Game crashes as soon as I beat a boss

[epic gamer]

Yeah, no idea whats going on. I have 500~ hours and the game was working completely perfectly as recently as yesterday. But now when I kill a boss the game just completely freezes and hangs until it inevitably crashes. Specifically seems to happen before the "DEMIGOD SLAIN" (or equivalent text) shows up.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080
I've tried updating drivers, I've verified the game files like 4 times with reboots in between, did a full uninstall and reinstall, lowest settings, ray tracing off, yada yada all the obvious useless ♥♥♥♥ google usually spits out. Hell I even cut my save files out and tried a completely fresh save/profile and it still crashed. Windows Event Viewer has no useful info. It just says the following:
- The program eldenring.exe version 2.2.3.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed
- Event ID: 1002 (generic "application hanging" code, i guess)
- Source: Application Hang
So yeah this is my last resort before I give up. Luckily I already played through the DLC a few times so if I have to give it up here for now its no big deal. Im not alt F4'ing between every major boss kill just to progress lol.

[76561199721797496]

Edit: It's caused by a slow connection to Steam's achievement check server. Disable cloud saving, any VPN in use or opt out of any Steam Client Beta to potentially speed up your connection.

[epic gamer]

Originally posted by Canadafishy:

Same thing is happening to me and it's not just bosses. Everything was fine yesterday, but today I get crashes when beating Margit (tried on multiple saves new and NG+), probably happens with other similar bosses. As well as after any ending cutscene (tried multiple) and when going to Roundtable hold for the first time. It's really weird, because nothing has changed from yesterday and I did these things yesterday without crashing. My PC hasn't updated (I don't allow auto updates on anything), and the game hasn't updated from 1.12.3. I can't fathom why this is happening or what could have caused it.

RTX 3080, R7 5800X.

Well, kinda glad I'm not the only one dealing with this. It really makes no sense. Max settings, game running at 60fps the whole time. And then suddenly crash, I dont get it
On the off chance its graphics card related do you know what brand/model your 3080 is? Mine is EVGA "10G-P5-3897-KR"

[76561199721797496]

Originally posted by epic gamer:

Well, kinda glad I'm not the only one dealing with this. It really makes no sense. Max settings, game running at 60fps the whole time. And then suddenly crash, I dont get it
On the off chance its graphics card related do you know what brand/model your 3080 is? Mine is EVGA "10G-P5-3897-KR"

Mine is an ASUS. But I don't think it's the GPU. Try upgrading a weapon to max if you can, I've discovered this causes crashes too and other people are reporting the same. Seems they are all linked to the same root cause.

So far I've compiled this list, which all affect me and some are being reported by others. Ones marked with an "*" are ones I did MULTIPLE TIMES yesterday without crashing, confirming something changed between yesterday and today. I've had no windows updates (last one was 17/0724) and I have not updated any hardware drivers, or the game itself (been on 1.12.3 since I started playing).

Viewing an Ending cutscene crashes just before the transition to credits.*
Upgrading a weapon to +25 or +10.*
Visiting Roundtable Hold for the first time.
Defeating certain bosses (Elden Beast, Radagon don't for me, Margit does, others are reporting Rennala, Radagon's Wolf, Radahn do).
Loading into the tunnel before Margit.


Edit: It's caused by a slow connection to Steam's achievement check server. Disable cloud saving, any VPN in use or opt out of any Steam Client Beta to potentially speed up your connection.

[epic gamer]

Originally posted by Canadafishy:

Originally posted by epic gamer:

Well, kinda glad I'm not the only one dealing with this. It really makes no sense. Max settings, game running at 60fps the whole time. And then suddenly crash, I dont get it
On the off chance its graphics card related do you know what brand/model your 3080 is? Mine is EVGA "10G-P5-3897-KR"

Mine is an ASUS. But I don't think it's the GPU. Try upgrading a weapon to max if you can, I've discovered this causes crashes too and other people are reporting the same. Seems they are all linked to the same root cause.

So far I've compiled this list, which all affect me and some are being reported by others. Ones marked with an "*" are ones I did MULTIPLE TIMES yesterday without crashing, confirming something changed between yesterday and today. I've had no windows updates (last one was 17/0724) and I have not updated any hardware drivers, or the game itself (been on 1.12.3 since I started playing).

Viewing an Ending cutscene crashes just before the transition to credits.*
Upgrading a weapon to +25 or +10.*
Visiting Roundtable Hold for the first time.
Defeating certain bosses (Elden Beast, Radagon don't for me, Margit does, others are reporting Rennala, Radagon's Wolf, Radahn do).
Loading into the tunnel before Margit.

