Read before posting! (most common issues)
since I find myself stuck in a loop of "search my old posts", "copy" and "paste" to answer most questions on this forum, I'll just gather the solutions to the most common issues...
Issues:- Freezes and crashes
- Crashes while loading/zoning
- Yes, it is (most likely) the same issue/cause as the freezes.
- "Assertion Failed - Out of Memory"
- Content issues
- Walking through walls / Falling through the world
- White walls / missing textures
- Patcher
- Patcher downloads updates repeatedly/when it shouldn't
- 14GB Update!
- (this will save you 13GB of those 14GB download)
- Textures/Chatwindow/etc with Moiré(/squares)
- Lag spikes
- DirectX update NEW
- to be continued...
Last resort: Reinstall the game.
- Uninstall the game
VISTA:
- If
- "Control Panel Home": Find "Programs" and click on "Uninstall a program"
- "Classic View": Find "Programs and Features"
- Find "Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures"
XP: (hope this is correct, been a while)
- Find "Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures"
- Delete all settings
- Install the game
Avoiding driver freezes and crashes
Getting the patcher to connect
- Navigate to your Age of Conan folder
- Vista/XP 32bit default:
C:\Program Files\Funcom\Age of Conan\
- Vista/XP 64bit default:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Funcom\Age of Conan\
- Run PatcherSetup.exe
If the above does not solve your patcher problem, read this post.
Resolving most graphics issues
NOTE: You might want to clean out your drivers first.
- Get the latest drivers
- Nvidia
- Currently the recommended nvidia driver for AoC are the 178.24 drivers.
- If you are experiencing problems with the drivers above, you can try the 177.92 Beta drivers.
- ATi
- If anyone has a recommended/tested version for the ATi drivers, let me know.
- For now, my recommendation goes to the latest driver from ATi:
- Scroll down to Option 2 and select Display Driver.
- Note: Do not install the "Cataclyst Control Center"! If you have it installed, remove it!
A lot of people claim it can cause crashes and issues, and we're trying to cure that, aren't we?
- Disable conflicting settings
- ATi
- Uninstall "Cataclyst Control Center"
The CCC causes lots of issues and crashes so unless you know exactly what you're doing, get rid of it. - (if you don't like the option above, you're on your own. try the nvidia suggestions below.)
- Nvidia
- Open the "NVIDIA Control Panel" (right click on the desktop or find it in the start menu)
- View -> Advanced
- "Manage 3D settings"
- Either click on "Restore" to get the default settings applied
- or, if you want to do it yourself, choose either the "Global Settings" or create a profile for AoC under "Program Settings"
- "Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration" => "Single display performance mode" (fixes freezes, crashes and some other issues)
- "Antialiasing - Mode" => "Application-controlled" (fixes Moiré)
- "Anisotropic filtering" => "Application-controlled" (fixes Moiré)
- (optional) Reduce "Maximum pre-rendered frames" to 2 or 1. (can speed up mouse-camera-movement)
- (optional) "Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization" => "On" (huge performance boost on certain cards when using "Trilinear" instead of "Anisotropic" filtering in game)
Delete custom UIs and fix broken content
- Navigate to your Age of Conan folder
- Vista/XP 32bit default:
C:\Program Files\Funcom\Age of Conan\
- Vista/XP 64bit default:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Funcom\Age of Conan\
- Delete the "cd_image" folder
- Run "ConanPatcher.exe"