Witcher 3 Crashes every few hours

[siberiansteel11]

So I'm playing witcher 3 with my 680 at high settings with a bit of medium. it play's pretty great averaging around 45ish fps. but It crashes -.- would give me an error about my nvidia driver stops working. and sometimes witcher 3 just exits for no reason. Any of you fellas have this problem and found a solution? 

[Fulgrim]

You got something like MSI Afterburner running? If so, disable it.

 

I was having nvidia driver crashes with the latest nvidia driver update, and MSI Afterburner seemed to be the trigger.

[felixbearpig]

You got something like MSI Afterburner running? If so, disable it.

 

I was having nvidia driver crashes with the latest nvidia driver update, and MSI Afterburner seemed to be the trigger.

i second this

 

it was precision X for me

[slightlyjaded]

Aftermarket apps do not change the power limits the onboard bios will accept. My guess is that this is similar to the problem I faced recently. Check windows event reporter for a warning NV (something or other) stopped responding, and restarted. If this is your culprit, it's usually a power delivery issue.(yes happens with AMD cards as well) The simple solution is to go into your power settings and switch off the power saving feature on the PCIe lanes (link state power management = off) If that file is the problem and this doesn't fix it, the next stage is to flash the firmware with a custom bios file raising the power limit.

[Andrew Sh]

So I'm playing witcher 3 with my 680 at high settings with a bit of medium. it play's pretty great averaging around 45ish fps. but It crashes -.- would give me an error about my nvidia driver stops working. and sometimes witcher 3 just exits for no reason. Any of you fellas have this problem and found a solution? 

If you're averaging about 45ish fps and you're not able to sit consistantly at 60 without using 100% of your card, I'd take a wild guess and say your gpu is overheating.

 

Try cap the game at 35/40fps (if it's possible in the menu) if not, try getting bandicam (even the trial) and just use it to cap the fps (There's probably better programs specifically for that but yeh here you go

[siberiansteel11]

If you're averaging about 45ish fps and you're not able to sit consistantly at 60 without using 100% of your card, I'd take a wild guess and say your gpu is overheating.

 

Try cap the game at 35/40fps (if it's possible in the menu) if not, try getting bandicam (even the trial) and just use it to cap the fps (There's probably better programs specifically for that but yeh here you go

my card goes around 88 degrees max with witcher 3 can't say it's overheating 

[Andrew Sh]

my card goes around 88 degrees max with witcher 3 can't say it's overheating

That's high bud. While the card can run at that, any sort of spike in usage could crash the driver. I had a gtx 770 that would sometimes crash when sitting over 75 for more than a few minutes. You've to check the case airflow or at least try what I suggested to keep the card from sitting at absolute 100% max. Maybe down to 95%. Play around with it and check the results [emoji14]

[siberiansteel11]

That's high bud. While the card can run at that, any sort of spike in usage could crash the driver. I had a gtx 770 that would sometimes crash when sitting over 75 for more than a few minutes. You've to check the case airflow or at least try what I suggested to keep the card from sitting at absolute 100% max. Maybe down to 95%. Play around with it and check the results [emoji14]

I know it's high But I played Crysis 3 before and I had the same temps but I didn't experience any problems As I said only Witcher 3 is giving me the Crashes. So I can't really say its because of overheating. 

[siberiansteel11]

This is Solved Patch 1.03 is the Solution Thanks everyone 

[FatalityDiablo]

I don't want to start new topic, so can anyone tell me why I suddenly have this problem on 1.04? .02 and .03 was fine for me -.- I hate it!!!!

[asker509]

I don't want to start new topic, so can anyone tell me why I suddenly have this problem on 1.04? .02 and .03 was fine for me -.- I hate it!!!!

a lot of people are having this problem with the new patch it's probably not you

BTW I have a gtx 670 my cutscences drop under 30 frequently is that normal?

[siberiansteel11]

a lot of people are having this problem with the new patch it's probably not you

BTW I have a gtx 670 my cutscences drop under 30 frequently is that normal?

I didn't use patch 1.04 yet so can't really say if cutscenes got under 30 fps is normal. but in patch 1.03 I get around 50 frames in cutscenes 

[CatCloud]

I don't want to start new topic, so can anyone tell me why I suddenly have this problem on 1.04? .02 and .03 was fine for me -.- I hate it!!!!

Same, I just clean installed my nvidia gpu drivers and so far so good.

I didn't bother installing Nvidia experience because Iv read it could cause issues. And I don't like it either way.

[Vvardenfell]

Did you update your Nvidia driver specifically for TW3?

[FatalityDiablo]

Same, I just clean installed my nvidia gpu drivers and so far so good.

I didn't bother installing Nvidia experience because Iv read it could cause issues. And I don't like it either way.

I changed from window-mode w/out borders to full screen and now it didn't crash once I had window enabled, cuz it ran better that way in .03 ^^

 

a lot of people are having this problem with the new patch it's probably not you

BTW I have a gtx 670 my cutscences drop under 30 frequently is that normal?

okay, good to know. I actually don't know, cuz I don't have no frame program running, althou cutscenes seem smooth to me.