Random crashes - FTL become unplayable

[freeshiny]

Hi,

I've been playing FTL for a long time. Before formatting windows I had all the ships except one (don't remember which).
Now I've started playing again and I already got 4 ships + B variants. All the time I've been playing I had absolutely no issues. But since 2 days ago I cannot play FTL anymore. It crashes to desktop all the time.

It crashes usually during the first couple of jumps, whether during the jump itself or after clicking an option in event, defeating an enemy, or when choosing 'Restart' from the menu. No way I can pass the first sector. It happens every time I play, since a couple of days ago.

Now comes the scary part - crash logs have barely any info in them:

Code: Select all

Version =  1.03.3

Stack Trace: 

1 - 0x00579153
2 - 0x004a6375
3 - 0x005f9aeb
4 - 0x00476f91
5 - 0x005a0ef8
6 - 0x0069415b
7 - 0x004010fd
8 - 0x77059f72 RtlInitializeExceptionChain
9 - 0x77059f45 RtlInitializeExceptionChain

http://i.imgur.com/cbMFWi1.png

As far as I know, nothing has changed on my computer since the game started crashing. I tried restarting windows, verifying game cache on steam, deleting and downloading again, updating nvidia drivers, and switching to fullscreen/windowed mode but didn't help.

Here's my DxDiag log in case it might help:
http://pastebin.com/dFqSANPy

[UltraMantis]

This problem started appearing several weeks ago. Where FTL worked fine on the exact same machine, now it either refuses to start or crashes randomly.

It may have something to do with a Windows update that for some reason breaks compatibility. There is no patch or solution for this problem yet.

[freeshiny]

Thanks for the reply. Sucks though, I was looking forward to improving my cloaking tactics with the stealth cruiser.

[freeshiny]

Running FTLGame.exe from steamapps\common\FTL Faster Than Light as administrator seemed to help the cause (or maybe just the real cause temporarily went away). Anyway - no crashes so far for me, and I just played for two hours straight.

[UltraMantis]

Allright, thanks for that. I hope you get lucky and have no more crashes.

[Matthew]

For other readers: two helpful fixes for random crashes

-Run from outside of Steam (as the OP is doing), the Steam inserted wrapper can cause all sorts of weird issue.

-Enable v-sync and/or the frame limiter from the FTL options.