Extremely frequent crashes - any advice?

[Psyringe]

I am currently unable to progress because the game crashes every few minutes. The crashing process is UE4-PenDriverPro, and the UE4 error handler shows the line "Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000bfa00000087"

The game has crashed once on its way to the first save point (when you enter the zone). I have tried 4 times to reach the next save point, but the game always crashes before I get there. The crashes don't seem to be linked to any particular action - they happened when I drove forward, drove backward, walked forward in Oppy's shop, or turned. Since there are no manual saves, I can't progress at all, not even in small steps.

My hardware (RTX 4090, Ryzen 7 7700X, 32 GB DDR5-6000 RAM CL30, 4TB NVMe SSD PCIe 4.0) exceeds the game's required specs, drivers are up to date.

I'm willing to test stuff in case it helps. Any suggestions?

I'm currently playing with mostly default settings, but custom keybindings. The game defaulted to mostly "Ultra" graphics settings for me. I'll check if it crashes less when I turn that down. And again, any suggestions are welcome. :)

[Psyringe]

Update: First attempt at running the game with the lowest possible graphics settings, game crashed 5 seconds after loading the "just entered the zone" save state.

Error message: Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000177f000001fd

[Psyringe]

Update 2: After trying again, I was finally able to progress through the tutorial to the point where I'm able to save the game in the garage, and pick a region to go to. So it seems that turning the graphics to the lowest settings has helped. I'll take a break now, but I guess I'll try successively reactivating graphics features, perhaps I can find one that caused the issue.

[Psyringe]

Update 3: Set the screen mode to fullscreen and 4k resolution, set textures and view distance back to ultra. Game crashed after a few minutes of walking around in the garage and its outer area.

Error message: Fatal error: [File:Unknown] [Line: 671] hr failed at C:/J/workspace/PacificDrive_Staging/PenDriverEngine/Engine/Source/Runtime/D3D12RHI/Private/D3D12Resources.cpp:450 with error DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED with Reason: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG

[MoA]

Same here. Keeps crashing on DX12.
When I've switched to DX11 it worked for 3 hours without any problems.
On DX12 everytime I've used Scraper game would crash. Or after ~15 of game just random errors/crashes.

[General Manager of Awesome]

Similar/same problem here. Seems not tied to any use of a Object or so for me, only on Time. Tried 3 times, always crashed around 15-20min of Playing.

Will try the switch to DX11 next, but for the moment I can't see the Tutorial again from the Start...^^

[Rezsibiztos]

Same problem, frequent crashes. It got to a point when I try to load my save, crashes automatically.

[Rezsibiztos]

Fix for crashing on loading screen:

Uninstall and reinstall. It worked for me 2 times.

[EthicalPixel]

save frequently...

[WhiskeyNinja]

Yeah I lost 40 minutes of progress on a map because of a VRAM leak this morning.

[Chuffty Nogs]

are you on external HD?

[hda NUNCA resuelve.]

Same problem here. It crashed when loading the first new area after the tutorial. The savegame tries to load there, so automatically crash when launching.

Ryzen 7950X, 2×4090, 128 GB RAM, windows 11 last build. All drivers up to date.

[hda NUNCA resuelve.]

Update: issue done after verification of integrity of the files.

[starkenfast]

Same here. Also on an RTX 4090 with default (ultra) settings and 4k.

[TheKost_]

Выбрал другой слот сохранения - помогло

[PoopaTroopa]

Running into the same problem. I also have a 4090 and 14900k. don't know if this is an issue with only people with 4090's but it seems like that's a common link between all of us. Going to try checking integrity of files.... It's crashed 3 times on me. Twice as I'm halfway through the first map after tutorial and the game only saves when loading into a new map so I've had to re-do the whole being a total loot goblin multiple times over. This next time I attempt it will be my third. At least for me, the game will run for around 2-3 hours before crashing. I work a lot and only have time to do one run each night before bed and it totally sucks losing all that progress because I can't save the game after looting an area. Game crashes are just the worst in general. If I find a fix I'll post an update. Let me know if any of you have any luck.