Nightingale and All Unreal 5 games crashing.

[Cythal]

I bought a new Graphics Card. Did all the necessary installation procedures. Clean, Install, no Overclocking. Other games a working well. But Unreal 5 games just keeps crashing. For Nightingale it loads then crashes within 1 minute.

I have researched this online and tried many of the recommendations and still no solution. Just posting here in case anyone have experienced this and have any solutions to share.

For Devs, the important thing to share is to not make TSR the default for Nightingale. In my old Graphics card I changed the settings to AMD FSR, with Native AA and never experience crashes. I have tried to quickly change it in game before it crashes but the time is too short. I have tried to change it in the config files but still no help. Probably need to change some other settings as well but not sure which.

Also this crash happened when I pressed Auto Detect to refresh the game settings for my new GPU. I read somewhere that one UE5 game can cause global changes that will make other games crash but still not able to to resolve it on my side, even after deleting all settings to force the game to re-initialise them.

GPU Old : AMD Radeon 5700 XT
GPU New : AMD Sapphire 7700 XT

Next thing currently is to reinstall Epic, then Install Ureal Engine from Epic, which i have never installed before and see if there is a way to resolve it with its file.

[catch22atplay]

Why not try changing the game settings manually Look for GameUserSettings.ini file in C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\NWX\Saved\Config\Windows folder
Or just rename it to GameUserSettings.ini.old relaunch game and see if it creates a new one. If it doesn't verify game files should download the file.

[Wonko486]

Funny thought; is your PC's bios up to date? I remember I had a problem running SR3 back when and updating the bios fixed it right up.

[𝙎𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙪𝙢 ⑨]

If this isn't the first time you've changed your gpu and since you indicated that you had already done some research, I imagine that you have already done what I indicated, but I'll post it anyway, just in case.

Did you remove the drivers from the old graphics card before installing those for the new one with display driver uninstaller ? (often abbreviated to ddu)
If not, there could be a conflict between drivers

[info]

probably your Intel CPU has rusted / oxydated

google it

windows and the engine will say it's because of Unreal, but it's the CPU. google it.

[Cythal]

I have Resolved Towers of Aghasba. All i did was just delete the old config files and it regenerated a new one that works.

I do not use Intel CPU. AMD here.

I have initially and modified the new Game Settings for Nightingale but that did not help. If other games are now working it seems Nightingale is not setting the game settings correctly at first run.

Bios is already up to date last year, no new ones published.

Update: ...

Can Load into menu without crash using high performance mode. Tested all the Boost option, TSR, FRS and Intel, and cannot load into my saves or start a new game. It loads the realm fully but once i click continue it crashes.

Wish there was a no boost option for selection. Because I think this it were the issue lies. In my old GPU, it crashed with others but remained stable with FSR, both in native and other options.

Not sure how many crash report i have sent whenever it crashes. I don't expect any Dev to comment but it would be nice to hear the issue have been forwarded. Hoping 5.4 unreal update fixes it.

[Kaziklu78]

UE5 and AMD RDNA 3 have issues if the Devs didn't do a good job.

Palia for example is a UE5 game I play that with no issues. Nightingale is a UE5 game I play that and will literally eat my hard drive the crashes are so bad. (Though some people do get crashes, Palia team seems to try to make the game stable for everyone and add new content from time to time) This Dev team seems to have ignored most bugs for the last 11 months or so and will only add content if it means removing... they don't understand how to tweak things it is all or nothing for them.

It isn't lets tweak and add new content it is... i'm not happy with the way the game starts so lets totally redo it at the expensive of added content.

[piotrr]

This might seem weird, but did you uninstall the old driver installation first?

[catch22atplay]

It's not weird dude. I'll add a 3rd to this for uninstalling old gpu driver. Download DDU and have it uninstall it. Then reinstall latest driver. If that doesn't work then it's something else on your end. cpu, mobo, ram, psu, you name it could be anything. Just 1 setting alone in the bios can be a miracle fix. Could be a driver file as well. I've had network and sound drivers crash games along with many other drivers. UE4 and most especially 5 seem to really find faults with hardware.

I have no issues playing any UE games. This game rarely crashes for me. If i crash it's usually from changing graphics settings several times.

[Dooguk]

Stalker 2, which is also a UE5 game, suffers from crashes too, and frame generation has been mentioned a few times as the culprit. People are too quick to blame others setups I feel. As I speak Steam is updating Nightingale to Unreal Engine 5.4. Maybe there was a problem after all.

[Cythal]

There are already people reporting crashes in the update post.

I understand that the issue might be from my side, hence the intensive research and, if I may say, my personal due diligence to resolve as much as possible before concluding that the game is at fault.

I have searched their discord, and there are people who have also reported the same fault as mine months in the past even when I did not have issue with my old GPU. I have done DDU several times over, checking GPU is seated properly, checking bios, limiting power, no overclock and under-clocking, you name it and it still crashes.

Yet similar UE games play well, and all other graphics intensive games play well. So I just don't understand what fault there is on my side that is causing such crash. And I don't understand how others will experience same crash even with different systems as mine.

I tested in PTR. I could remain in the main menu far longer with no crash. But as soon as a realm is generated and I click continue, it crashes. I doubt there has been any recent changes, so switching back to Live to test again. After that, I will shelve the game and enjoy my other games.

EDIT

If there is one thing I will say is that the update has made progress. I can actually load into the game. I can actually stay in main menu change settings without crashing.

In game even without moving my mouse to pan around, it freezes and crashes. So as of now, I just do not think it is definitely an issue from my side.

[Dedmoin]

Did you try changing graphics setting on driver level?
That should force certain settings regardless of in-game settings or in case the games doesn't even offer to change those settings.

I haven't used AMD since years so I don't know what is possible with AMD drivers.