So I encountered this a few days ago and I'm posting it up here just in case anyone else has ever gotten it and might know what actually caused it.
So I had about 55 hours of gameplay going, mostly doing side gigs and NCPD hustles. I started down Judy's quest chain and eventually got to the point where I need to go to Pacifica and find the Voodoo Boys. I opened my map and... game crashed. But not the usual crash to the desktop. Instead what happened was my monitor went completely black and I heard every fan in my computer kick on at the same time. My computer is pretty well ventilated, so the fans hardly ever kick on.
I reboot the computer, and reload Cyberpunk. Game loads up just fine. Okay, must have just been a fluke. Bring the map up again, scroll down to Pacifica, and game hard crashes once again. Rinse and repeat this process about two more times until I finally settle on something is up with my computer trying to load the southern portion of the map, specifically where Pacifica is.
I open up my computer and spray it out with canned air in case it's overheating. I verify the game files through Steam. I reload my earliest save. I've taken every precaution in my head that I can think of, and the result is always the same. Game hard crashes when looking at Pacifica on the map. Looking around online, I can't find anything about this specifically happening. So I do more searches and talk to people who know more about computers than I do, and settle on what has happened is that memory dedicated to the map has somehow gotten corrupted and whenever the game tries to load it up, it causes the computer to hard crash.
I can also say that this is tied specifically to my save and not the game itself. I made a new character and was able to view the entirety of the map just fine while playing as them. It was only when playing on my old save that the game would crash.
The last time it crashed though, something a little different happened. Same song and dance as before, game crashed when viewing map, reload the computer. This time, however, when I went to relaunch Cyberpunk, Steam began talking about installing the game. The game had crashed so hard it had seemingly deleted the game from my hard drive. At this point I concede that this save file is well and truly boned, and all the time I have on it is just lost to corrupted memory.
I get the game reinstalled. As I launch it again I think... you know, one last time. Maybe a clean install fixed it. Bring up the map, look down to Pacifica... and the game once again hard crashed. Not only hard crashed again, but again crashed so hard it uninstalled the game from my drive.
So here I am, watching Cyberpunk install for the third time on my computer, hoping that whatever happened before to mess up the game never happens again. So I'm asking if anyone has ever had something like this happen to them before and if they have any idea what could have possibly caused it? I heard something about Cyberpunk's new update causing problems with older saves but I haven't found anything concrete on that.
So I had about 55 hours of gameplay going, mostly doing side gigs and NCPD hustles. I started down Judy's quest chain and eventually got to the point where I need to go to Pacifica and find the Voodoo Boys. I opened my map and... game crashed. But not the usual crash to the desktop. Instead what happened was my monitor went completely black and I heard every fan in my computer kick on at the same time. My computer is pretty well ventilated, so the fans hardly ever kick on.
I reboot the computer, and reload Cyberpunk. Game loads up just fine. Okay, must have just been a fluke. Bring the map up again, scroll down to Pacifica, and game hard crashes once again. Rinse and repeat this process about two more times until I finally settle on something is up with my computer trying to load the southern portion of the map, specifically where Pacifica is.
I open up my computer and spray it out with canned air in case it's overheating. I verify the game files through Steam. I reload my earliest save. I've taken every precaution in my head that I can think of, and the result is always the same. Game hard crashes when looking at Pacifica on the map. Looking around online, I can't find anything about this specifically happening. So I do more searches and talk to people who know more about computers than I do, and settle on what has happened is that memory dedicated to the map has somehow gotten corrupted and whenever the game tries to load it up, it causes the computer to hard crash.
I can also say that this is tied specifically to my save and not the game itself. I made a new character and was able to view the entirety of the map just fine while playing as them. It was only when playing on my old save that the game would crash.
The last time it crashed though, something a little different happened. Same song and dance as before, game crashed when viewing map, reload the computer. This time, however, when I went to relaunch Cyberpunk, Steam began talking about installing the game. The game had crashed so hard it had seemingly deleted the game from my hard drive. At this point I concede that this save file is well and truly boned, and all the time I have on it is just lost to corrupted memory.
I get the game reinstalled. As I launch it again I think... you know, one last time. Maybe a clean install fixed it. Bring up the map, look down to Pacifica... and the game once again hard crashed. Not only hard crashed again, but again crashed so hard it uninstalled the game from my drive.
So here I am, watching Cyberpunk install for the third time on my computer, hoping that whatever happened before to mess up the game never happens again. So I'm asking if anyone has ever had something like this happen to them before and if they have any idea what could have possibly caused it? I heard something about Cyberpunk's new update causing problems with older saves but I haven't found anything concrete on that.