Persistent game crashes after ~10 minutes of in game play

[Yaddah]

The game runs relatively smoothly in every other regard, but after about 10 minutes of play the game just crashes. Happened in both of my only 2 game sessions so far. And when I restart, after the long load time, I'm thrown right in front of enemies that I've previously cleared and that have now respawned. I don't know, if it's a graphics related problem or a connection problem or anything else. There was no pop up explaining what happened. Is this common?

[Reeva!]

Post your specs friend. Top left of this window, Help, System Information.

Need:
- CPU Brand
- X logical/physical processors
- Driver under Video Card
- RAM under Memory
And that's all, I think. Most important things anyway.

You'll know if some of your parts are old too. This is not a frequent problem. If this happened around 10 hours of constant playtime, it'd be understandable, not 10 minutes.

[cheadley52]

Originally posted by Yaddah:

The game runs relatively smoothly in every other regard, but after about 10 minutes of play the game just crashes. Happened in both of my only 2 game sessions so far. And when I restart, after the long load time, I'm thrown right in front of enemies that I've previously cleared and that have now respawned. I don't know, if it's a graphics related problem or a connection problem or anything else. There was no pop up explaining what happened. Is this common?

not just you my friend,

play was fine since i bought the game 3 days ago, clocked 22 hours no problems.
after the update it's been unplayable for me today, crashing out , as you say, after 10/20 minutes of play, and dumping me back exactly where i left, several times getting my **** handed to me.

I turned off cloud save, which often cause issues, but its clearly 'saving' something even locally when it happens, because i am not losing any mats or gear, and it remembers my exact location.

[Seyton]

Try playing on minimum graphic settings, see if that helps (even if it just lasts longer)
Do a steam verify of the game
Update your graphics card
(Restart after both)
If those don't help, do a CPU/motherboard update

Its very likely to be hardware rather than the software

[Yaddah]

Originally posted by Reeva!:

Post your specs friend. Top left of this window, Help, System Information.

Need:
- CPU Brand
- X logical/physical processors
- Driver under Video Card
- RAM under Memory
And that's all, I think. Most important things anyway.

You'll know if some of your parts are old too. This is not a frequent problem. If this happened around 10 hours of constant playtime, it'd be understandable, not 10 minutes.

PC: AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core
RAM: 8,00 GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Driver Version: 516.94

Curiously, when the game runs, the taskmanager says my RAM is only ~90% used up, not 100%. It also only crashes to desktop, not the entire OS (Windows).

[Yaddah]

Originally posted by Seyton:

Try playing on minimum graphic settings, see if that helps (even if it just lasts longer)
Do a steam verify of the game
Update your graphics card
(Restart after both)
If those don't help, do a CPU/motherboard update

Its very likely to be hardware rather than the software

I had then tried playing on lowest and was able to finish the first area without any crashes. So, it's likely that was it... But maybe I'll eat those words tomorrow.

I hope the game will get further optimised, because the game doesn't look that amazing that only the lowest settings should be possible.

[Yaddah]

Originally posted by cheadley52:

not just you my friend,

play was fine since i bought the game 3 days ago, clocked 22 hours no problems.
after the update it's been unplayable for me today, crashing out , as you say, after 10/20 minutes of play, and dumping me back exactly where i left, several times getting my **** handed to me.

I turned off cloud save, which often cause issues, but its clearly 'saving' something even locally when it happens, because i am not losing any mats or gear, and it remembers my exact location.

Yeah, maybe they introduced some bugs or a feature or inefficiency that eats a ton of resources. Hopefully that'll be resolved. I tried playing on lowest graphics settings and was able to clear the first area. No idea, if it's solved or if it merely takes longer for the problem to arise. In any case, the game doesn't look so amazing that playing on only lowest is justified imo.

[Seyton]

Originally posted by Yaddah:

Originally posted by Seyton:

Try playing on minimum graphic settings, see if that helps (even if it just lasts longer)
Do a steam verify of the game
Update your graphics card
(Restart after both)
If those don't help, do a CPU/motherboard update

Its very likely to be hardware rather than the software

I had then tried playing on lowest and was able to finish the first area without any crashes. So, it's likely that was it... But maybe I'll eat those words tomorrow.

I hope the game will get further optimised, because the game doesn't look that amazing that only the lowest settings should be possible.

Makes me think it might be a RAM problem, suddenly getting to 100% and crashing. I sit on around 60-70% for reference.

You might need to check for faults, or get new sticks.

[This PC]

Originally posted by Yaddah:

Originally posted by Reeva!:

Post your specs friend. Top left of this window, Help, System Information.

