game crashing

[Odesconhecido]

My game sometimes freezes and ends up crashing, what could it be? Has this happened to anyone else too?

[Red Rum]

random freeze screen ,, over 1000 hours in this game and like the last month or so iv been getting freeze screen ,, good to see i'm not the only one ,, time to change to new game .. good bye state of decay 2.. was fun while it lasted.. good luck with your new game ..

[Rogue The Avali]

Had a similar issue recently. Well, still have. I'm glad it's not a separate case, and more widespread. Makes me hope it might get resolved soon.

[Philthy]

ye. it used to only crash at Cash Bourmont, but now it randomly freezes and i have to manually close it.

[Kornstalx]

I put hundreds of hours into this game years ago. Had literally zero crashes that I recall.

Came back recently (on exact same machine, no hardware changes) and I'm crashing like once an hour. It's always a soft crash (game just freezes, machine is fine and I can alt-tab etc -- have to kill the task). Sometimes it's while in a menu, sometimes it's after getting in a car, sometimes it's while searching a container, sometimes just walking around. It's totally random.

CPU and GFX temps never exceed ~72C.

\AppData\Local\StateOfDecay2\Saved\Logs is full of crash reports.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

I used to have specific crashes Event 0 - nvlddmkm.sys error(s), Display hangs, Application errors, stuttering, even a general BSoD etc...

I checked a few games and there are a few fixes seemingly depending on game engine.

As UE4 and UE5 failed on me, I searched high and low for a solution and found something that worked for me specifically for UE4/5 games which was increasing the Virtual Memory paging pool.

Raising the paging pool at the recommended Microsoft suggestion of x1.5 the size of installed GB of RAM. (VMEM = x1.5 RAM size)

Since doing so, Unreal Engine and it's games run without fault.

My hardware is AMD Ryzen 7 1800x using a Nvidia GTX 1080Ti with 32GB RAM @ 3200Mhz.


If you would like to try raising the paging pool, first make sure you have the proper disk space available and follow these directions below:

Windows Key + R

Copy/paste: SystemPropertiesAdvanced

Advanced tab < Performance section < Settings... < Advanced tab < Virtual Memory section < Change...

Go to the drive where the game is installed on and click "Custom Size" (Uncheck "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives - if applicable).

Set "Initial size" to the MS recommended size as stated and increase the Maximum size no less than x1.5 but no more than x2.5 times the true RAM size amount (I found x1.5 times the best as MS recommends).

Click okay and restart the PC. If all goes well the crashing should stop.

[Slim Charles]

I was crashing a fair amount until I rolled back my drivers.

[Sfighter99]

Me too, it keeps crashing every 2 seconds, especially in trumbull valley. Can any of the creators make a fix or update or will they leave the game like this?

[Tegg]

my game crashes when going near a mysterious broadcast

[Prydain]

Had 2 crashes back to back in the same area of Providence Ridge when usually I would only rarely crash. Went and turned curveballs off again and haven't had a single issue since then. So assuming they are still really crash prone somehow which is a shame.

[Sfighter99]

the game crashes again, and even after the update they didn't do anything. It's impossible to play if it keeps crashing

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Perhaps it is wise to say if you are using a laptop and OneDrive, this could be an issue.

Also, Apple Bonjour has issues.

Any backup app can cause an issue when/if backing up C drive in real-time.

[Police man]

Yeah the game freezes after about 30 seconds when I load in. I have to end the task, can't play the game anymore

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Why is everyone complaining and not fixing their issues because my game runs smooth for 8+ hours straight.

Then again I did just come having over 100+ daily errors because of a janky Windows Update, now down to 3 - 4 redundant errors daily.

But I found quite a few flaws and if you have a Windows build, upon build, upon build, that very well can complicate things especially if you have had the builds before 2021 major update.

Plus, if you use AMD Adrenaline, that too can cause an issue and Intel users are no different. The real problem is that everyone has different fixes and it's hard when you are all just complaining and not looking for answers.

It is NOT the game...

Nvidia drivers are causing issues. How about trying to force Vulkan?

[WarBucks]

The last 2 updates have had a huge amount of false positive crashes toed to mods, the mod manager, community editor edited communties, and write protected ini files (happens whenever they add new bindings)

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Originally posted by WarBucks:

The last 2 updates have had a huge amount of false positive crashes toed to mods, the mod manager, community editor edited communties, and write protected ini files (happens whenever they add new bindings)

I have not had a Steam Client crash since 2021...

I had games crash recently due to OneDrive and Real-time Protection backup applications...

Seemingly there is also an issue with AIDA64 some type of monitoring program that can install with other software in bloat.