What videogames have you been playing? version 1.22: What's with that plural?

[Birdjaguar]

Been at for three hours today. Game still won't launch.

 

[Farm Boy]

Don't hate us. You'll be tempted.

I bought the game; installed it and it won't go beyond initial character creation. Crashes to desktop. I meet all the specs, verified Steam files; rebooted etc. Not a good start. Website doesn't seem to have a community forum.

Off to a quality start!

Out of my depth. Got as far as something about it can't run over 60 fps, sometimes turning settings down helps, and a bunch of people who tried technomagicbabble solutions that none of which seem to work. The ghosts in the machine are strong in this one.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Elden Ring support suggests that I call Microsoft or reinstall Windows and see if that works.

 

[Farm Boy]

Oh good lord.

 

[Senethro]

Anti-cheat + anti-virus conflict?

 

[Birdjaguar]

I can turn off my vipre antimalware and see if that does it. Anti cheat?

 

[Farm Boy]

It has that built in, not sure which version.

 

[Birdjaguar]

And what can be done about it?

 

[Farm Boy]

Not sure if it boots anticheat in offline mode or not. Seems like it probably would, the gaming industry moved on from offline players after the first Xbox. Literally not a market worth having, I think. Mergle. The more mischievous version of me wouldn't say "mergle." He'd say, "Yo ho ho," or "Yarrr."

Has anyone done the co-op or PvP online features in Elden Ring? It seems like they've improved the system a lot, while keeping mostly the same spirit of the thing. But with my current ban on looking things up to preserve the surprises, I'm not sure if it's any good. I didn't have an internet connection stable to play the first Dark Souls when I ground through that.

In the spirit of the thing, I'm now this far:

Spoiler Nostrildameus, Destroyer of Abomination and Beauty alike, rides on :

 

[Birdjaguar]

Turning off my anti malware did nothing.

 

[Farm Boy]

Fudge. Tech support is probably right. Hail Mary on the massive inconvenience of reinstalling Windows for one computer game, which may or may not work, or just refund the sucker?

 

[Synobun]

After it crashes, open up Event Viewer and look at what the error is.

Delete everything in your %temp% folder as well. And disable Steam Overlay for the game.

 

[Birdjaguar]

@Synobun Where is event viewer?

 

[Birdjaguar]

I found event viewer. Lots there.

 

[Synobun]

I found event viewer. Lots there.

IIRC, it would be either under Windows Logs > Application or Windows Logs > System. You can figure out which/what by looking at the time stamp.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Thanks.

 

[Birdjaguar]

OK,I found the problem: not enough virtual memory. I upped it substantially and the game loaded. It appears to resemble Skyrim quite a lot.

 

[Farm Boy]

yay!

 

[Birdjaguar]

It was looking through the event logs that memory issues kept showing up. My virtual memory was set to 800-1200 MB. So I changed it to 16-40 GB. @Synobun

 

[Zardnaar]

Yao Gui steak increases melee damage by 500% in the base game. When combined with a Rocket-powered Bladed Ripper( which can only be made by breaking the game) you are unstoppable( assuming you use the infinate XP exploit)

I thought the steak was +10 or 50 damage?

My melee builds end up one shotting everything no sneak attack required or cheating to do it.