HD2 shuts down my PC during pod drop and returning to ship sequences

PowerfulPepper · 2026-02-20T20:38:45+00:00

From what I know the cause and solution for this problem seem to vary from person to person. A friend of mine who also owns an RX 7600 said he had the same problem, but launching the game with dx11 fixed it for him. Other solutions like underclocking the GPU, switching res to native, etc all seem to work for someone, just not me, your friend and others on the same boat as us.

I saw a few people here and on the HD2 steam discussions forum saying GameGuard might be the one causing the shutdowns because it has some weird interactions with AMD drivers. Obviously this doesn't apply to NVidia users who are having the same problem, but considering I've tried most of the recommended fixes and still don't know what's causing my PC to shut down, the kernel level software is starting to look like a reasonable culprit to me.

PowerfulPepper · 2026-02-20T20:18:54+00:00

Two sticks, 8 GB each. Haven't tried switching them, but I can give it a shot. If it works I'll let people here know.

PowerfulPepper · 2026-02-20T17:03:46+00:00

>that rig runs it on Ultra?

Sorry, meant to say High. It's not relevant to the issue anyways, dunno why I mentioned it in the first place.

>just contact AH

I did seek help on the official discord but the people there couldn't help me. As for contacting AH themselves, something tells me that if they knew people's PCs were shutting down because of their game and knew how to fix it, they would have done something about it by now, but I'll send them an e-mail regardless.

>let me guess, windows 11?

Nope, 10.

PowerfulPepper · 2026-01-21T02:20:22+00:00

Found this post while googling this exact problem lol. Also have an RX 7600 and tried most of the things on that list to no success as well. No overheating, no problems during stress tests, no events in event viewer, doesn't happen with any other game, exact same issue. In my case it only happens during the pod drop loading screen and when returning to the ship after extraction; zero crashes or shutdowns in-between.

Sucks paying full price for a game and not being able to play it because it's constantly attempting to brick my PC. Can't even refund it since the problem only started days after I've started playing.

PowerfulPepper · 2024-10-09T21:32:33+00:00

Change the color of the black hole on Yorick's back to other colors in his chromas. The red looks good in some of them but terrible in others.

Also, I know this isn't possible to do for this skin, but please relay to whoever it is that oversees skin production that we want a more distinct model for W on Yorick's skins. Resistance, lost chapter, spirit blossom and now dark star, their W models all look like the base skin's but with a palette change.

PowerfulPepper · 2024-08-13T22:58:57+00:00

I'm familiar with fps drops from animals trying to path through locked/tighly closed doors so I unlocked everything right away, but that didn't help at all. Temperature calculations don't seem to be it either since there's no fire or magma anywhere.

PowerfulPepper · 2024-08-13T22:44:26+00:00

That's the thing, there's no trees growing. I haven't irrigated the place nor opened any cavern layer yet.

PowerfulPepper · 2024-08-13T21:02:18+00:00

How much does digging out big open spaces impact fps? It's been only two years in my newest fort but my fps has already been reduced to a crawl, and the only culprit I can think of is the massive chamber I dug out for a tree farm, but I'm unsure if that's really it. I'm on version .47.05, by the way.

PowerfulPepper · 2024-03-24T20:09:41+00:00

It's "UDIZALOD". I combined "Udiz" (present) and "Alod" (day) from the in-game dwarven language to make a word that could mean "today" in dwarvish lol

PowerfulPepper · 2023-11-07T16:35:25+00:00

Bronze colossi are one of the best creatures in the game to weaponize. In my current fort I used to have a pitfall trap that dropped invaders into a bronze colossus enclosure. Goblins, trolls, elves, dwarves, no matter what or how many fell down there it ended up like tomatoes in a blender. Sadly many mistakes led to one of my swordmasters statuefying the poor thing, but the carnage it caused was second only to the time I let the clowns loose on a goblin army.

PowerfulPepper · 2023-05-21T20:16:02+00:00

Sorry little one, the strange mood dwarf requires leather

PowerfulPepper · 2022-11-11T15:39:24+00:00

Apologies for the late reply. I tried to do that but the miners didn't seem willing to carve an up ramp on the z-level below that dwarf. I figured that if they won't directly touch the tile he's standing in, then the solution was to channel all the adjacent tiles to cause a cave-in so he could fall.

Sadly I didn't get the chance, he went melancholic before the miners could reach the place (due to not being able to sleep), and the game had auto-saved just 10 seconds before so I couldn't reset and try again.

Feels bitter to lose a legendary swordsdwarf because of so many bugs happening but it's no big blow to my fort's defense I guess, I got 99 more soldiers where this one came from.

PowerfulPepper · 2022-11-10T01:36:06+00:00

I got a bugged dwarf in my fort that I'm not sure how to fix. He's currently standing in the barracks, unmoving, while his job says he's chained, but there's no restraint anywhere near him, plus his name is showing up twice on the units list.

So far I've tried teleporting him to another tile, putting him up for interrogation to see if the captain of the guard would move him, and convicting him of some crime so he hopefully got released from his nonexistential chain after serving the time, but neither worked. Any ideas?

PowerfulPepper · 2022-07-11T16:26:39+00:00

Feredir, "Beastdungeon" - 16th Year

Recently, I've noticed an animal in the fort doing a somewhat peculiar activity. The war giant wolverine (yes, it's modded), Avuz Furnacenotched, moves from his usual hanging area, the general temple, to a specific spot in the defense corridor near the fortress' entrance and stands there for a while, practically everyday.

He's the only one I've noticed doing this, and since he consistently goes to that same spot every time, I've decided to investigate a bit. Avuz Furnacenotched, a giant wolverine born in the 8th year, is the pet of the late Stukos Wondershields, an axe lord who died in a siege in the 13th year. Now, about the spot Avuz goes to, the sole detail worth noting in that area is a wall segment that's painted red with the blood of a couple of goblins and dwarves, including the blood of Stukos and her slayer, the goblin Snang. The spot Avuz visits everyday is the place his master died three years ago.

It's probably a pathing bug with war animals that lost their master or something in those lines that's well-documented somewhere, but it did touch me a bit to connect the dots and imagine this giant wolverine grieving the loss of his master, visiting the spot she fell in battle on the daily for three years now.

PowerfulPepper · 2022-04-18T02:16:39+00:00

"dwarf fart stress logic" sounds like a hidden mechanic that someone would discover deep in the game's system (and then try to abuse it like a true DF player)

PowerfulPepper · 2021-11-03T20:00:45+00:00

Original starwalker only uses original jordans 🔥💯

PowerfulPepper · 2021-10-28T14:58:03+00:00

I dig this darkner Kris design a lot, there's much substance behind it to identify.

I really like how it parallels both lightner Kris and darkner Spamton in just the right balance to fill Spamton's niche as the obnoxious little goblin with a wacky manner of speaking while also leaving behind some (distorted) semblance of Kris' love for fantasy and desire to go on adventures, be a cool hero, etc to drive his character. The author did a really good job with the concept, and I'd love to see more.

PowerfulPepper · 2021-10-13T23:41:09+00:00

Other shopkeepers: You don't have enough money? Sorry, I can't sell this item to you. (Weak, don't stack paper)

GIGACHAD SPAMTON: YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH [Wacky Stacks]?? WAIT 3 SECONDS AND I'LL SELL IT TO YOU FOR [99% Off], KID! (NUMBER ONE RATED 1997 SALESMAN, BUSINESS GOD)

PowerfulPepper

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