shaders, reset the user.ltx, reinstalled anomoly, reinstalled the dx redist.

This is the second post and the discord is dead for help, and no reply's on this forum. I'm quite tired of wasting my time, i hope someone can come forward with atleast an answer as to why its so unstable on this system.

Edited by: cabbage125

The problem is on your end, i can play without crashes and with lots of addons. when it rarely chrashes it doesn't bother me much since i can play lots of hours without any ctd.

Try searching the internet for possible reasons game can crash if you don't have any addons, probably a faulty installation.

cop out. Ive got several hours in CoC and open xray, anomaly is copy and paste, theres no way to incorrectly install it unless you're patching it over an old version. I read the "read me's" and have done 3+ fresh installs, on different drives as well. Stack trace errors are engine errors, not host system errors.

To top that, 1.5.x and prior works fine without crashing, atleast without addon errors.

What system do you even have that's running perfectly? specs? hell post a log with such confidence. Anomaly throws errors even without CTD so its far from perfect.

There is critical error in 1.5.1 that is being ignored, there are many similar issues along the net with no resolution, short of a downvote and uninstall. If all you'll contribute in defense of this garbage is "yOuR SyStEM" then maybe you should've kept scrolling until a dev/mod actually gives a meaningful response.

Never crashes only rarely and probably because i have like 82 mods activated, i have a crappy pc, core 2 duo and 4 gb of ram.

Sorry i can't help you. But there was thread that said AMD pc had some issues with anomaly.

Yeah I have a similar issue to you, the only fixes I've found (which still baffle me, honestly), is using the DXVK wrapper (but very bad performance, at least on my 5700 XT), or otherwise, potentially you could try making a RAM drive big enough for anomaly itself (mine being 22gb with the game being 21.5GB in size).

That's what solved my crashing so far, I'm using the ASUS ROG ram disk utility as I couldn't be bothered to pay AMD $ for a ram drive util.

Here's a link.

Dlcdnet.asus.com

Virustotal.com virus total for the spooked. :p

I'm running on an i7 8700k with a 5.2gHz OC, 50 TB samsung 870 evo drives, anomoly drive in RAPID, 32gb of DDR4 4500MhZ, and a RTX 2080TI. This system doesn't have any issues with any other game.

Since this post I've met with a couple other people on the discord who have confirmed this issue and that the devs are aware of the problem. They will issue a patch accordingly but until then the issue is unavoidable.

At least my post will serve as a heads up to anyone running into this issue instead of outright denying it happens.

I have also ran across the same issues as you guys. I've got 32gb of ram and an AMD Ryzen 8 core, with one of the newer Nvidia GEForce GTX video cards; I can manage to play the game for a solid twenty minutes to maybe an hour if I am lucky, the whole time it runs perfectly smooth. There has been no stutter or graphical bugs (a couple audio cache bugs but meh) and otherwise nothing to halt gameplay; then all of the sudden the game decides to close itself down and my drivers begin to crap out. I've got a varied list of errors, logs and reports regarding this fatal issue but I see many others posting their logs with no response from the dev; so why should I? (And when I say list, I mean enough to fill a few pages of errors).

I have tried EVERY SINGLE work around myself, including snagging a copy off discord and installing it a couple different ways; to no success. There were many 'fixes' for this issue that really didnt fix crud, just changed the format of errors or amount. I tried every possible DirectX version, still nothing.

Now I will say I had an alternate experience; when I first got the game it wouldn't boot up, period. I'd get past the launcher and as the game boots I would get several errors. After time and time again of fixing that initial issue, eventually I somehow miraculously booted the game up and it worked wonders for exactly two days (I surprisingly played for a solid 9 plus hours in one sitting, no issues.. so has nothing to do with the install OR my hardware). Now today I am having the issue that you guys are describing, if this 'mod' is just gonna have one critical bug after another that truly breaks the game.. all I've gotta say is there is mods for CoC, might give that a go again and avoid this until support actually arrives.

If ANYONE knows of another perspective of fixing this rusted gem, please shoot me a dm. Thanks!

EDIT: I do not have shaders or any other mods for this mod; my CPU never reaches above 30% and what I noticed is it actually decreases right before the crash. Many say it is random but I may have figured out what it could be; it is either audio files for the game itself (Not soundtrack) are mixed up and not integrated right (A ReInstall wont do diddly, this is a game fault) or the 1.5.1 update/bug fix merely included something that is causing the game to react poorly with AMD hardware and drivers. I noticed right before my game dies; either a gunshot or voice or howl or ambiance noise gets glitched (Pitch and tone is different as well as static noise in the background), this is I guess the 'warning' that I have noticed before experiencing a crash.. disabling sound or any audio wont do the trick, as muting yourself doesnt halt the coding of the sound itself.

