JPMoneyman wrote:After some playing around with the game in terms of seeing if there's a pattern to the crashing I seem to have noticed that it does in fact occur with penalties. Not all though. False starts and any penalty that occurs before a play begins or at the end of a play doesn't seem cause a crash. However any play that happens during a play (eg. Holding or clipping) seems to initiate the crash when the yellow penalty bar flashes on the screen during the play. At this point the game crashes. (Maybe playing without penalties is the way to overcome it but that's pretty dumb in my opinion).
So I have been having a problem with not just Madden but a couple of other games. One of the developers for one of those games said something interesting after corresponding with us about various crashes and I thought maybe that might be something that is happening with Madden 08. This is what he said (part of a quote):
"It appears that a lot of games have this issue. From what I've read, this is a Windows issue that is caused by other programs interfering with one of the DLL files that is responsible for writing and accessing memory." - Danny Jugan? (Axis Football).
He said something about overclocking, outdated drivers and malware as well. But I was thinking maybe it's the interference with the DLL files? (I say that cause my CPU doesn't have any overclocking that I am aware of, my drivers are up to date and I don't have any malware (not that my anti virus/anti-malware programs have been able to detect at least). What do you guys think? Any computer experts out there that have an opinion? (cause I am just a CPU user and I don't know enough to figure it out!)
If that were the issue is there any way of figuring out what programs are causing interference with the game?
I don't know. At this point I can't roll back the Windows update. Might definitely be in the too hard basket eh? Might have to find and fire up an old cpu if I can find one lying around!
I rolled my build back to the 1703 update and I still had the problems. It seems there is something left on the PC even after rolling it back. The only way that I was able to cure this is wiping the hard drive via my MoBo's clean erase feature and reinstalling an earlier version of w10 on my PC, while making sure not to check for updates and then after the installation making sure the update feature was turned off. That's why I said that not everyone is going to be able to do that since they may not have that feature on their MoBo or an earlier version of windows to install, or a combo of the two. I would agree with the dll issue, but then again I'm far from a programmer.
