Game crashes upon first boot shader compilation

[aj]

Tried opening the game and not even half way through the initial shader compilation, my entire PC crashes. After trying to force the crash again while monitoring my hardware, I found that my CPU temperature shoots up to 108F prior to the crash while also drawing a ridiculous amount of power. My specs are as follows:

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
32GB DDR4-3600
Windows 10 (likely irrelevant)

Has anyone dealt with a similar issue, or have any suggestion to fix this?

[NyteShayd]

Desktop:

Intel Core i9 14900KF 24-core
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, driver 566.36 (latest Studio)
64GB DDR4-4000
Windows 11 Pro


Laptop:

Intel Core i9-12900H 14-core
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti, driver 556.36
16GB DDR4-4800
Windows 11 Home


No issue on my laptop, but my desktop does the same thing yours is doing. Game loads to "Preparing Shaders" and immediately crashes. FWIW, I bought my copy through Epic Games, so it's not exclusively Steam's problem. Still throwing my brain at the desktop instead of playing on the laptop.

[NyteShayd]

From Event Viewer, two entries are created for each crash on my desktop.

Error entry is logged first:

Faulting application name: ff7rebirth_.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000000001
Faulting process id: 0x22F8
Faulting application start time: 0x1DB6E0A1AB36918
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Epic Games\FinalFantasyVIIRebirth\End\Binaries\Win64\ff7rebirth_.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 77833530-d75c-47a0-a5e4-e67c831b0bdc
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:



Information entry is logged second:

Fault bucket 2145226461042970245, type 5
Event Name: BEX64
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: ff7rebirth_.exe
P2: 1.0.0.0
P3: 00000000
P4: StackHash_2895
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 00000000
P7: PCH_31_FROM_unknown+0x0000000000000000
P8: c0000005
P9: 0000000000000008
P10:

Attached files:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.9ce79830-9861-447d-8e52-a2b0bd2374a7.tmp.dmp
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.32e60b77-c927-4e21-a0cf-be39f61409aa.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.a2bb2f9c-0593-4dc6-9b9b-c397a8d74b19.tmp.csv
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.7252c444-f9b3-4f3d-bf82-be6e0eb2484b.tmp.txt
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.3ce5b045-d5f4-40d7-b2d3-e76a2dede16d.tmp.xml

These files may be available here:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_ff7rebirth_.exe_1de78f78e68edf680fd2b725736d62c182a3fd_827c9734_eb33a51b-6c1d-45a1-80f8-78b84e8808c8

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 77833530-d75c-47a0-a5e4-e67c831b0bdc
Report Status: 268435456
Hashed bucket: 8d932714ba0591df6dc56019b53c0e85
Cab Guid: 0

[Linkian06]

Similar issue here.

[Linkian06]

I underclocked my CPU and didn't have any more issues.

[NyteShayd]

Temporarily disabling Hyperthreading in BIOS allowed me to finish compiling shaders, but not without one final crash at ~90%. We'll see how the game plays.

[Time to dai Tod]

It crashed on me 5 times, but kept the progress and haven't had an issue since
i9 13900k
RTX 4090
DDR5 6000
NVME 7000 R/W