Need:
- CPU Brand
- X logical/physical processors
- Driver under Video Card
- RAM under Memory
And that's all, I think. Most important things anyway.

You'll know if some of your parts are old too. This is not a frequent problem. If this happened around 10 hours of constant playtime, it'd be understandable, not 10 minutes.

PC: AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core
RAM: 8,00 GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Driver Version: 516.94

Curiously, when the game runs, the taskmanager says my RAM is only ~90% used up, not 100%. It also only crashes to desktop, not the entire OS (Windows).

Ram issue. Edit: Feels like your GPU might be a bit lean too. Your cpu too, after research. ;_; I'm sorry friend. Both your cpu and your ram don't clear minimum system requirements.

Also, like, performance requirements aren't really related to how a game looks. There's many factors that affects performance. V loads a lot of assets in memory to offer seamless performance, something like Cyberpunk streams assets in and out. V can't do that because of its PVP nature, imagine landing out of a waygate and getting pop-in for 10 seconds while someone slaps your face.

The alternative is loading screens between zones, which doesn't really lend itself well to the kind of game V is, imho. Having no load screen once you're in game has a performance cost, it means lots of assets must be loaded into memory, if you're not streaming them in and out.

What happens when your ram is filled is not an outright crash, windows uses what's called a pagefile on your SSD/HDD, linux uses a logical drive called 'swap', some games are less sensitive to this and won't crash, but you'll notice what looks like a memory leak (curiously, a lot of people have been reporting this). Pagefile is like.. an extension of your ram in your storage. A much less performant extension. x) The less you need to use it, the better.

I assume Windows could run just fine off very little ram and its pagefile, it wouldn't crash, it would just be a lot less responsive. Software can be more or less sensitive to that.

To confirm what I am telling, open start menu, search for advanced system settings, under the advanced tab, click performance settings, click advanced tab again. You can even adjust the size of your pagefile there. Maybe increasing it will keep you from crashing, I assume windows uses quite a bit if you have only 8gb, but be aware that performance will likely be pretty bad still. For reference, I have 32gb of ram and a further 16gb of pagefile on a SSD for a combined total of 48gb. Try to put your pagefile on a fast drive to reduce the impact of using it.

Hope this helps you understand the issue, and I hope adjusting your pagefile allows you to at least play comfortably at 30 fps or so. Admittedly, it could be your GPU or your CPU heating too much as well, and throttling down after 10 minutes or so, taking your performance under the absolute minimum V needs to run. Your solution might be something as simple as cleaning up your computer.

[Yaddah]

Originally posted by Seyton:

Originally posted by Yaddah:

I had then tried playing on lowest and was able to finish the first area without any crashes. So, it's likely that was it... But maybe I'll eat those words tomorrow.

I hope the game will get further optimised, because the game doesn't look that amazing that only the lowest settings should be possible.

Makes me think it might be a RAM problem, suddenly getting to 100% and crashing. I sit on around 60-70% for reference.

You might need to check for faults, or get new sticks.

I checked the ram usage history and it never reached 100%. Maxed out at 89%.

[Yaddah]

Originally posted by jdtuggey:

Originally posted by Yaddah:

PC: AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core
RAM: 8,00 GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Driver Version: 516.94

Curiously, when the game runs, the taskmanager says my RAM is only ~90% used up, not 100%. It also only crashes to desktop, not the entire OS (Windows).

Ram issue. Edit: Feels like your GPU might be a bit lean too. Your cpu too, after research. ;_; I'm sorry friend. Both your cpu and your ram don't clear minimum system requirements.

I must admit I didn't check the minimum system requirements. It seems like my PC clears all of them except RAM. I'm missing 4GB there. But I did check my RAM usage history and it never went above 89%. No spike was shown either. So that's weird. But yes, I am officially missing 4GB RAM and so that's probably it.

Thx a lot for your help. I have now increased the virtual RAM size by 6GB which was previously automatically managed. Hope that helps. If not I'll just have to keep playing on lowest or wait till I'm able to get better hardware. I haven't had issues like this in ages, but it was gonna happen eventually.

[Pay Child Suport]

some tips: get rainmeter and watch for the ram/swap usage. if the game "crashes" for no reason see if your ram/swap usage is at 100%.

happened to me plenty of times. had to turn off some heavy loads

[Yaddah]

Originally posted by Tentacle Grape:

some tips: get rainmeter and watch for the ram/swap usage. if the game "crashes" for no reason see if your ram/swap usage is at 100%.

happened to me plenty of times. had to turn off some heavy loads

Thx for the tip