Ever since the games retail release I've been crashing constantly... Never when first starting the game or at the main menu... sometimes I crash in the first 5 minutes of gameplay (always after I've started the game proper after loading screens, etc), sometimes I crash after an hour, sometimes I don't crash at all after 3-4 hour play sessions.
The AMD Crash report suggests it's a driver timeout, (I don't currently have logs in front of me).
GPU: AMD 7900xtx
GPU Hotspot Temp: Never seen higher than 52C while playing.
Driver Version: 23.7.2 (July 20, 2023) and I've tried *every* WHQL release going back as far as 23.3.1 (March 2023). Edit: Yes, between every driver change I did a full clean of AMD drivers with their AMD Driver Removal Tool in Safe Mode.
Driver Settings: Tried SAM (BAR) -on- and -off-.
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x (This will be getting upgraded in the near future)
CPU Temp: Can't recall right now, but it's been stable enough to run other extremely taxing games for extended periods without to mobo going into panic mode and shutting everything down.
Bios Settings: Tried XMP -on- and -off-
Memory: 32gb @ 3600mhz (w/ XMP on) w/ HCI test suggesting no issues.
HDD: 2tb PCIE4 NVME w/ over 1tb free space w/ no SMART errors reported.
OS: Win 11 Stable Branch w/ all current updates applied, fresh install as of less than 3 months ago.
Vulkan: Corrupts drivers on crash necessitating a full driver clean in safe mode and reinstall.
DX11: Has the courtesy of not corrupting GPU drivers when it crashes but if I don't reboot the game flickers irritatingly.
Game Settings: Ultra Settings w/ FSR -off-, Borderless Window @ 4k,120hz, Triple Buffering -on-, Slow HDD off (using an NVME), FidelityFX -off-, God Rays -off-
Mods: None
Software: No Antivirus (other than Defender), tried disabling Steam overlay, tried disabling Discord overlay, tried running game without Discord running, no third party motherboard/driver/etc things (MSI Afterburner, Asus Armoury Crate, RGB Control software, etc), anything else in the taskbar is something that can't be closed for various reasons.
I'm hoping this is a driver issue and AMD is just taking their sweet time pushing it out... but if not I'm completely at a loss and either way I've grown so frustrated by this experience that I can't even enjoy the game anymore and am starting to actively resent it.
If there's anything I haven't tried or thought of.. I'm all ears at this point short of waiting who knows how many more weeks for AMD to push a driver update or Larian to release the 1.1 patch that hopefully addresses game crashing. Either way at this point I'm not holding my breath.
Last edited by Vamps; 20/08/23 04:44 PM.
