Freezing While Loading during Mist Battle in Prelude to War: Kaedwen

[megamanacses]

When attempting to load any save during the the battle among the wraiths, saves take an upward of 5-10 minutes to load while the game appears to be frozen. CPU and disk usage drop to 0% but will randomly pick up to single digit percentages before dropping back down to 0%. This has not occured in any other location in the game to this point.

This only occurs when running the game on high or ultra. I've tried clearing my save folder, disabling and enabling Steam cloud save, forcing large address awareness, turning off overclocks, adjusting texture memory budget, turning off RAM disk software, reverifying game cache files, running in windowed mode among many other things.

Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
i7 3770k @ 4.4 Ghz
GTX 1060 6 GB @ + 92 Mhz Curve OC
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD
16 GBs of RAM @ 1866 Mhz

Latest Steam, The Witcher 2 and system drivers installed.

 

[devivre]

Well, overclocking is usually risky with Witcher games.

Did you try making a new save game after loading the old one and then remove the old ones from the save game folder?

Also, are there any TW2 mods installed?

 

[megamanacses]

The overclocks were already removed as part of the troubleshooting.

No, a new save game can't be made in that area because of the constant combat. The entire save folder was cleared minus the save in the offending area.

There are no mods.

Post automatically merged: Jul 11, 2019

Attached is a system information snap shot from Speccy. The only accessible save in that area is an autosave made at the start of the mist battle. I restarted from an earlier, manual save in order to make another autosave and encountered the same issue.

 

[devivre]

Tricky, often issues like that are resolved by making sure there are only a few save games left in your save game folder.

Perhaps also check out the steps that are suggested here:
https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/witcher-3/pc/sp-technical/issue/1003/the-game-is-not-launching-2

If nothing helps, reporting to CDPR support might be the best idea (maybe they can fix the save game): https://support.cdprojektred.com/en...4/i-am-unable-to-complete-progress-in-a-quest