CRASH IN JAPANTOWN ONLY

[ALXX44]

Hello guys i would like to know if any of you got a CTD only in japantown
I removed all my mods and made a clean install nothing changed

Any tips?

[Aqu]

Since 2.12 I've had some crashes and yes... usually in Japantown. I haven't found any 100% way to reproduce them (if I reload the last save point and repeat what I did before the crash it goes smoothly). Often this has happened when delivering a stolen car for Kapitan while driving through Japantown.

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

If you have mods, you should first test your game on a 100% vanilla clean install to eliminate the possibility that mods are causing the crashes (which is often the case)

I played almost 300 hours of base game on 1.63 and PL on 2.0 without crashes. Didn't play for few months and came back to the game just to see it has become an absolute crashfest.

At first it was only in Japantown, specific areas that are 100% reproducible. But now it crashes left and right all over the place. Hope it isn't going to be the case for you.

Anyway, I've done 20+ hours of test on this since the game is now basically unplayable, and I've found the culprits (for me)

See if the following conditions apply to you
- Do you have Phantom Liberty installed?
- Do you have Ray tracing/Path tracing turned on?
- Are you on patch 2.12 (or 2.10, 2.11)?

If so, then what's happening to me might apply to you as well, read this thread for full info.
https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/ray-tracing-causing-the-game-to-crash-if-phantom-liberty-is-installed-on-2-10-2-11-or-2-12.11130028/

[stoneking]

This is happening to me too. I turned off ray trace and the crash stopped. I may enable again after I run a few of the Japantown-related missions.

[76561198856165040]

Try disabling phantom liberty dlc if you have it. Then play a new save without it. See if that works. I’ve heard it does for some.

[DasFizzla]

All I know is Quest's in Japan Town Crash albeit Story or side Quest, Obzob quest after pick up going through under pass Crash, River After he Prompts to see Peters Boss Crash under over pass, Going to James to tell him about Jody Crash Either Walking Or driving, Something hates Japan Town, thought it was the ---> not so good draw distance, someone said it may be exposing a stream problem in the game in that area, with it on or Off I get the same Crash. Widows up to date, Drivers Clean uninstall and install Bios up to date only weird thing is in system report The game Does not Recognize G.Skill as mfg it says unknown, then shows that I have 32gb of Ram at 3600 speed. If it's an OC Problem with the CPU/GPU and Ram XMP on with this Game, it is Definitely a Dev Problem not ours, especially when our rigs run perfectly fine with other games. Patch 2,2 2/2/2025 and this is still a thing,