Game crashes on kKyotto Arc

[Orsted]

After getting to Kyotto Jail with Akane game starting to crash constantly with 100% CPU utilization no response from the game.
I have new System with all drivers up to date and Hardware more than capable to run this game.

[Fyk0]

This happened to me too, crashed twice so far in short occasion after the same scene.

[StrikeFirst117]

If you have a cpu with more than 16 threads, especially if its an AMD ryzen, try switching SMT off in the bios and retesting it.

I had the same issues on a ryzen 5900x, turning SMT off completely fixed the crashing/hanging randomly during menus etc.

[Pootis17]

this game is bad at loading between areas/cutscenes including exit/enter Jails

[Ass]

It's happening to me too, when's the patch?

[Probairis]

Running the game as administrator worked for me

[Orsted]

Originally posted by StrikeFirst117:

If you have a cpu with more than 16 threads, especially if its an AMD ryzen, try switching SMT off in the bios and retesting it.

I had the same issues on a ryzen 5900x, turning SMT off completely fixed the crashing/hanging randomly during menus etc.

Tested it my other rig and your theory is probably correct, but I wouldn’t won’t cripple my cpu performance by disabling SMT just for one game. It’s probably should better be addressed by the devs. Until it happens I will probably have to jump between pc’s to finish this game

[Fyk0]

Originally posted by Bloodfallen:

Originally posted by StrikeFirst117:

If you have a cpu with more than 16 threads, especially if its an AMD ryzen, try switching SMT off in the bios and retesting it.

I had the same issues on a ryzen 5900x, turning SMT off completely fixed the crashing/hanging randomly during menus etc.

Tested it my other rig and your theory is probably correct, but I wouldn’t won’t cripple my cpu performance by disabling SMT just for one game. It’s probably should better be addressed by the devs. Until it happens I will probably have to jump between pc’s to finish this game

I'm using 5900X as well and I'm not going to cripple my PC for one game either. If it keeps happening I rather wait for a patch, assuming they actually make one.

[Russel]

I was also getting tons of freezes in Kyoto, and I was able to sort of fix them without disabling SMT by using Task Manager to change the application's processor affinity such that it didn't use all cores. Limiting the app to a single thread made it so that it never fully broke, but there would be very frequent hangs where the game would stop responding for a good few seconds before starting again.

I tried experimenting with either limiting it to 1 thread per core or both threads on 1 core, and while that did decrease the frequency of the hangs it also made crashes start happening again, albeit at a reduced rate. Another strange behavior I noticed is that sometimes when I got into a loading screen with just a single thread, the game would freeze, but then could be unfrozen by setting it back to all cores, and then setting it back to a single thread to avoid crashing.

I wasn't particularly scientific about this whole process, so your mileage may vary, however the dungeon is kind of short enough that it isn't complete torture to just power through it with the hangs from using just a single thread.

[Minute-globe]

find the downgraded denuvoless exe build of the game and/or get a trainer, set it to 0.1 speed as soon as you're done with the boss, wait for the scene transition to get past where it crashed, put back to normal.

i don't know if that bug happens on recurring playthroughs but i hope not.

[Nightflare75]

It didn't crash for me in the Kyoto jail but I did get 2 crashes in the Osaka jail entering windowed mode fixed it for me.

[DooM Poster]

google. otherwise, alt tab for like 5 times with 30 secs between each alt tab. if that doesnt work, youre eitherdoing it wrong or it just doesnt work for you. theres something about "full screen" capabilities or something, google it. if you have enough BALLS you can give the game admin privileges, that solved it for me.