Crashing/Freezing for NO REASON. (UNPLAYABLE)

[The Alchemist]

8 hours in and this game REALLY doesn't want the love I'm trying to give it.

Aside from ther terrible framepacing/stuttering this game suffers from, now I can't even play the game. Period.

After 8 hours of gameplay, today the game halts, and then fatally crashes after 10 seconds of being in game. No hyperbole.

The game is LITERALLY in a broken state and is unplayable.

Any advice?

EDIT: Trying to reinstall the game now. Let's see if that fixes the issue.

[The Alchemist]

Originally posted by Der Wehrwolf:

Change your toaster for a new PC.

GTX 1080 Ti
i7 8700k @ 4,0GHz
32GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM

Some toaster, alright!

[FluffyPotato]

If you are running Windows 10 v1803 you can try rolling it back to v17something, so far it seems only that version has the issue.

[The Alchemist]

Originally posted by Speedwagon:

If you are running Windows 10 v1803 you can try rolling it back to v17something, so far it seems only that version has the issue.

I'll give this a try!

EDIT: I'm already using v.17134

[FluffyPotato]

Originally posted by Distance:

Originally posted by Speedwagon:

If you are running Windows 10 v1803 you can try rolling it back to v17something, so far it seems only that version has the issue.

I'll give this a try!

EDIT: I'm already using v.17134

A guy reported the stuttering went away with rolling back to v1703, maybe the bug was introduced v17134, or something between the 2 versions.

[Mike Pence But Even Gayer]

My crashing purely had to do with the use of their TXAA options. Stopped using those, and the game stopped crashing for me.

[Morgan]

All was running fine for me until I went to Whitechapel. Now I get a fatal error pretty much every time I’m in combat. It’s a shame because I was really enjoying the game but now it’s pretty much unplayable.

GTX 1070, i7-5820K and 32GB of RAM

[iBe ImmorTaLiiTy]

Originally posted by Der Wehrwolf:

Change your toaster for a new PC.

It's a shame that @Der Wehrwolf doesn't say anything anymore after his smart remark of "GET A BETTER TOASTER" .. I always wonder why the big mouth and adding nothing to the conversation and then when proven otherwise they stfu and don't even have the manners to apologize.

[DrummahMike]

This has happened to me 3 times completely randomly within 30 hours of gameplay. I get the box that says "unreal engine fatal error". It happens when an enemy casts an ability that has visual effects, but you can literally play for hours, fight the same enemies with the same effects and everything is normal. Just completely randomly, and in my case rarely, during a fight it seems to happen.

I have similar specs to you, 1080ti, i7 8700k, and 16 gb RAM. Game plays on max settings with over 100 fps, (framerate smoothing disabled in .ini file).

[MadMax]

Same for me. Unplayable at the moment. I get fatal error crashes even if disabling anti aliasing, turning down settings and so forth. And crashes aren't limited to combat. Sometimes when talking to people, after a cutscene ect... seems random to me.

I will try the windows version rollback and report again. I'm currently running v.1803.

Specs:
GTX 1070Ti
32 GB Ram DDR4 3200
Ryzen 1700x

Everything else runs fine on that toaster.

[CH13F]

Originally posted by Distance:

8 hours in and this game REALLY doesn't want the love I'm trying to give it.

Aside from ther terrible framepacing/stuttering this game suffers from, now I can't even play the game. Period.

After 8 hours of gameplay, today the game halts, and then fatally crashes after 10 seconds of being in game. No hyperbole.

The game is LITERALLY in a broken state and is unplayable.

Any advice?

EDIT: Trying to reinstall the game now. Let's see if that fixes the issue.

Got same pc.only difference i got 2 1080ti . i crashed total 2 times in 75hrs of gameplay. There should be nvidia driver for this game. Try to install or clean reinstall it.

btw it looks like you manually set your cpu clock speed to 4ghz. because this cpu runs 3.7ghz with turbo it goes to 4.3ghz. while win10 can manually declock down to 1.3ghz which s normal. but if its 4ghz static then i suspect you got OC. which s not required for this game.

[MadMax]

Ok. I think I fixed it for me. I had Norton security installed and since I completly deinstalled it everything works fine. No crashes in Vampyr after 2 hours of consecutive playtime (normally it would crash every 20 minutes or so). Even the frame stutter got fixed for me and those somewhat regular windows blue screen crashes too. I'm using Maleware bytes ever since and don't have any problem with that (and the integrated windows defender thingy).

This will obviously not be the solution for everyone but for some maybe. And even if you're not using Norton (wich no one should in my now educated opinion), you may want to enable game mode or silent mode or whatever its called in you antivirus programm and try if that fixed the fatal error.

[David Davidson]

People actually use Norton "security"?

It's about as secure as using the local crack den as a bank.

[DrummahMike]

Originally posted by Schlomo Shekelshoastein:

People actually use Norton "security"?

It's about as secure as using the local crack den as a bank.

My local crack den is FDIC, I don't know what backwoods you're from.

[MadMax]

Originally posted by Schlomo Shekelshoastein:

People actually use Norton "security"?

It's about as secure as using the local crack den as a bank.

XD Well... I've learnd from my mistakes.

[MadMax]

Ok. Bad news. The fatal error came back after 2 hours of playtime today. The game seems to be more stable after I uninstalled norton, but still... the fatal error persists. Even though it's less frequent now.