The game keeps crashing my PC

[R0_]

So I wanted to play this in anticipation for Ragnarok and figured I would try it out on PC, I can play alright for about an hour but then I start having weird stutters and inveitably the game freezes and completely crashes my PC, today it froze but then the screen remained black with a tiny blue mark on the corner, I had to hold the power button for it to restart.
I have no idea what's wrong, drivers are updated, got the latest windows update, verified the game files and no issues were found, I've put 4 hours into the game so even if I wanted to refund I'm screwed so I just want to figure out what the hell is causing these concerning crashes, any help would be appreciated, playing on RTX 3090, i9 with everything on ultra, got zero issues with other games, including Sony ones.

[Final Breed]

I'm the same way...no matter what i tried its still crashing hard back to my desktop and asks me to send the error report to Sony but i can't see whats inside that report lol. So i'm looking for answers as well.

I meet all the rec. req. i even just got an RTX 3080 finally after two years and now i can't enjoy the game.

[R0_]

Originally posted by Final Breed:

I'm the same way...no matter what i tried its still crashing hard back to my desktop and asks me to send the error report to Sony but i can't see whats inside that report lol. So i'm looking for answers as well.

I meet all the rec. req. i even just got an RTX 3080 finally after two years and now i can't enjoy the game.

After doing some more research I've found out that the crashes are caused by a memory leak issue that has been a thing for a while now, Santa Monica Studio and Sony don't seem to care about it tho so there's nothing to fix it sadly, the game just keeps using up ALL you RAM until it starts stuttering and then crashes, some people have claimed that installing RAM managing software, increasing virtual memory and such helps increase the time they play the game but that's about it, the game will still crash at some point so there's no point in downgrading graphic settings.

One "fix" you can try is playing the game for about 20 or so minutes, save and restart, it will be annoying but it won't completely crash and make you lose all your progress or damage your PC by crashing it too.

[Final Breed]

Well.....its genuinely sad that nobody cares to fix it lol. Guess ima have to do the 20min play and reset option lol. Thanks!

[Final Breed]

Originally posted by AR2R:

Leaks were fixed in 1.0.3 update.

Soooo what else could it be? I mean the game just freezes and crashes back to desktop no matter what i try to do to fix it lol.

[R0_]

Originally posted by AR2R:

Leaks were fixed in 1.0.3 update.

Or so some thought, you can find many posts confirming that 1.0.3 didn't fix the memory leak as many people still have this issue.

[Final Breed]

I found out through having my Task Manager open that the CPU is almost constantly around 100% usage, even though the game is the only thing running. Lowering everything on LOW still didn't resolve it either. No amount of lowering resolved the 95-100% usage lol. I literally can't play this game more then 20min at a time without crashes and then send Sony the bad news.

Oh Well.

[R0_]

Originally posted by AR2R:

Originally posted by R0:

Or so some thought, you can find many posts confirming that 1.0.3 didn't fix the memory leak as many people still have this issue.

Many posts? Yeah, right. Most of them are from January. There are about 3 guys other than you who mentioned memory leak since then. None of them seem to have any hard evidence.
Why don’t you record the whole process of memory usage increasing and inevitable crash? If what you say is true, you’ll be able to point the devs in the right direction.
The game doesn’t even use 8 GB for me most of the time and I’ve had 8-10 hour sessions without crashing.

I've already emailed the devs about this issue, documenting how the game uses all my memory, and I'm not only talking about posts on Steam I'm talking about posts on the internet as whole and even youtube videos, it's good to hear that you can play the game for long periods of time but for many of us the game still crashes due to this memory leak issue, look at the post above this one for another example.
And I'm not hating on the game or lying if that's what you believe, I loved playing it on PS4 Pro when it came out and I was enjoying replaying it on PC up until it began crashing my rig, I can only hope the devs are looking into this issue and fix it permanently.

[R0_]

Originally posted by AR2R:

No response?

From myself or the devs? As you said the devs don't care enough to reply to me or anyone else and there's no reason for me to keep replying to this thread either seeing as there's no real fix to this issue and tbh will never be one it seems.

[Sir Danglefrögge]

Holy crap I legit just experienced this.

Never had this issue with other demanding AAA games over extended periods of time. We're talking Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Cyberpunk 2077 (GOG version), and RDR2. Here, it would start with creeping stutters, until the game ultimately froze, and then my PC rebooted.

Definitely seems like the memory leak never got properly patched. But I didn't expect it to straight up crash my entire computer.

