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#1 MECHANZIE

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Posted October 26 2012 - 06:24 PM

  • Bug: Game crashes during play at various stages due to running out of video memory. this occurs regardless of the graphics settings. the game will freeze, and going back to windows will show a dialog saying there is insufficient memory, and to try lowering graphics settings.
  • Cause: This will happen not long after starting out a game. engaging in combat or walking a short distance can cause this to happen.
  • Reproduction: Has been happening ever since one deathmatch was completed.
  • Severity: 4. has been happening following a completion of one deathmatch. the following game crashed due to insufficient video memory and has been happening in every game since.


#2 Maltitol

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Posted October 26 2012 - 06:56 PM

Provide your system specs.

#3 MonsterZero

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Posted October 26 2012 - 07:20 PM

To solve it in the short term, try lowering the texture detail and/or graphics detail in the Options menu.

If you're not sure what your system specs are, you can use the DxDiag tool in windows to find out.

If you have Windows 7, you can type in 'dxdiag' in the Start menu's search/run bar.  Otherwise you should be able to go to C:WindowsSystem32dxdiag.exe and run it there.  You can then use the Save All Information to save it to a text file.

#4 MECHANZIE

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Posted October 26 2012 - 07:31 PM

win7 professional 32 bit
intel core2 duo @ 2.4ghz
4GB memory
Graphics is GeForce 800GTS w 640MB physical memory. (total 1768MB assigned video memory)

Edited by MECHANZIE, October 26 2012 - 07:54 PM.


#5 Scotty1700

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Posted October 26 2012 - 07:37 PM

I too have the same problem, the game defaultly had the graphics settings on ultra, and I've tried every other setting (currently on lowest) and it still says I run out of video memory when I just bought this new computer a little more than a month ago. (Granted I'm stuck on 32 bit windows 7 OS.)

AMD FX 8150 Eight core
3.25 gb cap of ram
GTX 550 Ti vid card.


Edit: I just went into advanced settings under video options and shut off everything and now it's working fine.

Edited by Scotty1700, October 26 2012 - 07:49 PM.


#6 MECHANZIE

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Posted October 26 2012 - 07:49 PM

another thing worthy of note here is when you tune down the graphics settings it goes and resets them when you start the game again (irrespective of game crashing or closing game)

#7 SilentCid

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Posted October 26 2012 - 07:57 PM

You can force the game to keep the settings by setting it manually in the DefaultSystemSettings.ini file located in ..MeteorEntertainmentHawkenInstalledHawkenFilesEngineConfig folder.


Also the people who are having the memory problem when was the last time you've updated your video drivers?

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#8 MECHANZIE

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Posted October 26 2012 - 10:25 PM

after updating drivers its working on low settings now. but if you leave it on high settings it still runs out. but its better.
if anyone has this issue and is running on nvidia you should update the drivers. last update came out 2 weeks ago.

Edited by MECHANZIE, October 26 2012 - 11:30 PM.


#9 Venja

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Posted October 27 2012 - 02:20 AM

View PostScotty1700, on October 26 2012 - 07:37 PM, said:

I too have the same problem, the game defaultly had the graphics settings on ultra, and I've tried every other setting (currently on lowest) and it still says I run out of video memory when I just bought this new computer a little more than a month ago. (Granted I'm stuck on 32 bit windows 7 OS.)

AMD FX 8150 Eight core
3.25 gb cap of ram
GTX 550 Ti vid card.


Edit: I just went into advanced settings under video options and shut off everything and now it's working fine.

I had Multiple problems with this. The one time the game worked, I had a lockup once I died and reverted to launch screen.  I tried many things. While set at native screen full window 1680 1050, the launch screen bugged out every time - the mouse cursor was non operable. But finally opening advanced and turning off the "capped smooth" and setting detail level to medium. I was able to play fine.
However I have had several instances of crashes when dieing and reverting to the launch screen. Rate at a 3

It is a gorgeous game.  And the audio is magic

Intel 3.4 Ghz, 4 GB ram, Windows 7 32Bit Operating System
Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti





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