Unbelivable! After Patch 1.3 still crashing.

[rab8bit]

This is unbelievable! Every Patch makes the game more buggy and unplayable.
Here is the crash I got after the patch 1.03.

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Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x000002c4a3340000

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[Jeno]

Maybe its your PC build? I haven't had any problem with crashes since the game released.

[NeXuS23]

I get EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION all few hours lol
It's part of the Game, the same also for the freezes where you then need to spend time to kick the Task somehow and restart. It's immersion breaking for sure, but hey
everything will be included in my review roflmao

Also 1.2 was more stable than 1.3 for me.

And 1.3 also introduced Inventory corruption for me.

Btw. The Inventory Corruption i get was also noticed on Xbox, so it has 100% nothing to do with mods. It happens if you hoard stuff like hundreds of red weapopns in Stash to later sell to ragman etc. If you then get all the stuff to sell it happens that stuff overlaps, and then Inventory gets corrupted. So yeah Inventory Corruption is confirmed. This is also linked to Memory Leak in Rostok somwhow, but is also happing in Zalysia Stash.

[Michael M]

Originally posted by NeXuS23:

I get EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION all few hours lol
It's part of the Game, the same also for the freezes where you then need to spend time to kick the Task somehow and restart. It's immersion breaking for sure, but hey
everything will be included in my review roflmao

Also 1.2 was more stable than 1.3 for me.

And 1.3 also introduced Inventory corruption for me.

Btw. The Inventory Corruption i get was also noticed on Xbox, so it has 100% nothing to do with mods. It happens if you hoard stuff like hundreds of red weapopns in Stash to later sell to ragman etc. If you then get all the stuff to sell it happens that stuff overlaps, and then Inventory gets corrupted. So yeah Inventory Corruption is confirmed. This is also linked to Memory Leak in Rostok somwhow, but is also happing in Zalysia Stash.

In Windows 10 when using Ctrl+Alt+Del you have the option to restart in down right corner.
If you check "Always on top" in Taskmanager settings you can use Taskmanager to close the game at a crash.

[shelledfade]

game starts freezing , happens 2-3 times and recovers but after that will completely crash. Seems like a memory leak but not sure as I haven't seen my member go beyond 24gb (I have 64gb of ram).

Game is definitely not stable and does this consistently after a few hours of playing.

I do alt-tab a lot so maybe tabbing out is doing something but either way it isn't stable.

[CzUSMC]

I used to be able to get 60 FPS with Quality upscaling in this game last year. Tried again today and im at 35 FPS with Quality balanced or performance upscaling doesn't matter just stays at 35 fps. I haven't played this game since last year came back to see its still broken... Even worse than it was at release.

[DNK | Gh0st]

I'm still dealing with constant crashes in certain areas or when I've saved too many times. The crashes occurred after I had completed about 80% of the story. In the meantime, I upgraded my PC (AMD 9800x3d and RTX 5080), but the crashes still occur and the performance is still below average - and I only play on high settings!

Especially the sluggish feeling in combat is more than frustrating. I'd really like to give the game a 10 out of 10, but the crashes and sluggish gameplay ruined it for me - I give it a 6 out of 10.

[shelledfade]

not even just the crashing at this point, just had to fix the flickering shadow bs by turning DLSS off, now finally getting into some woodland combat and the enemies just shoot through everything right at you. Good god this game is freakin terrible lmfao.

they will literally lob a grenade over a hill they can't even see over directly on top of you. My god wtf is this game?

[NeXuS23]

Originally posted by Michael M:

Originally posted by NeXuS23:

I get EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION all few hours lol
It's part of the Game, the same also for the freezes where you then need to spend time to kick the Task somehow and restart. It's immersion breaking for sure, but hey
everything will be included in my review roflmao

Also 1.2 was more stable than 1.3 for me.

And 1.3 also introduced Inventory corruption for me.

Btw. The Inventory Corruption i get was also noticed on Xbox, so it has 100% nothing to do with mods. It happens if you hoard stuff like hundreds of red weapopns in Stash to later sell to ragman etc. If you then get all the stuff to sell it happens that stuff overlaps, and then Inventory gets corrupted. So yeah Inventory Corruption is confirmed. This is also linked to Memory Leak in Rostok somwhow, but is also happing in Zalysia Stash.

In Windows 10 when using Ctrl+Alt+Del you have the option to restart in down right corner.
If you check "Always on top" in Taskmanager settings you can use Taskmanager to close the game at a crash.

Yeah but I have to push the red X about 500 times before it finally ends and I can restart.
It also always says Warning: Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe (Random PID) used 175358369792 Bytes (That's 175GB) but there is only 64GB Ram so it uses up all Ram and then eats Virtual Ram anduntil it crashes. LOL!

