has anyone else been getting terrible freeze ups and hard freezes recently?

[Hematite0]

sometime after the window 11 24h2 update dropped in october or something, ive been getting regular hard freezes while playing the game. Cant tab out, cant do anything except force shutdown my pc by holding the power button for 5 secs

my pc:
GPU: RTX 4070 ti super
CPU: 13600kf
PSU: 850 watt gold straight power 11 from be quiet
RAM: 64gb DDR4
SSD: 980 pro 2tb
mobo: z790 D DDR4
ive tried completely removing and reinstalling grpahics drivers ( twice ), updating bios, i have repaired system filed with sfc, and neither my CPU or GPU are getting above 70 C. i havnt reinstalled windows, which is my last resort if i truly cant get it fixed otherwise. this is also the only game ive found that does this

is anyone else having this? its happening almost every single time i play, cyberpunk is practically unplayable for me at this point

If anyone knows a solution, id be very grateful

EDIT: The new cyberpunk update and/or the new windows update fixed all the issues i was having related to stuttering, freezing, and hard freezing :)

[~Ren~]

I also recently installed the new Windows update, no crashes or freezes.

Besides the Windows update, if it was me, I'd be looking at anything that has changed on my PC recently, new driver, new mods, etc.

If the game was playing fine before the Windows update, that's possibly the problem.

[Videogamejohnson]

I have a possible fix for you, since something similar was happening to me too. Hard freezes after just playing for couple of minutes for seemingly no reason.

Now the only fix that helped me with the issue was to unfortunately reinstall the windows. But you need to do a clean reinstall of windows 10 and then update to windows 11 not just a reinstall of windows 11.

I think the issue here is that the setting "optimisations for windowed games" is turned on by default in windows 11 and for some reason the game doesn't like that. So maybe try to disable that setting first see if anything changes anything.

[catch22atplay]

13600kf+RTX 4080 Win 11 pro and i have the following windows settings;

Game Captures=OFF
Game Bar=OFF
Game mode=ON
Don't use optimizations for windowed game=Unchecked
High performance=Checked
Don't use auto HDR=Checked

Steam i have the following settings;

Overlay=On
Shader Pre-caching=Off
Recording=Off
Cloud Saves=Off

I don't use HDR and I rarely crash. Note i keep putting off updating to 24H2. Looked like way to much was added so i expect issues as usual. So still using 23H2 here. I'd expect 24H2 is the issue else try a different driver. You can't downgrade from an update. Reinstall option will reinstall with the same upgrade already in use. So if you want to reinstall you may have to do as john said. However i'd try checking old restore points as well. Windows usually creates a restore point when there's an update. So check update history then match the same date for restoring.

[Hematite0]

Originally posted by Videogamejohnson:

I have a possible fix for you, since something similar was happening to me too. Hard freezes after just playing for couple of minutes for seemingly no reason.

Now the only fix that helped me with the issue was to unfortunately reinstall the windows. But you need to do a clean reinstall of windows 10 and then update to windows 11 not just a reinstall of windows 11.

I think the issue here is that the setting "optimisations for windowed games" is turned on by default in windows 11 and for some reason the game doesn't like that. So maybe try to disable that setting first see if anything changes anything.

i disabled that setting and it mightve been better, but the issue is still happening. Ill wait for the next windows update and see if that fixes anything. if not, ill see about reinstalling windows 11 or 10 ( ive never used 10 on this pc if that makes a difference )

[Hematite0]

Originally posted by Hematite0:

Originally posted by Videogamejohnson:

I have a possible fix for you, since something similar was happening to me too. Hard freezes after just playing for couple of minutes for seemingly no reason.

Now the only fix that helped me with the issue was to unfortunately reinstall the windows. But you need to do a clean reinstall of windows 10 and then update to windows 11 not just a reinstall of windows 11.

I think the issue here is that the setting "optimisations for windowed games" is turned on by default in windows 11 and for some reason the game doesn't like that. So maybe try to disable that setting first see if anything changes anything.

i disabled that setting and it mightve been better, but the issue is still happening. Ill wait for the next windows update and see if that fixes anything. if not, ill see about reinstalling windows 11 or 10 ( ive never used 10 on this pc if that makes any difference ). Thanks!

[Tokenn]

Your 13th Gen CPU could be degrading...it's a known problem, and pretty serious. However a BIOS update to the latest version should fix it (if that's the problem).

My game was crashing on start for a while, and got worse over time. A BIOS update 100% cured the problem...this was even before I new about the Intel problem...I thought it was something to do with a Windows update and I was preparing to torch Windows and reinstall it. Fortunately I did the BIOS update first.

[Hematite0]

Originally posted by Tokenn:

Your 13th Gen CPU could be degrading...it's a known problem, and pretty serious. However a BIOS update to the latest version should fix it (if that's the problem).

My game was crashing on start for a while, and got worse over time. A BIOS update 100% cured the problem...this was even before I new about the Intel problem...I thought it was something to do with a Windows update and I was preparing to torch Windows and reinstall it. Fortunately I did the BIOS update first.

a bios update was one of the first things i did aswell :/