2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

[drhuxtable]

I bought 2K12 on Steam yesterday and I've been having a lot of freezing/crashing issues. I updated my drivers and my specs are:

Core i5 2500K
Nvidia Geforce 560Ti 1GB
4GB RAM

I turned AA off as I figured that might be the culprit, but it still freezes immediately after tip off in a quick game.

It also freezes in other areas, but I can't remember which ones except for when the two team's logos 'clash' before a game.

Any ideas?

[drhuxtable]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

Well this is very frustrating. It just freezed during training camp. I've already deleted and reinstalled from Steam as well as verified the integrity of my game cache.

[Guffers]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

Yep I'm having similar issues except I can't even get into the game. It crashes immediately upon start up. Which is infuriating because it was working for me yesterday. Something has changed in my system and I have no idea what or how to fix it. All of the suggestions I've found online don't work.

Redownloading from Steam now. In 4 hours I'll be able to try again. Its enough to make me want to give up and buy the 360 version.

[drhuxtable]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

I noticed in that other thread that you mentioned you have an nVidia card. Wonder if that's the issue?

I'm not trying to brag but my system is no slouch, so it should have zero issue running this game.

Navigating the menus I've never had it crash, creating My2K Player never crashed, but anything involving actually playing basketball just flat out freezes. Doesn't even go to a black screen, it just locks up at a certain point. The strange thing is, the audio keeps playing. Music will keep playing (either the background music in training camp mode or the stadium music), but the commentary stops.

Very strange and frustrating.

Did you get your version from Steam? Wondering if it's specific to that version, as I noticed people in the Steam forums talking about similar issues.

Is there anyone we can contact at 2K about this?

[Guffers]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

Yeah mine is from Steam. Its just wierd because I was playing yesterday and had no issues at all. Something has changed and 2K12 doesn't like it!!

Nvidia card could very well be the issue. When I first booted up the game yesterday it didn't even recognise the card and was trying to play using the intergrated graphics chip. It was a dead give away when I noticed I was getting 10fps. Once I used the Nvidia control panel to force the game to use my card I was getting 100 fps in the benchmark.

I've browsed the 2K forums and there really isn't anybody complaining of the same issue. I'm reinstalling all of my drivers and the game. If that doesn't work I'll be at my wits end. I would hate to have wasted $49.99.

[drhuxtable]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

Let me know how it goes for you.. I updated my drivers and reinstalled, as I said, but if it fixed it for you maybe I'll try it one more time.

[Guffers]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

I downloaded a couple of other games last night (Crysis Warhead and Rainbow Six Vegas) so maybe the installation of those has messed something up.

I'm quite new to PC gaming and so far it's been pretty frustrating. It feels like every second game requires me to spend ages scouring forums to get them to work!

It will be hours before my redownload of 2K12 finishes but I'll let you know if I have any joy.

[Guffers]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

I've reinstalled my drivers and reinstalled the game. No joy, still crashes immediately.

I'm not holding my breath for an official response from 2K, hopefully somebody smarter than me figures it out and posts a fix.

This is absolutely infuriating.

[Guffers]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

Ok fingers crossed I have found a fix...

Go into Program files/Steam/Steamapps/Common/NBA 2K12 and find the 2K12 exe file. Right click then properties. Then choose the compatibility tab and click disable display scaling on high DPI settings.

My game is now loading. I hope this isnt just a fluke!

[drhuxtable]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

Good to hear, I'll try it out when I get home from class... in 12 hours.

Hopefully we hear something from 2K as well.

[rmcguire]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

ok, figured out my issue seems that only games at Madison Square Garden I have to have my arena settings at LOW, everythinge else the same...

But any other game have arena @ HIGH.....weird?

[drhuxtable]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

Just changed the exe compatibility settings and it still crashes. It's on the default video settings too..

I'm clueless and frustrated to no end!

[drhuxtable]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

In the off chance that it was the issue, I unplugged my 360 controller... and no crashes so far. Very frustrating if that's the issue since it's really hard to play with mouse/keyboard... will reinstall the controller drivers and see if that fixes it.

[Jrod904]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

I'm having the same issue with the freezing 3-4 seconds after tip-off. I can start the game up fine, the menus, pregame. But right after someone wins the tip, it freezes. I tried quick game, association and my-player games and it still freezes. I tried lowering all settings to low, still freezes. It's really bumming me out becuase i loved 2k11 on PC last year.

I'm using a ATI card (updated drivers), Steam Version and a XBOX 360 controller.

I'm probably just gonna go buy the xbox version because i have no idea how to fix it.

[Jrod904]

Re: 2K12 Freezes Immediately After Tipoff

It was my 360 Controller. I tried to play without it and no freezes.

After and hour or two trying to find what the problem was i ended up installing a fresh windows and the game is running great now with the 360 controller.