If you're game is crashing at startup, try turning Adaptive Sync OFF on your monitor's settings.

[jeff.rudzinski]

Earlier today I posed saying that I couldn't get my game to launch anymore. It would just go right to a black screen and then total computer freeze. I tried a complete driver removal using DDU, fresh driver install with latest AMD drivers, verified game cache, disabled all antivirus, reinstalled DirectX, installed the most up to date Microsoft C++, turned off all game overlays, tried running it in windows compatibility mode, running the game as an administrator, disabled all startup tasks , make sure to not have Edge browser running, ran the windows file repair tool to check for corrupt system files, exploit protection off, redownloaded the game, starting with -dx11 and -dx12 off one at a time. It had been a full week of the game not working.

Then, oh a last gasp whim, I changed the setting on my monitor from "Adaptive sync on" to off. It worked and I can start it now. But seriously, WTF, this has to be the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game ever made. People talk about that one Assasins Creed games, or CP 2077...no, this is the most jenky game released that I can remember.

[zodiak]

I have the same problem pretty much, I’ll try this tomorrow hopefully it works

[magicbeans420]

I cant seem to find this adaptive sync setting on my computer, i am running windows 11?

[MashMash]

Originally posted by magicbeans420:

I cant seem to find this adaptive sync setting on my computer, i am running windows 11?

It's not in windows, it's on the monitors menu settings - like the physical button menu that you alter RGB, brightness, contrast, etc.

Edit. Well, I tried this on the crashing issue after getting into the game (I'll try almost anything at this point to not have it crash so I can continue the story) and nope, still crashes.

[jeff.rudzinski]

Originally posted by MashMash:

Originally posted by magicbeans420:

I cant seem to find this adaptive sync setting on my computer, i am running windows 11?

It's not in windows, it's on the monitors menu settings - like the physical button menu that you alter RGB, brightness, contrast, etc.

Edit. Well, I tried this on the crashing issue after getting into the game (I'll try almost anything at this point to not have it crash so I can continue the story) and nope, still crashes.

Sorry bud. I think what is so infuriating about this is how many things are leading to people having crashing games. Like like everyone has to go down the rabbit hole to find which of 100 different things is causing their issue.

[Weird Potato]

Originally posted by magicbeans420:

I cant seem to find this adaptive sync setting on my computer, i am running windows 11?

/facepalm

This is why there are so many reported issues. It's a wonder half of you find the power button.
But anyways, no VRR is not going to be whats causing crashes for you.

[jeff.rudzinski]

Originally posted by Weird Potato:

Originally posted by magicbeans420:

I cant seem to find this adaptive sync setting on my computer, i am running windows 11?

/facepalm

This is why there are so many reported issues. It's a wonder half of you find the power button.
But anyways, no VRR is not going to be whats causing crashes for you.

Go to google and type in "can adaptive sync cause computer to crash" and you'll find post after post after post of this happening to people, and post after post after post of people solving a crashing game by disabling adaptive sync.

You're an idiot.

[Weird Potato]

Originally posted by jeff.rudzinski:

Originally posted by Weird Potato:

/facepalm

This is why there are so many reported issues. It's a wonder half of you find the power button.
But anyways, no VRR is not going to be whats causing crashes for you.

Go to google and type in "can adaptive sync cause computer to crash" and you'll find post after post after post of this happening to people, and post after post after post of people solving a crashing game by disabling adaptive sync.

You're an idiot.

Right. Meanwhile I've never witnessed or experienced this. Only a post on Steam forums to tell me about it.
And causality does not equal causation. I don't care if there is a couple google hits on the topic, that doesn't prove what you're saying, only that a few people blamed VRR and discussed it on the internet. It could be any number of things. Flacky gpu, flaky driver, using multiple monitors can create issues, who knows, but "can adaptive sync cause computer to crash"? ya, no. It "could" I suppose but it would be a widely known GPU driver issue and a update would go out pretty quick.

I wouldn't give up VRR for anything, and I certainly wouldn't disable it and blame issues on it. You're doing it wrong.

[desaix]

It's not the monitor. No setting on your monitor will affect your computer's performance. It just doesn't work that way. Hardware detection, however, can -- if your computer has sensed the change in your monitor's settings, it will compensate. Which means you can use it to fix the real issue.

If a setting on your monitor is causing your computer to crash, it's not the monitor, it's the graphics card's fault; the graphics card, sensing a change in hardware, will automatically adapt some of its own settings to what it detects from your monitor, and react accordingly. Fixing the issue on the graphics card's side (rather than the monitor's) should allow you to use both the graphics card and your monitor at their best possible performance, which makes identifying exactly what is REALLY causing you issues the smarter option.

So, if this is happening to you, you should turn that setting on your monitor back on, noting which settings on your graphics card change, then manually switch each of those changed settings back until the game, well, works. If you can determine exactly which setting on your graphics card is causing the issue, then you've identified what the problem actually is.

[Circus Joker]

Didn't work for me, but hopefully it helps others.

[zodiak]

Didn’t work