How to Fix Risen 2: Dark Waters Crashing, No Sound, Poor FPS, Black Screen, Errors

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To solve Risen 2: Dark Waters Crashes, Crash at Menu, Crash on Launching, Crashing while Playing you need to go through the below possible solution:

First solution: Disable all unnecessary background applications before launching game: to disable unnecessary background applications you need to go these steps: From the Start menu, choose All Programs, then Accessories. Choose Run. A Run window (command prompt) appears. Type msconfig in the Open field and choose OK. If Windows needs your permission to continue, choose Continue. The System Configuration Utility appears. Choose the General tab and Choose the Choose selective Startup option, then make uncheck Load Startup Items checkbox. Now go to the Choose the Services tab and after that make check mark on Verify that Hide All Microsoft Services checkbox and after that make choose on disable all button. Now once you done just save all setting and during this time you’ll ask to restart system, choose yes.

Second Solution: remove the all temp files from your system. You can remove all temp file through Disk Cleanup. To run Disk Cleanup you can go through these steps: To open Disk Cleanup, choose Start, choose All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and then Disk Cleanup. In the Options dialog box Disk Cleanup, select whether you want to clean from your files only, or among those of all computer users. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, provide the password or provide confirmation. If the dialog box Disk Cleanup: Drive Selection screen appears, select the drive you want to clean and choose OK. Choose the Disk Cleanup tab, and then select the check boxes for file types you want to delete. Once you are done, choose OK, and then choose Delete Files to confirm the operation. The Disk Cleanup tool is running to eliminate all unnecessary files from your computer. Once you done this just reboot the system for best result.

Third Solution: disable all antivirus, antivirus other security software may be conflict with your game and so therefore its necessary to disable firewall and antivirus on your system.

Fourth Solution: Download and install the latest version of your DirectX from Official site (or click here to download latest version of DirectX).

Fifth Solution: Try to update your Graphic Card Drivers latest version and after that you can solve your issue. For NVidia Graphic Card user try to download and install driver from NVidia Latest Driver Version and for AMD (ATI) Graphic Cards try to download and install latest driver from AMD Catalyst.

Sixth Solution: if you not able to solve your issue after installing latest version of video card driver then I would like recommend you to roll back video card by downloading an earlier version of your video card’s current driver.

Seventh Solution: If your machine using multi-core processor, then try to disable them and this will really help you to solve your issue.

Eighth Solution: If above solution not working then try to disable and enable the 3GB switch and this has been helped me to solve my issue. To enable the 3GB switch on Windows Vista or Windows 7: open command prompt through press windows key and R key from keyboard, now you will get run application and under that type: cmd, then click on ok button. Now in command prompt type: bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072 \and after that reboots the system. To disable the 3GB switch: open command prompt as said above and then type: bcdedit /deletevalue IncreaseUserVa and after that reboot the system for best result.

Some general steps to fix mostly Crashes and Errors:

To play latest game you need to latest version of DirectX and graphics drivers installed, so therefore make sure your system installed with latest version of DirectX and graphics drivers.

If you’re using windows 7 or windows vista then I would like to suggest you to disable the UAC. To disable UAC you need to go these steps: in windows 7 Open the "Start" and after that go to search. Now in search type: UAC and after that make click on ok button. Now result makes open the Modify User Account Control (UAC). By changing the position of the slider please choose the required degree of protection, guided by the description on the right side of the screen (i recommend the level of "Notify me only when programs try to make changes to your computer"). To disable UAC slider to move to a lower level of "Never notify" and Click OK to save the settings and reboot. In windows vista go through this steps: Open the Start, Control Panel , User Accounts , Enable or disable the UAC (UAC) , Uncheck the option "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer, Click OK to save the settings and finally Restart the computer.
The UAC (User Account Control UAC) can help prevent unauthorized changes to your computer. Are changes to the computer that require administrator privileges, you will be notified by the UAC. Such changes may affect the safety of your computer or have an impact on preferences for other users of the computer.

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In this case first of all you should check system requirement of your game, according to me your machine don’t have enough system requirement to play this game and so I would like to suggest you to make sure your machine have enough system requirement as per game:
Dark Waters Minimum System Requirements:

• OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2
• Processor: Dual Core with 2.1 GHz
• RAM: 2 GB
• Hard Disk Space: 5.5 GB
• Video Card: 512 MB Radeon 3870 / GeForce 8800 GTX
• DirectX: 9.1c
• Sound: DirectX compatible soundcard
• Additional: Keyboard/mouse or gamepad required Internet Connection required for online activation

Dark Waters Recommended System Requirements:

• OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows 7
• Processor: Dual Core with 3 GHz
• RAM: 4 GB
• Video Card: 1024 MB Radeon 4890 / GeForce GTX 260
• DirectX: 9.1c
• Sound: DirectX compatible soundcard
• Additional: Keyboard/mouse or gamepad required Internet Connection required for online activation.

