Titan's Quest / General Computer Problem

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-08-07 09:13pm

I had a crash in Titan's Quest a little bit ago (during an area load, after I died; its also happened once before on the initial load) and I've lost all my quest progress. My character still has all his items, and all of the portals I've activitated are still up, etc., but all of my quest details have been nuked. I can add new quests, but data from active quests before the crash won't repost after talking to the quest givers again, and obviously the completed quest data isn't coming back at all. Is there anyway to get the quest data back? Or do I have to do it from memory?

Also, about the crash itself, I've experienced the same behavior fairly regularly in Oblivion when it loads a new area, and it occasionally happens in BF2 (initial map load only, successive maps are fine). Usually the computer hard locks, but sometimes I'll get a BSOD (which either says serious error or blames the USB driver or some other, seemly random, driver or system file). If I'm lucky it'll CTD. I've tried multiple Nvidia (dual 7800 GTXs) and Creative drivers (X-Fi) as well, without effect. Oh, and Event Log usually doesn't note anything.

I know the memory is fine (three 12 sessions of memtest86 have come up clean), the HD's are fine (no file corruption), the graphics cards are fine (no artifacting) and the CPU is fine (hell, it never gets above 40 C under full load!). So, should I bite the bullet and just reinstall Windows? Because that's pretty much the only suspect left. Or does anyone else have another possible suspect?

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2006-08-07 09:24pm

Check the titanquest.net forums for this exact behavior. It seems to be a common problem in the game.

The fix seems to be to delete or move the last 1-4 *.que files located in your saves directory in My Documents then go back and play again. *Usually* that seems to fix it.

BTW, the TitanQuest forum I mention can be found here: www.titanquest.net

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-08-07 09:42pm

The .que file trick didn't work, but I'll definitly check out the forums. At least I didn't lose my character. I'd just hit level 30.

Oh, and in the first post, that should be "three 12 hour sessions of memtest86).

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2006-08-07 10:03pm

Mind you I made the post while actually playing the game...

So that was mostly on what I remembered about fixing the quest issue.
I did have the problem once and it did seem to work; but hey, at least I pointed you tot he right direction.