Last TIme I also saw an "Administrator: Warning" Window but unfortunately no text just black, so dunno what this what about, but probably something about all Memory used up or so.

[Michael M]

Is it Stalker you try to shot down with X?
Right click on Stalker in Taskmanager and use "End task"

[rab8bit]

Originally posted by Michael M:

Originally posted by NeXuS23:

I get EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION all few hours lol
It's part of the Game, the same also for the freezes where you then need to spend time to kick the Task somehow and restart. It's immersion breaking for sure, but hey
everything will be included in my review roflmao

Also 1.2 was more stable than 1.3 for me.

And 1.3 also introduced Inventory corruption for me.

Btw. The Inventory Corruption i get was also noticed on Xbox, so it has 100% nothing to do with mods. It happens if you hoard stuff like hundreds of red weapopns in Stash to later sell to ragman etc. If you then get all the stuff to sell it happens that stuff overlaps, and then Inventory gets corrupted. So yeah Inventory Corruption is confirmed. This is also linked to Memory Leak in Rostok somwhow, but is also happing in Zalysia Stash.

In Windows 10 when using Ctrl+Alt+Del you have the option to restart in down right corner.
If you check "Always on top" in Taskmanager settings you can use Taskmanager to close the game at a crash.

Thank you. I decided leave the game until they will fix it.

[rab8bit]

Originally posted by Jeno:

Maybe its your PC build? I haven't had any problem with crashes since the game released.

Here is my Build:
CPU - Intel® Core™ i9-9900K
MOTHERBOARD - Asus TUF Z390 PRO-GAMING
VIDEO - Asus TUF RTX 3080 OC 12Gb
RAM - Corsair LPX 32Gb DDR4 3200MHz
SSD - 1 - M2 NVME Samsung EVO 970 500Gb
SSD - 2 - M2 NVME Kingston 240Gb
SSD - 3 - Corsair 120 Gb
HDD - Seagate 500Gb
POWER - LEPA 800W 80Plus Bronze
CPU Cooler - Noctua NH-U12A

[Akela]

High-spec PC here with i9 14th gen and 5080 and the amount of crashes I get per session is insane

[H138]

Much more crashes after a 1.3 patch is not acceptable guys.
GSC team, my friends, please wake up.

[H33t3]

The game literally now will not launch on my system, correctly. Do not even ask me about my specs, you will be embarrassed.

What the hell is wrong with this software? Seriously, the timing of this things release has completely screwed it up on so many layers. It ran horrendously at launch, only a high performance computer could get through the slog but then basically everything else was wrong with the game itself. Particularly, with messed up spawns for quest givers etc.

So, I called that 50+ hour save a done deal, and have decided to stick my head in to see if the game is stable enough for another solid crack at it. F------ nope. The damn thing hangs at launch and I'm left wondering why the hell I succumbed to the hype. I've played through most of the series over the course of the past almost 20 years and I certainly have enjoyed enough of the in-game time to come back, but this isn't fun any more in the slightest.

Microsoft gives zero information about why they're having so many stability issues in there own right, other than the usual, so every update breaks the entire gaming software stack on PC. So I do feel for developers, truly but as a consumer this is infuriating and its soured me on the whole game at this point.

Further, as I was typing this, the game suddenly animated from its hung state and its now deciding to compile its shaders.

W T F

[fizzyRock]

Originally posted by H33t3:

The game literally now will not launch on my system, correctly. Do not even ask me about my specs, you will be embarrassed.

What the hell is wrong with this software? Seriously, the timing of this things release has completely screwed it up on so many layers. It ran horrendously at launch, only a high performance computer could get through the slog but then basically everything else was wrong with the game itself. Particularly, with messed up spawns for quest givers etc.

So, I called that 50+ hour save a done deal, and have decided to stick my head in to see if the game is stable enough for another solid crack at it. F------ nope. The damn thing hangs at launch and I'm left wondering why the hell I succumbed to the hype. I've played through most of the series over the course of the past almost 20 years and I certainly have enjoyed enough of the in-game time to come back, but this isn't fun any more in the slightest.

Microsoft gives zero information about why they're having so many stability issues in there own right, other than the usual, so every update breaks the entire gaming software stack on PC. So I do feel for developers, truly but as a consumer this is infuriating and its soured me on the whole game at this point.

Further, as I was typing this, the game suddenly animated from its hung state and its now deciding to compile its shaders.

W T F

Yeah, I feel the same way. Bought the game, but I’m still waiting for patches. I got really angry during npc and 3 bloodsucker spawn, shut the game down, and decided to wait. It seems like the game won’t be fixed. Buggy mess…