Incredible Amount of Crashing (Despire all avaliable fixes)

[Michel-K]

Hello there,

I wonder if anyone is aware of any new fixes for KCDII crashing to desktop.

I've been playing for more than 55 hours without any significant issues, but as of recently I cannot even run for 10 minutes without a crash.

It almost never occures during open world gameplay and never in cutscenes - it is always either when opening a map a few times, or the inventory & journal menu, or any other menu for that matter. Sometimes it also occures when fast travel arrives into a destination or when washing in a bathtub.

When I boot the game, the menus work just fine, and I can even run around for a bit. But randomly, in about 5-10mins, sometimes more, sometimes less, I get a crash to desktop without any errors in windows event log.

I've already tried fixes suggested by the forums and all general ones, which include:

-removing mods (I had only 1 which turns on async comput)

-running both Steam and game .exe as admin

-updating graphic card drivers

-deleting shader cache folder

-disabling DLSS in game menu

-increasing the VRAM page file

-setting shaders to unlimited in Nvidia Control Panel

-whitelisting the Steam folder in Windows Defender Anti-virus

-running sfc, dism, disk & memory scans

-doing Windows inplace upgrade

-completely clear reinstall Windows from ISO & USB

My PC specs:

RTX 4070ti

i9-13900kf

32GB RAM

2 TB SSD

Windows 11 with latest updates

144hrz Monitor, wirless mouse (if relevant)

P.S. No overclocking & temperature looks fine, fps is stable.

[Clemento]

I have exactly the same issue... ZERO crashes til 60 hours or so, but now the game crashes to desktop, mostly when I'm start talking to people, go to sleep or wait...
My sys:
RTX 4090 (driver 572.24)
i9-13900k
64gb

[GuNNuP]

i9-13900kf Sounds like your CPU is fked contact Intel about getting a replacement.

[GuNNuP]

i9-13900k Sounds like your a victim of Intel, contact intel and pray they never send broken chips again.

[Michel-K]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von GuNNuP:

i9-13900k Sounds like your a victim of Intel, contact intel and pray they never send broken chips again.

Huh? What's wrong with my chip? :( It was the most expensive one at the time when I bought it. And it works just fine, or at least it used to (if you think the chip is the issue) for over a year by this point.

[orcaa]

I would suspect the issue is with your computer. running the game on an i7-13700, rtx 4090,
64mb 5200 ddr5 ram on a ssd with no crashes in 40+ hours of gameplay.

[Clemento]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von orcaa:

I would suspect the issue is with your computer. running the game on an i7-13700, rtx 4090,
64mb 5200 ddr5 ram on a ssd with no crashes in 40+ hours of gameplay.

hm yes I had also zero crashes til I reached 60 hours of gameplay, but now it almost crashes every time once I speak to someone... It's really strange that it did run so well and suddenly so many crashes...
I have almost the same specs than you

[Michel-K]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Clemento:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von orcaa:

I would suspect the issue is with your computer. running the game on an i7-13700, rtx 4090,
64mb 5200 ddr5 ram on a ssd with no crashes in 40+ hours of gameplay.

hm yes I had also zero crashes til I reached 60 hours of gameplay, but now it almost crashes every time once I speak to someone... It's really strange that it did run so well and suddenly so many crashes...
I have almost the same specs than you

So what is our plan, guys? The PC seems fine.. What to do now - unknown mystery. What will you do, for example?

[AdahnGorion]

Never had a single crash in this game, it works like a charm.
Did you update your bios? did you remember to do proper malware search?
Reinstalled the game?

Also maybe a OS reinstall?

[Michel-K]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AdahnGorion:

Never had a single crash in this game, it works like a charm.
Did you update your bios? did you remember to do proper malware search?
Reinstalled the game?

Also maybe a OS reinstall?

As I've stated in the description of my issue - I've performed a clean Windows reinstall (8 times by this time) as well as all subsequential updates, including a BIOS update, of course.

For me, it works like a charm as well. I get on average 125+ FPS on Ultra with DLSS on quality or around 100 FPS without DLSS, no freezes, no lag. That being said, the game crashes to desktop after I press "I" for inventory or "M" for map, or "P" for stats after a few minutes of gameplay. It is also crashing often when using fast travel or initializing a dialogue (though less often at that).

[AdahnGorion]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Michel-K:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AdahnGorion:

Never had a single crash in this game, it works like a charm.
Did you update your bios? did you remember to do proper malware search?
Reinstalled the game?

Also maybe a OS reinstall?

As I've stated in the description of my issue - I've performed a clean Windows reinstall (8 times by this time) as well as all subsequential updates, including a BIOS update, of course.

Do you have same issues in other games?
If so its a hardware issue (obviously)

[dr46onfusion]

Try going into your bios and lower the clocks and voltage a little for the CPU and see if it is the CPU getting unstable due to the game requesting a lot of updates ...

Games do cause crashes, but a instability in a CPU profile will also do the same.

For instance this game will outright ignore your vsync and fps limit settings ingame if you enabled frame generation an such, it's weird.

For INTEL cpus, being constantly at 100% utilization of cores will reveal if those cores has flaws and are unstable at certain voltages.

[Michel-K]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AdahnGorion:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Michel-K:

As I've stated in the description of my issue - I've performed a clean Windows reinstall (8 times by this time) as well as all subsequential updates, including a BIOS update, of course.

Do you have same issues in other games?
If so its a hardware issue (obviously)

No.. Not really. I mean, I mostly play strategy games which do no require any significant PC properties, except for Cities Skylines 2, I guess. I did have a few crashes in that game, but because of mods issues I'd say.

Oh, also I've downloaded this thing.. umm.. dmp file reader? analyzer? whatever it is. It's official from microsoft. I found one single KCD2 dmp file when it crashed (usually there are none at all) and the program says at that particular time the game crashed because of memory access violation. It was only one particular time though.

[AdahnGorion]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Michel-K:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AdahnGorion:

Do you have same issues in other games?
If so its a hardware issue (obviously)

No.. Not really. I mean, I mostly play strategy games which do no require any significant PC properties, except for Cities Skylines 2, I guess. I did have a few crashes in that game, but because of mods issues I'd say.

What settings are you using ingame and did you try tweaking them?
Do you monitor voltage of your CPU and GPU?

[Michel-K]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AdahnGorion:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Michel-K:

No.. Not really. I mean, I mostly play strategy games which do no require any significant PC properties, except for Cities Skylines 2, I guess. I did have a few crashes in that game, but because of mods issues I'd say.

What settings are you using ingame and did you try tweaking them?
Do you monitor voltage of your CPU and GPU?

I am.. not a very smart person in general, maybe except for certain historical periods about which I know a lot. But I did fail both math and science 3 out of 4 years back in high school. So words like voltage sound complex to me. I know it's something about electricity, but that's about it.

That being said, I did download a program called "Core Temp" to monitor CPU temperature. And in general it is all good while in game (around 65-80C) around all cores. However, I've noticed that one core, I believe it was core #5.. or 4.. suddenly showed 100C for milisecond and then the second or two later, the game crashed. Maybe it was just a coincidence, as I've said, I am not very smart to understand all of this.

Oh and yes, I did tweak the settings. I played on High and Ultra, with and without DLSS, turning on and off motion blur, shadows, etc. Same results.

[Baiyooo]

Same isue, idk why. I try a bunch of stuff to try to solve it but i cant, and i already make a support ticket but they dont help to much.