Game seems way too unstable

[בתאניה]

Crashes to desktop every 5 -30 minutes, no error logs or anything, just poof

[Rudi-v]

Sounds like some corrupt, or missing, files. I assume that you have verified your game files already to make sure they're fine?

[dantès]

agreed(above comment).. ive clocked over 150hrs on this game with no issues. make sure you don't have too many saves. the game will crash to desktop if you exceed over 30-40+ saves.

also, verify the game:
Verify Game Files

[Icedfate]

i have had the game crash on me 3 times so far. i'm a bit ways into the chapter in flotsam.
it crashed the first time when i exited the prison in the prologue. this first one was a CTD with no messages.
another time right after the conversation with dandelion and triss at the inn. when it returned control to me, the screen was completely black, but there was still full sounds and when i open task manager, it said "not responding" and i had to force quit.
i forgot what the third one was. .

the crashes did not repeat themselves, i reloaded my save and kept going.

i did see talk about not keeping too many saves, so i guess deleting and cleaning up the saves , thats just a crap factor i need to adapt to.

[dantès]

Originally posted by Icedfate:

i did see talk about not keeping too many saves, so i guess deleting and cleaning up the saves , thats just a crap factor i need to adapt to.

you honestly don't need 100+ saves. just keep the essentials, and delete the rest.

[kainxxx2000]

no crash after a 1hr running ok atm

[N0REGARD4LIFE]

Turn your overclock down or off. This game hits the gpu hard and your "stable" overclock may not be so stable with this game.

[Chaz]

I think it's the save issue. It's annoying as hell because everytime you save it makes a new file. Even when you delete them, if you're using Steam Cloud, it downloads them all again.

[Icedfate]

I had 2 more crashes yesterday.
i have been trying to stay on top of my saves and not accumulate more than 20. i usually whittle it down to 4 or 5 every so often.


I'm still in chapter 1
one crash happened when i went back to the inn and talked to zoltan and then i turned around and went out the door and the entire screen turned black, and i couldn't do anything, but all the sounds and the music were still playing and i tried to ctrl alt delete into task managed but the game screen window was overlaid on top of everything so i couldn't see my steam client or the task manager and had no choice but to reboot my computer. (this is a brand new 2 month old asus ROG laptop with 16 Gigs of ram, a 3.2 processor with turbo up to 4.5. . )

the other crash was just a sudden CTD, where the app just quit and dumped me back to my desktop, no other interruption. my computer continued running fine, it was just as if I had alt+F4'ed out of the game. this happenind while i was in the forest outside flotsam and i was engaging in lots of heavvy combat, killing dozens of nekkers , a few squirrels, and then an endrega can charaching at me and i leaped at it and. . .CTD

I decided to take a break.
so, this is 4 crashes since i began playing. it's always in a different spot, so i guess it's not related to the location. some other factor must be causing it. maybe i need to exit the game and relaunch it every few hours to reset the cache or something, i dunno.



edit : p.s. i know i don't need 100+ saves and i don't purposely do that. the game does that, every time i quicksave, it creates a brand new save file and every gamer ought to know one of the most important cardinal rules of CRPGS,
save after every battle
save before talking to an NPC
save after talking to NPC
save after leaving an area
save before entering a new area
save after picking up a new quest
save after completing a quest
save after saving, then save again, and then save one more time. . .and then make another save, just in case. . .

[בתאניה]

I modified some ini files and it seemed to fix the issue, modified the user.ini file to increase TextureMemoryBudget=10240 (since I have a 16gig GPU) , also disabled ubersampling and modified the rendering.ini file with: MaxResidentMipMap=20 all other texture diffuse maps to 4096 ..haven't had any more issues

[vram1974]

For me, the game never crashes while playing. But I alt-tab a lot because I have an Excel spreadsheet where I track quests and achievements. When I alt-tab, there's a 50-50 chance the game crashes. Also, sometimes the game crashes randomly while loading a save.

I've definitely learned to spam the F5 button.