Solution for Risen 2: Dark Waters cannot launch, Stuck at launcher, Crashes when clicking on launcher Fix

Possible Solution 1: Verify integrity of your game cache on Steam

• Steam Launch
• Make a right-click on the game and choose Properties from the Library section
• choose the Local Files tab and after that make click on the Verify integrity of game cache ... button
• Steam will verify the game files - this process may take several minutes and Once the process is complete, the window will close automatically.

Once you have verified the integrity of game cache, you can verify that the files are OK by browsing in your Steam directory: .. \ \ Steam \ \ steamapps \ \ [USERNAME] \ \ and choice rename or delete your file. Note: If you play a solo game, and you want to keep your backups, rename the game directory, The next time you launch the game, the files will be extracted from the cache files of the game If you want to restore your backup, copy the SAVE folder from your old game again.

Possible Solution 2: Try lower desktop resolutions and this will help you to solve your issue.


Fix Risen 2: Dark Waters Missing Texture Fix

• First steps to solve Missing Texture is to Disable Post Processing Effects from the game option
  
• If Disable Post Processing Effects doesn’t help you then try to update hardware driver like Graphic Card and Sound Card to latest version, if you’re not able to solve issue after updating to latest version then try to rollback to previous and then make sure your getting issue or not.
  
• Computer resolution may cause the Missing Texture and so therefore try to launch this game with different resolution.

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Solution for Risen 2: Dark Waters Crashes During or after the loading screen

• Most time this issue occurs due to antivirus and so therefore I would like to suggest you to disable antivirus on your system before launching this game. Along with this I would like to suggest you to add Risen 2: Dark Waters for PC to your antivirus or firewall exceptions list, this will help you to fix Crashes During or after the loading screen..
  
• Try to validate steam files because I think your game installation corrupted and so therefore your getting the issue, you can try to reinstall game although before this I would like to suggest you to perform Verify integrity of game cache as said above.

Fix Risen 2: Dark Waters Crash to Desktop (CTD) and Black Screen issue

• To solve this issue first of all go to the below location:
  

  32bit – C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Risen 2: Dark Waters.exe
  64bit – C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Risen 2: Dark Waters.exe

  Now here make right click on the Risen 2: Dark Waters.exe and after that select the Run as Administrator, enter the appropriate password to run this game on administrator mode.
  
• If above solution not working then try to run game with compatibility mode, to run this game on compatibility mode you need to go through these steps: first make right click on the Risen 2: Dark Waters.exe file and after that select the properties. Now on the properties go to the compatibility mode tab and after that make click on run this program on compatibility mode check box and after that select the windows 98 in drop down box.
  
• You might get this issue due to the internet connection, so therefore make sure you have connected to internet and along with this try to restarting Steam/your computer. Along with this I would like to suggest you to by disabling Vsync and multi-sampling and turning down environment detail levels.
  
• If above all solution not working to solve your issue then you tries to run game with different solution and also update the all graphics and sound card driver to latest version…

Troubleshooting No Sound, Sound Error, Sound Problems and Sound Stuttering problems:

• To fix all sound problem make sure you have installed the latest version of DirectX, if you’re using old version or not installed DirectX then you will face the sound issue and so therefore it’s very important to install or update latest version of DirectX.
  
• Reduction of DirectSound hardware acceleration: If Microsoft DirectX 6.0 or later installed on your computer, disable DirectSound hardware acceleration. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Go to Start, choose Run. Type dxdiag in the Open box and after that click OK.
  2. Now you will get application and under that go to the Sound tab.
  3. Under DirectX Features, move the hardware acceleration level audio to the far left (to the No acceleration setting).
  4. Select Exit, and then start the game
• When you start Microsoft Windows in normal startup, several programs start automatically and run in the background, some of these programs can interfere with the execution of the game along with antivirus and utilities system. When you start your clean computer, you prevent the automatic startup of these programs. To run this procedure, you must be logged on as administrator. To restart the computer by using a clean boot in Windows, follow the steps below.
  1. Go to Start and after that make choose Run, now on run type msconfig in the Open box and hit OK.
  2. Now you will get system configure utility windows and under that go to the General tab, choose Selective Startup radio button.
  3. Under Selective Startup, make uncheck mark on following check boxes:
  4. Process SYSTEM.INI File
  5. Win.ini File
  6. Load Startup Items
  7. On the Services tab, choose the checkbox Hide All Microsoft Services check box and after that choose Disable All button.Choose OK, and Restart.
• Update the sound card drivers Contact the manufacturer of your sound card on how to obtain and install the newest version of the card driver. To identify the name and the manufacturer of your sound driver, follow these steps: Go to Start, choose Run. Now here type dxdiag in the Open box, then choose OK. You will windows and under that go to the Sound tab and here under Device, look for Name and under Driver, look for Provider.
  
