Own shade/ghost disappeared after a crash. How to recover it?

[Wong Lo Kat]

The game crashed when I fought False Knight for the first time. I didn't see my own ghost before and after I restarted and defeated False Knight. Any advice about this as now I have to play partial soul jar?

[RedSage]

Do you have the map for Forgotten Crossroads? If you don't, go to the store back in Dirtmouth and get it (because if you beat False Knight, Cornifer should no longer be where he was in the Crossroads). Any shade you have out should show on it. Another tip for finding a shade is that a different song will play when you start to get near one, so keep and ear out for that.

I'm a little puzzled though. The game crashing itself shouldn't have caused you to die and have a shade spawn, it should have simply defaulted back to your last auto/manual save. Are you absolutely positive you have the cracked soul meter and that a shade it out and about?

Absolutely barring everything above and that you have indeed run into a bug, I think you have 3 solutions.

1. This is the easiest but probably not what you want to hear. Just restart the file. False Knight REALLY isn't that far into a save in the grand scheme of things. Plus, since you've already done it before, you should have a pretty good idea of how to get back to where you were and quickly.

2. Use a save editor. I'm not well versed in pointing you in the direction of this one, but I'm sure someone else who sees the topic might.

3. Use a simple key on the locked door in the right-most edge of Dirtmouth, near the cliff. You'll need to offer a rotten egg, but your shade will be brought to you there from wherever it is.

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

Is the shade still marked on your map?

📌 Game is unstable over time

Hollow Knight crashes in random moments while playing, like on the map screen, during exploration, in main menu, while changing options etc.

💡 Disable any overclocking you have active on your main PC components (CPU, Video Card).

💡 (NVidia GPU) Set a factory overclocked graphics card to Nvidia reference clock speeds. This is a good way to identify potential problems.

• Open the Nvidia Control Panel, then go to the Help menu, and check the Debug Mode option.

💡 Make sure your PC has adequate cooling and regular maintenance (at least once a year). Especially important when playing on a laptop, which require much more care and catch dust easily.

💡 (Workaround, not a solution!) Limit Hollow Knight's FPS (Frames Per Second). Check the Config.ini File Location on the bottom of this guide on how to do it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2609671089