sudden crashes halfway through game

[KAIIRU]

So I'm on my 2nd playthrough I just made it to the amusement park again
The game has been running fine the whole 18 hours I've been playing it but twice now whenever I get close to the amusement park, I will lose audio then about 5 seconds after audio gives out, I freeze and my game doesn't respond. I can't even close it, I have to shutdown my damn PC. I'm using the FAR mod, nvidia 970M yada yada, specs aren't the issue. I don't know what's going on.

[Aemony]

Read the What is the White Screen Issue? of the below guide and test some of the mentioned tweaks out:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=914437196

[KAIIRU]

Oh boy. and here I was thinking the fix would be something simple. damn you Square Enixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[KAIIRU]

Originally posted by Aemony:

Read the What is the White Screen Issue? of the below guide and test some of the mentioned tweaks out:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=914437196

Okay. so the good news is, turns out my crashing had nothing to do with the game. Which doesn't make any sense but the problem was actually this Payday 2 update that started in the background. It froze my game the first time. Then I hard reset my computer by pressing the power button which caused the payday 2 update to restart once I started up steam again. Then the update froze the game a second time once I managed to make it back to the amusement park, which took longer the second time because I spent extra time at the camp frantically looking over all the items and such that I may have lost from the crash.

Why the payday 2 update was the issue? I have absolutely no idea because I know zilch about computers but ye. Time to turn off downloads while ingame.

[Aemony]

Could be that the update was a delta update that only carried the changes between your existing files and the updated files. These updates are generally much smaller to download since only the changes to the files needs to be downloaded and not the whole files themselves, but they come with a higher CPU and HDD usage when the changes needs to be calculated and applied to the files on the hard drive.

So while the download itself weren't the issue, the installation of the update probably caused your CPU and HDD to hit the roof, which had a negative effect on NieR:Automata while it was trying to stream data from the HDD to the game.

Edit: Changed some words and cleared up the paragraphs a bit :)

[KAIIRU]

I see. the more I know.