Random crash to desktop without warning.

[Shim16137]

Okay guys, here's the deal, no matter what I have tried, and i have done almost everything, the witcher 3 constantly crashes. System specs are an amd ryzen 3600 cpu, and a gigabyte geforce rtx 3060 6 core 12g.
I have community base patch, friendly meditation, complete animations and immersive motion. Along with script merger and tw3mm. I have followed every instruction to a t and haven't figured out the problem. For reference, it doesn't even matter if i have these mods installed, i can have a clean game with verifyed files and still get random crashes. Litteraly random, there is no cause, no crash report, no errors, nothing. Please, somebody help me out here, I just want to play the game. And please, for the love of all things holy, natural and unnatural, do not act like i am an idiot, do not insult me and if you can't help than don't comment. I've searched this elsewhere and others have had this issue but anytime someone asks for help they are insulted and aren't even given an answer. Don't be a jerk.

 

 

Solved.

- When you get the Red Engine (Compiling Scripts) box, you HAVE to let it load to the main screen, and then close the game and relaunch it. This time, there won't be a Red Engine (Compiling Scripts) box, if there is still then repeat the process. Evidently no mod author or forum tells you that if you don't do this then it breaks your game down to the core, and is only fixable by reinstalling the ENTIRE game... It took me days to discover this, days of countless searching through forums since evidently NOBODY deems this information important, even though it clearly is. Hopefully I can save someone else an insane amount of time discovering why their game doesn't work after completely following every instruction.

Edited July 3, 2021 by Shim16137

[RyanII]

Hi poor Shim.

 

I am Ryan. And I don't know who treated you as an idiot. I can only advise you - smile at the world and the world will smile back. Trust me a good amount of people do not even understand my posts. Has nothing to do with English happens even in German. They only give me more credit in English, as they think that poor fellow does not know better.

 

So as I do have plenty of time on my back today - I will try to point you out into the right direction.

See the problem in general is if guys like you do have problems - to 90% - the problem is on your side of the screen and the information you provide is not enough.

You have no idea how many times (and I do a lot of support - I even closed comments and force people to take time to write me a PM and stilll - 1 out 5 - goes: "It's not working, I did everythign right and 3 back and forth later - it goes: Ouh! I forgot about ... Now it is working."

I mod for years and release stuff on the net - trust me - I know what I am talking about.

 

Now - let's look at your problem. - The game always crashes if it does not find something it should render. That can have multiple causes. Specifically animations are something that can make the game crash fast.

I don't know any of your mods. But I see that you do have animations and motions. Are you really positive that you cleaned your DLC and mod folder?

That is something I would look for first.

 

Now my first question would be: Do you play with console? Do you tweak around with Geralt? To make him run faster or go through walls etc?

The reason why I would ask this, as this can result into that you enter areas - the game has to load stuff into that areas (spawn something) and can not execute fast enough. That is why then it even does not matter what machine you are running - as it just tries to execute stuff faster, but it still can not find it.

 

Spawn-Points f.e. can create problems in Witcher 3. That is why I always advise: Do a little role-play - give the game some time. As otherwise you will have random crashes - LIKE YOU DO!^^ Surprise.

 

Based on your description - and believing in the truth of your words - I would think - that this could be very likely your problem.

Another thing that can cause random crashes is always sound or sound-related actions. But that is hardware related. Or even stuff you run in the back you think would not make any problems and suddenly:BAM.

 

I for example as a PlanetZoo player - Yeah, what? What? - What's wrong? I can play Witcher 3 and PlanetZoo and I am still cool. So cool am I. Anyways: After one patch I was not able anymore to run Cubase in the back. (That is a sound programm).

I have no clue - what caused it - but I happily reported the bug in that PlanetZoo does not run anymore with an open Cubase-Project and that this is NOT OKAY! *cough cough (no I did not - I send in multiple bug-crash reports till figuering out that I was still running 4GB projects in the background and felt very dumb and hope they had a great laugh at whoever runs that crash-reports facilities - so some guy in Malaysia maybe)^^

 

Anyways: I just want to tell you - that are very common issues many games do have that cause random crashes.

And it is hard to help someone - as yes - maybe it is not on you - and you tried everything (graphic settings, sound setting etc.) but chances are very high that there is something fishy going on.