EDIT2: Each time I attempt to reboot the game and play the several minutes I have; more content within the game becomes broken (PDA glitches, gear disappears, stalkers teleport or T pose floating or randomly die, skybox blackens and whitens consecutively, other npc's despawn and have drastic issues, among other visual, audio and UI problems occur until a noticeable crash)... I cannot put my finger on what may be wrong here, let alone what is causing it besides the errors I am getting myself.

one could guess its not the game or mod fault, but new hardware drivers fault. i have relatively old hardware (amd fx 8 core, gtx1660, 16mb ram, using nvidia 452.06 driver, win 7 pro, using dx11 avx renderer in-game) and i have experienced only one crash (more than 10 h ingame) that after loading the game, didnt happen again. anomaly 1.5.1 from my experience is almost as stable as dead air(so kinda rock solid). my advice would be to experiment with rendering inside the game, if you didnt do it already, or try different drivers (in case of nvidia). there are lot of options: dx9, dx10, dx11 and their respective avx variants. my guess is that maybe one of the renders wont crash for you (as you probably noticed anomaly uses separate executables for each option, maybe there are compatibility issues that affect new hardware in some of them? {or your problem is caused by win 10, it isnt news that windows 10 is crap when it comes to older applications}). if you already tried all that, then tough luck i guess.

edit 16mb omg xD . of course, ive meant to type 16gb

Edited by: Seushimare

well guys ,i don't believe it's hardware related ... one reason is that there are too many ppl with completely different hw and has the same problem ... it could be related to some addon of course but most likely it could be smart terrains bug or like in my case bug related to particular npc ,so i believe it is related to engine itself ... first time i encountered this bug was few days ago ,i was in dead forest and i got this bug quite often in the same area ,first i though it was smart terrain because of same area but then after many tries i found out it was related to particular npc (sin faction captain) ,every time i killed him ,game crashed with unhalted exception and stack trace in log ,so i tried activate god mod and i simply killed every enemy except this one and i was able continue without any problem ... now i have this problem also in pripyat ,the same crash with the same log ,so i believe it's related to particular npc again ,i only need find which one it is ... will see if it will work

Yep, very frequent crashes. This forum is dead for help too. At most you gonna get is a couple of rabid fanboys to jump down your throat and sling accusations at your "incompetence", "hardware", "add-ons", you name it - the usual shitshow.

stack trace:
at address 0x000000000000006D

[error][ 87] : The parameter is incorrect.
at address 0x0000000140164FB9

I have 11 mdmp files for about 5 days worth of play. And when it doesn't crash, then it shits on your savegame. Had to revert to previous save file couple of times in past couple of weeks because one got corrupt and would insta-crash on load, and other time ALL of my existing missions suddenly all got cancelled as soon as I loaded in. Good times. Gonna try to finish my loner ironman run and dump this thing.

Edited by: MarkColt

Yeah ,you know ppl just mostly don't know what is going on exactly so they assume just ordinary problems ,like addons for example and most of the time they have right but it's not allways like that ,especially if many ppl with different hw has the same problem ,so how it even could be possible being hw problem ,or how it could be addon problem if there is not addon at all ... it makes no sense ,it's just unlogical ... main problem with this stack trace error is that you can't find out properly what's the problem if you are not really higly skilled (and most of ppl are not) ,because it is just stack trace with no explanation or detailed description in log ... for me it was this problem with npc and today i confirmed it for myself because it was npc again ,although many times it could be addon problem too or anything else and i believe many times it is like that ,but who knows ... i found it only after many tries and you can tell by coincident ... game itself is extraordinary but i think it needs something like error log update to give ppl chance to find out what's the problem and solve it by themselves ,if they know how ,or at least ask for help with exact problem if they don't know how to solve it ,because many ppl are just discouraged when they encounter problem like this and they have no clues what's going on and that's a pity because this game not only can compare with most AAA titles but in many cases literally slaughter many AAA like titles in comparison. Believe me ,i'm playing games from my 5-6 years age and now i'm 41 ,so i saw whole game industry grow up on my own eyes and this game is one of the best ever ,but it's not perfect yet and it definitely needs few tweaks and attentions in some aspects.

Edited by: LuxoSVK

Its a fake mod, its not no1 they just bot downloaded this. Its utter garbage, it crashes all the time.

I understand you are frustrated ,but i don't agree ... although it's truth that there are crashes but only for few ppl ,for most it runs smooth ... don't get me wrong but with this attitude most of AAA titles are garbage because at release date many of them had bugs and many of them have bugs even after years after release ... for example Skyrim ,one of the most popular games had insane amount of bugs at release date and even now after many years still have ,or RDR2 had huge problem with bugs at start etc. ,there are countless amount of examples of AAA titles like this ... which AAA titles can say it's completely smooth running and even for free or at least not overpriced ? Smooth running only few and for free or not overpriced it's only one word - none .

Not trying to be a 'fanboy' but its a great free game, and the times it crashes for me it was mostly because addons messed up i have like 120 or something.

Maybe there is some incompatibility with some hardware/software who knows, i saw a poll that was posted some time ago, for the majority of people the game almost never crashes.

so true ,you know ,every game has some problems/bugs ,difference is only in amount of those problems/bugs and for the last few years also in price ,that's just how things are and i highly doubt Anomaly would so high ratings if it would be garbage ,these ratings from ppl are allways best indicator if certain game is good or not ... look at steam for example ,there are many games which got solid reviews by famous reviewers but from ppl not so good reviews ... and there are also solid amount of examples of AAA titles which got big hype and after release it was or it became huge disappointments ... cyberpunk2077 ,ghost recon breakpoint ,anthem ,fallout76 ,COD warzone etc.etc.etc. ...

Edited by: LuxoSVK