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I cannot continue after completing "the marine 'Luke's canyon to hell stage. where after entering the red-ish tunnel entrance the game loads and intros the next stage and zooms into luke for the start of the next stage and trys to save and start the new stage. the game crashes. i am on default settings. what can i do?
I am using a laptop i purchased on 30dec08- Asus G50Vt-A2 series and the downloaded version of shadowgrounds survivor from steam. It is running Vista -64 bit as the operating system.

i have tried the F8 set environmenteffect group at none and disabled the distortion in the launcher, and it still crashes

when i used the survivour launcher and unchecked: weather effects, Extra gamma effects, reder glow, distortion effects, diabled: antialiasing,anisotropic filter
weather effects and shadow textures at very low, physic simulation low ,

resolution wide 16:10,,1680X 1050
then the game ran fine for inferno .

a new problem popped up for Dead Colony where it wouldnt load just like inferno at the auto save point. when i restarted again the scenerio of running wild with the default Luke, Dead Colony loaded just fine.

During game play of Dead Colony i found a hole in the fancing of 3 apc(near the exact center of the map of this stage, i do have a printl screen image i pasted on word2007 other wise dont know how to retrieve it) which have the creeping spider like bots but i cant get in, it s like i just need one more inch, am i supposed to be able to get in?

also after finishing Dead colony, and starting... keep your claws off me? stage it crashes right after i click start. what is wrong with my game setup on my newish laptop>?>?Help...

i tried to reload with the previous settings and finish Dead Colony in the hopes it just a glitch . i dont know what happens but luke sudden says he needs someone elses help in a black screen with lukes picture on the left and some guy on the right and the keep ur claws off survival starts but im inside the walls? and i can pistolall the creeps.. dont know what happens if i can finish this stage and i cant pick up stuff....

while i was stuck in the wall i was able to finish most of the alien bots and when i used a rocket launcher to kill my self by the splash damage, so that i was able to respawn in the map. and i have since finished final countdown. but these bugss werent fun at all.

Sorry I couldn't get in here to help you in time... I'll reply anyway in case anyone else is having similar problems.

Basically your hardware is fine. There is some weird bug in SGS that causes crashes at the mission starts/ends, and it usually pops up in these levels (Inferno, Dead Colony, and also sometimes Backups Missing and other missions).

We've never been able to locate and fix the actual bug, so there's only a number of workarounds available. My best suggestion is to download the savegames for the mission(s) that crash, and simply try loading it again and again...

The savegames are at http://shadowgroundsgame.com/sgs_savegames/

Seems like you also got the very rare (I think this is the third time it has happened for anyone) bug in Keep Your Claws Off where you spawn inside the walls...

Sorry about all this, the problems are rare but I know it sucks when you have to go through it and try to find the solutions (especially on your own like here).

Too bad, after pursaching Shadowgrounds Survivor on Impulse, I'm stuck with this infamous bug of "Keep Your Claws Off" (tested with and without DEP exception for shadow grounds survivor / Win 7 - 64b ).

Did you try the savegame fix suggestion above? I.e. download the savegame to the NEXT level (Final Countdown I think it is) and then load Keep Your Claws Off again (assuming you crash at the end of the loading for Final Countdown).

Your workaround has worked, thank you ! (a little disappointed that there was only two littles missions ) but great game

Good to hear it worked, and that you enjoyed the game.