Splash Screen appears then it crashes to desktop with the message 'Brink has stopped working'.

My spec is:

C2Q9550

AMD 6970 - 11.5a

Win 7 64bit SP1

It's retail so I'll wait a few days before returning it. Hopefully Splash Damage will manage a fix.

Same. I have:
AMD 6000+ 3.04Ghz
4Gb DDR2 667Mhz 5-5-5-12
HIS 4870 512mb OC: 785/1090

Crash after startup the best thing to do is rename the folder "steam/steamapps/common/Brink/Base/Video/assets" to something different and itll skip the vids and you'll get in. But otherwise patience is the only option.

They have already released 2 patches and soon a Free DLC with new maps and "contents" so it will be fixed soon just not sure whether the list of bugs will end but otherwise a great company so far.

I have tried renaming assets but it still crashes.

lol Brink has more problems then a broke down motel if u ask me i still give it a 9 even on min settings its meh SD still needs too fix it i just hope they do it befor i end up dieing in sadness :sadvaultboy:

Can u be more specific with your problem?

Is it openGL?Did you tried different video drivers?I finally run Brink with a much older version of Catalyst.

See if http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25691 helps you,if it's not it i hope u resolve it soon m8,good luck.

Tried the 11.2 OGL drivers, no joy.

Was linked to http://gamecrashfixed.com/category/brink/ from Giant Bomb, it has a huge list of fixes but unfortunately none of them cure my problem. Still, it may be of help to others.

Create a file in " *:\Steam\userdata\********\22350\local\base " called autoexec.cfg (must save as 'any type' of file for it to save as that.)
then put:
seta com_allowConsole 1
seta com_bootLogo 0
seta r_useThreadedRenderer 2
seta s_numberOfSpeakers *
seta com_videoRam *

in there and save it .

the * represent numbers that you need to put in.
Tell me how that goes.

El_MUERkO,

There have been several reports of people who managed to overcome your problem by disabling their sound device temporarily so that the game would launch. But first, I feel obligated to warn you about T.Vann's apparently experimental solution. There are some commands there that won't help your problem but they can however under incorrect values introduce new problems. This is something T.Vann forgot to mention either because he just pasted it from another forum or because he himself doesn't know the exact meaning of the commands, I'm going with the second choice since I've seen him feed false information in other threads.

I recommend that you try my solution first, however I will post detailed description of the commands that T.Vann want's you to use and their respected values.

First, let's try to manually disable all sound in the game and if this doesn't work then we will try to temporarily disable the sound device via Windows.

1. Navigate to your steam folder > ...\Steam\userdata\...\22350\local\base
2. Create a new file called :"autoexec.cfg" or edit the existing one(note the file extension must be cfg). You can use a normal text editor to create such a file. You need to make sure that you made an actual file with a .cfg extension.
3. Paste the following into the file :

seta s_noSound "1"

4. Save the file and close it.
5. Try to run the game and see if it made any difference

If your still not able to run the game then we can disabling the sound device via Windows :

1. Click on the Windows start menu button and write the following in the editor window(search programs and files) : "Device Manager" and press Enter.
2. From the list, open the following section : "Sound video and game controllers"
3. Right click on the Audio device and click disable. Basically anything that is named "...Audio device" should be disabled.
4. Test that you have no sound by playing a music file or something similar
5. Try to start Brink
6. If you can start Brink then exit and enable your audio device again.

Let me know if any of these two solutions work or not so that we can continue fixing your problem.

Also here is a more detailed explanation of the commands that T.Vann want's you to use :

seta com_allowConsole [0,1]
* Setting this command to "1" will allow you to access the console in game by pressing the tilde key next to number 1 or under your Escape key. This command is not really important since you can access the console anyway by pressing Ctrl+Alt+`(tilde key) in the game.

seta com_bootLogo [1,0]
* Used to skip intro movies.

seta r_useThreadedRenderer [0,1,2]
* Enables the game to use a multi-threaded renderer backend
0 - Disable multi-threading in the renderer.
1 - Enables multi-threading in the renderer but locked to game frames (debugging).
2 - Enables multi-threading in the renderer unlocked from game frames.

Default : 0

Info: This command can improve the performance of your game but in a lot of cases it also causes crashes. Never set this command to "1" because this option is only used for debugging. It is highly unlikely that setting this command to "2" will in any way help with your problem but in the case that the command is already set on "2" you can set it to "0" to see if it clears your problem.
Once you clear your crashing problem you should set this to "2" to see if it improves performance.

seta s_numberOfSpeakers [2,4,5,6]
*This value shows the number of speakers the game has detected, based on your general Windows settings and In-Game settings. You can manually alter this value, however make sure it matches your current speaker setup otherwise you will have missing audio channels which can cause crashes.

seta com_videoRam [MB]
Shows the detected amount of video memory on your graphics card in MB. If this value is incorrect, set it to the correct value to improve performance.

Don't play with this command until you check the following:

1. Navigate to your steam folder > ...\Steam\userdata\...\22350\local\base
2. Open brinkconfig.cfg file using a text editor program.
3. check the line: seta com_videoRam and read which number it says.
4. if the number is equal to your Graphic cards memory size in MB then the game is correctly detecting it and you do not need to mess with this setting.

***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

Let me know how it turns out.

Ok, that worked. Thank you, very much.

I can run the game but without sound.

Any idea what I can do to get my sound back?

I'm glad to see that it worked, at least now we know that it's a sound device issue.

Let's see if we can restore sound without the game crashing again.
Try the following:

1. While in the game , press Ctrl+Alt+`(tilde key). This should bring up the developer console window.
2. Once in the console, type : seta s_noSound "0"

This should force the game to redetect your sound device and enable all sounds. Let me know if it works.

Unfortunately no.

Then you got three options to try out,

1. You try again with sound off to get into the game , then open the console and write : s_restart and then seta_noSound "0".

2. If 1 doesn't work then you have to try my second solution in my original post, don't forget to set the seta_noSound to 0 before doing this.



3. And the last thing for you to try if the two above fails is to update your sound drivers.

I've got it working. I tried disabling the device and re-enabling it while in game. That didnt work but a member of the RPS forum recognised a similar issue he had and suggested disabling individual inputs and outputs from the Sound options in Windows.

Like this my game crashed:
[img]http://i54.tinypic.com/2eb5v5s.png[/img]

Like this my game runs:
[img]http://i54.tinypic.com/2zz4u8h.png[/img]

Thanks again for all your help.

No problem, I'm glad you found a solution, enjoy the game.

Maybe you would have noticed when the communications device was speakers.

Anywho although NortdD seems to be trying to have a go at me he kind of actually affirmed what i was aiming for with most of these issues he just told you what to check and what i didn't explain since i figured you wouldn't want to know like the majority of users who just want a fix.
I applaud his efforts to explain them all and am distasteful towards his attitude of me helping my way and from what i have learnt which is very similar to his way jsut at a different angle and trying to involve many solutions together.
Im also thankful for his help and hope he can help you and maybe if there is something wrong with my commands or tips that he can (in a positive way) correct me.
Hope your game works well and you enjoy yourself.