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Exantius9
Jul Member 2022

Exantius9

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Today Runescape client has been crashing constantly. I installed a new antivirus yesterday, I believe that is the cause, but since there were technical problems in the game yesterday as well I'm thinking if that could be the problem after all.

There is no error message, no glitching before the crash, the game slows down for a few seconds and then just closes. There doesn't seem to be a pattern on when the crash occurs, it happens after transitioning to a new area, putting in GE offers or just standing at a bank. I checked my task manager for performance during gameplay and after crash, the RS client has "very high" power usage and a lot of CPU usage which I don't think it used to have, and looking at the performance tab it shows CPU usage peaks to 100% right before the crash. I didn't use to have issues with CPU, I could run RS at high graphics or even several clients at once without issue

I've tried contacting the antivirus provider but they refuse to let me speak to a person, all I get is a useless robot. I googled to find solutions and tried what people recommended: I've rebooted my computer, uninstalled and re-installed RS and installed the cache, lowered graphics, changed firewall settings and disabled firewall altogether. I haven't uninstalled the antivirus because that's a pain and I want to leave that as the last resort

Does anyone have any ideas?

23-Nov-2022 19:11:11 - Last edited on 23-Nov-2022 19:59:06 by Exantius9

Malo Nara
Oct Member 2022

Malo Nara

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I'm having the exact same problem with the crashing of new areas and 100% CPU. Also, I always crash when I open up google chrome/youtube. This literally started happening right after everyone was locked out yesterday. I can't play at all. :(

23-Nov-2022 22:42:31

Malo Nara
Oct Member 2022

Malo Nara

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Found the solution to my problem. It was the new AMD driver update that's messing it all up.
I downgraded my driver to 22.6.1 and it's finally working.

Here is someone talking about it.
https://secure.runescape.com/m=forum/c=zPbQjX2DJ80/forums?14,15,626,66267322,1,347342110,#1

I really hope this helps you out if you haven't figured it out yet.
It was such a huge headache to figure this out.

24-Nov-2022 06:21:16 - Last edited on 24-Nov-2022 06:21:59 by Malo Nara

Dire Venom

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I am having issues with: The instruction at 0x%p referenced memory at 0x%p. The memory could not be %s. (c0000005)

mo matter what i try, 1 client 2,3 it keeps crashing. if i run nothing else cept 1 client, i can have it work a bit longer. i tried all the tips jagex gives on their website, anything else i found on google too, re-installs, nothing helps.
but i used to be able to run 4 clients plus stuff on background till few days before the crash a few days ago. so it wasnt caused by that, also, my laptop shows 0 issues so its only my PC.
i just returned to the game 10 days ago, so basically i have to stop playing again.

24-Nov-2022 11:06:51

DocBottleCap

DocBottleCap

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im currently having a similar issue but on both pc and mobile with mobile being basically unplayable cuz its just not letting me log in at all

my cpu: AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor 3.50 GHz

have been keeping everything up to date
like sure i have issues with games in general cuz of my cpu because its just underpowered for most games and this problem only came up recently so i can tell its something involving some sort of new requirements to run the game maybe

meaning OSRS is the only thing still playable even tho i enjoy RS3 more and have more progress on RS3
its pissing me off specially since i just bought members again and with the game being basically unplayable its a waste of my money and its pissing me off
i'm just doing this post because why not i'm a social person even though i'm not a people person (reason why i play games in the first place) i have a youtube account named TheSKYRIMturd123

22-Jul-2023 20:44:48

Terian
Jul Member 2022

Terian

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DocBottleCap said :
im currently having a similar issue but on both pc and mobile with mobile being basically unplayable cuz its just not letting me log in at all

my cpu: AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor 3.50 GHz

have been keeping everything up to date
like sure i have issues with games in general cuz of my cpu because its just underpowered for most games and this problem only came up recently so i can tell its something involving some sort of new requirements to run the game maybe

meaning OSRS is the only thing still playable even tho i enjoy RS3 more and have more progress on RS3
its pissing me off specially since i just bought members again and with the game being basically unplayable its a waste of my money and its pissing me off


That is a VERY old CPU, I think your biggest issue would be the CPU and the DDR3 RAM.
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26-Jul-2023 02:34:06

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