Is there a way to roll back to patch 4.01?

[Avery]

I've got 150 hours in so far on my 4080 and the game has run flawlessly...until now. Crashes every 5 min. with frame generation on and runs terribly with frame gen off. I'm so bummed.

[MCMS]

No.

[💗Blaaashyyy💗]

Theoretically you can select 1.32 in betas, that's all I could find so far.

[Dorim]

Originally posted by Avery:

my 4080 and the game has run flawlessly

At ultra setting dlss on quality 60 fps at novigrad ? :D dreams, maybe at 1080p

[EvilMelon.]

If you go into the properties you can select classic.

[MaggieTheUnicorn]

Originally posted by EvilMelon.:

If you go into the properties you can select classic.

They can do that, but they would have to restart their play through. Classic and next gen saves aren't compatible. I would have already rolled back to classic if it weren't for that.

Like OP, I too would like to be able to roll back to 4.01. They should at least give us the option.

[RocktheRed52]

It's hypothetically possible but it seems very time consuming. Like putting together minimum 20 commands to download all files in the Steam Console.

https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-downgrade-steam-games/

So the command out of the Steam Console basically goes

download_depot 292030 <Depot ID> <Manifest ID>

Which on its own seems simple. Until you realize there's at least 20 depots you likely need to account for if you ignore those that aren't for your games local language. And you have to dig in to each of those depots to get the manifest ID for the 4.01 Patch.
https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/10442422/

And downloading those packages is only the start. Afterwards you have to move them manually to the game folder. And I suspect it likely ends with you always playing in Offline mode since the game will likely insist on Updating if you try to launch it in online mode (but I'm not completely sure on that last point).

Sadly GOG version has the ability to easily rollback but for Steam you can only easily select between the current version and classic versions if you don't wish to go the Steam Console route.

[Avery]

Originally posted by Dorim:

Originally posted by Avery:

my 4080 and the game has run flawlessly

At ultra setting dlss on quality 60 fps at novigrad ? :D dreams, maybe at 1080p

With frame generation on, my frame rate was never below 80 fps...even in Novigrad.

[maul]

Originally posted by Avery:

Originally posted by Dorim:

At ultra setting dlss on quality 60 fps at novigrad ? :D dreams, maybe at 1080p

With frame generation on, my frame rate was never below 80 fps...even in Novigrad.

Exactly correct. And yeah, basically no crashes for me until this patch - now I can't progress the game past cutscenes. Hotfix needed ASAP.

[Agent under Fire]

hotfix it

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In conclusion, like OP and another, I am definitely down to rolling back to 4.01 :) Too many reported crashes to use this current new update and other issues, some here say even Dx11 issues. For now, just know that they've done a great thing and made the original classic mode available for those who aren't choosy about RT and the other next-gen things (in properties, beta - it'll reset back to the 1.32 classic version), that's so great! :D (Oh but check around as I've seen in these discussions people might lose their saves from next gen back to classic, I don't know for sure, just some I've read on here.)

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