Cauldron Kappa Crashing Game

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I've been playing through the story with some crashing but nothing unplayable. Have tried all the fixes recommended but I've effectively become soft locked by the section in Cauldron Kappa where you raise the water during the crate puzzle. The raising of the water itself is what seems to trigger the crash. Any help would be appreciated

Windows 10 (game set to windows 8 compatability)
32gb ram
i7-14700k
4070ti

Nothing is overclocked etc

[Whome?]

You might want to check this out, https://steamcommunity.com/app/2420110/discussions/0/4355617421473045288/

It's a known issue, I myself and others have encountered. Some might suggest it's "system stability/user error" but it's 100% a game issue.

[The Tempted Man]

I finished this cauldron yesterday so I can confirn it isn't 100% static bug.

[Seelenschnitz]

same here, crash on second water pump everytime

win 11
32 ram
i7-14700k
4070ti super

[Evilsod]

Didn't have an issue with this one myself, and I also happen to have a 14700k + 4070ti super.

Perhaps different display settings would help?

[Thornok]

could be win10 . why you set it to win 8 mode ?

[MancSoulja]

Why would you set a DX12 game to Windows 8 compatibility mode?

[Seelenschnitz]

nothing helps ....tried different display setting with all off and graphics low, as administrator or even with compatibility mode.....
Game allways crashes when second pump activated and water flows in

[Snake]

I had zero issues but my CPU is a beast, have you tried just to bottom line all graphics options to their lowest setting?

[Arcane]

Probably an intel issue. Normalclock your CPU, and/or disable hyperthreading to get past that point

[Hydra_360ci]

I've heard this PC port is real sensitive to Overclocking (especially on Intel or Nvidia)... even bios preset performance settings that aren't considered Overclocking, but really are. Try disabling any performance mode that the bios has for a safer mode. Disable Turbo mode.... Or manually underclock it yourself. Same goes for you're Video Card, if you have that running any sort of performance boost, setting.

Unless you're one of those... I refuse to underclock... you're not gonna know unless you try it.

[Seelenschnitz]

after latest patch i could complete couldron kappa and go on.......sure its allways the user fault blablabla

[mickeymuse2]

I had this issue, where the game kept crashing every time the waters flooded, either the first or second (or, if I looked at the ceiling, third) time. I was also sometimes experiencing crashes when using quick travel via bonfires, especially when traveling across wide swaths of the map (but I always save before traveling so never really lost any valuable game saves).

I'm running the game on Windows 10 with the following specs:

Intel Core i9-14900K 3.20 GHz processor
Z790 MAG Tomahawk WiFi Intel LGA 1700 ATX Motherboard
64.0 (2 x 32) GB RAM

Everything is just over a year old, and I built my rig to be a beast since I'm a professional animator and occasional video editor, so I knew the crashes weren't from a lack of robustness.

I was not overclocking my system; I was using the standard settings.

Turns out, what some people in this thread said about the motherboard needing a BIOS flush was right. I downloaded the latest version (only a few days old, lucky me!), flushed the BIOS, and BAM! Everything runs like a dream. Not a single crash since.

I was even having crash issues exporting a 4k short film that I was finally able to export after the flush. I was nervous doing the BIOS flush since I'm no hardware guru, but I was even able to figure out why my system wasn't booting to Windows after the flush after a little Google searching (I neeed to direct it to the correct hard drive).

I hope this helps someone else as much as this thread helped me!