is there ANY fix for the random crashing

[Beans]

This game is cursed man, i cant walk for 5 mins in the city with out a crash, does it get better later and i can just thug out Prague or what, is it like a amd cpu issue? cause my old intel machine never had these problems

[TazmanianD]

I'm afraid I don't remember the game ever crashing so might be something specific about your setup.

[Beans]

Originally posted by TazmanianD:

I'm afraid I don't remember the game ever crashing so might be something specific about your setup.

16 gigs of ram, a 3060 and a ryzen 3700, so im honestly assuming its amd since my last few pc's were intel and ran it fine (well as fine as 720p 30 fps was)

[Vassago Rain]

Don't play in DX12.
Enable windows' pagefile.
If you have a beast CPU, use core affinity to limit it to however many cores it can use without becoming unstable. Usually 2-4.

These 3 simple things solve 95% of the game's crashes.

[Mr. Snake Eyes]

Like seriously, I have the same issue myself. 16 Gbs, 3060 and a ryzen 7 5800. So what Vassago Rain said is true, there's also another thing you need to do - drop the graphics settings to medium.

I make quicksaves every second because when going to certain areas the game will crash. It's like there's a memory leak no one bothered to fix.

The funny thing is that consoles have a similar issue. The game crashed on my PS4 like 10 times during a single playthrough.

[Beans]

Originally posted by Revolvas_11:

Like seriously, I have the same issue myself. 16 Gbs, 3060 and a ryzen 7 5800. So what Vassago Rain said is true, there's also another thing you need to do - drop the graphics settings to medium.

I make quicksaves every second because when going to certain areas the game will crash. It's like there's a memory leak no one bothered to fix.

The funny thing is that consoles have a similar issue. The game crashed on my PS4 like 10 times during a single playthrough.

if only we lived in the alternate universe where the game functioned

[Turk]

There's definitely a prob with some cards/drivers. I had crashing (DXGI Device Hung) using both DX 12 and DX 11. I finally decided to try using DXVK with the game set to DX11 (wrap DX11 to Vulkan) and, so far, the crashing seems fixed. It must be something bad in their D3D code causing problems with newer cards/drivers.

The only downside to this workaround is that, for DXVK, it's going to async compile shaders so it'll introduce more stuttering (especially when entering new areas with shaders it hasn't previously compiled) but the stuttering clears up once it has a chance to compile the shaders and repeated playthroughs have no stutter at all. Not a perfect workaround but, if you want to play the game, this seems to be the way. :) Hope that helps some of you.

Edit: My specs for reference

Ryzen 5800X3D
AMD RX 7800 XT (Latest WHQL driver as of this post which is 23.11.1)
64GB DDR4 3600
Win 11

DXVK: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

[Beans]

Originally posted by Turk:

There's definitely a prob with some cards/drivers. I had crashing (DXGI Device Hung) using both DX 12 and DX 11. I finally decided to try using DXVK with the game set to DX11 (wrap DX11 to Vulkan) and, so far, the crashing seems fixed. It must be something bad in their D3D code causing problems with newer cards/drivers.

The only downside to this workaround is that, for DXVK, it's going to async compile shaders so it'll introduce more stuttering (especially when entering new areas with shaders it hasn't previously compiled) but the stuttering clears up once it has a chance to compile the shaders and repeated playthroughs have no stutter at all. Not a perfect workaround but, if you want to play the game, this seems to be the way. :) Hope that helps some of you.

Edit: My specs for reference

Ryzen 5800X3D
AMD RX 7800 XT (Latest WHQL driver as of this post which is 23.11.1)
64GB DDR4 3600
Win 11

DXVK: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

turning down settings to medium as worked so far but if it starts acting up again ill try that

[•Mr.Goodbar]

Hey man, I also struggled a lot with crashing, what finally fixed it for me was disabling Subtitles lol

[Beans]

Originally posted by •Mr.Goodbar:

Hey man, I also struggled a lot with crashing, what finally fixed it for me was disabling Subtitles lol

subtitles also are a crash cause, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ what spaghetti code is this monster?

[|H|H| Fr3ddi3]

Originally posted by 1t3w:

Originally posted by •Mr.Goodbar:

Hey man, I also struggled a lot with crashing, what finally fixed it for me was disabling Subtitles lol

subtitles also are a crash cause, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ what spaghetti code is this monster?

