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Savaralyn 5 Sep, 2020 @ 10:27pm

Game is freezing in specific areas?

I've been playing witcher 3 for a while now, up to the Ugly Baby main quest where I need to get Uma from the barons second in command guy, but the game freezes as I'm going up the slope to the Barons house? It's not a crash to desktop, the game just freezes in place at basically the exact same spot every time while the music keeps playing (but with no sfx) and I have to forcibly close the program in task manager. This is a consistent freeze, every time.

I've had this problem in one other area, a single street in Novigrad ((the one where Hattori's smithy is located)), where, no matter what way I try to get onto the street, it will freeze in the same way as stated above, and everywhere else in Novigrad is 100% fine with no stuttering or anything.

I've tried lowering the graphics, and thats not the issue, tried uninstalling/reinstalling the game + verifying files, trying playing in fullscreen + windowed mode, tried going in with V-sync on/off, and I don't have any mods installed at all. I honestly just have no clue what would be causing this, the majority of the game has run fine up to this point, and I've been to the two area's that are affected many times before, they just suddenly freeze up after some random point and all previous saves seem to be affected.

In the Novigrad case I could at least just ignore it as I didn't NEED to go down that street in order to progress the game, but as things are now I literally can't complete one of the main quests, and can't progress the game any further now.

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Bandy

(Banned) 6 Sep, 2020 @ 3:37am

Sorry to hear your woes, but thank you for providing a detailed OP and what you did so far to troubleshoot. Most just post a whinging rant...

You seem to have done everything I would try in similar situation, all I can advise is to contact CDPR support and provide a dropbox (or...) link to your save file just before the bug. While waiting for a reply (!) you could also look into whether there are any console commands that may help, if nothing other than getting you past the bug. I know little about these cmds in witcher but in other games they can be powerful tools.

EDIT: something you may not have mentioned or tried, but your game save may be corrupt. Are you using cloud save? Don't.

When you validated files and eventually reinstalled, did you use the same game save? Try to play a saved game from well before where the bug happens, maybe from as far back as the previous region you were in and then play forward just to see. I know it will be a pain but gotta try something.

Last edited by Bandy; 6 Sep, 2020 @ 4:01am

Savaralyn 6 Sep, 2020 @ 5:20am

Originally posted by Bandy:

You seem to have done everything I would try in similar situation, all I can advise is to contact CDPR support and provide a dropbox (or...) link to your save file just before the bug. While waiting for a reply (!) you could also look into whether there are any console commands that may help, if nothing other than getting you past the bug. I know little about these cmds in witcher but in other games they can be powerful tools.

I've tried using the xy teleportation command to get into the barons estate proper on the off chance that it was just the slope itself that was the problem, but the game ends up just being stuck in an infinite loading screen, so I imagine it IS the entire area thats affected.

Haven't looked into whether it may be the saves that are corrupt, I'll see if I can do anything about that while waiting for a proper response on the CDPR support line, thanks for your advice.

D'amarr from Darshiva has The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

6 Sep, 2020 @ 5:56am

What graphics hardware? Which driver version? "Latest" driver doesn't imply "best", so an older release of the driver could lead to better results thanks to avoiding regression.

Savaralyn 6 Sep, 2020 @ 6:40am

Originally posted by D'amarr from Darshiva:
What graphics hardware? Which driver version? "Latest" driver doesn't imply "best", so an older release of the driver could lead to better results thanks to avoiding regression.

CPU is AMD Ryzen 5 2600
GPU is Radeon RX 580 (updated to latest driver, but my computer is apparently still new enough that I don't have the option to 'roll back' to a previous one))
+ 16 gb RAM

My computer is generally kind of ♥♥♥♥ in terms of parts, but witcher 3 had been running perfectly fine for a fair while before this problem cropped up, which is what made me think it wasn't a graphics issue, outside of these two places everywhere runs smooth on medium/high settings and I've never had a freeze/crash unrelated to this specific problem.

Last edited by Savaralyn; 6 Sep, 2020 @ 6:42am

Bandy

(Banned) 6 Sep, 2020 @ 12:25pm

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:
Have you tried just starting up a new game ...

I was going to suggest the same advice, try new game, but given that the issue seems to be very location specific that a new game is perhaps a worst case scenario. Was hoping OP starting from earlier save from previous map region might overcome a corrupt save file. It is a strange problem to be sure...

I don't know W3 reliability well, but in other game engines, a new game can resolve many bugs that seem to get established when game is started, and a new game may introduce new ones. Games certainly have odd behaviour that is hard to isolate...

Last edited by Bandy; 6 Sep, 2020 @ 12:26pm

marvelmaniac1990 has The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

5 Jul @ 4:47pm

This is happening to me in wolfs clothing on skellige Everytime I'm just walking around in morvargs garden thing it just freezes wth man

Savaralyn 9 Jul @ 1:06am

Originally posted by marvelmaniac1990:
This is happening to me in wolfs clothing on skellige Everytime I'm just walking around in morvargs garden thing it just freezes wth man

I managed to fix it back then, though I don't know if you're facing the same problem. Mine was just that, because I was using mods to spawn in a crap-ton of items, I actually had too many (even though they were in storage) and they were causing the freezes. Once I got rid of a lot of them it never happened again.

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Date Posted: 5 Sep, 2020 @ 10:27pm

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