Lol yes, thats exactly it. Radagon and Beast didn't trigger it, but Hoarah Loux, Malenia, Mohg, and Larreta all did for me too. This is beyond bizarre.

[MrSɾ3ɳιƚყ_97]

Originally posted by epic gamer:

Yeah, no idea whats going on. I have 500~ hours and the game was working completely perfectly as recently as yesterday. But now when I kill a boss the game just completely freezes and hangs until it inevitably crashes. Specifically seems to happen before the "DEMIGOD SLAIN" (or equivalent text) shows up.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080
I've tried updating drivers, I've verified the game files like 4 times with reboots in between, did a full uninstall and reinstall, lowest settings, ray tracing off, yada yada all the obvious useless ♥♥♥♥ google usually spits out. Hell I even cut my save files out and tried a completely fresh save/profile and it still crashed. Windows Event Viewer has no useful info. It just says the following:
- The program eldenring.exe version 2.2.3.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed
- Event ID: 1002 (generic "application hanging" code, i guess)
- Source: Application Hang
So yeah this is my last resort before I give up. Luckily I already played through the DLC a few times so if I have to give it up here for now its no big deal. Im not alt F4'ing between every major boss kill just to progress lol.

People are reporting a lot of crashing, I also have experienced crashing trying to fully upgrade my weapons. Can't get it to max level :/ hopefully they fix!

[Brince]

Same here, every time i kill a boss game freeze and I am force to restart the PC.

I noticed that Nvidia released new drivers Yesterday, maybe that's the problem?

[Asmo]

Originally posted by Brince:

Same here, every time i kill a boss game freeze and I am force to restart the PC.

I noticed that Nvidia released new drivers Yesterday, maybe that's the problem?

I think there's definitely something going on Steam/Elden Ring side cuz I manually update my drivers so it's definitely not them. I've been crashing on boss kills and now one of my saves crashes everytimes I load it up. The issue arose overnight, and is seemingly affecting more people. I didn't do anything over that period so I wouldn't even know the underlying cause of this issue.

[KoE]

Hey all, this is definitely related to achievements; if you don't care about your unlocked achievements, you can follow the steps in this thread, which guides you on how you can reset your achievement count and progress:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3084433243

My friend was having this issue, and I did some digging, and found that thread. After we tried this, it stopped crashing at moments where you would normally get an achievement.
He tried killing a major boss as well as upgrading a weapon to max.

Hope this helped others!

[Biuya]

Steam Settings -> Interface-> Client Beta Participation -> No beta chosen -> "Fixed"

[epic gamer]

Wow. Yeah, turning off the beta client works.
I was literally troubleshooting this on and off for hours yesterday. What the hell did they do

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by epic gamer:

Wow. Yeah, turning off the beta client works.
I was literally troubleshooting this on and off for hours yesterday. What the hell did they do

If you had done a chat with me many hours ago like monkfish did you would have known this far more early, if you look into the chat with me i gave you the info several hours ago.

[Zoro2801]

Originally posted by Biuya:

Steam Settings -> Interface-> Client Beta Participation -> No beta chosen -> "Fixed"

Yo Bro you are a Legend! it worked thank you

[savaf]

Originally posted by Biuya:

Steam Settings -> Interface-> Client Beta Participation -> No beta chosen -> "Fixed"

It works

[Zanfroni]

This just happened to me a few moments ago. I was playing a new character today, beaten Margit and Leonine normally, went to Godrick and this crashed happened. Restarted the game and it instantly froze when I loaded the character. I managed to bypass the freeze by quickly porting to roundhold when reloading the save again. Fought Godrick again, freeze and crash happened again but the next time I reloaded the save (did the roundhold porting as well), back to Stormveil, Godrick was already defeated this time and I got his runes.

So I tested this on my char on NG+++, only killed Margit at that time. Rushed and did Godrick and it froze but the same thing happened, reloaded and he was defeated.

Apparently by what people are stating in the comments, it has to do with Steam Cloud Servers than actually a problem regarding Elden Ring (which makes sense, considering I verified my save files and all was fine).

Edit: I beat Leonine and Margit actually yesterday night, so this issue started happening only now to me. I've only beaten Godrick today so it definitely makes sense that it's related to achievements. I hope this is fixed soon.

[The_Gay_Agenda]

What got the OP banned? His posts here are totally normal. His post history doesn't look negative or trollish.

Steam moderation is so weird.