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Doctor_GLaDOS Jun 26, 2016 @ 2:51am

Witcher 3 Animation freeze during combat

Hi !
In Witcher 3 frequently during combat the game freezes, but not a conventional stutter but instead I can still move my camera, drink potions, use inventory and menu but everyone is frozen including geralt. The only way to get out of it is to load last save.
Game is near to unplayable to me at this point. Any Ideas ?
(I got the game on GOG Galaxy)

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Originally posted by DCcherrytrees:

You can load a save, as far as I know it happens when you try to use the radial menu to change your signs/bombs/crossbow, sometimes hitting the button to open that and then closing it will fix it, sometimes its just there and you have to load a save

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jclosed Jun 26, 2016 @ 2:57am

Hmm... I got the game on GOG too, and do not have those problems...

The only difference is that I do not use Galaxy. As far as I know (I could be wrong) Galaxy is still in Beta, so bugs can be expected, Did you try to run the game without overlay, or without Galaxy at all?

Oh - you do not use any mod, do you?

Doctor_GLaDOS Jun 26, 2016 @ 3:36am

It's not the platforms foult and no I do not have any mods installed.
The only thing I did is I edited Axii input delay from 0.2 to 0.01 to fix puppet bug.
It mostly happens when I enter sign menu or press 2 buttons at the same time during combat.
Or it might be some kind of NVIDIA Ansel inplementation bug.
In any case the game runs normally except of geralt and everything beign frozen in a pose but camera not.

Doctor_GLaDOS Jun 26, 2016 @ 3:38am

I just fought a contract monster while beign 10 lvls below it and after a while of combat it happend again and I have to load last save. I'm so angry right now !

Doctor_GLaDOS Jun 26, 2016 @ 11:49am

Any ideas ? Anyone ?

llefty

Feb 24, 2018 @ 7:41pm

This exact same thing just happened to me! I was fighting a level 30 earth elemental in a cave near Kaer Morhen, but I was only level 24. I had been fighting it for nearly 10 minutes, whittling down its health slowly, and when it was nearly out of health all the animation froze. Like OP, I can move my camera around, drink potions, pause, etc, but the animations are frozen completely.

Doctor_GLaDOS Feb 25, 2018 @ 1:25pm

From what I can tell this seems to be NVIDIA Ansel related bug. But I thought it has been patched out a long time ago...
Also I posted this in 2016 so you are a bit late.