Equipping Items crashes game...

[Sunset]

Help... I'm soft locked from playing the game because I cannot equip weapons, armour or anything. I can browse my inventory just fine, craft items and potions just fine, but every time I try and use anything in my inventory the game just freezes on me. Tried re-installing, updating drivers etc. Also tried with and without mods, cheats, the whole shebang. Nothing. Any help?

[Just Guy 0_0]

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You know reinstalling on steam does not remove mods right?

You have to do it manually... just unistall from steam and manually delete all witcher 3 folder and in documents as well.

Also what is your pc ram , gpu , cpu , fps in game etc?

[Sunset]

Originally posted by HIZ:

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You know reinstalling on steam does not remove mods right?

You have to do it manually... just unistall from steam and manually delete all witcher 3 folder and in documents as well.

Also what is your pc ram , gpu , cpu , fps in game etc?

I know, I removed everything manually as well before the re-install. Even moved it onto a different drive to see if that solves it... As for specs, here you go:

i5-6500 @3.5Ghz
16GB DDR4 RAM
Nvidia 1060Ti OC Edition 6GB
900w Huntkey PSU
1x 250Gb SSD
2x 1Tb HDD
2x 5Tb External HDD

Runs fine at a constant 60fps even on Ultra (although there are occasional drops on Ultra to like the low 40's, but it only lasts a second or two)

[cheshirm]

you played 53 hours so what changed recently since it last worked?
windows update? graphics card driver update? added a controller? new app/software/program?

found these:
https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/solved-game-breaking-bug-cant-equip-weapons-or-clothing-from-inventory.11071928/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/483367798510607029/

[Sunset]

Originally posted by cheshirm:

you played 53 hours so what changed recently since it last worked?
windows update? graphics card driver update? added a controller? new app/software/program?

found these:
https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/solved-game-breaking-bug-cant-equip-weapons-or-clothing-from-inventory.11071928/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/483367798510607029/

Well, I last played it way back when in 2017-18. I forgot i had it in my library until my wife made a comment of it being updated, So I wanted to get back into it... So yeah, there have been quite a few updates to pretty much everything since then...

[cheshirm]

as above, delete everything and start over if you wish to play the updated graphics version.

uninstall from steam.
go to folder ...\steam\steamapps\common - delete the witcher 3 folder if it is still there
go to folder Documents\The Witcher 3 - delete all the .settings files
then reinstall the game. if you install any mods, you MUST install updated mods

otherwise download and stick to the "classic" pre Dec version. if you had any mods, you MUST install pre Dec versions

[Just Guy 0_0]

maybe you forgot about deleting witcher 3 in documents (even if you move game to another drive it still loads from same place in documents)

is the game installed on SSD? (on HDD it would load forever) the 250 GB is a bit low , are you sure you are not out of space on that drive ? , the system itself uses a bit and you need some free space of at least 100 GB for other apps to write data.
(and witcher 3 itself is like 60 GB + it uses data as well )



make sure the game is added to NVIDIA panel and that you limit fps to 60.


after deleting mods you still need to run script merger or else it would try to load old mods and might corrupt your save file. (maybe you have old mod manager or something still trying to load stuff on a different drive.)

if your save file is corrupted then no matter if you delete mods it would be game over , you can only load a different save file.

before you move to old gen , delete everything manually (make sure it is 100%) and try a different save file . try playing new game , just to see if you can access items.