NPC interaction in Akila causing crashes (Solution Found)

[Creepy]

Or at least it seems that way. I'm stuck in Akila constantly loading and hoping I make it through the NPC interactions so I can do a save and inch forward. Most of the time I just crash to desktop in the middle of one and I have to reload the game to try again. I can walk around and do things in Akila just fine otherwise. Go figure

Edit: I mistakenly called it a "cinematic" because I hardly ever get to actually making dialogue choices. Sorry about the confusion, I went back and fixed my wording

Edit 2 (Solution) : The solution I found is a little goofy but I managed to get through this by positioning my character to face away from the city interior before interacting with the NPCs.
I'm not sure but staring at their feet might also work but I haven't tried that.

[hottnova75]

My old PC did this. It was cooling issue for the CPU. 10 year old hardware with some upgrades just could not render the newest games anymore.

The PC shuts off to save the CPU from burning up.

My new computer i had help arranging has a special cooler for the CPU and a radiator.

If your computer is new and powerful and still shuts off , it is a good idea to update all drivers. Clean the caches.

My old PC would still play all the games. Its just the newest ones would crash when things got hectic. Or highly detailed. I could run around in the wilderness or do random missions no problem.

The upside and happy ending was that now all the games look and play way better with the new machine.

If you do get a new computer , do tons of research and make a good choice. Ask all the people you know and maybe don't know their opinions on computers and triangulate with PC hardware compatibility websites to kind of figure out what kind of build would be reliable for what you want to do.

[Creepy]

Originally posted by hottnova75:

My old PC did this. It was cooling issue for the CPU. 10 year old hardware with some upgrades just could not render the newest games anymore.

The PC shuts off to save the CPU from burning up.

My new computer i had help arranging has a special cooler for the CPU and a radiator.

If your computer is new and powerful and still shuts off , it is a good idea to update all drivers. Clean the caches.

My old PC would still play all the games. Its just the newest ones would crash when things got hectic. Or highly detailed. I could run around in the wilderness or do random missions no problem.

The upside and happy ending was that now all the games look and play way better with the new machine.

If you do get a new computer , do tons of research and make a good choice. Ask all the people you know and maybe don't know their opinions on computers and triangulate with PC hardware compatibility websites to kind of figure out what kind of build would be reliable for what you want to do.

Nah, man, the game crashes to desktop and it's only happening with the cinematics in Akila. To be clear, the computer isn't shutting down.

I found that I could wander around town just fine after I got tired of trying to brute force through the cinematics and tried to find a way to go rogue and break into the bank. At this rate though, I may not be able to progress that part of the main quest.

[hottnova75]

Every time I would talk to the sheriff or his deputy for the bank mission it would black screen , or crash. After a couple days it would just crash to desktop. I realized that there was just too much information for my CPU to process in AKila city because it is so detailed and full of complex things happening.

I used a laser thermometer on my open case to identify that my CPU was getting really hot on the motherboard.

I ran this computer with an open case for years for cooling reasons on AAA games.

The new machine has none of these issues because their is a liquid cooled radiator attached to the CPU for situations like this one that are CPU intensive.

The Thermometer laser is what finally convinced me to upgrade.

[Ronin7]

Graphics bug i keep getting, capture pirate , go to Wolf to sell contraband, go to technician and change back to home ship so i can sell pirate at next stop. Go to airlock and select cockpit. After loading looking out the windscreen at Atlantis city uhhh. should still be at wolf ready to undock. get out cant interact with technician and his little yellow kiosk had disappeared. Turn around and half the graphics on my ship have also done a disappearing act. Fly away to Sol or Akila city . Go to tech and select modify ship, move one item and return it. All back to normal. Rinse and repeat 3 times.
( Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 10700K @ 3.80GHz 32 °C
Comet Lake 14nm Technology
RAM
32.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1200MHz (17-17-17-39)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. PRIME Z490-A (LGA1200) 27 °C
Graphics
ASUS VG249Q1A
C (1920x1080@144Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (Gigabyte) 38 °C
Storage
931GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB (SATA (SSD)) 25 °C
3726GB Force MP510 (Unknown (SSD))
2794GB Western Digital WD Elements 25A1 USB Device (USB (SATA) (SSD)) )

[Creepy]

Yeah, my bad. I should have said dialogue/NPC interaction. I just don't get to the actual options to respond most of the time, so I'm just watching the NPCs talk and my brain just went to "cinematic" - went back and fixed my original post

Originally posted by hottnova75:

Every time I would talk to the sheriff or his deputy for the bank mission it would black screen , or crash. After a couple days it would just crash to desktop. I realized that there was just too much information for my CPU to process in AKila city because it is so detailed and full of complex things happening.

I used a laser thermometer on my open case to identify that my CPU was getting really hot on the motherboard.

I ran this computer with an open case for years for cooling reasons on AAA games.

The new machine has none of these issues because their is a liquid cooled radiator attached to the CPU for situations like this one that are CPU intensive.

The Thermometer laser is what finally convinced me to upgrade.

Okay, that's weird. I don't know why NPC dialogue would push the processor over the edge

[Creepy]

Small update: I checked the computer's temperatures through four or five crashes using Speccy. The processor never broke above the upper 40s and the graphics card never past the upper 50s. I ended up loading an older save and just avoided Akila all together, just waiting for a patch or three with crossed fingers.

[Creepy]

Final update: I managed to get through the Akila main arc by facing my character away from the city interior before interacting with the NPC. Staring at the ground might also work but I haven't tried that. YMMV
The stories I heard about the city being poorly optimized seems to be true, yet this town has never caused my graphics card nor my processor to overheat.
Added the solution I arrived at in the opening post