Why do you ask here? You have some widows software driver or even worse hardware problem....
And right before this, the game crashed for no reason after asking a dwarf to play Gwent and then it crashed.
Up to 10 crashes both game and NVIDIA stopping to respond.. just today.. but I played for many hours.
Is it just with the Gwent game? I've had this problem a lot in the last week, but more from just running around Novigrad or Oxenfurt. I have been talking back and forth with Nvidia, CDPR, and EVGA (GPU manufacturer) and after doing a lot of digging and tweaking I've managed to get the crashes to stop or at least be very rare. I had to set all my graphic settings to low and one-by-one tweak them up until I got a crash. It seems to be the texture details set to ultra that cause my GPU to crash. It seems that the card is cutting off because it thinks it's overheating. IMHO it's probably caused because the game, while great looking, is still being optimized. Nvidia just released a new driver to address a lot of issues with the 700 series cards.
You can try set all your settings at low and tweaking them one-by-one, play for a bit, then move to the next setting. It's tedious and shouldn't be the norm, but for now that's all I could do. I'm running fairly stable with everything at medium/high. I have only turned on motion blur and blur in postprocessing, but I'm still messing around. It sucks that we have to mess with the settings like this to get anything, but until both Nvidia and CDPR finish optimizing the driver and game. That's all we can really do.
I would suggest also not using Geforce Experience and if you have steam create a .bat file to bypass steam so it's stays off. CDPR has instructions on how to create a .bat file if you need them or just PM me. That's just 2 less things to deal with when figuring this out. Also, I manually increased the fanspeed on my GPU Nvidia Inspector which for me was key to keeping everything stable, but I'd imagine everyone is going to have to deal with their rig differently until more patches come out. Overall I don't know if this is necessarily an issue that is caused by either the GPU or the game engine. It seems to be a perfect storm of problems on both ends. Sorry for the long response. Good luck!
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No its not, its the game or faulty nvidia drivers i have same problem.
This is whenever..
- I don't use any 3rd party software for my graphic card.
- I have never overcloaked.
- The card is not shutting down because of overheating because it's driver crash and after 10 seconds or so the driver has re-established itself and I can see the screen.
- The driver shutdown can happen one day, and the other day nothing as I've played the game for 10 hours without driver crash, but yesterday it happened more often.
So many variables in Windows PC rigs...
All I can say is I've enjoyed the game for 90+ hours with no glitches, no crashes, & no complaints.
I wonder what I'm doing differently from all the people here being very vocal about their troubles?
All I can say is I've enjoyed the game for 90+ hours with no glitches, no crashes, & no complaints.
I wonder what I'm doing differently from all the people here being very vocal about their troubles?
lol i have a new gtx 970 its not a shot card its just a bad driver from nvidia that needs to be updated
What data do you have to support that diagnosis?
I'm running a GTX 980, driver v353.06; and everything is roses & lollipops.
In certain circumstances, for certain people.
I've been thru two drivers with W3, 352.86 and 353.06 -- no bubbles no troubles.
Try this experiment:
1. Erase your hard drive
2. Reinstall and update Windows from scratch
3. DO NOT overclock your CPU or GPU
3. DO NOT install anything but Witcher 3 and make sure your drivers are up to date.
4. Enjoy the game.
In other words - your troubles are not from Witcher 3, not from nVidia's drivers, not from anything else people like to come here and rant & rave about.
Your troubles are your own, and are because of something YOU have done with your system.
I would honestly bet ONE THOUSAND USD with anyone that if you follow those steps to the letter the problems you love to wail & gnash teeth over will go away.
i' have a lot of games installed, playing with a good computer spec, have try 2 latest nvidia drivers for my GTX970 gaming 4go and none of both run well on GTA V and Witcher 3..there are no magic installation, just look at Geforce forum and you will see the current drivers have a lot problems with the latest games and GTX9xx and Titan graphic cards.
With the 347.88 version, i'm playing on Xtrem setting with no crash / freeze......
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I used to have that crash when I Alt+tabbed out of the game. Since I have reinstalled the game from scratch without using the Galaxy Client, I have had 1 crash (touch wood). I also have the latest Nvidia drivers installed.
In other words treat your PC like a console, only for playing games. Don't do anything else, and god forbid you download anything! Jesus. What kind of advice is that? This is the tech support section of the forum, right?
The issue with the Nvidia Drivers is well documented. There are threads on the Geforce forums dozens of pages long. Look at the Moderator post just above. Just because you're not experiencing issues on your sanitized PC, doesn't give you any ground to stand on telling others the issue isn't real.