• Definition of games compatible device as the default playback device:
  • To set the device compatible games as the default playback device, follow these steps:
  • Choose Start, point to Settings and choose Control Panel.
  • Double-choose Multimedia.
  • On the Audio tab, choose Game Compatible Device in the Device box in the Read.
  • Activate the checkbox Use only default devices, and then choose OK.
  • Close the Control Panel.
  • Restart the computer.

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Steps to fix Risen 2: Dark Waters Low FPS, Freezing and Bad Frame rate Fix

First of all try to run your game with low graphics and along with try to follow below all things:

1. Close all programs that you do not need
2. Configure the game to use software rendering
3. Change the sound quality of the game to low
4. Download and install latest video driver

Make sure Virtual Memory is enabled

• To do this, follow these steps:
• Choose Start, point to Settings and choose Control Panel.
• Double-choose System.
• Choose the Performance tab.
• Choose Virtual Memory.
• Make sure the box next to Disable virtual memory. (Not recommended) is disabled.
• Choose Let Windows manage virtual memory settings. (Recommended) and choose OK.
• Restart the computer when prompted.

Increase the amount of free space on your hard drive: Increase the amount of free space on the hard disk where your pagefile virtual memory. If you have configured your computer to let Windows manage your virtual memory settings, your pagefile is on C: by default. To increase the amount of free space on the hard disk where your pagefile virtual memory, use the following methods. Empty folders that contain temporary files:

1. Choose Start, point to Programs, Accessories, System Tools, then choose Disk Cleanup.
2. In the Drives box, choose the drive you want to clean and choose OK.
3. Under Files to delete, select the following check boxes, then choose OK:
4. Temporary Internet Files
5. Downloaded Program Files
6. Basket
7. Temporary files

Uninstall unused programs

• To uninstall a program you do not use frequently:
• Choose Start, point to Settings and choose Control Panel.
• Double-click Add / Remove Programs.
• Under the Install / Uninstall tab, choose on a program you do not use frequently, then choose Add / Remove.
• Follow the screen instructions to uninstall the program.

Try to disable options from graphic options in game menu:

1. Disable Motion Blur
2. Disable Shadows
3. Disable Triple Buffering
4. Optimize the game for multi cores using this console tweak: seta r_useThreadedRenderer “2

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Steps to solve Risen 2: Dark Waters Crashes, Freezes, or Black Screen at start or after Intro Video

• Try to Launch the game with Novid added to launch options of Steam. Along with this I would like to suggest you to verify the game cache for corrupted game files and error. To Verify the game cache you go through steps as given above. There are lots of issue to game crashing like old driver, antivirus and corrupted game file. So there its necessary to disable antivirus and update all driver to latest version to solve crashing and freezing issue.
  
  
• First, you should check the requirements for your gaming computer configurations. Some games require high CPU and RAM resources. If your computer configurations are weak and do not meet the basic requirements of the game, it will not be able to run smoothly and freezes due to a shortage of RAM and CPU resources. You will need to update the basic requirements of at least (more configuration is better). To solve your problem of game freeze, you must use a registry cleaner to analyze and fix any errors in your registry. This is the safest way for you to stop game freezes that are caused by registry errors. And do not forget that you need to clean your registry every month to avoid problems and make your computer run at high speed.
  
  
• Try reducing the hardware acceleration: When using the hardware acceleration display reduced, the display performance of the computer. It is also possible that Motocross Madness and other games that require 3D acceleration not start if the hardware acceleration set to Basic Acceleration or None. To reduce the hardware acceleration of the screen as follows: go to the start and after that point to Settings in Control Panel. Now in control panel make double click on System and after that go to the Performance tab and click Display. Now here move the Hardware Acceleration slider one notch to the right of none (the Basic acceleration setting). Once you finish everything just save the all setting and after that restart the computer when you are prompted
  
  
• The default refresh rate of your display adapter: If you set the refresh rate to a value not supported by the monitor and due to this you’re game will freezes and crash to desktop. So therefore please refer to the monitor or contact the manufacturer of the monitor to determine what refresh rates can be set up before the default refresh rate of your display adapter change. To change the default refresh rate of your display adapter as follows: go to Start and then click Run. Now on run type: dxdiag.exe and after that make click on ok button. Now you will get the tool and under that Click the More Help tab and click Change. Here select Value, type in the Value box, changes a refresh rate that both your video adapter and monitor is supported, and click OK.
  
  
• If your using Quad Core and Multi-Core PCs then I think you should follow the below steps to fix crashing issue with Risen 2, first of all start the game and after that press Alt+Tab Out of the game. Now open task manager; to open task manger you can press Ctrl+Alt+Delete or type taskmgr in run from start. Now on the task manger go to process tab and under that locate to the Risen 2.exe process. Once you got the Risen 2.exe process just make right click on that and after that set Affinity, here Select core 0 and 1 only. Now you can play your game without facing crashing issue. This has been helped me to solve mine issue.

So above all is different solution to fix and troubleshoot sound, poor FPS, Black Screen, Errors and along with crashing, Black screen i hope these all steps helps you to fix issue of Risen 2: Dark Waters game.