Deacon's Top Ten Guide to Troubleshooting Long War 2
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 11:45 pm
If you are having trouble with your game. Here are my top ten suggestions.
1. Close everything and Reboot your computer.
2. Backup and delete your my documents\my games\xcom2\xcomgame\config folder.
3. Move all of your existing save files out of the my documents\my games\xcom2\xcomgame\savedata folder to a new folder. You can move some/all back after troubleshooting is complete.
4. Disable (uncheck) all mods except for LW2 (you do not need to unsubscribe to those mods, unchecking is enough for testing purposes). You can start by just disabling your Voice Packs if you want, they can often be a cause of excess load on your RAM.
5. Restart via the Steam launcher with everything unchecked (you can immediately exit and restart with the Alternate Mod Launcher if you use that)
6. Re-read the Steam discussion threads for your installed mods to make sure that there isn't a documented conflict with LW2. I suggest subscribing to the discussions for your favorite mods so you can stay up to day on any conflicts/updates.
7. If all else fails and you are still having issues go to Steam and XCOM2 > properties > local files, and click "verify integrity of game files" to reset XCOM2 back to the defaults. Be sure to back up any ini changes that you've made
8. Reload XCOM2 and then subscribe to Long War 2 and the "Remove Missing Mods" Mod.
9. Run the game again with just these two mods installed. Open your save and click the "Remove Missing Mods" button. If you cannot recreate the bug then it is a mod conflict and you'll need to determine which mod is causing a problem.
10. In general the vast majority of bugs are caused by mod conflicts (this is true without Long War 2 installed as well, and has been going on since the launch of XCOM2, and frankly is an issue for any modded game) and it may take some sleuthing on your part to get to the bottom of your problem.
Bonus Tips for people having issues with computer performance. I'm told by people far smarter than I that most negative impact on FPS is from fire, smoke, and those embers/snowflakes that you see on the screen. Disabling Bloom helps resolve that by turning the snowflakes/embers off. When I turned off V-sync I gained about 15FPS immediately, so I always recommend it. Ambient Occlusion is one of those terms I don't understand at all but I do know that when it is set to Tile-AO my game feels snappier (I think that I learned that from playing FO4 how's that for scientific study?).
1. Disable V-Sync
2. Disable "Bloom"
3. Set AO to "Tile-AO"
4. Make sure that Steam's cloud backup (or whatever it is called) is not slowing you down
5. Watch for Chrome or Firefox to be hammering your memory, browsers are huge RAM hogs.
6. Double-check that Microsoft is not trying to download/install some crazy update.
More Troubleshooting tips here:
For Performance issues: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/0 ... mance-fix/
For Mod issues: http://imgur.com/a/RpyEd
2K's Troubleshooting Page: https://forums.2k.com/showthread.php?42 ... leshooting
2K's Troubleshooting Tips Page: http://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles ... leshooting
/u/gbudiman's Reddit Comment about the "Pure Virtual ..." crash: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/ ... n/d5o48p5/
Steam Mod Help: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =625230005
How To Geek on forcing games to use your installed GPU: http://www.howtogeek.com/175281/how-to- ... -graphics/
A few more Reddit tips on performance: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/ ... ve_xcom_2/
1. Close everything and Reboot your computer.
2. Backup and delete your my documents\my games\xcom2\xcomgame\config folder.
3. Move all of your existing save files out of the my documents\my games\xcom2\xcomgame\savedata folder to a new folder. You can move some/all back after troubleshooting is complete.
4. Disable (uncheck) all mods except for LW2 (you do not need to unsubscribe to those mods, unchecking is enough for testing purposes). You can start by just disabling your Voice Packs if you want, they can often be a cause of excess load on your RAM.
5. Restart via the Steam launcher with everything unchecked (you can immediately exit and restart with the Alternate Mod Launcher if you use that)
6. Re-read the Steam discussion threads for your installed mods to make sure that there isn't a documented conflict with LW2. I suggest subscribing to the discussions for your favorite mods so you can stay up to day on any conflicts/updates.
7. If all else fails and you are still having issues go to Steam and XCOM2 > properties > local files, and click "verify integrity of game files" to reset XCOM2 back to the defaults. Be sure to back up any ini changes that you've made
8. Reload XCOM2 and then subscribe to Long War 2 and the "Remove Missing Mods" Mod.
9. Run the game again with just these two mods installed. Open your save and click the "Remove Missing Mods" button. If you cannot recreate the bug then it is a mod conflict and you'll need to determine which mod is causing a problem.
10. In general the vast majority of bugs are caused by mod conflicts (this is true without Long War 2 installed as well, and has been going on since the launch of XCOM2, and frankly is an issue for any modded game) and it may take some sleuthing on your part to get to the bottom of your problem.
Bonus Tips for people having issues with computer performance. I'm told by people far smarter than I that most negative impact on FPS is from fire, smoke, and those embers/snowflakes that you see on the screen. Disabling Bloom helps resolve that by turning the snowflakes/embers off. When I turned off V-sync I gained about 15FPS immediately, so I always recommend it. Ambient Occlusion is one of those terms I don't understand at all but I do know that when it is set to Tile-AO my game feels snappier (I think that I learned that from playing FO4 how's that for scientific study?).
1. Disable V-Sync
2. Disable "Bloom"
3. Set AO to "Tile-AO"
4. Make sure that Steam's cloud backup (or whatever it is called) is not slowing you down
5. Watch for Chrome or Firefox to be hammering your memory, browsers are huge RAM hogs.
6. Double-check that Microsoft is not trying to download/install some crazy update.
More Troubleshooting tips here:
For Performance issues: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/0 ... mance-fix/
For Mod issues: http://imgur.com/a/RpyEd
2K's Troubleshooting Page: https://forums.2k.com/showthread.php?42 ... leshooting
2K's Troubleshooting Tips Page: http://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles ... leshooting
/u/gbudiman's Reddit Comment about the "Pure Virtual ..." crash: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/ ... n/d5o48p5/
Steam Mod Help: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =625230005
How To Geek on forcing games to use your installed GPU: http://www.howtogeek.com/175281/how-to- ... -graphics/
A few more Reddit tips on performance: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/ ... ve_xcom_2/