Titan Quest Q&A

I am having serious trouble with this game crashing to the desktop.

I love the game, it's better than I was expecting, but man, I can't play it for more than 5 minutes without a crash from the .exe, d3d .dll, engine .dll etc.

Oddly it seems worse after installing the patch.

I'm not a clairvoyant hardware guru, but I'm not a complete tech. moron either. I know pretty well how to keep my machine up to date, clean and stable. That said, I can't seem to find anything that circumvents these crashes. I haven't played a game that's crashed this much since...well, I can't even remember.

I've tried lowering detail settings, defragging, lowering display driver settings, forcing compatibility modes, audio acceleration levels, disabling HyperThreading... I've gone into msconfig and disabled everything that isn't absolutely vital. Windows is up to date. DX, Video and audio cards are up to date. I even tried bypassing the DVD-check with a mounted image to no avail.

Has anyone had any luck reducing/stopping any crashes? I've scoured all the "official" boards I can find and haven't had any luck there.

This game is very fun, but these crashes are driving me crazy and totally killing the experience. Further adding to the frustration, Titan Quest's save game system is not really conducive to out of the blue crashes.

P4 3.06GHz / 2 GB RAM / DX 9.0c
WinXP SP2
NVIDIA GF 6800 GT
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS

I'm going to try messing around with the page file sizes next, but I don't have high hopes.
:/

Souds like a lot of people are getting burned out on this game real fast. After beating it, perhaps, it becomes pointless? It might not be the D2 killer because of rose colored glasses a lot of people have for that game but Titans I would argue is a hell of a lot better. Really now, aside from special fondness for an outdated game, how many would honestly go back and play a game exactly like D2 in this day and age? Hell, people are dropping TQ after one sitting.

i like blowing up stuff with that volcano orb

I wonder why they didn't invest in dedicated game servers? There must be a reason other than money/publisher pressure? Even if it was a "planned addition" that would be a huge selling point. I'd buy Titan Quest now if I knew they would add the functionality someday, even if it took 6 months.

Everyone is complaining but I for one like it. I like going back to a D2 style game that looks a lot better than D2, plays just as good. I enjoy collecting crap and have an easy breezy game play.
Sorry to those that have problems with it. The thing runs ace on my rig. Not a problem encountered.

GB: With Titan Quest now on store shelves, how has the response from the community been so far? Have you had a chance to see any sales numbers yet?

Mike: The Titan Quest community response since release has been really overwhelming.

Yeah, you've been overwhelmed with people reporting all the bugs. :(

WTF is with the annoying ad that won't go away on that page.