ThroneBreaker: Unresponsive game - help!

[Sythian1012]

The game (ThroneBreaker) freezes during Gwent battles. I think it is related to the leader's ability to switch cards around in the deck, but I'm not entirely sure.

More specifically, the special battles where you have to meet a certain victory condition within just one round cause this problem most often.

I play my turn, then press "end turn". Then, the "end turn" button flips over, but nothing happens next. The game does not progress to enemy turn. I still hear the BGM, see animations, can move my mouse pointer around but the game just wouldn't progress. I can still press the "forfeit game" button though, and it gets me to some clickable options, but then, eventually the game freezes anyway.

I didn't experience this problem early on in the tutorial section but started to get this issue after that. Sometimes, restarting the game helps and lets me finish a battle that was previously frozen. But then, this Nilfgardian embassador battle wouldn't let me even do that. I simply just cannot get past that specific battle.

Any idea how I can fix this? I really want to play this beautiful game but as is, I can't play it anymore.

Screenshot showing an empty deck after ending my turn. Strange!

Loading screen with the "Passed" message on top and the game panel on the left.

 

[Lexor]

Try to not look inside your deck (remained cards to draw) during battle or downgrade your TB version to 1.0.0.

 

[Sythian1012]

Thanks, but how do you downgrade the game?

 

[MysticJoey]

there was a topic about this already, don't right click on your deck

 

[Sythian1012]

Yes I realized there was another thread on this. My bad not reading all of them beforehand.

But you say I shouldn't look at my deck? But the battle requires me to! I simply have no choice.

 

[MU24bmw]

He/she is saying "don't right click on your deck", not "don't look at your deck". Looking at your deck when using the leader ability that let's you shuffle a card in and play 2 cards, or using Rayla's ability to play a card doesn't trigger the bug. It's when you deliberately right click on your deck just to see what cards are in there (which is 100% optional and can be completely avoided simply by not clicking), this cause the game to do what you are describing. As soon as I stopped this, it doesn't bug out like this anymore. I agree it's annoying, but seems to be the only way to play around it.

 

[devivre]

Are your drivers all updated, especially your graphics card drivers?

Also check out the suggestions here:
https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/thronebreaker/pc/sp-technical/issue/898/crash-freeze-on-startup

There‘s also a contact link to support if nothing else helps.