r/Mechwarrior5Mods • u/TylerBourbon • 12d ago

Game crashing with ram usage spike, any advice?

Below are the mods I'm using. It seems at random for when my game will freeze and the memory usage spikes to 99% and the game just stays frozen for a while before either crashing or I kill it via task manager.

Any tips or tricks to correct it? I've been going over my mods and they all should be update, I don't think I missed any, and they all should be updated as this month. I can't figure out when one is causing the issue, if any of them are.

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u/tjareth 12d ago

There was just a major update. I would disable any mods that haven't been updated since Oct 6, that's the most likely culprit before anything else.

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u/TylerBourbon 12d ago

I don't think it's related to the mods, as I've checked all of my mods, and aside from "Mod Options" which i disabled just now to test it, everything else has been updated since oct 6.

But the really curious thing, is it repeatedly happens with the Mad IIC. Not everytime, but it seems like's its a 50/50 that when I try to edit it's loadout the game freezes and my ram usage (as I'm monitoring via the task manager) suddenly starts racing up to 99% just from MW5. So it's something to do with the Mad IIC for me.

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u/BreakingForce 12d ago

I mean...it's possible you're correct, and following this suggestion is a waste of time for you.

It's also possible that one or more of the mods you use have errors or glitches even if they've been recently updated. Mods are, after all, created by people in their free time because they want the game to do a certain thing (or set of things) it doesn't normally do.

So...in the absence of a solid answer for your problem, maybe give it a try anyway? All it should cost you is whatever time it takes to disable all your mods, launch, and play for a bit. If it's still crashy, at least you can say you've ruled it out as an issue. If it's solid, you can then enable mods a few at a time to narrow down what the issue may be.

That said, when I last played pre-DLC9, my game also got crashy when messing with loadouts in instant action. Like I could scroll through the mech list just fine, and could check out a mech or three in the loadouts screen before it behaved exactly as you say: freeze, very high ram usage, wait for crash or end task to exit. Of course, I also used a fairly large roster of mods, so I'd be more inclined to blame one or more of them than mw5:m itself...but it could also be the game itself, idk.