Crash on shader compilation

[Creomortis]

Hi, I'm on an i9 13900ks with a 4090 and 32gb ddr. When launching the game it begins shader compilation but crashes to desktop every few percent. Sometimes it crashes my whole system.

I've tried deleting the saved games folder and the shader folder in the game folder. I've also disabled nvidia and steam overlays. I have the latest graphics drivers.

[Creomortis]

So, I had to disable steam cloud saves. Delete the save and shader folder and also disable the steam overlay. Now I'm in game and I've reenabled steam overlay, fine so far, we will see.

[Creomortis]

Curiously it breaks HDR on my win 11. Random windows go dark and then bright on the desktop, very annoying.

[Creomortis]

Nope, crashes outside the paint shop, sigh, guess I'll never get to play this.

[rouxela317]

Originally posted by Creomortis:

Hi, I'm on an i9 13900ks with a 4090 and 32gb ddr. When launching the game it begins shader compilation but crashes to desktop every few percent. Sometimes it crashes my whole system.

I've tried deleting the saved games folder and the shader folder in the game folder. I've also disabled nvidia and steam overlays. I have the latest graphics drivers.

I have less than you mention ...... tower 2 EVGA cards 1080 GTX and 32 gig of ram I7 intell . New driver for graphic and Window 10 , not 11 ..... and All is fine no problem since I bought the game way back when it came out .

[Creomortis]

Disabling the steam overlay seems to have fixed my crashes so far. Hopefully it will last.

[Creomortis]

Now I'm getting vk error device lost when connor enters the abandoned house

[Creomortis]

So suffering through many many crashes at different points in the game I finally completed. The story is fantastic, its just a shame the developers had abandoned it the way they did. It still looks great too! They could easily be selling hundreds of thousands of copies of this at a much higher price. I really don't understand how they managed to fumble it so much.

[rouxela317]

Originally posted by Creomortis:

So suffering through many many crashes at different points in the game I finally completed. The story is fantastic, its just a shame the developers had abandoned it the way they did. It still looks great too! They could easily be selling hundreds of thousands of copies of this at a much higher price. I really don't understand how they managed to fumble it so much.

If only all PC were build the same !
One thing people do no do in programming is they never have other recheck their work , a shame . And PC maker are their for money .

[Creomortis]

Well, the argument pcs configurations can be vastly different is valid, but for this game we are seeing the same issues on multiple configurations which should be quite easy to track down. The game even generates crash dumps in the game directory. From what I've seen they all seem to relate to memory issues... I hate bringing up my experience in the industry, but I have over 10 years of it, and specifically in tracking down pc issues on games haha.

[Jenrose]

This game compiled faster on my 8 year old laptop with an old GeForce rtx 950m and 16g of RAM than it does on my 13600kf with a rx6800 and 64g of RAM.

[nicolas_do]

same problem for me i will try your solution thanks

, I had to disable steam cloud saves. Delete the save and shader folder and also disable the steam overlay the problem is always here i can't play....

[A1]

Originally posted by Creomortis:

So, I had to disable steam cloud saves. Delete the save and shader folder and also disable the steam overlay. Now I'm in game and I've reenabled steam overlay, fine so far, we will see.

Fixed the shader compilation crash but the game still crashes. I was able to play for a while though. I'm not rolling back my Nvidia drivers to play one game.

[Creomortis]

Originally posted by A1:

Originally posted by Creomortis:

So, I had to disable steam cloud saves. Delete the save and shader folder and also disable the steam overlay. Now I'm in game and I've reenabled steam overlay, fine so far, we will see.

Fixed the shader compilation crash but the game still crashes. I was able to play for a while though. I'm not rolling back my Nvidia drivers to play one game.

I managed to complete it in the end but it was a very frustrating experience, had random crashes throughout, had to repeat so many scenes but I wanted to see how it ended. Guess I could have watched a youtube video but I really enjoyed playing it.

[A1]

Originally posted by Creomortis:

Originally posted by A1:

Fixed the shader compilation crash but the game still crashes. I was able to play for a while though. I'm not rolling back my Nvidia drivers to play one game.

I managed to complete it in the end but it was a very frustrating experience, had random crashes throughout, had to repeat so many scenes but I wanted to see how it ended. Guess I could have watched a youtube video but I really enjoyed playing it.

Did you try 446.14 drivers? If it's that frustrating, then i may have to do it.

[Creomortis]

Originally posted by A1:

Originally posted by Creomortis:

I managed to complete it in the end but it was a very frustrating experience, had random crashes throughout, had to repeat so many scenes but I wanted to see how it ended. Guess I could have watched a youtube video but I really enjoyed playing it.

Did you try 446.14 drivers? If it's that frustrating, then i may have to do it.

Sorry, I can't recall as it was a while ago. Might be worth trying.

You just made me remember having crashes in witcher 3 and loosening my ram timings slightly fixed that but I'm not sure if this was after playing detroit or before it. That could be worth trying too. The memory timings were only an issue with witcher 3 and no other games, prime 95 etc was rock solid with the problem timings too. Maybe some games are just more sensitive to it?