PC Drivers & Software

[Smartengine]

As stated, with the newest version for Windows 10,
as well as the last couple of drivers for Windows 11 via Windows update,
broke Cossacks 3 as it is stuck in the loading screen. You can hear the water and background noise but not the game itself.

Unfortunatly I also cannot send this via the Bug Reporter, as the software is broken under Win11 and tells me that the driver is not supported.

Any suggestions?
Older drivers make other titles unplayable. I.E.: Rainbow 6 Siege (Vulkan)

Thanks in advance.

[Stranger12]

Same problem with memory . Black screen 

[daylavi]

same

[Cossacks3]

This problem is not fixed sind end 2022

[Matt_AMD]

Thanks for the feedback, we'll look into this as well. 

Please can users provide some settings we can copy in regards to number of players, map size etc, which we can follow to see if the crash is reproducible at our end?

[Tomuks47]

It usually starts to crash/freeze for me when at least 4 players are in game(player and 3 bots) on no matter what map size is, it makes crash/blackscreen when game loads up and if its loads up somehow successfully, once I press F10(settings keybind) I get freeze. Sometimes game stucks/freezes in the end of loading menu(feels like it's loaded tho, because game sounds appears, but thats it)

[Cossacks3]

Hello,

Hello Matt,

I can only play 2vs2 matches. If I choose more opponents, the game crashes with a black screen, and sometimes I receive an 'Out of Memory' error.

[Matt_AMD]

Thanks for the extra info folks. 

I've been looking into this a bit more, and wondered if you thought this was the same issue mentioned on Reddit? https://www.reddit.com/r/Cossacks/comments/17icd6m/out_of_memory_when_only_36_of_the_ram_is_used/

I say this as these users are not running AMD GPUs, which means it might not be a driver issue but a game issue. Nonetheless we are taking a look at it. 

[SwanUav]

I haven't experienced the issue mentioned in the link. The primary problem now is the inability to play on larger maps and with more players. Additionally, I've noticed a graphic bug with flashing black spots on the textures on the new driver. None of these problems existed before on driver 22.5.2 , but this driver is already very outdated. Cossacks is very buged game, when i was playing on nvidia gpu it was at least playable, all options and lobby settings worked fine, graphics worked fine as well. But on amd you MUST install driver 22.5.2 which is ultra outdated, if you want to play Cossacks without graphics bugs or if you want to host big lobby in mp

[SwanUav]

Hi, my name is Taras, I am one of the Cossacks 3 streamers.
I was very happy when you released new drivers with a patch for Cossacks 3, but unfortunately the fixes did not work fully...
To play Cossacks, I utilized version 22.5.2 of the driver. Everything functioned well with this version; the game didn't crash even with the maximum number of players and the largest map size. Models and textures were also fine. However, there were issues with capturing the game. It consistently crashed after the end of the match when captured by a third-party program.
It was impossible to use instant replay and other amd software features.
The new version of the driver ensures smooth game capture and all AMD features are functional. However, there are difficulties when loading matches with a large number of players or large maps. This renders it impossible to initiate a large-scale battle with followers or to host a tournament using the 4v4 option.
I would greatly appreciate it if AMD could address the driver issues for Cossacks. I didn't encounter any of these problems when I played on an old laptop with an Nvidia graphics card. I also want to eliminate the concern that when I purchase a new-generation AMD graphics card, Cossacks might not function properly on it.

I will leave here screenshots with the configuration of my PC, with the game, and the settings at which the game crashesdriver versiongame crashes on 2x map when it's 5+ playersgame crashes on normal map when it's 8 players on the maplicensed version

[Dragokar]

So please send in reports in the dedicated format again. It worked for me in the quick and dirty test like we probably all did For sending in please use this:

IMPORTANT! When submitting a bug report against this driver, please make sure to include the following tag into the bug report description field using this format:

FORUM-DriverVersion-Username. For example, if your username was GAMER56 and the driver version was 24.3.1, use the tag FORUM-24-3-1-GAMER56

[Olexanderoff]

Hey, AMD team, that's the problem right now

Solved: Re: Problem with Cossacks 3 with newest drivers - Page 3 - AMD Community

[Muracha]

Hello, i am having a problem the game will just freeze on Last Preperations (so the game wont load up when i try to play in multiplayer), it can play in small amount of players but when i am playing 3+ players i just get stuck and others can connect. tried to lower the graphics that helped me but in 30 min i always get out of memory crash. the driver i am using is 24.3.1 GPU 5700 XT 

[Matt_AMD]

Please see my earlier post in this discussion. This is known and under investigation.

