I would just send a email to iffy pcsupport with this matter because they don't read the message board that often.

Originally posted by Minchi:

I would just send a email to iffy pcsupport with this matter because they don't read the message board that often.

You mean Contact Form on ideafintl.com site?

Originally posted by Kron:

I'm having frequent crashes (every 15-20 minutes). Game just stops and message " Application has crashed" appears. It's impossible to play, can't even get to first save point, have to start game every time from begginning. Does anyone have something like that?

P.S. PC is better than "Recommended".

"PC" as in desktop, with a dedicated desktop card? Or laptop, using either Intel integrated chipset or Nvidia mobile chipset?

Incase of Intel integrated chipset: use the Nvidia mobile chipset.
Incase of Nvidia mobile chipset: downgrade the driver to an older version. Newer drivers have stability problems with lots of laptop hardware and this game taxes your hardware quite a bit. (Mostly due to it being very badly written from a performance and resource usage point of view.)

Originally posted by RiO:

Originally posted by Kron:

I'm having frequent crashes (every 15-20 minutes). Game just stops and message " Application has crashed" appears. It's impossible to play, can't even get to first save point, have to start game every time from begginning. Does anyone have something like that?

P.S. PC is better than "Recommended".

"PC" as in desktop, with a dedicated desktop card? Or laptop, using either Intel integrated chipset or Nvidia mobile chipset?

Incase of Intel integrated chipset: use the Nvidia mobile chipset.
Incase of Nvidia mobile chipset: downgrade the driver to an older version. Newer drivers have stability problems with lots of laptop hardware and this game taxes your hardware quite a bit. (Mostly due to it being very badly written from a performance and resource usage point of view.)

Desktop PC. I've updated topic.

Maybe a program that runs on the background is giving conflicts? Try running the game when you have closed other programs you don't need at that moment. I've seen this problem a few times on the forum but no solution yet.

Originally posted by Rayxtr:

Maybe a program that runs on the background is giving conflicts? Try running the game when you have closed other programs you don't need at that moment. I've seen this problem a few times on the forum but no solution yet.

Already tried.

I have the same problem ever since the first update. A workaround I figured out is when that crash notification pops up, don't click on it, just click back on the game and it'll continue to play normally until something goes wrong and it actually crashes. I believe my record is having 17 of those pop ups before my game actually crashes.

Originally posted by Fourth Crusader:

I have the same problem ever since the first update. A workaround I figured out is when that crash notification pops up, don't click on it, just click back on the game and it'll continue to play normally until something goes wrong and it actually crashes. I believe my record is having 17 of those pop ups before my game actually crashes.

Wow, interesting. Will try.

Originally posted by Fourth Crusader:

I have the same problem ever since the first update. A workaround I figured out is when that crash notification pops up, don't click on it, just click back on the game and it'll continue to play normally until something goes wrong and it actually crashes. I believe my record is having 17 of those pop ups before my game actually crashes.

Do you have the Steam overlay enabled, by chance? If so; disable it and see if you still get these popup dialogs.

If you're looking for the reasoning behind trying this:

"Application has crashed" is usually a generic panic message coming from the top-level thread that started off the process and which houses the message pump that allows the window manager and other OS components to communicate with the process.

The Steam overlay works by injecting a foreign module into the process of the game via process hooking Direct3D, DirectInput and other system APIs. Other than running within the same process container, the overlay is a separate module which would have its own main thread, own message pump etc. (Side track: Infact; if not closed down properly together with the main game module, it could cause a zombie process container to stick around.)

Because these modules run essentially separated, the overlay could also crash (complete with the "Application has crashed" message) separate from the main game. But as long as long as you don't dismiss the dialog, it won't actually cause the entire process container to be torn down and thus it won't cause the game to close on you just yet.


The reason that the entire game would eventually crash anyway after too many of these "application crashes", is because the held up overlay will still use up part of the process's memory space, eating up RAM, and will keep other resources such as allocated VRAM in use as well. Odds are that since the overlay hooks into the game's renderer, eventually one of the crashes of its module would also fatally corrupt the game's memory management and cause it to come crashing down.

Originally posted by Kron:

I'm having frequent crashes (every 15-20 minutes). Game just stops and message " Application has crashed" appears. It's impossible to play, can't even get to first save point, have to start game every time from begginning. Does anyone have something like that?

P.S. PC is better than "Recommended".
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5 Ghz
GeForce GTX 980
24 Gb RAM

There something worong with windows os and not game or you Frame rate overlays like Fraps or steam overlay turn then off it know for crash this game and other idea factory ports. Also Defrag you hdd/SSD this helps to fix. Also try this tool it for windows and free http://www.iobit.com/en/advancedsystemcarefree.php. If it still crash reset your windows OS to clean install this fix it.

Originally posted by RiO:

Originally posted by Fourth Crusader:

I have the same problem ever since the first update. A workaround I figured out is when that crash notification pops up, don't click on it, just click back on the game and it'll continue to play normally until something goes wrong and it actually crashes. I believe my record is having 17 of those pop ups before my game actually crashes.

Do you have the Steam overlay enabled, by chance? If so; disable it and see if you still get these popup dialogs.

Disabling the steam overlay was one of the first things I did back when the first patch went online and I started getting the crashing popups. Thanks for the helpful description about the popups though, really insightful stuff.

Ok, so disabling Steam overlay didn't help (still crashed after 8 minutes of playing). "Ignoring" pop ups also didn't work, I click back on a game, but it is frozen.

ive started to get crashes myself, but specifically when i open the coupling menu. checking the files didnt fix it and now i just noticed that ALL the Neptunia games crash when trying to play them. there was a recent nvidia driver update so i wonder if that caused it

Originally posted by Kron:

Originally posted by Minchi:

I would just send a email to iffy pcsupport with this matter because they don't read the message board that often.

You mean Contact Form on ideafintl.com site?

yes them

I'm having the issue too mine is crashing whenever I enter Jingu Sakura Forest