 

But in Witcher 3 - most crashes happen because the game tries to load something and it does not find an entry it is looking for or try to execute something that is corrupt or not existing. This happens in the OpenWorld.

I had random crashes, too once in a while, without mods. Only because I do mod Witcher 3 I do know when the game tends to crash. So spawn points or layers if nothing is corrupt. As in general Witcher3 allows a lot.

 

*shoulder clap - or how we do in the PlanetZoo-gang: Huuuuug.

[Shim16137]

Hi poor Shim.

 

I am Ryan. And I don't know who treated you as an idiot. I can only advise you - smile at the world and the world will smile back. Trust me a good amount of people do not even understand my posts. Has nothing to do with English happens even in German. They only give me more credit in English, as they think that poor fellow does not know better.

 

So as I do have plenty of time on my back today - I will try to point you out into the right direction.

See the problem in general is if guys like you do have problems - to 90% - the problem is on your side of the screen and the information you provide is not enough.

You have no idea how many times (and I do a lot of support - I even closed comments and force people to take time to write me a PM and stilll - 1 out 5 - goes: "It's not working, I did everythign right and 3 back and forth later - it goes: Ouh! I forgot about ... Now it is working."

I mod for years and release stuff on the net - trust me - I know what I am talking about.

 

Now - let's look at your problem. - The game always crashes if it does not find something it should render. That can have multiple causes. Specifically animations are something that can make the game crash fast.

I don't know any of your mods. But I see that you do have animations and motions. Are you really positive that you cleaned your DLC and mod folder?

That is something I would look for first.

 

Now my first question would be: Do you play with console? Do you tweak around with Geralt? To make him run faster or go through walls etc?

The reason why I would ask this, as this can result into that you enter areas - the game has to load stuff into that areas (spawn something) and can not execute fast enough. That is why then it even does not matter what machine you are running - as it just tries to execute stuff faster, but it still can not find it.

 

Spawn-Points f.e. can create problems in Witcher 3. That is why I always advise: Do a little role-play - give the game some time. As otherwise you will have random crashes - LIKE YOU DO!^^ Surprise.

 

Based on your description - and believing in the truth of your words - I would think - that this could be very likely your problem.

Another thing that can cause random crashes is always sound or sound-related actions. But that is hardware related. Or even stuff you run in the back you think would not make any problems and suddenly:BAM.

 

I for example as a PlanetZoo player - Yeah, what? What? - What's wrong? I can play Witcher 3 and PlanetZoo and I am still cool. So cool am I. Anyways: After one patch I was not able anymore to run Cubase in the back. (That is a sound programm).

I have no clue - what caused it - but I happily reported the bug in that PlanetZoo does not run anymore with an open Cubase-Project and that this is NOT OKAY! *cough cough (no I did not - I send in multiple bug-crash reports till figuering out that I was still running 4GB projects in the background and felt very dumb and hope they had a great laugh at whoever runs that crash-reports facilities - so some guy in Malaysia maybe)^^

 

Anyways: I just want to tell you - that are very common issues many games do have that cause random crashes.

And it is hard to help someone - as yes - maybe it is not on you - and you tried everything (graphic settings, sound setting etc.) but chances are very high that there is something fishy going on.

 

But in Witcher 3 - most crashes happen because the game tries to load something and it does not find an entry it is looking for or try to execute something that is corrupt or not existing. This happens in the OpenWorld.

I had random crashes, too once in a while, without mods. Only because I do mod Witcher 3 I do know when the game tends to crash. So spawn points or layers if nothing is corrupt. As in general Witcher3 allows a lot.

 

*shoulder clap - or how we do in the PlanetZoo-gang: Huuuuug.

Thankyou for being the first person to not be an ass.

 

Solved.

- When you get the Red Engine (Compiling Scripts) box, you HAVE to let it load to the main screen, and then close the game and relaunch it. This time, there won't be a Red Engine (Compiling Scripts) box, if there is still then repeat the process. Evidently no mod author or forum tells you that if you don't do this then it breaks your game down to the core, and is only fixable by reinstalling the ENTIRE game... It took me days to discover this, days of countless searching through forums since evidently NOBODY deems this information important, even though it clearly is. Hopefully I can save someone else an insane amount of time discovering why their game doesn't work after completely following every instruction.