Frequent crashes for seemingly no reason

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LynnLantern
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Frequent crashes for seemingly no reason

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Trying to play Morrowind for the first time on OpenMW 0.47 and I'm getting frequent random crashing. I don't know why this is happening and I can't find a fix anywhere online. I am using a handful of mods but turning them all off and trying to play I still get crashes constantly. Most frequently it's when just walking around or entering a building and my game will freeze and then stop working. Any assistance would be appreciated
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AnyOldName3
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Re: Frequent crashes for seemingly no reason

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Have you updated Radeon drivers to the optional version in the last week or so? They put out an experimental update that's much faster, but crashes loads, and it's affected a lot of users as they've not labelled it as a crashy experimental version.
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Re: Frequent crashes for seemingly no reason

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AnyOldName3 wrote: 09 Aug 2022, 21:34 Have you updated Radeon drivers to the optional version in the last week or so? They put out an experimental update that's much faster, but crashes loads, and it's affected a lot of users as they've not labelled it as a crashy experimental version.
Yes I did. I'm rolling back the drivers and will update if that was the issue
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LynnLantern
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Re: Frequent crashes for seemingly no reason

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AnyOldName3 wrote: 09 Aug 2022, 21:34 Have you updated Radeon drivers to the optional version in the last week or so? They put out an experimental update that's much faster, but crashes loads, and it's affected a lot of users as they've not labelled it as a crashy experimental version.
Well that seemingly fixed the crashing but now my FPS has been destroyed. I used to get consistent 144 and now I get 50-60 in towns.
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Re: Frequent crashes for seemingly no reason

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That sounds about right. The newer drivers crash a lot less if you use the environment variable that makes OpenMW use VBOs. If you want, set OSG_VERTEX_BUFFER_HINT to VERTEX_BUFFER_OBJECTS, e.g. via a PowerShell script or batch file that launches OpenMW.
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