Game is hard crashing my pc

[Red Paradox]

I decided to return to kingmaker with the new pathfinder later this year and after the tutorial it takes less than an hour for a border line blue screen to happen, it is only with this game: files are validated, drivers are updated, only mod is a portraits mod. I'm stuck. I finished the first act back in the day but I can't make it past the trading post now. I'm open to suggestions, do I need a complete reinstall? delete every file and install? I love this game and want to keep playing it

[Mork]

Do you have a overclocked cpu?

[Red Paradox]

nope, cpu as well as gpu are not overclocked.
It's an i9 9900k. I don't even own a program to overclock it

[InEffect]

what exactly do you mean by a 'border line blue screen', Is it blue screen, artifacting, screen lock... being vague is not how you get help.

[Red Paradox]

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Originally posted by InEffect:

what exactly do you mean by a 'border line blue screen', Is it blue screen, artifacting, screen lock... being vague is not how you get help.

A blue screen doesn't appear but it would freeze my whole pc with a audio stutter and unable to do anything, sometimes it restarts on it's own, but sometimes I need to hit the restart button on my tower.

[Mork]

I have seen portraits create crash but it's kinda rare... still you could try to
- to move all the custom portraits somewhere else (your portrait will most likely become a default black one for now)
- verify the integrity of the game files
- and check if the game still crash

[InEffect]

try turning on vsync or limiting game framerate in the gpu driver. See if that helps. Also, enabling some gpu monitoring overlay might help since it'll show you load, ingame temps and rendered frames to help isolate the issue.

[Mork]

Originally posted by Red Paradox:

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A blue screen doesn't appear but it would freeze my whole pc with a audio stutter and unable to do anything, sometimes it restarts on it's own, but sometimes I need to hit the restart button on my tower.

Before removing your portraits, try to change the fullscreen setting to ''fullscreen bordeless window''

[Red Paradox]

Originally posted by Mork:

I have seen portraits create crash but it's kinda rare... still you could try to
- to move all the custom portraits somewhere else (your portrait will most likely become a default black one for now)
- verify the integrity of the game files
- and check if the game still crash

I will see if this does anything first.

Originally posted by Mork:

Originally posted by Red Paradox:

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A blue screen doesn't appear but it would freeze my whole pc with a audio stutter and unable to do anything, sometimes it restarts on it's own, but sometimes I need to hit the restart button on my tower.

Before removing your portraits, try to change the fullscreen setting to ''fullscreen bordeless window''

It is on borderless but even with unlock cursor it locks to the game (2 monitor setuo)

[Red Paradox]

An update!
It would seem the portrait mod was responsable for the hard crash, I've reached the same point without crash even with save loading etc for the amount of time it would take for it to hard crash.
Thank you @Mork for the suggestion. Guess I'm stuck with a non headcannon portrait for my character. It's ok though since this game is so good.