Game crashes after ~15 minutes without fail

[joe]

They happen anywhere; walking around, mid conversation, etc.

I have tried:
- Lowering the graphics settings.
- Updating my drivers.
- Reinstalling the game and restarting my PC, obvious stuff.
- Updating Steam
- Verifying the P4G files in Steam
- Turning off Steam overlay
- When it freezes, I tried tabbing out and back in,
- Also when it freezes, I tried clicking "wait for process to respond" and waited about 60 seconds instead of just ending the process there.

edit:
- Running as administrator
- Using the 4GB patch on the game's exe

I've seen this supposed fix with changing your graphics processor settings in the NVIDIA control panel (Manage 3D Settings, more specifically), but that drop down menu to choose your preferred graphics processor doesn't even exist in my NVIDIA control panel.

I have Windows 10, 16GB ram, GTX 970, i5 6600k.

Atlus plz patch

edit: I might have fixed it.
I heard on Reddit that the super high frame-rates were causing crashes for some people. I got the Special K mod and used it to cap the frame-rate to just under 60 (was running at 144 before), and also used the mod to disable the motion blur effect (and a couple other unrelated improvements). It ran for 1.5 hours without any problems.(and i closed it myself, it never crashed again)

[Kurosu]

This is probably a long shot, but try opening task manager and set the priotity of P4G to "high".
Its the only step I can think of that isnt already included in your list.

[Oragepoilu]

Download and patch the exe with a 4gb patch and see if it help. it did for me and a lot of people.
Here a link to download one (https://ntcore.com/?page_id=371)
(the game is badly coded memory wise for windows, so having a little more memory avoid ending with the game asking windows to load something since it cannot actually find enough "space" to do it, and end up crashing)

[birdfoot]

@OP,

It's pretty bizarre that there's quite a number of cases of crashing with specs like yours (or even better). Just wondering though, do you have stuff like MSI Afterburner or RivaTuner running? If you have, you might want to disable them and see if crashes still happen.

I've not encountered any issues at my end at all (apart from stuttering cutscenes), so I'm not really sure if this suggestion will help you. But I recall having issues with MSI Afterburner causing some games crashing for me (like Guild Wars 2 and Tales of Berseria) so it might be worth a shot. I also don't have updated Nvidia graphics card drivers since I don't have the habit of keeping them updated.

[joe]

Originally posted by birdfoot:

@OP,

It's pretty bizarre that there's quite a number of cases of crashing with specs like yours (or even better). Just wondering though, do you have stuff like MSI Afterburner or RivaTuner running? If you have, you might want to disable them and see if crashes still happen.

I've not encountered any issues at my end at all (apart from stuttering cutscenes), so I'm not really sure if this suggestion will help you. But I recall having issues with MSI Afterburner causing some games crashing for me (like Guild Wars 2 and Tales of Berseria) so it might be worth a shot. I also don't have updated Nvidia graphics card drivers since I don't have the habit of keeping them updated.

Yeah I saw that suggestion (Afterburner and RivaTuner) online too, made sure those aren't running too lol. I even got Windows 10 specifically for this game (and PSO2). If this 4GB thing doesn't work, I think all I can do is refund or wait for a patch.

[joe]

Originally posted by Oragepoilu:

Download and patch the exe with a 4gb patch and see if it help. it did for me and a lot of people.
Here a link to download one (https://ntcore.com/?page_id=371)
(the game is badly coded memory wise for windows, so having a little more memory avoid ending with the game asking windows to load something since it cannot actually find enough "space" to do it, and end up crashing)

Tried this, along with running as administrator but again it crashed in like 10 to 15 minutes.

[Zee The Cray]

It's a common issue. Just refund and wait for a patch. You're lucky it started before the 2 hour mark.

[LiuKangCookFood]

I feel you man, I have nearly the same specs and I keep crashing. Hopefully they fix it soon.

[owain]

Try this, it fixes a 15min crash in a few other games-

Press Win + R, type 'services.msc', press Enter
Find 'Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service', and double tap/click it
Click Stop
Select 'disabled' at 'Startup type'
Click Ok, then reboot

[LiuKangCookFood]

Originally posted by owain:

Try this, it fixes a 15min crash in a few other games-

Press Win + R, type 'services.msc', press Enter
Find 'Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service', and double tap/click it
Click Stop
Select 'disabled' at 'Startup type'
Click Ok, then reboot

May I know how this works ? What does disabling 'sevices.msc' do ?

[FEGuy]

It's not disabling services.msc - that would be very bad. It's just disabling a particular service that's been known to cause issues with other games; I don't know that it'd be particularly helpful here, but if you're not running a touchscreen device or maybe using a graphics tablet, I don't think it hurts to disable it.

[yotoprules]

Originally posted by birdfoot:

@OP,

It's pretty bizarre that there's quite a number of cases of crashing with specs like yours (or even better). Just wondering though, do you have stuff like MSI Afterburner or RivaTuner running? If you have, you might want to disable them and see if crashes still happen.

I've not encountered any issues at my end at all (apart from stuttering cutscenes), so I'm not really sure if this suggestion will help you. But I recall having issues with MSI Afterburner causing some games crashing for me (like Guild Wars 2 and Tales of Berseria) so it might be worth a shot. I also don't have updated Nvidia graphics card drivers since I don't have the habit of keeping them updated.

That's not the cause. I've been using msi afterburner and rivatuna the whole time and had 0 crashes with the overlay.

[CHAO$$$]

Search the forum for the [Special K] Thread by kaladein.
Read the last bit of his opening post.

No fix as far as im aware but thats probably whats happening.

[joe]

I might have resolved it. I heard on Reddit that the super high frame-rates were causing crashes for some people. I got the Special K mod and used it to cap the frame-rate to just under 60 (was running at 144 before), and also used the mod to disable the blur effect. Not sure which fixed it, but it's fixed I think. Definitely greatly improved at the very least, ran for 1.5 hours without any problems.

[Kaldaien]

Hmm, that is interesting.

Lucky for me, I am not big into high framerate rendering -- I go for image quality / HDR and consider 60 FPS on an OLED perfect for all genre of games.

Not really sure why high framerates would cause stability problems, but I can't hit > 120 FPS with any consistency anyway despite my RTX 2080 Ti K|NGP|N (supreme overlord of GPUs =P).