Hollow Crow constant crashing

[Baaaal]

Can we do something about this ♥♥♥♥ please? Cannot go 3 minutes into the fight without the game crashing to desktop. Others have reported it too. Like, I paid full price for a product that is not functional.

[Seph]

Same here. Just had two crashes in the same fight. I think they're related to the frozen witches, since her boss fight crashed like crazy too.

[Baaaal]

Originally posted by Seph:

Same here. Just had two crashes in the same fight. I think they're related to the frozen witches, since her boss fight crashed like crazy too.

Yeah, had the same. I think it's more likely to be related to an effect, as the guardian boss also kept crashing on me

[ArtoriasDS]

Lower the graphics to Low, I think something happens when rendering the ice attacks and it crashes. Lower the settings to low, limit fps to 60, and you should be fine! I had the same issue, this fixed it for me. Try it, you'll thank me later!

[P1]

Originally posted by ArtoriasDS:

Lower the graphics to Low, I think something happens when rendering the ice attacks and it crashes. Lower the settings to low, limit fps to 60, and you should be fine! I had the same issue, this fixed it for me. Try it, you'll thank me later!

Literally did this and have never had a single crash. Unlike many of these complainers trying to run the graphics on high at 300fps on their potatoes running windows XP, I know my machines limits and havent had an issue

[ArtoriasDS]

My machine can run the game at Ultra with Medium reflections no problem, but the game crashes a lot at Ultra because it is quite unoptimised. When there are a lot of high detail VFX or particles going on, it ♥♥♥♥♥ the bed. Crow fight is a perfect example with all the ice, it's the only place I actually had to play on everything Low.

[Dantos]

The latest patch seems to have fixed this, I was able to get through the fight without crashing

[Baaaal]

Originally posted by ArtoriasDS:

Lower the graphics to Low, I think something happens when rendering the ice attacks and it crashes. Lower the settings to low, limit fps to 60, and you should be fine! I had the same issue, this fixed it for me. Try it, you'll thank me later!

This seems to have worked, but even then, I was getting insane, 2-3 second long hangups during the fight. I also do not understand why a 2 month old, 2000$ rig (13600k, RX6800, 980 PRO 2TB, Asus ROG 850W, z790 UD AX) that runs Starfield and Cyberpunk at 80+ fps maxed would crash in this specific game, unless it is an engine issue.

[kalithieu]

This is not an engine or hardware issue, it's a dev issue and it should be fixed. It's not unreasonable to expect stability on a 6700xt...

[Kriss Hietala]

git gud

[wileymike78]

Still crashing

[Seph]

Yeah. Pretty sure it's something related to the ice witch, as my game crashes when she readies her spells sometimes.

[Blacksmith77K]

So, ive read this a lot and what i can see is, that this crash affected AMD GPU's

This game hold back a lot of textures to work with 8GB cards too. Possibly it helps out to start the game with "-notexturestreaming" in steam startoptions. So yes, your VRAM will be filled a lot more, but this option will reduce some streaming-instances.

[BlackWire]

Potential "good-nuff" solution:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1501750/discussions/0/3873718561384552027/

[Mr Rabbit]

Originally posted by Baaaal:

Can we do something about this ♥♥♥♥ please? Cannot go 3 minutes into the fight without the game crashing to desktop. Others have reported it too. Like, I paid full price for a product that is not functional.

it is functional.. i have never once had a crash.. max settings with 4k..
you just bought amd lol

[Baaaal]

Originally posted by The Alchemist:

Originally posted by Baaaal:

Can we do something about this ♥♥♥♥ please? Cannot go 3 minutes into the fight without the game crashing to desktop. Others have reported it too. Like, I paid full price for a product that is not functional.

it is functional.. i have never once had a crash.. max settings with 4k..
you just bought amd lol

I guess that's why loads of people are having unplayable framerates, shader compilation stutter, non-functional multiplayer and constant crashes on Nvidia too. If you are proud of spending 2x the dollar/performance just to feel superior, that's your prerogative, but as someone who makes a living writing/optimizing/running code, I'm telling you that this is absolutely an UE5/game code issue.