Video Memory Crash

[Jack Niggleson]

System Specs:
OS: Windows 11 Home
CPU: Intel i7-12700F, 12th Gen
RAM: 32 GB
GPU: Intel Arc A770

Crash Dump:
https://ufile.io/6v4xve6x

I keep getting "out of video memory" crashes. I've tried a lot of the fixes people have suggested in other threads and it's hard to tell if anything works. Sometimes I'll get these crashes every ten minutes, making the game unplayable. Sometimes I get an hour or so in before they happen.

I know this is may not even be something the devs can solve and I'm mostly wondering if anyone else has had any luck with solutions that don't involve playing in either fullscreen or borderless (tried both, no luck), on potato settings (ditto) or turning vsync on (it's on).

Really want to get back into Kenshi, particularly modding and this is a huge bummer, especially since my old PoS PC could run it flawlessly.

[Bomb Bloke]

Originally posted by Jack Niggleson:

I know this is may not even be something the devs can solve and I'm mostly wondering if anyone else has had any luck with solutions that don't involve playing in either fullscreen or borderless (tried both, no luck), on potato settings (ditto) or turning vsync on (it's on).

The only success story I've seen involved going for the opposite of "potato settings". This guy apparently got the game running stable on his A770 with the following config:

Originally posted by Wille84:

Yes. I got it working when using borderless window mode (launcher), vsync ON and default (or close to) settings, with only shadows etc. upped. Using latest drivers on A770-LE 16GB. Not sure what made it work, but this is what i did and now it does..

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3161980933

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3161980871

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3161980807

[bunny de fluff]

The thing with the game is that, you really need to use the vsync it provided (launcher) instead of the one from your GPU control panel.

[bunny de fluff]

If you turn on vsync using the GPU, good luck.

[Jack Niggleson]

Originally posted by Bomb Bloke:

Originally posted by Jack Niggleson:

I know this is may not even be something the devs can solve and I'm mostly wondering if anyone else has had any luck with solutions that don't involve playing in either fullscreen or borderless (tried both, no luck), on potato settings (ditto) or turning vsync on (it's on).

The only success story I've seen involved going for the opposite of "potato settings". This guy apparently got the game running stable on his A770 with the following config:

Originally posted by Wille84:

Yes. I got it working when using borderless window mode (launcher), vsync ON and default (or close to) settings, with only shadows etc. upped. Using latest drivers on A770-LE 16GB. Not sure what made it work, but this is what i did and now it does..

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3161980933

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3161980871

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3161980807

Wild. I'll try this I guess, thanks.

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

The thing with the game is that, you really need to use the vsync it provided (launcher) instead of the one from your GPU control panel.

Turning Vsync on in the launcher does seem to have had more of an impact than I originally thought. Crashes are much less frequent now (played 1.5 hours straight), to the point where the game is actually playable again. Still would be nice to have a permanent fix or to know exactly what's causing the issue.

[Jack Niggleson]

Okay so turning the texture quality up definitely brought the crashes back. It seems like the longest intervals I'm able to get (usually 1-2 hours, I rarely play for much longer at a time than this) are with the following settings, for anyone in the same boat reading this thread.

1. Vsync ticked on in launcher (this is the big one).
2. Full screen enabled.
3. Texture quality set to low or fugly.
4. Terrain detail set to .5

Other settings either didn't have any discernible effect on frequency of crashes or were things that turning down would have really adversely affected my enjoyment of the game (view distance).

[bunny de fluff]

This game had a few similar complaint from intel GPU users. There is not much else we can do to fix crashes sadly.

[Jack Niggleson]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

This game had a few similar complaint from intel GPU users. There is not much else we can do to fix crashes sadly.

Yeah, I know. It's not the fault of the devs and I'm not expecting them to pick up the slack for Intel by any means, especially now when they're probably mostly working on Kenshi 2.

For most games it's fine, but I've already experienced more than a few instances of unfixable Arc specific problems, especially for certain older games. I'm kicking myself for not doing more research before buying a PC with this overhyped turd of a GPU.

[Jack Niggleson]

One thing that kind of worked, again for anyone reading this in the future. I found a thread on the Finnish language steam forum where a guy with the same GPU as me said that deleting his config file and then downloading it again by validating the game files solved the problem for him. I tried this and got two hours of uninterrupted Kenshi. The game crashed again the next day, but it seems like this actually solves the problem for awhile, you just have to keep doing it I guess.

[Bomb Bloke]

It'll be interesting to see if the issue tends to become more frequent over time, and in turn, whether validating consistently smooths it out for a while.

If so then I'd suspect the issue might be related to shader caching in your instance.

[Jack Niggleson]

That makes sense, but the whole thing is just really weird. It's a lot more stable now and I haven't had any crashes for awhile while being able to play for a reasonable amount of time as long as Kenshi is the only thing I'm running. The issue is I've tried like a dozen different things and this point, so it's hard to know what the trick was for sure.

[bunny de fluff]

I think your GPU is among those that have excellent support for directx 12 but not enough for anything older. Which means it should be good for kenshi 2.