Fast Travel Issues in Skellige

[RenegadeNoob]

Fast Travel Issues in Skellige

I just reached Skellige Island, and whenever I try to fast travel to anywhere that isn't on Skellige (such as in Velen or White Orchid) the game just crashes. It will begin to load the graphic with the voice over that plays whenever you enter these areas, and it will then crash midway through the voiceover.
Fast travelling within Skellige doesn't cause the game to crash however. This issue only happens when I'm trying to fast travel away from Skellige (this may also happen if I try to fast travel to Skellige, but since I am unable to leave skellige I can't test this out at the moment). Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance!

 

[Forq66]

Hello

I had this same issue (and there are quite a few reports of this occurring, Google, Steam, GOG searches, for example http://theios.net/2015/06/02/witcher-3-Skellige-fast-travel-crash-to-desktop-fix/).

For me, this was related to the quest 'following the thread'. if I tried to fast travel from Skellige to anywhere else I got an immediate CTD. I could manage to fast travel to White Orchard though in the end, and from there Velen.

I went back via saves to a point before progressing following the thread and could fast travel freely. In the end as I could travel from Skellige to WO this wasn't needed but confirmed this quest caused the issue.

You could go back in saves and try and isolate the quest causing it and work from there maybe. Myself, I am over 80-100 hours in and did think for a while I had encountered a game breaking bug! I check after every hour I can fast travel still, which detracts from the experience (as is worrying this will occur again!).

 

[RenegadeNoob]

It may indeed be related to that quest then. I only went to skellige to finish that quest off. I just killed Hammond for that quest, and tried to fast travel back to complete the quest, but then the CTD happened continuously for me. I didn't try fast travelling back before progressing in the quest however. Thanks for pointing that out though, I didn't consider the quest to be something that could cause this issue!

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I just tried to travel to White Orchid again, and it worked! Thanks a lot for pointing all of that out for me, much appreciated!