Crashing to Desktop, again...

[Heartless]

Posted about this before, for about two weeks maybe three, i would crash to desktop once every 3-4 games. It got progressively worse as time went on to sometimes even multiple times a match. Only once got a fatal crytec error. IT WAS NEVER ADDRESSED. Not in patches or forums. Then all a sudden it stopped happening..a month or so later now its started up again. Nothing has changed on my end since then.

[Mr. GrabMyCookies]

Same here, seems to be completely random, I've seen people with this problem before but nobody has a clear solution.

[Rogue]

Do you have ReShade?

[Ren†Gen]

It happens to me too but even in other games

[Heartless]

Originally posted by Rogue:

Do you have ReShade?

nope

[Heartless]

Originally posted by RenTGen:

It happens to me too but even in other games

It only happens to me with Hunt.

[Unknown]

Monitor your temps. I'm sure your GPU temps are likely fine (if other games don't crash), but this game is more CPU demanding than most other games. Get something like HWMonitor and see what your peaks are. You can try a RAM test as well. From my experience helping other people with games crashing to desktop, it's usually a hardware problem. Most of the time either temps, RAM, or PSU

[MikeJonesFPS]

Happens to me all the time now in Hunt. Temps are fine. Hardware is fine. All other games are fine. No crash reports or events logged, just closes to desktop.

[The Pink Hun†er]

reduce memory speed! i had the same issue raandom crash to desktop. i had my XMP profile on 3600... now i play on 3400 with a little bit more voltage and its perfectly fine since then. give it a try!

[MikeJonesFPS]

Tried that, went from 6000 -> 5600. Cycled various EXPO profiles. Nothing seems to help, just crashes every other match.

[Eldritch Panda]

Need a little more to go off of here. Are you getting error messages, what does it say? Have you checked your ram health, how about storage health?

Just because your hardware works for other games doesn't mean they work for all, especially if it's optimized like this game.

Also if you DO have reshaded, it does have a crashing issue for the current version.
Don't listen to people telling you to change voltage or do any stupid ♥♥♥♥ like overclock or change BIOS settings, default settings will NOT be of detriment to games.

TL;DR test RAM and test storage, and if it's reshade that's your problem.

[Heartless]

No reshade, ram and storage are fine. out of the many times since 1.12 when this issue started ive only got one error msg that read cryteck critial error and then some numbers i didnt get a chance to write down. Every other time has just been a crash to desktop with no warning. i have HW monitor and other programs that tell me usage and heat with no issues. Ive done a few things to try and affect this issue. Programs running in the backround like discord ive turned off alerts thinking that could affect things. ive limited my frames thinking having an uncapped framerate could affect things. adjusted graphics settings thinking the higher settings could be overly taxing my gpu. all to no avail. I have a tech guy whos a friend who helped me build my rig, helping me with the things that i can affect on my end, however since this has only been happening since 1.12 and it doesnt happen on anyother game that i have noticed, it leads me to believe its not on my end.

[Eldritch Panda]

Originally posted by Heartless:

No reshade, ram and storage are fine. out of the many times since 1.12 when this issue started ive only got one error msg that read cryteck critial error and then some numbers i didnt get a chance to write down. Every other time has just been a crash to desktop with no warning. i have HW monitor and other programs that tell me usage and heat with no issues. Ive done a few things to try and affect this issue. Programs running in the backround like discord ive turned off alerts thinking that could affect things. ive limited my frames thinking having an uncapped framerate could affect things. adjusted graphics settings thinking the higher settings could be overly taxing my gpu. all to no avail. I have a tech guy whos a friend who helped me build my rig, helping me with the things that i can affect on my end, however since this has only been happening since 1.12 and it doesnt happen on anyother game that i have noticed, it leads me to believe its not on my end.

It's very possible your entire game is corrupted. Go into your data files for hunt and delete the entire folder, then go to steam and uninstall the game files. You'd need to do both ways to remove every bit of the game uninstalling isnt enough. After that just redownload as normal.

Corrupted files are rare but it does happen, be it the fault of your computer, internet, or the place you're downloading the files from, or even the web service steam uses.

I'd give you the file locations normally but I'm barbecuing atm let us know if it works

[Crunchy Napkin]

This was happening to me as well so I decided to uninstall the game and reinstall onto one of my other SSDs and it seems to have fixed the problem. Hopefully.

[MikeJonesFPS]

Originally posted by Eldritch Panda:

Need a little more to go off of here. Are you getting error messages, what does it say? Have you checked your ram health, how about storage health?

Just because your hardware works for other games doesn't mean they work for all, especially if it's optimized like this game.

Also if you DO have reshaded, it does have a crashing issue for the current version.
Don't listen to people telling you to change voltage or do any stupid ♥♥♥♥ like overclock or change BIOS settings, default settings will NOT be of detriment to games.

TL;DR test RAM and test storage, and if it's reshade that's your problem.

Similar boat as Heartless. Memtest numerous times, all passed. NVME tests fine. Temps are all normal. No spikes or drops in power draw. No reshade or any other apps.

Hardware specs: 7950x, Asus ROG Strix x670E, 64Gb DDR5-6000 (on the qvl), 3070ti, Samsung 980 PRO NVMe.

No error messages. The "crash" is very much like someone hitting Alt+f4 mid game, it just instantly goes to desktop. No events recorded at all.

Will try the full reinstall now.

[MikeJonesFPS]

Following up on this for anyone searching, none of the recommendations worked. I've tried everything possible.

What stopped the crashes in the end was disabling EXPO on my ram. No amount of tinkering with bios settings allowed me to keep EXPO enabled and run Hunt.