Game Crashes on Most Emergency Quests

[LockTheSlayer]

I don't know what's going on, but I always get super excited when an emergency quest arises, but then when I leave the campship to start the mission, it loads for a couple seconds and just crashes to my desktop with no error codes. I reload the game, try again, same thing. Usually whenever it crashes on normal missions I'm able to jump back in no problem.

Information about my computer/game installation that might help find the problem:

OS: Windows 8 (I upgraded from Windows 7 sometime ago, I had played the game a couple years back when I had Windows 7 and I had no problems, I'm not sure if this is an issue. The new OS has however allowed me to play the game with shaders without crashing on startup, so that's a plus)

English Patch Installed
English Large Files Installed
English Item Patch Installed
English Story Patch about to be uninstalled, because I've heard this causing crashes in missions.

[Aeris]

Might as well go do a file check without patches if you're using the normal launcher (third button from the top) or on tweaker "Check for PSO2 updates" and click on no for checking everything and see if shows missing or bad files.

[LockTheSlayer]

Thanks, I'll give that a shot. So should I uninstall all English Patches and run a file check?

[LockTheSlayer]

Alright, I'm beginning to worry that it's my computer that's having troubles. I've reinstalled this game 3 times now, twice with the torrent, and once with the tweaker, all of which yield crashes upon starting emergency quests EXCEPT Dark Falz, that one has had no issues.

What do? Am I maybe missing files crucial to emergency quests? Except that wouldn't make sense cuz I've reinstalled multiple times.

[Sizustar]

Which version of the english patch are you using?

[LockTheSlayer]

Which version of the english patch are you using?

Which ever version the Tweaker installs/updates.

[LockTheSlayer]

Just finished checking my internal drive, no errors found. Scanning my external now.

External yielded no errors either. I don't even know at this point. PSO2 doesn't have issues with Windows 8 does it?

[deahamlet]

Since you are having such issues, I suggest installing vanilla only and running for at least a week. Then just add the main patch if the week is uneventful, another week with just the main English patch, etc.

There was a thread about Windows 8 somewhere around here... but I don't use so I have never read its contents.

[LockTheSlayer]

Since you are having such issues, I suggest installing vanilla only and running for at least a week. Then just add the main patch if the week is uneventful, another week with just the main English patch, etc.

There was a thread about Windows 8 somewhere around here... but I don't use so I have never read its contents.

So install the game to a new directory and DON'T install any English Patches? I think I might try that.

[LockTheSlayer]

Tomorrow, I'll be manually installing the main English patch. This week has gone very well so far, no crashes, no nothing. If a crash persisted, I simply checked for PSO2 updates and that fixed it.

Now, how do I go about making a backup of the game files before manually installing the English Patch? Is there a list of files I need to backup, or do I just copy the whole game directory somewhere else?