#4

Unfortunately, PhysX is used for all of the physics in the game, so the lowest setting is ā€œlowā€. I personally donā€™t know why the game would crash there, though. I mean, I get some pretty nasty performance problems there (I usually get 40FPS looking in one direction, and 75 in the opposite), and I only run at 1440x900, but Iā€™ll chalk that up to having an AMD Radeon HD 7770. Maybe it would help if you could record a video of what happens, so we can watch what happens?

#5

^ Afaik, you can disable it w/ an .ini edit, I will go hunting for info on this and give it a try, will report back if it works. Pretty sure my system would be hard-press to record video while playing the game, so I doubt Iā€™ll have a video for you, it really goes down pretty much exactly like I described in the OP.

#6

If you disabled PhysX, all of the physics wouldnā€™t work in the game. Ragdolls, vehicles, anything with physics would not work properly, and probably crash the game, based on how Iā€™ve seen UE3 act before. In any case, I donā€™t think that this issue has much to do with PhysX, but I still donā€™t have any ideas on what it could specifically be.

#7

He has an AMD card and from what Iā€™ve read canā€™t implement physix very well if at all. It drops your FPS so low that either it freezes or crashes. Very common issue with AMD Radeon gpus. A lot of peoe have been turning the physix over to their CPUs to handle the physix as a work around where as others have done other things that I canā€™t remember off the top of my head.

If his physix are on the lowest setting theoretically he should be fine. So it is highly possible that there is another issue going on.

And I do believe that you can disable several physix features manually through deleted files and whatnot and changing configurations around but I doubt he needs to do something like this.

He should also check is control panel for his graphics card and change the physix there just in case itā€™s not taking effect Iā€™m game. As in it may be hardware instead of software problems.

#8

I have one too, and you cannot run PhysX on an AMD GPU, it automatically gets shoved onto the CPU instead, no matter what. There are no options in Catalyst Control Center for PhysX (Since itā€™s from Nvidia) whatsoever, either, so this isnā€™t too helpful to him.

#9

Well idk how, but I just got my Maya all the way through Bloodshot Stronghold and Bloodshot Ramparts with no crashes, and it wasnā€™t like I rushed it either. IDK if this is somehow related to the hotfix thatā€™s increased drop rates or if I was somehow lucky, but this is exciting, maybe, just MAYBE, I can get my other toons through it too. Time for sleep now, will try other toons in the morning.

#10

Update: It would appear the problem has magically resolved itself, I have now gotten all 3 characters I had to that point in the game through Bloodshot Stronghold and Bloodshot Ramparts with no crashes whatsoever.

#11

Whelp, the problem appears to be backā€¦at least Iā€™ve done the main story missions w/ all 4 of my mains for NVHM, but this is utterly infuriating. This problem was solved for like the last 2 monthsā€¦I donā€™t understand how it could have reappeared like this, Iā€™ve changed nothing on my end.

#12

Update: Curiously, I was able to clear Bloodshot Stronghold just fine with my new Gaige. This reminded me that the last time I had taken Salvador though it was immediately after my Maya got through somehow (and this was after the drop rate increase stuff began), so with that observation in mind, I tried to get my Salvador though Bloodshot Stronghold immediately after finishing up Bloodshot Ramparts with Gaige.

Sure enough, it worked, and Salvador is now free to finish the rest of NVHM (vanilla game only for now, not gonna start DLCs till all 6 of my characters are done with NVHM vanilla).

#13

Iā€™m glad you were able to get through.

I havenā€™t experienced any issues with the Bloodshot Stronghold, and neither have any of my friends with a variety of different hardware configurations.

It might have been a problem with your game cache in some way. Do post if it happens on your TVHM playthroughs or when you might go back for side quests.

#14

i have the same problem as you were can u help me ? how did u get to bloodshot stronghold without crashing?

#15

So itā€™s crashing in Bloodshot Stronghold (henceforth BSH)? Does it just ā€˜lock upā€™ with ambient audio and music still playing, because thatā€™s what would happen to me. I found that playing for a few hours elsewhere before going into BSH seemed to help (My successful runs were usually after fully clearing The Dust as part of the storyline). Iā€™m on a new rig now, so I havenā€™t been having this particular issue. I would definitely recommend setting PhysX to Min (I was having sporadic crashing even on my new rig until after I did this).

#16

ow ok thanks for the info ill try to see what i can do thanks again

#17

the issue with bl2 and physx is that bl2 only uses the one core of the cpu, which means that even an uber cpu will lag with it.

#18

my crash is when i try to enter blood stronghold the screen is loading but suddenly the game crash and say a bunch of file were missing, is it the same crash as yours?

#19

I never got any error messages with mine, sounds like you might need to verify the integrity of the game cache (do this in steam library).

#20

ok thx im trying to verify it right now

#21

wow thx dude it actually worked i finally finished the mission thx again

#22

Glad I could help, welcome back to Pandora. :smiley:

#23

gearbox their support/patching was so much better before tps , we had recently a big patch but suprisly there are still so many bugs in this game. idk why gearbox started with big patchesā€¦ i preffer small patches over a big patch and have to wait for months to get it fixed.