[Olexanderoff]

How long? I am currently looking to upgrade my graphics card (currently rx 580) and am choosing between amd and nvidia, if I could play my favorite game on amd I would choose amd without hesitation

[Yarembo]

I also own rx580 and got same issues. I have Nvidia and always used AMD, but if they would not fix it, i swear - will buy 3060. Sill have hopes, because last update indeed fix some of the issues, but not all of them. 

AMD, please fix it!

[Popey900]

 As much as I like AMD CPU's, I won't be relying on AMD for GPUs in the future. 

[agentad]

i mosted a more recent detailed remaining bug in lastest version 

https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/one-bug-remaining-cossacks-3-state-after-24-6-1/m-p/69...

[Kiper]

I have 7800xt. I noticed one peculiarity. At the lowest settings, after a game crash with "assept" and "out of memory", if you manage to load a saved game from the 10th time, sometimes the game still opens, but with a buggy minimap and you can still play for some time.

[Kiper]

I have 7800xt. I noticed one peculiarity. At the lowest settings, after a game crash with "assept" and "out of memory", if you manage to load a saved game from the 10th time, sometimes the game still opens, but with a buggy minimap and you can still play for some time.

[Kiper]

Hello. I have more news. As it turned out through experience, in my situation, the cause of the "ASSEPT" and "Out of memory" errors, and then "Access violation at adress" - was the purchased game with steam + DLC. To identify the problem and compare, I had to download Cossacks 3 from other "known resources". It turned out that the downloaded game works correctly, the game does not crash, errors do not appear, but the game with Steam does not work. That is, the problem is either in the game with Steam, or in the game from "known resources" something has been modified and refined. I completely reinstalled Steam Cossacks 3, but it did not change anything. I don't know what to do with it, but it is impossible to play with steam now.
My PC: Win11 last update, B550 PRO V2 bios last, R5 5600X, 4x8 (32) Gb RAM, 7800XT, M2 Pci-E Evo+ ssd, hdd

[SwanUav]

didn't work for me

[peruka93]

The issue is that the new OpenGL driver (post 22.7.1 release) used more memory in specific situations than the "old driver". Game is 32-bit executable, that means it can use no more than around 3.5GB to 4GB of RAM - regardless of the amount in your PC. Issue is known and we work hard to resolve all the corner cases. Internally we confirmed that the future driver release is going to finally resolve the issue for all. Personally, I'm sorry it took so long.

[Dimchik25rus]

Толком  не чего не изменилось, как были вылеты так и остались 1.5 часа катки игра вылетела на самом интересном моменте. В жизни не боду больше пользоватся таким дерьмом как AMD

[Kiper]

My game crashes with an error when it reaches 2.8 GB of RAM. Do you want to say that OpenGL takes up the last 1.2 GB? The video memory is somewhere around 1GB and there is an unlimited amount of the volume of the swap file.

[peruka93]

No, the 2.8 GB includes game AND driver memory used. It's weird it happened at that moment. 

What GPU are you using? Is it Navi+ (RDNA architecture) or pre-Navi = Vega or Polaris (GCN architecture)?

[Kiper]

RDNA 3 (7800XT)

[Kiper]

delete

[Rizwanlang]

Try rolling back to a previous driver version known to work with Cossacks 3. Additionally, ensure compatibility settings for the game and check for any patches or updates from the game developer.

[Kiper]

The game is on steam, so it is the latest version and with the latest updates. The previous driver that works with cossacks cannot be installed for my video card because it is not supported. I have 7800XT

[Kiper]

The amd representative wrote that these problems are also on Nvidia, but I checked on two other PCs today. One had a GTX 960 2GB, the other a Quadro RTX 4000. The game does not crash on any of these video cards with the latest drivers, even in the most difficult version with the maximum number of units in the game. Sadly

[Dimchik25rus]

Обещали что с оновлением все исправить. Якобы во всем зазобрались. Но вы себя переоценили причем намного