Here's hoping 1.07 addresses all the crashing. I've only played 30 minutes of the game since launch because of it.
Is it really that bad?
It kinda is. Practically everyone in my steam list can't play because of varying issues. For some people if just crashes to desktop, others it might hard crash, and others their game just has game breaking bugs like quests that you can't compete, NPC's that refuse to pop into existence, or infinite loading screens etc. So even though the bugs are different, they each all essentially have a bricked game that they paid for but can't actually play Really hope this game doesn't become one of those titles that despite the best efforts of the devs, just never becomes stable enough for everyone to be able to play properly. Because there are lots of people that still wan't to play, despite the stability issues.
I have about 200 hours logged so far. Yes the game does crash for me, but it usually runs for several hours. i7 3770 gtx 970 sli. What hardware yopu running?
I can play hours on end as well (Gainward Phantom GTX 970, factory OC, FX 8350 stock) since 1.05 or so and latest 2 NVIDIA drivers. I used to have to perform all kinds of strange tweaks with the first versions of the game and the "witcher game-ready" drivers, such as disabling GFE and Streaming services, but now I run those as well.
My issues were just freezes (sound still playing, mouse cursor moved 1-2 secs after everything else froze, only to freeze itself), yet now I suspect that the game was not the culprit, but having Chrome open in the background... as Chrome+NVIDIA drivers have some strange freezing issues. Since I started closing the browser things look OK.
I think the most I played is like 3 hours. No issues at all. Yet. We all know crap can happen anytime, but fingers crossed
So while the game is/used to be unstable, NVIDIA's drivers and Chrome are also unstable. It is extremely hard to pinpoint what exactly happens sadly.
Yep. Got a i5-3570K 3.40GHz, 780 Ti classified,16GBs ram and I can't play the game for more than 8 minutes before it crashes.Is it really that bad?
Yep. Got a i5-3570K 3.40GHz, 780 Ti classified,16GBs ram and I can't play the game for more than 8 minutes before it crashes.