EDIT: confirmed with Task Manager. After 15-20 minutes or so, the game starts to rapidly use up RAM. I have 32 GB of it and after 30 minutes of gameplay, I get the same stutters I mentioned above.

[R0_]

Originally posted by Sir Dangle:

Holy crap I legit just experienced this.

Never had this issue with other demanding AAA games over extended periods of time. We're talking Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Cyberpunk 2077 (GOG version), and RDR2. Here, it would start with creeping stutters, until the game ultimately froze, and then my PC rebooted.

Definitely seems like the memory leak never got properly patched. But I didn't expect it to straight up crash my entire computer.

EDIT: confirmed with Task Manager. After 15-20 minutes or so, the game starts to rapidly use up RAM. I have 32 GB of it and after 30 minutes of gameplay, I get the same stutters I mentioned above.

At least it's good to know I'm not alone in this boat, haven't touched the game since I made this thread, sucks I can't refund it too, all other games play absolutely fine like you mentioned even Days Gone another sony port and open world game plays like a breeze but GoW is obviously still suffering from a severe memory leak issue.

I've already emailed the devs/wrote a support ticket but never got a reply so it's safe to say they don't care about this issue and it won't get fixed any time soon, I'm not going to risk getting my PC harshly rebooted every time I try to play the game until the 1 hour mark and having to restart the game every 20 minutes is not a viable or enjoyable solution either so I guess it'll just sit in my library without getting played forever.

[R0_]

Originally posted by Dark Ghost:

It´s a shame that this game have this problem. I played a cracked version without any issues, maybe it´s something related with the DRM? Edit: After adjusting the settings and using some fixes from the wiki the game runs fine now. It looks like the game don´t like overcloking.

That's great! Can you tell us what settings and fixes you used?

[Dark Ghost]

Originally posted by R0:

Originally posted by Dark Ghost:

It´s a shame that this game have this problem. Maybe it´s something related with the DRM? Edit: After adjusting the settings and using some fixes from the wiki the game runs fine now. It looks like the game don´t like overcloking.

That's great! Can you tell us what settings and fixes you used?

Sure. What I did was:
1. Reinstalled the game
2. I went to the exe properties and changed it to run as administrator,
3. When to System Setting - Display - Graphics, then I selected God of war, if you can´t see the application you have to search for the exe. Select It, on graphics options select High Performance.
4. Lower a little my RAM speed. I had 3033 and set it to 2933.
My sistem specs: I5 12400f, MSI B660M Mortar DDR4, 32 GB RAM at 2933 MHZ, MSI 3060 ti XC. I use W11.

[Russell The Love Muscle]

Originally posted by Dark Ghost:

Originally posted by R0:

That's great! Can you tell us what settings and fixes you used?

Sure. What I did was:
1. Reinstalled the game
2. I went to the exe properties and changed it to run as administrator,
3. When to System Setting - Display - Graphics, then I selected God of war, if you can´t see the application you have to search for the exe. Select It, on graphics options select High Performance.
4. Lower a little my RAM speed. I had 3033 and set it to 2933.
My sistem specs: I5 12400f, MSI B660M Mortar DDR4, 32 GB RAM at 2933 MHZ, MSI 3060 ti XC. I use W11.

I tried all of that and had no change. Updated from 511.72 to the latest Nvidia driver and went from 30min playtime down to 10min. Will try again and see if it is consistent.

I9 10900K
32GB Ram 3600
3080 12gb
W10

[Dark Ghost]

Originally posted by Russell The Love Muscle:

Originally posted by Dark Ghost:

Sure. What I did was:
1. Reinstalled the game
2. I went to the exe properties and changed it to run as administrator,
3. When to System Setting - Display - Graphics, then I selected God of war, if you can´t see the application you have to search for the exe. Select It, on graphics options select High Performance.
4. Lower a little my RAM speed. I had 3033 and set it to 2933.
My sistem specs: I5 12400f, MSI B660M Mortar DDR4, 32 GB RAM at 2933 MHZ, MSI 3060 ti XC. I use W11.

I tried all of that and had no change. Updated from 511.72 to the latest Nvidia driver and went from 30min playtime down to 10min. Will try again and see if it is consistent.

I9 10900K
32GB Ram 3600
3080 12gb
W10

Do you have any overclock on CPU or GPU? Try lowering a bit your Ram speed.

[Russell The Love Muscle]

I have no OC on either anymore. GPU is limited to 90% power, 80C thermal. Undervolted. Currently reinstalling 511.79 to see if I go back to 30min playtime. After that, I'll slow down my ram and try again.