Random crashes

[Pendragon]

There is no specific point it is happening, I am a returnee over a long time after and playing blood and wine yet the game crasher really often like almost once in every 30minutes. it even crashed in a loading screen while just loading a save initially.

[Boogaboo]

Have a similar thing happening.

[FoGsesipod]

switch to dx11

[Pendragon]

Originally posted by FoGsesipod:

switch to dx11

C'monn. Graphics is one of the most important reasons I am playing this game. What year are we in?

[FoGsesipod]

Originally posted by ICARDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII:

Originally posted by FoGsesipod:

switch to dx11

C'monn. Graphics is one of the most important reasons I am playing this game. What year are we in?

the only thing you wont have is ray tracing, and unless you have duel 4090 ti super extremes and an amd threadripper 256 core cpu, you arent gonna be playing this game with ray tracing at max at a nice fps, or your gonna switch on an upscaler which reduces graphics, or even worse frame generation.
the ray tracing really isnt worth it

[Pendragon]

Originally posted by FoGsesipod:

Originally posted by ICARDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII:

C'monn. Graphics is one of the most important reasons I am playing this game. What year are we in?

the only thing you wont have is ray tracing, and unless you have duel 4090 ti super extremes and an amd threadripper 256 core cpu, you arent gonna be playing this game with ray tracing at max at a nice fps, or your gonna switch on an upscaler which reduces graphics, or even worse frame generation.
the ray tracing really isnt worth it

Are you sure? I got a 4060Ti with i5 12400f and able to play max settings with max ray tracing at 1080p with DLSS (Quality + FG ) and is easily over 60FPS. And there is no issues such as input lag or anything. Game works totally fine even at max settings. You obviously don't need a 4090Ti unless you want it on 4K but still can handle with a lower GPU for sure.

[PANDEMONIUM]

Originally posted by FoGsesipod:

Originally posted by ICARDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII:

C'monn. Graphics is one of the most important reasons I am playing this game. What year are we in?

the only thing you wont have is ray tracing, and unless you have duel 4090 ti super extremes and an amd threadripper 256 core cpu, you arent gonna be playing this game with ray tracing at max at a nice fps, or your gonna switch on an upscaler which reduces graphics, or even worse frame generation.
the ray tracing really isnt worth it

Game runs at 60 FPS Max settings with RTX @1440p on my 3080...

[cheshirm]

check windows event viewer and windows reliability history. might be a game crash event or system related errors.

[GeorgeDroid]

lmao i got a 4090 and play it with ray tracing in 4k lil bro
u can easily run it with ray tracing with a 3070 onwards

[Pendragon]

Originally posted by cheshirm:

check windows event viewer and windows reliability history. might be a game crash event or system related errors.

I did, there I can see Witcher 3 crashes and some information but nothing I could understand. There seems to be not much of an information about those crashes.

[cheshirm]

perhaps there might be one or two steam users that could understand the whole error msg.

[Pendragon]

About Error :
'Faulting application name: REDlauncher.exe, version: 2.15.6.18, time stamp: 0x659eb769
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000
Faulting process id: 0x0x90
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DA5E0F910C7EF8
Faulting application path: C:\Users\vagab\AppData\Local\Programs\CD Projekt Red\REDlauncher\REDlauncher.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 023d3e75-a0ae-4dae-bdc7-f797308f29cc
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID: '


About the Information after the error :
'Fault bucket 1191226796400963058, type 5
Event Name: BEX
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: REDlauncher.exe
P2: 2.15.6.18
P3: 659eb769
P4: StackHash_2beb
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 00000000
P7: PCH_7D_FROM_ntdll+0x00076CAC
P8: c0000005
P9: 00000008
P10:

Attached files:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.6537b92f-9a77-4c48-a349-0552481ecb2b.tmp.dmp
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.4ebab8ba-7ed7-4422-81ec-2c43b3db7d0e.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.fe2bd1b6-ecb3-413f-9adb-0ef7fe45ca65.tmp.csv
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.a5dfcaa6-dcf7-4bc4-879d-d09a086b5735.tmp.txt
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.eae97225-8d7d-406a-8b42-3fb950a890a2.tmp.xml

These files may be available here:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_REDlauncher.exe_8b4c6fecbd30f62f2affd843a91852c72926f234_a2f4080f_07801ba1-4a3a-49e5-87c2-0852fb2a0817

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 023d3e75-a0ae-4dae-bdc7-f797308f29cc
Report Status: 268435456
Hashed bucket: e8f194735c792c0380881675be67edf2
Cab Guid: 0'

I can also share the Report.wer file if anyone wants to take a look at it. But as it is, I simply don't get anything from those crashes. Usually DirectX is mentioned in such cases, but these crashes have a different root cause as it appears.

[cheshirm]

redlauncher.exe is not the game. witcher3.exe is the game.
launcher crashing and game crashing are two different issues.

and you do not need the launcher to play.
add --launcher-skip to the steam launch options

or go to the steam game folder then the bin folder
run the witcher3.exe in the x64 folder for dx11
or run the witcher3.exe in the x64_dx12 folder for dx12

Exception code: 0xc0000005 - you can do a web search on this. a lot of hits/fixes any one of which might work.

look in the logs in folder
C:\Users\vagab\AppData\Local\Programs\CD Projekt Red\REDlauncher\logs
might have something useful for the redlauncher crashing

[Pendragon]

Originally posted by cheshirm:

...

Sorry, I did not realise I have only shared results that contains the launcher. My game is crashing literally, not the launcher at least from what I know.

Faulting application name: witcher3.exe, version: 4.0.1.22341, time stamp: 0x00000000
Faulting module name: witcher3.exe, version: 4.0.1.22341, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000006c264b
Faulting process id: 0x0x279C
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DA5E0F9E3D853C
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Witcher 3\bin\x64_dx12\witcher3.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Witcher 3\bin\x64_dx12\witcher3.exe
Report Id: b2d93644-3a2d-4449-90bc-66758dbc7ca3
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:


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Fault bucket 1461958384244408244, type 4
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: witcher3.exe
P2: 4.0.1.22341
P3: 00000000
P4: witcher3.exe
P5: 4.0.1.22341
P6: 00000000
P7: c0000005
P8: 00000000006c264b
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.37fcfe7b-c851-486b-86b3-3f64093bc086.tmp.dmp
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.fdf8c354-8b45-4a6c-a0f2-22ed1935c426.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.fb9048ae-9555-4986-b195-d4c207b6a5a8.tmp.csv
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.646ef244-de19-4d21-a37b-b161571c2ba5.tmp.txt
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER.88ca16d7-42e8-44ed-a727-738f452f85bd.tmp.xml

These files may be available here:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_witcher3.exe_51f464566bade447088418babbc6d4ca1062_9984a725_70a066c6-2a7c-44eb-b409-5520eb62aa86

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: b2d93644-3a2d-4449-90bc-66758dbc7ca3
Report Status: 268435456
Hashed bucket: 6ac9d77a17b19563e449eb67994abfb4
Cab Guid: 0

[cheshirm]

same generic event code
Exception code: 0xc0000005

since you ran steam verify game files that check the game files, maybe windows or library file issues.

might try checking windows system files. open command window with admin permission and run these commands:

sfc /scannow
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

might try reinstalling/repairing visual studio c++ libraries for 2012 and 2013

[Master Of Doom]

Do you have cross progression activated? That may be the cause, the system crashed for me especially when I loaded a saved game, saved a new game or used fast travel. Disable cross progression and goodbye problems. Obviously you lose that functionality if you need it.