Split Screen crashes constantly

[mapamapa]

Certain areas of the game like outside the druid grove and the fight on top of the first dungeon freezes the game making it unplayable.

I've heard other people had problems with crashes during split-screen, so anyone got a solution?

[Cubes]

Definitely having issues. I’ve tried lowering graphics quality, verifying the files, updating drivers, switching to a different graphics card, disabling certain windows features that I read might be causing issues, blocking the antivirus from scanning the game files.

I got nothing.

It only seems to affect split screen. If you exit split screen and play solo through the problem section it will work. I’ve been using that to get past the freezing. And saving tons.

[Drew]

There are a lot of people on reddit with the same problem. I didn't saw a lot of posts here about the crash and the ones that I've seen, are all unanswered... I have 2 friends suffering from the same bug and we cant play because they can't split-screen without the game crashing in the first 5 minutes.

[Litost]

Hey, I've had the same problem and maybe have a fix? Came across this link googling and want to share.

Limiting the in game fps to 30 stopped the crashing for me and a friend for several hours. Near the beginning after landing on the beach it was nearly unplayable freezing and crashing every couple minutes. We managed to play several hours straight with no crashes after changing this.

I hope it helps! And really hope Larian fixes it because I love the game.

[gamer]

same

[Kaarid(Матрена)]

I've got same problem. Hope patches will fix it.

[Levi]

Same

[Xam]

Same problem. Problem starts right after nautiloid crash. Game freezing every 2-5. minutes, not possible to play

[Starwight/ttv]

Yep. My wife and I can't even play because the game keeps ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ freezing and crashing in dialogue at the start of the game

Great ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ job Larian, nice to see 2 patches and no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fix. I'm done with this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Naraku]

The problem is playing with controllers my friends, I fixed by buying another game

[mapamapa]

Originally posted by Starwight/ttv:

Yep. My wife and I can't even play because the game keeps ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ freezing and crashing in dialogue at the start of the game

Great ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ job Larian, nice to see 2 patches and no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fix. I'm done with this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

You tried the new performance patch Patch 2? Still crashes? That's a shame.. Waiting to play with my wife as well.

Btw what kind of specs do you guys have?
My PC is ancient but can easily run the game in 60 fps in singleplayer.

I5-4670k, 8 GB RAM, 1070.

Don't know if people with new PC's have the same problems. Split-screen is more demanding but if it crashes something must be wrong like a memory leak or something.

[Lamiliss]

Originally posted by mapamapa:

Originally posted by Starwight/ttv:

Yep. My wife and I can't even play because the game keeps ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ freezing and crashing in dialogue at the start of the game

Great ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ job Larian, nice to see 2 patches and no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fix. I'm done with this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

You tried the new performance patch Patch 2? Still crashes? That's a shame.. Waiting to play with my wife as well.

Btw what kind of specs do you guys have?
My PC is ancient but can easily run the game in 60 fps in singleplayer.

I5-4670k, 8 GB RAM, 1070.

Don't know if people with new PC's have the same problems. Split-screen is more demanding but if it crashes something must be wrong like a memory leak or something.

I have i5-6600k, 12GB ram, 1070, i run solo fullspec the first act but crash between 5min and 45min in low graphics in split screen...

[Ageha]

same. crashes for us after the goblins attack all the time. runs perfectly solo

[Xam]

i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz, 32 gb ram, GTX 1660 TI
Solo game can run on Ultra graphic settings without any problems, but split screen freezing every 2 minutes on a lowest settings

[UhOhMath]

Also having many issues so far in split-screen, so just wanted to chime in here with more datapoints. I just picked up the game and started with Patch 2. I have a newer GPU and an older CPU so might be interesting information.

Specs:
CPU: i5-7500
GPU: Sapphire RX 6700 XT (12GB)
RAM: 16GB DDR4
Screen: 1080p

Running the game off SSD, CPU/GPU temps staying ~50-60C with some good fans and CPU cooler. Generally, seems to be plenty of system memory and GPU doing fine while CPU struggling ~90-100%.

Playing split screen: originally ran game on auto-detected graphics at 60fps with DX11, which set me at a mix of ultra and high. Game froze in character creation while flipping through hair options. Restarted and verified files, lowered some settings to medium/high from ultra/high, got through character creation.

Going through first door, opened the pause menu while quicksaving and the game froze again. Restarted and put all settings at low and 30fps max set. Had no issues for a bit so gradually brought up 48fps with the below settings, which have worked fine for a couple hours now. Just started the game and haven't really encountered any really demanding scenes yet, so I can update what happens. Still encountering some stuttering, delays to open menus/loot/etc, and walking animation stops while quicksaving (player character model floats standing pose while moving). Glad to be able to play now but disappointing the state of split screen and quicksaving often.

Interested to know if these settings work for others, what your specs are, and if we can see any patterns that cause issues! Thanks all :)

DX11, 1080p @ 48fps, vsync off

Model: medium
Shadow: low
Cloud: medium
Texture: medium
Texture filtering: x4
Instance distance: low
Fog: low
Detail distance: medium
Animation detail: medium

FidelityFX Sharpening: on ~15%
AA: SMAA
Ambient Occlusion: on
DOF: Gaussian
God Rays: on
Bloom: off
Subsurface scattering: on
Dynamic crowds: off

[UhOhMath]

Just an update: tried to play again today, game froze multiple times as soon as we started just trying to open the radial menus :( Very disappointing state of split screen, the game is completely unplayable in this state....