Game Crashing But Only in Combat

[Far]

For some reason, everything else in the game is running as expected, but the moment I get into combat and anything pops off (particle effects, spells, ect.) the game freezes up with a Fatal Error and crashes. Is there any way to fix this particular crash? I've already tried many of the other Fatal Error fixes, but those are mainly for crashing at startup. Thanks!

[Zloth]

Well, 'many of' doesn't tell us what you've done, so we'll likely repeat some.

First thing first: did you verify files?

[Far]

Originally posted by Zloth:

Well, 'many of' doesn't tell us what you've done, so we'll likely repeat some.

First thing first: did you verify files?

I'll verify again, but I have done so before.

[Far]

Re-verified and still running into a crash as soon as I enter combat. This sure is strange.

[Ben]

Originally posted by Far:

For some reason, everything else in the game is running as expected, but the moment I get into combat and anything pops off (particle effects, spells, ect.) the game freezes up with a Fatal Error and crashes. Is there any way to fix this particular crash? I've already tried many of the other Fatal Error fixes, but those are mainly for crashing at startup. Thanks!

Just avoid combats? You can play Queens Blood card game.

[Far]

Originally posted by Ben:

Originally posted by Far:

For some reason, everything else in the game is running as expected, but the moment I get into combat and anything pops off (particle effects, spells, ect.) the game freezes up with a Fatal Error and crashes. Is there any way to fix this particular crash? I've already tried many of the other Fatal Error fixes, but those are mainly for crashing at startup. Thanks!

Just avoid combats? You can play Queens Blood card game.

Time to do the FF7 Rebirth Pacifist run and become a legendary Queen's Blood player, Sephiroth will have to wait xD

[Ben]

Originally posted by Far:

Originally posted by Ben:

Just avoid combats? You can play Queens Blood card game.

Time to do the FF7 Rebirth Pacifist run and become a legendary Queen's Blood player, Sephiroth will have to wait xD

Exactly, it gives him some time for group therapy with other people having their mom being bred in industrial container and doped to Mako.

[Far]

Going to try deleting every document file, as well as all game files, then reinstalling. Will report back if this fixes the issue.

[Ben]

Originally posted by Far:

Going to try deleting every document file, as well as all game files, then reinstalling. Will report back if this fixes the issue.

If you are on Radeon, it might be helpfull to roll back to previsous driver. Some people were crashign because of that.

[Murderin' Murphy]

I just updated from the previous radeon drives because of the crashing. Still crashing.

[Far]

I just did a clean install of the game, it even redownloaded the shaders. It still crashes a few moments after entering combat.

[ProfessorFrog]

So after a day of troubleshooting this stuff i got no results until i shut down my pc and turning it on again.

The most important thing you need to know:
- Combat simulator fights seem to always work
- if you have a certain fight that keeps crashing, try avoiding the fight
- I have tried a variety of different settings that people said had an effect; windowed and 30fps limit. This seems to sometimes avoid a crash issue when having 60 or 120fps limit would crash, but i've also gotten situations where it didn't do anything. In which case shutting down my pc, and then turning it on again has helped. (don't do restart, bc it doesn't fully reset windows)

I've just now played for 4 hours without crashes after restarting my pc. 1080p, 120fps limit, all max settings, but shadows, fog on low. and npc shadow distance on 0, and npc distance on 0.

What's weird is that this morning i start up my pc and i get crashes constantly. So while shutting down and turning on again might work, having just booted your system doesn't guarantee it.

i dunno. good luck.

[Far]

Originally posted by ProfessorFrog:

So after a day of troubleshooting this stuff i got no results until i shut down my pc and turning it on again.

The most important thing you need to know:
- Combat simulator fights seem to always work
- if you have a certain fight that keeps crashing, try avoiding the fight
- I have tried a variety of different settings that people said had an effect; windowed and 30fps limit. This seems to sometimes avoid a crash issue when having 60 or 120fps limit would crash, but i've also gotten situations where it didn't do anything. In which case shutting down my pc, and then turning it on again has helped. (don't do restart, bc it doesn't fully reset windows)

I've just now played for 4 hours without crashes after restarting my pc. 1080p, 120fps limit, all max settings, but shadows, fog on low. and npc shadow distance on 0, and npc distance on 0.

What's weird is that this morning i start up my pc and i get crashes constantly. So while shutting down and turning on again might work, having just booted your system doesn't guarantee it.

i dunno. good luck.

It almost seems like there is some sort of issue with the game using particle effects that only appear in combat. Maybe the game fails to load them properly and hangs up. I've also noticed using different resolutions and lower settings CAN sometimes extend the amount of time I spend in combat before a crash, but they still occur. The combat simulator did crash once on the Titan fight. I hope someone can get the word out of this particular issue to the devs so they can figure out the root cause.

[P Bag]

This one is a problem I'm having too. Out of curiosity, I looked to see how long after the Remake release SE pushed out a patch...

And dear god it was almost a year.

[KodoSamurai]

i started getting this regularly in the grasslands, not just in a battle. i just had it happen on the start menu doing absolutely nothing.

[ProfessorFrog]

Originally posted by Far:

It almost seems like there is some sort of issue with the game using particle effects that only appear in combat. Maybe the game fails to load them properly and hangs up.

I got that impression too. That it happens when enemies attack, or when i attack.

Originally posted by Far:

I've also noticed using different resolutions and lower settings CAN sometimes extend the amount of time I spend in combat before a crash, but they still occur. The combat simulator did crash once on the Titan fight.

Perhaps it's a CPU issue.
The combat simulator is less CPU intensive than towns and stuff. And Titan is one of the more intensive enemies, that might have more CPU stuff going on in the background than the other enemies.

Otherwise it might depend on enemy type / particle effect type.
I've noticed crashes with the following enemies:
- Orcs
- Wolves and Mandragoras
- The last grasslands Beck's bandits quest. The one with a robot in it.
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The times i was able to avoid a fatal error while i was getting them constantly from the same save file, was when i did a fight super fast and the enemies were not able to attack.