The game crashes after patch.

[Foreign_Agent]

5 crashes in a row after the patch.
Not a single crash before the patch.
Thank you so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ much!

[White ⁧⁧Wolf]

2ugly の投稿を引用：

Seen this in a few other games. The patch defaults settings, but doesn't show the current default setting as selected on the list. The user must alter each setting to rectify the problem.

As a general rule and habit, just delete the settings files after each update of a game. Deleting shaders can help preventing issues too.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

White ⁧⁧Wolf の投稿を引用：

FreemanUy の投稿を引用：

I had the same problem and I solved it in the most random way possible. In the nvidia app activate debug mod. Then I loaded my last game I used the quick save and voila, never again.

Often people will have applied more than one fix without realising between testing. The only way to verify your claim, on your system, is to deactivate it and test again.

However, at least for me, doing a clean reinstall of the game, 1.0.2 releasing, and turning off 'threaded optimisation' in NCP seems to have solved the crashing for me. It was most likely the update that did it.

Reinstalling on Steam is just a redownload of files. Just do Verify next time instead.

[White ⁧⁧Wolf]

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

Reinstalling on Steam is just a redownload of files. Just do Verify next time instead.

Verifying is often not enough in my experience. One example is old files being left behind. The most fool-proof way is opening the game's folder, uninstalling, checking if the folder still exists and if so delete it, delete any settings files/shader cache and then install again followed by a verify or two. Sadly it's often not as easy as just verifying. Source? Installed and tested thousands of games.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

White ⁧⁧Wolf の投稿を引用：

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

Reinstalling on Steam is just a redownload of files. Just do Verify next time instead.

Verifying is often not enough in my experience. One example is old files being left behind. The most fool-proof way is opening the game's folder, uninstalling, checking if the folder still exists and if so delete it, delete any settings files/shader cache and then install again followed by a verify or two. Sadly it's often not as easy as just verifying. Source? Installed and tested thousands of games.

Then you simply delete such files, you can usually see if they were 3rd party files by their time stamps and other file properties. Or simply go to the game folder, Delete the entire contents, then verify to get just the latest/original game files back again.

Only way there would be a left over file is if the user put it there.

Even if you do the Uninstall, this might leave old user injected files behind (like from Mods or other files) and it also might not rid your system of what the game had later produced for files within the Documents or AppData structure; such as for STALKER2 it has extra files, cache, logs and user side config files within %LocalAppData% > STALKER2 and GameAnalytics folders.

[White ⁧⁧Wolf]

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

Only way there would be a left over file is if the user put it there.

This is fairly often not the case. I have installed/tested thousands of games like I said and have also uninstalled around that many, never having modified the files either - and yet, many folders and files remain even in steamapps.

Uninstalling the game via Steam and manually deleting the game's folder/files if still there is always preferable to just force deleting and verifying. You'll be using the same bandwidth anyway, but it's just a bit more thorough because of things like permissions and outdated/corrupted registry entries and whatnot. Obviously one wouldn't really need to do this every time for every game after every update. Clean reinstall is the best you can do however. You can't always trust devs either to set things up/remove them properly(including after updates). I tend to do clean reinstalls after major updates, also deleting settings files, and simply delete settings files after each update. If I encounter any crashes or visual issues, I delete the cache files as well.

Pretty much every game leaves behind files somewhere on the PC, but I'm talking specifically of the game's folder itself in steamapps. Of course it is highly recommended to delete the other files as well being careful not to delete saves, screenshots or anything else you may want to keep.

Sometimes people will tell others to delete Steam folders for whatever reason - including userdata which can store a lot of saves and other personal files people would want to keep.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

White ⁧⁧Wolf の投稿を引用：

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

Only way there would be a left over file is if the user put it there.

This is fairly often not the case. I have installed/tested thousands of games like I said and have also uninstalled around that many, never having modified the files either - and yet, many folders and files remain even in steamapps.

Uninstalling the game via Steam and manually deleting the game's folder/files if still there is always preferable to just force deleting and verifying. You'll be using the same bandwidth anyway, but it's just a bit more thorough because of things like permissions and outdated/corrupted registry entries and whatnot. Obviously one wouldn't really need to do this every time for every game after every update. Clean reinstall is the best you can do however. You can't always trust devs either to set things up/remove them properly(including after updates). I tend to do clean reinstalls after major updates, also deleting settings files, and simply delete settings files after each update. If I encounter any crashes or visual issues, I delete the cache files as well.

Pretty much every game leaves behind files somewhere on the PC, but I'm talking specifically of the game's folder itself in steamapps. Of course it is highly recommended to delete the other files as well being careful not to delete saves, screenshots or anything else you may want to keep.

Sometimes people will tell others to delete Steam folders for whatever reason - including userdata which can store a lot of saves and other personal files people would want to keep.

Well there are plenty of games on Steam where clicking Uninstall just removed it from the Steam App Manifest file and does correctly remove the game files from your drive.

Whatever bro, you do you I guess. I guess I'll move on. Tired of re-hashing the simplest of PC stuff with people who act like this their first PC game and don't have a clue what to do to fix issues on your end.

Aside from the A-LIFE not working, which I have to use a Mod for in order to get the spawning to be less frequent and also further away. S2 for most work runs all day like on 3 different PC configs here with very little issues to speak of.

If people would actually invest even a small amount of time and properly tweak the crappy terrible WinOS for Gaming, most people wouldn't have all these issues.

[erbsbischof]

Same here, latest Geforce drivers, latest everything in Windows 11, no mods.

[erbsbischof]

Same here

[zkalra]

Crashing at the loading screen when the radiation meter reaches yellow

[Fordfahrer]

It is strange, i had an evening of freezes and crash to desktop after the 423kb update, but yesterday i played an hour with no issues.

This game is kidding me lol

[ChristIceman]

At least the devs are working on it and show they care about the game putting out patches quickly but at the same time with how troubling the development of the game has been it should of been released maybe during Christmas period instead

[Torque]

Same. No mods.

I never experienced a single crash on all previous patches.

[Cryptic]

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ChubbiChibbai の投稿を引用：

Mods.

Not a single mod installed. You people are insufferable, it's always the players fault. It couldn't possibly be that the game is broken.

it is USUALLY the player"S fault.

good grammar

[Allonblack]

I had my first crash, too.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

BEFORE you blame a patch update. Make sure you take the time to first disable any Mods, and complete a Verify of the game AFTER your game has updated. This can help avoid various crashes and general problems.

Before loading up S2 after a patch update, wipe the GPU Shader Cache and have the game do this fresh again. Once it has completed this and reached main menu, exit game and enable the mod for Disable Shader Warmup.