My Whole PC freezes while starting game or while in Game

[Verdict]

I have been playing this game for so long but from few weeks this game is giving my PC a trauma...Game keeps freezing and i have to hard restart my PC. I have latest NVIDIA Graphic drivers with pretty good setup...Every other game works perfect but this game keeps freezing. Please someone help as i have invested so much time..and feels bad to have an unplayable game inside your steam account. I have tried so many videos and Reddit forms but nothing helps. The support of these people is pretty dead too as i got no help....

[Spartasticus]

Windows 11 24h2 ? Most likely related. Wait for MS to fix therir OS or switch. I don't crash anymore.

[Dolan:Der_Sammler]

Hm, I got similar issues with my PC shutting down completely; always and only while playing HD 2. Did benchmarks on my GPU to rule out any power shortages, it HAS to be either Windows 11, this game or both.

Originally posted by Spartasticus:

Windows 11 24h2 ? Most likely related. Wait for MS to fix therir OS or switch. I don't crash anymore.

> Could you publish your sources for your claim? I always had W11 under suspicion (I still suffer from switching from W10 to W11, bc I hate everything about W11...)

[Spartasticus]

Originally posted by Dolan:pls_GER:

Hm, I got similar issues with my PC shutting down completely; always and only while playing HD 2. Did benchmarks on my GPU to rule out any power shortages, it HAS to be either Windows 11, this game or both.

Originally posted by Spartasticus:

Windows 11 24h2 ? Most likely related. Wait for MS to fix therir OS or switch. I don't crash anymore.

> Could you publish your sources for your claim? I always had W11 under suspicion (I still suffer from switching from W10 to W11, bc I hate everything about W11...)

Not really but i spend a lot of time figuring out what is wrong with my machine and i came to the conclusion it is most likely Windows 11 with the 24H2 update. You can try to downgrade to 23H2 and see if it helps. Also goin back way to Win 10 seems to help a lot of people.

Look at this for example this goes really deep.

Google: Windows 11 24H2 DXGI removed.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/after-i-did-a-new-install-of-windows-24h2-i-cannot/5168d290-16d1-45d5-872a-de8e46904188?page=1

I switched to CachyOS for now and have no crashes like in Windows 11. I still have Windows 11 23H2 but don't use it any more. I am too concerned at this point that MIcrosoft will brick my components so i rely on a small dev team which is doing a great job.

[Verdict]

Originally posted by Spartasticus:

Originally posted by Dolan:pls_GER:

Hm, I got similar issues with my PC shutting down completely; always and only while playing HD 2. Did benchmarks on my GPU to rule out any power shortages, it HAS to be either Windows 11, this game or both.


> Could you publish your sources for your claim? I always had W11 under suspicion (I still suffer from switching from W10 to W11, bc I hate everything about W11...)

Not really but i spend a lot of time figuring out what is wrong with my machine and i came to the conclusion it is most likely Windows 11 with the 24H2 update. You can try to downgrade to 23H2 and see if it helps. Also goin back way to Win 10 seems to help a lot of people.

Look at this for example this goes really deep.

Google: Windows 11 24H2 DXGI removed.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/after-i-did-a-new-install-of-windows-24h2-i-cannot/5168d290-16d1-45d5-872a-de8e46904188?page=1

I switched to CachyOS for now and have no crashes like in Windows 11. I still have Windows 11 23H2 but don't use it any more. I am too concerned at this point that MIcrosoft will brick my components so i rely on a small dev team which is doing a great job.

Thanks for the reply..i do am using latest windows update (24H2) and sadly neither i cannot format PC or downgrade windows because of other softwares using latest updates. I haven't found any solution yet even thou i got latest graphic drivers. its been months now but this problem havent been solved.

[Dolan:Der_Sammler]

It has been solved for me. Since the last or two updates of HD 2, I haven't run into a single crash, freeze or shutdown of my PC any more.
What I manually did was:
-Disable ANYTHING that came from Windows OS, like Full screen Optimisation, GPU-Rendering-thing.. basically, everything under "Graphics" under W11 OS settings.
- Turned off Steam Overlay (although it does work flawlessly now.).

[Verdict]

Originally posted by Dolan:pls_GER:

It has been solved for me. Since the last or two updates of HD 2, I haven't run into a single crash, freeze or shutdown of my PC any more.
What I manually did was:
-Disable ANYTHING that came from Windows OS, like Full screen Optimisation, GPU-Rendering-thing.. basically, everything under "Graphics" under W11 OS settings.
- Turned off Steam Overlay (although it does work flawlessly now.).

Yes, i am just updating the game with latest patch. i Hope it works now. Will give it a try and give an update .