S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Crashing in The Dark Valley
I've been playing this game for roughly 7 hours and it's great so far. Never really had any issues with crashing before. I decided to save my game in The Dark Valley and everytime I'd open my most recent save, it would run for about 10 seconds and then crash.

I tried this one fix where you would f6 (quicksave) and f7(autoload quicksave) real fast which kind of helped but it honestly just prolonged the inevitable crash to about a minute or two instead of just 10 seconds. This happened after the quest where I was tasked to rescue a prisoner from the Bandit Base.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Pucho Dec 24, 2019 @ 1:44am 
But how is the crash? Is it during the load of the save or once it loads?
CEO of Anarchism Dec 24, 2019 @ 9:51am 
Once it loads, you could play for about 10 seconds and then it'll crash. I did the f6 and f7 trick I mentioned before so many times that I was able to escape the dark valley and save in The Garbage. Once I returned, I just completed the rest of the quest in one go. So I suppose it's a temporary fix but it's unfortunate that The Dark Valley has a weird bug like that.
Redrick Dec 25, 2019 @ 4:02am 
can you load the autosave from when you first entered the map ?
did you tinker with any of the graphics settings when you first installed it ?
CEO of Anarchism Dec 25, 2019 @ 8:06am 
I only put the graphics settings on high. I changed nothing else. And I feel like I would be able to but I do not have that autosave present anymore. The game didn't crash before I did the quest where you rescue the prisoner from the Bandit Camp. It was like immediately after I completed that quest where this weird bug occurred. Beforehand, it wouldn't crash.
Ocsabat Dec 27, 2019 @ 6:43pm 
Reinstall or update graphics driver. That seems to have cured the random crashes I was getting at the Garbage.
Last edited by Ocsabat; Dec 27, 2019 @ 6:43pm
The same thing happened to me, what I did was to load an earlier game although I was still in the dark valley, then I could play it quietly, I finished the mission of the bandits and I left although now I returned to do the thing to enter the laboratory and when entering the valley I returned I will do the same before I load a previous game because before entering for any doubts, save it to the landfill, although I hope there is a solution to eliminate the problem 100%
Comestibles Dec 29, 2019 @ 6:56pm 
vsync might stop the crashing but it doesn't work because this game is a million years old
[GSC]Ocher  [developer] Jan 31, 2020 @ 3:37am 
Can you give crash Log?
Conrad2Jubie! Aug 12, 2022 @ 11:39pm 
is this thread dead?
Wille Wilse Aug 13, 2022 @ 2:13am 
Yes.
MobiModdzYT May 17, 2023 @ 10:11pm 
Originally posted by GSCOcher:
Can you give crash Log?
9/10 times there is no crash log, not even a note on tge game starting up
kallipsoul May 18, 2023 @ 5:16am 
Originally posted by MobiModdzYT:
Originally posted by GSCOcher:
Can you give crash Log?
9/10 times there is no crash log, not even a note on tge game starting up
There is a log 8/10, if you find it at logs directory.
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Date Posted: Dec 22, 2019 @ 11:39am
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