BGE crashes every 2-10 times I press P to play.

this happens for me for any file I run, even a brand new one. it happens most often when I change settings around.

Did you try reinstall blender?

yes, I completely uninstalled blender and started with a new installation of 2.73a . I chose the option to remove old settings. I’ve also tried running blender in admin.

Share a blend file, for more specific help.

Like I said,“this happens for me for any file I run, even a brand new one.”

here is a file anyway

I also tried clicking the embedded play “start” button. The same thing happens.

I’m using an nvidia geforce gtx 650. I tried updating the drivers, but they are up to date. I also tried rolling back the drivers, but that did nothing.

are you in windows 8.1?

windows 7 home premium 64bit

Oddly enough this has been happening to me too, I honestly was just summing it up to my shoddy gpu drivers (Intel HD integrated GPU).

I do not know if there’s anything correlated, but I could only run the 32bit version 2.72b on Win 7 Home Basic with on-board video. None of 2.73x ran even with the current updates.

I’ve already reported this problem. It works fine with other Vista 32bit PC.
https://developer.blender.org/T43415

This problem stopped once, but it happens again…
In my Windows8.1 pro x64, 2.73 and later are occurred, 2.72 and older are not.

Hey, lordloki fixed this problem! Thank you Jorge!
https://developer.blender.org/rBb4fccce1f6f4d5462d56e32934ff8652ea5d82ec

You can download it now from buildbot.

you’re welcome :slight_smile:

Just download 2.72, 2.73 did the same thing for me; supposingly an exception which makes the program crash for some reason. Most likely just a bug from 2.73.