Game crash after meeting Sadie Adler at Saint Denis

[Durandil74]

When I meet Sadie Adler in the saloon in Saint Denis, the game crashes just after the end of the cinematic. There's a kind of graphic bug, the game hangs for 1 second and then totally crashes.
I restarted my computer and it's the same.
I had no problem before and it's clearly always when the two characters go outside the saloon.

[Zippocallara]

Me too, SAME problems for me in the SAME part of the game. Jesus...

[Zippocallara]

Try this: skip the cutscene, then point Arthur's gaze to the ground and not to raise it. Do not look up until you reach the point. It works for me

[Warhawk]

Same issue happened to me too, graphical glitch after exiting the bar and then crash.
Got over it by trying what Zippo suggested.

[Durandil74]

OK, I just found a solution. I use default graphic settings. With that, no more problem.
So, it's a probably a bug neither the driver nor the game engine. At least, I can finish the game

[wrpen]

I've noticed it happens pretty consistently, and has something to do particularly with the intersection next to it. First ran into it down the street from there with the first sister calderone mission, then during the sadie mission, and most recently with the first charles mission in the epilogue. It's less consistent during freeroam but still can happen. Only workaround I know is just don't go in that area, and if you absolutely have to, angle your camera away from the intersection, or abandon the mission until you can start from the next checkpoint.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Never ever once had this problem.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Originally posted by olchevallier:

When I meet Sadie Adler in the saloon in Saint Denis, the game crashes just after the end of the cinematic. There's a kind of graphic bug, the game hangs for 1 second and then totally crashes.
I restarted my computer and it's the same.
I had no problem before and it's clearly always when the two characters go outside the saloon.

I know it's an old thread but next time list your specs that's why you never got any help. Too many red flags like.. not listing your specs, demonstrating graphical glitches (yeah, those are actually called artifacts and they are not normal), computer crashing. Those are all abnormal behaviors with this game and only draw suspicion to your PC.

Originally posted by Zippocallara:

Try this: skip the cutscene, then point Arthur's gaze to the ground and not to raise it. Do not look up until you reach the point. It works for me

And you didn't list your specs either. And having to stare at the ground to get the game to run? Are you Fing kidding me? The suspect here is definitely your PC, no doubt.

Originally posted by wrpen:

I've noticed it happens pretty consistently, and has something to do particularly with the intersection next to it. First ran into it down the street from there with the first sister calderone mission, then during the sadie mission, and most recently with the first charles mission in the epilogue. It's less consistent during freeroam but still can happen. Only workaround I know is just don't go in that area, and if you absolutely have to, angle your camera away from the intersection, or abandon the mission until you can start from the next checkpoint.

And once again no hardware specs. And no it's not normal behavior. I've passed that cutscene multiple times without staring at the ground. How can you guys exhibit these symptoms with your computers and not check things out. How can you think this is normal when other people are playing the game fine?

The problem is with the computer that you are playing on. End of story.

[Squirtle]

@Prothean lol, just because they didn't list their specs, doesn't mean they have wonko hardware, this is a known glitch by players... I experienced it both when meeting Sadie in Saint Denis and in a later part in the story also in Saint Denis, there are more threads on it if you search for something like ERR_GFX_whatever it's called.

The only fix I've found is setting your graphics preset to somewhere inbetween Favour Performance and Balanced, or if you still get it then, as low as the presets go.

My specs are:
AMD 2600 @stock
GTX 1070Ti @stock
16gb RAM @2666MHz
750w PSU

[Nifty]

Originally posted by Squirtle:

@Prothean lol, just because they didn't list their specs, doesn't mean they have wonko hardware, this is a known glitch by players... I experienced it both when meeting Sadie in Saint Denis and in a later part in the story also in Saint Denis, there are more threads on it if you search for something like ERR_GFX_whatever it's called.

The only fix I've found is setting your graphics preset to somewhere inbetween Favour Performance and Balanced, or if you still get it then, as low as the presets go.

My specs are:
AMD 2600 @stock
GTX 1070Ti @stock
16gb RAM @2666MHz
750w PSU

Had this problem also. To fix it I had to launch the game in safe mode which lowers graphics to lowest. Once past it just put normal graphics on. Its probably a bug with some sort of setting, rockstar poorly ported this game to pc with too many graphic settings which was never meant to be tuned the way we do.

my specs are;
8700k
gtx 2070
32gb ram 32000
750 psu

Originally posted by Prothean™:

And once again no hardware specs. And no it's not normal behavior. I've passed that cutscene multiple times without staring at the ground. How can you guys exhibit these symptoms with your computers and not check things out. How can you think this is normal when other people are playing the game fine?

The problem is with the computer that you are playing on. End of story.

What a strange attitude lol. The prblem is obviously not computer related the same error can occur in different areas if you do a little research. It has to do with an in game setting

[mihkel]

I just experienced this crash twice, and used the workaround Zippocallara posted. Literally look down immediately and away from the intersection. I didn't change any graphics settings.

3700X, RTX 2070 Super, 16GB RAM, Win 10, latest drivers

[opjose]

Originally posted by Prothean™:

The problem is with the computer that you are playing on. End of story.

Nonsense.

Same issue here on second playthrough.

Intel 9900KS water cooled w/ 3 fan radiator
32 GB RAM (also cooled)
QTY:2 - Intel 2TB NVME Drives
QTY:2 - Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080Ti with NVLink installed
1500 Watt power supply

No over-clocking on clean Windows 10 Pro install.

[Saito Hajime]

try switch to Vulkan instead of DX12, it worked for me

[Mic]

Originally posted by olchevallier:

When I meet Sadie Adler in the saloon in Saint Denis, the game crashes just after the end of the cinematic. There's a kind of graphic bug, the game hangs for 1 second and then totally crashes.
I restarted my computer and it's the same.
I had no problem before and it's clearly always when the two characters go outside the saloon.

Game Crash at night saloon in Saint Denis ERR_GFX

[Puff447]

I had this exact issue. Switching to Vulkan for this section worked for me.

[🎮Gaiaalwaysonfire🎮]

i get the game crash when trying to load into new austin,works fine in the other areas..