Consistent Crashes to Desktop

[Dimcreaper]

Howdy, I've been playing Starmade on my predator 17 laptop for about a year now with little issue. recently I reformatted my computer and replaced my D: hardrive. All of my drivers are up to date, and I have Java 64bit 8u.131.

However despite this I am still experiencing consistent crashes to desktop with no pretext or error messages. I have modified my memory settings to: Maximum 8192, Initial 1024, and Early gen 512. yet my computer still runs the game at 12-25 fps and tells me the game is under high load. I get 10-20 min of game play before it crashes completely.

My computer specs are as follows:

Intel core i7-6700HQ CPU @2.60GHz
RAM: 16 GB
64bit windows 10
Nividia GTX Geforce 970M with 3GB VRAM

Any thing that can be done to fix this?

 

[MrGrey1]

Laptops using correct video card?

 

[Dimcreaper]

Laptops using correct video card?

I check the nividia control panel, I had to manually add and set the java platform to be running through the nividia card. But yes it did say it was on the right one.

 

[Calhoun]

Start with the basics, have you reinstalled the game in a different location?

 

[Dimcreaper]

Start with the basics, have you reinstalled the game in a different location?

I just now did that, did a clean install, got the same crash.

 

[Crusade]

Java update 131 has issues - use previous version
Hope this helps.

 

[Dimcreaper]

Java update 131 has issues - use previous version
Hope this helps.

Any suggestions on how to find/install older versions? I can only find 131 on their website

Edit: Never mind I found it, I'll let you know if it helps, thanks

Edit: I downloaded Java 8u 121 x64 and I still got the crash