We have an infinite number of PC Hardware and Software configurations, and as we get further and further and further away from the time this game came out ... new systems with things which did not exist become a thing, Like I speak English but I sure as ♥♥♥♥ could not hold a conversation with a peasant from the 1500's who also speaks 'English', that's the issue PC's have but it's on a much larger scale.

It is part and parcel with PC gaming that ♥♥♥♥ sometimes goes wrong or simply does not work beyond a point (this was last updated in 2017) and you'll need to troubleshoot it yourself.

[Beans]

Originally posted by |H|H| Fr3ddi3:

Originally posted by 1t3w:

subtitles also are a crash cause, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ what spaghetti code is this monster?

We have an infinite number of PC Hardware and Software configurations, and as we get further and further and further away from the time this game came out ... new systems with things which did not exist become a thing, Like I speak English but I sure as ♥♥♥♥ could not hold a conversation with a peasant from the 1500's who also speaks 'English', that's the issue PC's have but it's on a much larger scale.

It is part and parcel with PC gaming that ♥♥♥♥ sometimes goes wrong or simply does not work beyond a point (this was last updated in 2017) and you'll need to troubleshoot it yourself.

okay yeah but like i can play assassin's creed 1 fine and that was last updated in like 2009 borderlands 1 original edition was last updated in like 2013 to add steam multiplayer support and runs fine, subtitles being a crash cause isnt because game is le old, game has smelly coding, you can see it in things like the very easy to cause animation desync, you don't need to explain it to me like im 5 this game came out when windows 10 was out, it shouldn't be old enough to be this broken ESPECIALLY when frequent crashing was occurring when it came out and still was happening in 2017, anyways turning it to medium fixes most of it, so i fully believe it is the game having rushed code, especially when you consider the games ending it being rushed is believable

[Beans]

also im troubleshooting by asking for advice? which worked. idk why you're telling me to do it myself when the trouble is so widely known

[|H|H| Fr3ddi3]

Because you posted multiple times in this thread implying the game does not work, when more accurately it does not work for you, drawing a line between a couple of games which still work for you means nothing, have you played every single game from 2009? no, so how do you know they all work flawlessly now? the answer is you don't. The game may have ♥♥♥♥ code but the entire reason why I posted in the first place is because I bought the game earlier this year, have played through it 3 times now and had 1 crash on that 3rd run through, shooting range and inventory being the cause. So my experience would indicate that the code is largely fine. But I have an old system and you said yourself it ran alright on your old builds so again. It's not indicative of the game being bad, merely that hardware and or software has outgrown the games last update and it is in need of a new one ... which will never happen. Your right, I dunno why I bothered posting it add's nothing of value when you already got the solution so i'll leave it here.

Edit: it was not my intent but I admitted it being pedantic.

[Beans]

Originally posted by |H|H| Fr3ddi3:

Because you posted multiple times in this thread implying the game does not work, when more accurately it does not work for you, drawing a line between a couple of games which still work for you means nothing, have you played every single game from 2009? no, so how do you know they all work flawlessly now? the answer is you don't. The game may have ♥♥♥♥ code but the entire reason why I posted in the first place is because I bought the game earlier this year, have played through it 3 times now and had 1 crash on that 3rd run through, shooting range and inventory being the cause. So my experience would indicate that the code is largely fine. But I have an old system and you said yourself it ran alright on your old builds so again. It's not indicative of the game being bad, merely that hardware and or software has outgrown the games last update and it is in need of a new one ... which will never happen. Your right, I dunno why I bothered posting it add's nothing of value when you already got the solution so i'll leave it here.

i posted several times saying turning it to medium worked, you're one of those "it works on my machine!" annoying ass hats who populate forums for no reason other then to be pedantic and add nothing of value

[Nashie]

Best settings no problems
Direct x off
stereo 3d off
msaa off
vsync off
texture quality high
texture filtering 4x
shadow medium
contact hardening shadows off
temporal anti aliasing on
motion blur on
depth of field off
bloom off
lens flare off
volumetric lighting on
sub surface scattering on
cloth physics off
ambient occlusion on
tessellation off
parallax occlusion mapping off
screen space reflections on
sharpen on
chromatic aberration off
level of detail medium