Game Crashing Since 2.0

[Volsung]

I have not been able to play since 2.0 where I went from being able to play at a consistent 60fps on medium to non stop crashes from either character creation or opening a menu (the rare few times I make it into the game). I kept waiting for one of the further patches to fix it and at this points its been months since I've been able to play because the crashes now happen even sooner, usually as soon as the CDPR logo shows up.

I heard having a NVIDIA card is a possible culprit, are there any settings I can tweak to be able to run the game again? I have an rtx3060 and a ryzen5 3600, like I said things ran smoothly before 2.0 and now I can't even try to play the game.

[Silverbane7]

Are you having any crashes with other games as well?
Have you got the 'nvidia experience' installed (since it updates drivers a lot)?
(Tried rolling back/reinstalling an older driver?)
Have you tried starting the game from the .exe file?
Its a stretch, but are you running on an older HDD rather than an ssd?

[Bogmore]

Are you using mods?

[Volsung]

Originally posted by Silverbane7:

Are you having any crashes with other games as well?
Have you got the 'nvidia experience' installed (since it updates drivers a lot)?
(Tried rolling back/reinstalling an older driver?)
Have you tried starting the game from the .exe file?
Its a stretch, but are you running on an older HDD rather than an ssd?

No crashes in any other game, and I have to check whether I have that installed, I believe I updated my drivers when I was getting nonstop crashes during 2.0. This did nothing unfortunately. Maybe rolling back will do something? I'm not sure. I did try starting from the .exe just now that you mention it but it crashes much the same way. If i do several attempts it crashes at different points, usually during the CDPR logo but sometimes I can load into the game where it 100% will crash upon going to the inventory tab. Game is on an ssd of course, would never want to run it from an HDD even if it wasn't crashing. Speaking of, I did a reinstall back when 2.0 crashes were happening and it didn't help either.

Originally posted by Bogmore:

Are you using mods?

Nope. None whatsoever.

[PROFILE_IS_HIDDEN]

Mine is still completely f***ed since the 2.1 update. Crashes on launch. Every other game runs fine.

[Chara]

Is it still crashing for anyone else?

Anytime I start a new game it will crash at the menu or once I somehow start 1 it crashes 2mins in. is anyone else having this issue?

[★REM★]

It does not for me, works fine

Can you give more informations about your situation? Do you have or had any mod and not cleaned properly after removing it?

Did you try delete the settings file and let the game generate a new one? it is stored in %localappdata%/CD Project Red/Cyberpunk 2077 and delete usersettings.json

Do you have any keybinding changed? some users reported changing keybinds causes instant crash to desktop.

Can you go to steam/steamapps/common/Cyberpunk 2077
then delete bin folder, engine folder, r6 folder (totally delete all 3 folders), then open archive/pc folder and check if there is a mods folder, if yes, delete the mods folder too.
And lastly, verify game files on steam and let it download the files we just deleted.

This is the best way to have a clean installation with no leftovers mod files and if you never used mods, it still take care of any possible corrupted file and install fresh ones.

[Chara]

Originally posted by ★REM★:

It does not for me, works fine

Can you give more informations about your situation? Do you have or had any mod and not cleaned properly after removing it?

Did you try delete the settings file and let the game generate a new one? it is stored in %localappdata%/CD Project Red/Cyberpunk 2077 and delete usersettings.json

Do you have any keybinding changed? some users reported changing keybinds causes instant crash to desktop.

Can you go to steam/steamapps/common/Cyberpunk 2077
then delete bin folder, engine folder, r6 folder (totally delete all 3 folders), then open archive/pc folder and check if there is a mods folder, if yes, delete the mods folder too.
And lastly, verify game files on steam and let it download the files.

This is the best way to have a clean installation with no leftovers mod files and if you never used mods, it still take care of any possible corrupted file and install fresh ones.

yes I had mods but they were outdated then I deleted everything then verify files so I tested it without mods earlier it crashed 5mins.

After awhile I tryed it with mods and it crashed after 5mins as well. everything was fine a few patches ago.

[ficsion]

It randomly crashed now i cant play

i started a new save the last few days because I wanted to play the story again an d at about 8 hours in, i was near the pier at the bottom of the map and my gam crashed after taking damage randomly, and ever since then i haven't been able to launch my save, or any other, i've reinstalled the game and googled what other people have had issues with but i just cant find the solution

[★REM★]

Originally posted by Chara:

Originally posted by ★REM★:

It does not for me, works fine

Can you give more informations about your situation? Do you have or had any mod and not cleaned properly after removing it?

Did you try delete the settings file and let the game generate a new one? it is stored in %localappdata%/CD Project Red/Cyberpunk 2077 and delete usersettings.json

Do you have any keybinding changed? some users reported changing keybinds causes instant crash to desktop.

Can you go to steam/steamapps/common/Cyberpunk 2077
then delete bin folder, engine folder, r6 folder (totally delete all 3 folders), then open archive/pc folder and check if there is a mods folder, if yes, delete the mods folder too.
And lastly, verify game files on steam and let it download the files.

This is the best way to have a clean installation with no leftovers mod files and if you never used mods, it still take care of any possible corrupted file and install fresh ones.

yes I had mods but they were outdated then I deleted everything then verify files so I tested it without mods earlier it crashed 5mins.

After awhile I tryed it with mods and it crashed after 5mins as well. everything was fine a few patches ago.

It is very important that you have manually removed the folders touched by mods, that usually are bin/r6/engine and archive/pc/mods because, just uninstall the game using steam and reinstall using steam/verify game files is not removing the "extra" files added by the mods (steam only remove vanilla game file when you hit the uninstall), they stay in place and when you reinstall the game it just install and the old mods are still there.

[Angelus-Virtus]

I am having the same issue. I dont use any mods and I cant figure out way its doing it.

[Silverbane7]

I recommend CyberClean for removing any left behind mod fragments.

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/8595
Cyberclean
The 'CyberNuke' version gets rid of everything mod related for that fresh clean spring feeling 😉
Its a simple .bat file. You drop it into the 'cyberpunk 2077' game folder, double click it to run it.

Originally posted by Angelus-Virtus:

I am having the same issue. I dont use any mods and I cant figure out way its doing it.

Have you tried running the game via its .exe file?
Some folks (myself included, back in 1.63 Legacy) found that bypassing the steam and REDLauncher launchers allowed the game to stop crashing.
(Without mods for me, after a CyberNuke clean out)

[Lucifer]

Why does cyberpunk keep crashing after the last update (2.12)

Hello guys, after the last update (2.12) my Cyberpunk keeps crashing (even though I have the appropriate hardware) and that's why I wanted to ask you if you know how to fix this (probably) error

[76561198856165040]

wipe Cyberpunk 2077\archive\pc\ep1 one. Then verify the game files again with Steam loading up the folder back.

[76561198856165040]

List everything you have done to have a stable game. Such as having the right graphical settings for your RAM, fps cap or no cap, right anti virus settings, steam overlay settings etc.

[Lodaman]

Originally posted by Chara:

Anytime I start a new game it will crash at the menu or once I somehow start 1 it crashes 2mins in. is anyone else having this issue?

Yeah I got crashing too after updating to 2.12. Any fix you found? Did not install any mods.

Also It got 3 hourd to install 2.12 update on my PC.