stalker 2 win64 shipping crash

[8myers8]

Was enjoying the game so much everything I wanted it to be ...and then

Game crashed out .....now not one of my saves will load and crashes out to windows screens every time I load a save 😭 25 hours in

Is there a fix or is it just sit back and wait for patch and restart the game 🤬

AMD Ryzensets 7 5800X3D
Asus strix 4080 super
32gb ram
Game on SSD.

[Buck D. Bumble (Sero)]

Some quests brick saves at the moment, you should be able to use an earlier save before the quest in question. - as for a fix for that, all up to the devs.

[8myers8]

Originally posted by Buck D. Bumble (Sero):

Some quests brick saves at the moment, you should be able to use an earlier save before the quest in question. - as for a fix for that, all up to the devs.

I was in death cave after I pick up the artifact it crashed and cannot load saves .

[Set-115689]

verify game files

[Alun1]

it has nothing to do with the quest.

the game itself bricks. almost every death i have 5 to 10 crashes when reloading, doesn't matter where in game i am.

i have above minimum requirements system and i'm not playing to top settings. i'm using low preset and it's still ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ itself when i reload.

the game is broken at a fundamental level.

[8myers8]

Originally posted by Set-115689:

verify game files

Already did this early with no luck .

[Buck D. Bumble (Sero)]

I was able to enter death cave grab the artifact dump 7 mags of ammo into the mutant (without killing it....) and run out, not sure whats going on there.

[Buck D. Bumble (Sero)]

Originally posted by Alun1:

it has nothing to do with the quest.

the game itself bricks. almost every death i have 5 to 10 crashes when reloading, doesn't matter where in game i am.

i have above minimum requirements system and i'm not playing to top settings. i'm using low preset and it's still ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ itself when i reload.

the game is broken at a fundamental level.

What are your settings and HW? I've died about 20 times or so at 34 hours in* and no hard crashes no matter the scenario or source, and I'm NOT using high end components.

Only thing coming close to a hard crash was the Mindspike? Mindscrew? basement transition.

Deaths after saves sometimes upwards of 8 hours after the fact will indeed corrupt all associated save files until before the quest was completed.

So you can have a "Stable save" with the "corrupt quest" having been complete 6 hours ago, and now every time there is an Emission you CTD, every time you die in combat its a fatal error, every time an anomaly kills you you CTD, etc.

[Alun1]

Originally posted by Buck D. Bumble (Sero):

Originally posted by Alun1:

it has nothing to do with the quest.

the game itself bricks. almost every death i have 5 to 10 crashes when reloading, doesn't matter where in game i am.

i have above minimum requirements system and i'm not playing to top settings. i'm using low preset and it's still ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ itself when i reload.

the game is broken at a fundamental level.

What are your settings and HW? I've died about 20 times or so and no hard crashes no matter the scenario or source, and I'm NOT using high end components.

Only thing coming close to a hard crash was the Mindspike? Mindscrew? basement transition.

i7 12thgen
RTX3060
16GB RAM
SSD installed

LOW preset settings.

[Buck D. Bumble (Sero)]

Ryzen 5 7600 6 core 3.8ghz
Radeon RX 7600 8gb
32gb RAM
SSD

Using Hybrid Medium / Low settings for fan noise.

I did have issues with both MSFS 2024 and S2 a week or so ago* (shader compilation, micro stuttering, delays, audio stuttering) when I had 16gb of RAM. I popped another 16gb stick in for 32gb total and have had no issues since.

I can only postulate that if you crash due to hardware limitations while saving/exiting it has the potential to brick saves as well? I don't know.

[Alun1]

16GB Ram should be enough to run the game, that's what the store page says.

they shouldn't have released a broken product.

[Buck D. Bumble (Sero)]

Originally posted by Alun1:

16GB Ram should be enough to run the game, that's what the store page says.

they shouldn't have released a broken product.

100% agree. I hope the patches sort this all out in due time.