Cyberpunk 2077 PC Crash Issues

[roski316]

Hello, the game crashes on startup

Exact same issue here!

 

[asuka_solo]

So I preloaded my game via Steam... and waited until 2am (local time) to start my dystopian adventure in night city. Upon being able to hit the play button after the countdown, it forced a 10 GB update... which wiped some crash reporter file in the Steam folder, which prompted a re-installation of Steam and a 8 hour re-download of Cyberpunk starting at 4 am. I can forgive this. Nudity, violence and adulterated fun is worth the hassle.

So 11 hours after launch (despite work and study obligations), I finally got to click the play button. Boom. Whoa! Cyberpunk 2077 has flatlined

This reminds me of my first day experiences of a certain Bioware game's launch a few years back.... spaceships, intergalactic conspiracies, meeting new and exotic life on distant planets then killing them, saving the day and banging aliens... you know the one. So I began my routine of troubleshooting:
1) Updated Nvidia drivers
2) Disabled Steam (and other) ingame overlays
3) Disabled Bitdefender
4) Free up more disc space
5) Disabled any non core processes that chow system resources

This got me past launching the game from the launcher into the actual main menu without getting this error. Decided to bottom out all graphics settings just in case. The menu music sending chills down my spine, to such an extent that my children will be born shivering. Spent the last 30 mins in the character creator (my thoughts about the abundance of jaw structure / eyes / hair / mouth options while limiting my chest & pubic hair styles or customization options for genitals not associated with the Y chromosome - or the complete lack of options for muscle tone / ass size aside) to my hearts content... but upon hitting the confirm appearance button. Boom.
Whoa! Cyberpunk 2077 has flatlined

Again....

Decided to check the forums to see if I am special or if this is a more pervasive problem.

Having seen this topic, I'm convinced that CD ProjektRed has surpassed what Bioware tried to achieve with Mass Effect Andromeda or Rocksteady's Batman Arkham Knight at their respective launches... potentially created one of the best game(s) of the last 3 years, while delivering a launch worthy of the worst gaming experience of my life award.

Maybe that's a bit harsh. Cyberpunk (from what I've seen thus far) is nowhere near as bad as the Batman: Arkham Knight launch back in 2015.... but at least I could play that at 640x480 resolution (by forcing the game to render in that age old resolution with kernel config files) while Rocksteady spent a year fixing the bugs to make it playable for PC...

 

[RyoGTO]

I have the same problem, also have an LGA 1366 socket Xeon x5680. I think it is a problem with the X58 chipset and LGA 1366 CPUs somehow. A lot of people are having this issue and all seem to have an X58 / LGA 1366 chipset . There is another thread on this. Graphic settings and latest drivers do not affect it. We need a patch from CDPR immediately addressing this.

Corpo - Crash when sitting in chair in office
Nomad - Crash after reaching NC
Street Kid - Crash when leaving bar

My specs:
Win 10L
Xeon x5680 @ 4ghz
24GB DDR3 RAM
RTX 2060
Steam client.

 

[stealth1309]

Guys, this is specified for my case but I hope it will help you too.

I'm using Intel core i5 7500 with GTX 1050. Try to downgrade the NVIDIA driver from 460 to 457, it helped me pass the tutorial after the prologue of Nomad, hope it won't crash again. BTW, I use Steam version

 

[tinysousage]

I also tried:
- clean boot, disabling also overlays and all apps as possible (including steam, cd red launcher etc)
- Installing older nvidia driver (457.51)
- "Window Vista SP2" compatibility mode

Nothing worked for me. Game still crashes on startup

 

[RyoGTO]

we got one guy renos98



sooooo

Some people are just posting about random crashes. Those people may just need to update drivers. So far from what I have seen all people that are crashing at the specific spots: Corpo - sitting in chair, Street kid - leaving bar, Nomad - reaching NC , all have the X58 chipset

 

[Kabum234_]

Hi I have the same problem,

(Corpo - Crash when sitting in chair in office )

My specs:
Asus Rampage II Extreme
W3690 4.6 GHz
40GB RAM DDR3
2xR9 290X

 

[Ghandus]

Has anyone tried following this instruction and can report back?

2. Uninstall all of the Microsoft Visual C++ redistributables that you have installed.
Once it's done install the Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable packages from the link below starting from the oldest ones (skip the "arm" files). Launch all the executables as Administrator.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

 

[Rboong]

Same flatline at launch here. Newest graphics drivers. Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, Intel i7-4770K, Win10-64bit.

Exact same cpp class error in stacktrace:

Error reason: Assert
Expression: <Unknown>
Message: Gpu Crash for unknown reasons! Callstack here is probably irrelevant. Check if Breadcrumbs or Aftermath logged anything useful.
File: e:\r6.patch0hotfix2\dev\src\common\gpuapi\src\dx12\gpuapidx12error.cpp(40)

 

[Filippo_Berti]

Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz (16 CPUs), ~3.6GHz
GeForce RTX 2080ti
16gb RAM

Everything is up to date, can't get past the character creation menu.

 

[br3adfish]

From Steam Forums: happens also on Pentium CPUs like G4560 - same here, no AVX.

So i think it's clear that in this certain crashes lack of AVX is the one and only reason.

Please, CDPR =)

 

[tinysousage]

Has anyone tried following this instruction and can report back?

I did. I helps with crashing CD Red launcher. But doesn't help with crashing game.

 

[roski316]

For people steam users who cant even launch game (like me):

Heads up as I have just noticed that Steam logs all the crashed time as game play time - so make sure you end the .exe in task manager otherwise you could get to a stage where Steam will not refund if your "game time" goes to high!

 

[nobetterdan]

Getting the same issue as others - it launches the REDlauncher, I click on "play" and then it flatlines.

- All overlays that I can think of have been disabled (purchased through Steam) - so Steam & GeoForce Experience

- nVidia's drivers have been updated

Specs of machine:

- GPU: RTX 2060 6GB
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
- OS: Windows 10 Pro

Also - there's too many damn launchers. It seems strange to use the Steam launcher to launch another launcher just to play a game :/

 

[Ghandus]

I did. I helps with crashing CD Red launcher. But doesn't help with crashing game.

What packages did you exactly download? I can only fine the 2015-2019 redistributable packages there, and now not even the red launcher will start (after hitting play on steam) lmao

 

[Pure90]

same problems here, after start playing, the game crash and show me the popup cyberpunk has flatlined...
nvidia driver updated yesterday, and windows 10 is updated too..

my build is

i7 5860x @4.5
64Gb Ram
RTX 2080ti

looking for a solution if there are any..

 

[nobetterdan]

Has anyone tried following this instruction and can report back?

I might be blind, but where are the actual instructions on the page you linked to?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

 

[devivre]

As mentioned before, please check out the official info from CDPR support:

My game crashes — Cyberpunk 2077 | Technical Support — CD PROJEKT RED

Welcome to CD PROJEKT RED Technical Support! Here you will find help regarding our games and services, as well as answers to frequently asked questions.

support.cdprojektred.com

(click on Contact Us to send a ticket but please read the article first)

Please try there suggestions - especially make sure you have the latest cpu drivers.

Also, please make sure your system actually meets the minimum requirements.

If nothing helps and your hardware should be good enough to run the game, please reach out to support.

 

[Ghandus]

I might be blind, but where are the actual instructions on the page you linked to?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

No real clue tbh.
That is what they linked in the troubleshooting page of CDPR...

 

[janepearsinsta]

Same here ... i7 960 LGA 1366 X58 Chipset