Happens too me too sometimes. Lockup and have too restart pc or sometimes it crashes too desktop. Been doing that since release. When i get a error log i send it but nothing has really changed. Its not impossible the new nvidia drivers have something too do with it but sometimes i can get it too run for hours and hours and sometimes it crashes every hour.
I experience the same. I am not an expert, but for myself am hanging towards, the graphics card getting too hot, and as a result, in a bid to protect itself from burning out, it switches itself off, freezing the rig in the process. It varies how long the rig stays frozen. Sometimes the game exits to desktop, freeing up your rig, sometimes it doesn't and you have to hard reset. All in all, seems it's a temperature issue.
Am 100% convinced it's not the game, though. Has been happening with other games too, in my case.
If you hear the fans working really hard, that's signaling cooling is not sufficient.
I took my rig apart and cleaned it of dust. And I can tell you it was pretty severe, so much so, that the front panel was completely blocked, making airflow impossible. Once it was cleaned, it played fine. I've also lowered graphics settings somewhat, and limited FPS too. has not crashed since.
One thing ive noticed is that the game dont like overclocks on the gpu. I started crashing less when i reset it too nomal speeds. Seem powerdraw is higher then normal when i play this game. Also it doesent like overlays. RTSS makes it crash more often for me atleast so i generaly play without it. it still crashes but not as much. Ive got no heat issues since its watercooled, but most gpus nowdays are limited by power draw/temperatures and with the gpu boost and so on it can be tricky too diagnose what is happening. Switching clocks and so on due too high temp/powerdraw could cause issues with the game and lock it up.
My game started crashing frequently after I had installed the latest Nvidia drivers ( 466.77 then 471.11 ) so I rolled back to 466.27 and that helped a lot. My GPU is a GTX 1080 Ti. I still have the occasional 'lockup' where my system freezes and I have to do a hard reboot. I started having occasional crashes after 1.2 and then it increased significantly after 1.23. I also have a feeling that the GOG overlay has something to do with it but I am not sure, I now start the game using 'Launch Cyberpunk' directly from the game folder rather then GOG and that has helped a lot.
Win 10 did an update sometime in there to add to the confusion, even though I had that feature turned off, or so I thought. Bottom line, at this time I really have no clue whats going on, all I know is that my game will lockup sometime while I am playing. I haven't sent in a ticket as of yet because I really don't know what or where the problem is, my system, GOG, drivers or Win 10...or all of the above.
If it only occurs with Cyberpunk 2077, consider filing a bug-report with both Sony and CDPR Support. If you play on the PS5 since last year everyday, consider cleaning the inside of the PS5 of dust, or let a specialist do it for you. Worked for me.
So happen to have the exact same graphics card. Always had high suspicions this particular card might be faulty, in triggering a safety feature that switches itself off, freezing up your rig. Also happens with other games and even when not playing at all.
I can play with full graphics, but only with 20 FPS max. If I try any higher, very rarely it'll keep playing, but 9 out of 10, it'll freeze up, and exits to desktop, or stays frozen and have to hard reset. Lately, would freeze even on 20 FPS, but once I cleaned the rig of dust, it plays again. This signaled to me a temperature issue with the graphics card.
During trouble shooting, I deleted every Nvidia app. That seemed to alleviate the crashing for me, but parts of the seemingly previous mesh would at all times glitch through the current mesh, like bushes and trees.
If it only occurs with Cyberpunk 2077, consider filing a bug-report with both Sony and CDPR Support. If you play on the PS5 since last year everyday, consider cleaning the inside of the PS5 of dust, or let a specialist do it for you. Worked for me.
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So happen to have the exact same graphics card. Always had high suspicions this particular card might be faulty, in triggering a safety feature that switches itself off, freezing up your rig. Also happens with other games and even when not playing at all.
I can play with full graphics, but only with 20 FPS max. If I try any higher, very rarely it'll keep playing, but 9 out of 10, it'll freeze up, and exits to desktop, or stays frozen and have to hard reset. Lately, would freeze even on 20 FPS, but once I cleaned the rig of dust, it plays again. This signaled to me a temperature issue with the graphics card.
During trouble shooting, I deleted every Nvidia app. That seemed to alleviate the crashing for me, but parts of the seemingly previous mesh would at all times glitch through the current mesh, like bushes and trees.
Good to know. Yeah, dust is evil in a system and I keep an eye on this issue. I had 700 hours into this game with no crashes or lockups what so ever, then it just started not long after 1.2. That said, I still can't say with any certainty that 1.2 is the issue. My GTX 1080 Ti (Zotac) is running at 3440 X 1440 on my primary and running my secondary at 1920 X 1080. In game (2077) I'm getting 55-65 FPS on my primary, but have many settings turned down or off and the image still have beautiful graphics in game. My GPU temp stay at 80-85C. I have had no issues with any other games, just 2077. I also do not run any Nvidia apps, I never have.
Damned if I can figure it out, for now I just go with it. All I can say at this stage is when I play 2077 I know it will freeze or crash to desktop, it might be in minutes or an hour but the game will crash. I removed all mods to see if that might be part of it, made no difference. As mentioned in my previous post, I no longer use GOG to start the game.
I'm pretty sure they already know what causes the problem, since I and others told them multiple times.
IT IS CAUSED BY MEMORY LEAKS.
This is the reason why it happens more often in parts of the game like the heist.
Every time game loads new area/movie clip there is huge memory leaks so when you are in parts of story where there is a lot of loading like this i.e. The Heist save often.
Once you get out around the map it happens a lot less, it will still happen but you don't need to save every 10-15 minutes and can keep it down to maybe once every 1-2 hours or so.
Except if you doing missions. Since they still not fixed all mission bugs.
Before going to mission area:
Save slot 1
Before starting mission in area:
Save slot 2
Do mission
Save slot 3
Go get your reward
Save slot 4
If something fails restart game (to free all memory) and load first save and start over again.
Can save you hours if something goes wrong.
I fix my problem by changing my 16GB RAM (x2 AMD DDR4-2666 8192MB) to ballistix x2 16GB 3200MHz and now it works just fine. I haven't had any crashes for a few days. I don't exactly know the reason if it's 32GB or 3200 MHz
I fix my problem by changing my 16GB RAM (x2 AMD DDR4-2666 8192MB) to ballistix x2 16GB 3200MHz and now it works just fine. I haven't had any crashes for a few days. I don't exactly the reason if it's 32GB or 3200 MHz
I hope that works out for you, I am running 32 GB of RAM . I installed 32 GB mostly for my rendering (art) and secondly for games. My game still CTD or freezes. No other games are affected, have no clue yet. I have been seriously thinking about putting 2077 aside for awhile, I'm almost done with my third play through, wait this one out.
support.cdprojektred.com
Didn't help.
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