My game crashes when driving around JapanTown

[Niko130]

On this zone, In this area, I don't know what I can do.

I have too many mods to figure out the conflict, I don't have any that mod the department. Any suggestions?

[Dragon32]

I had a crash when driving around, always happened in the same place when I loaded up a save. Turned out to be running out of VRAM (10GB on a 3080 RTX). I dropped textures to Medium in the in-game options and that's given me enough leeway.

If it's not that then try a binary search, sounds like it'll take a long time but it's surprisingly quick and a method I've used in a number of games. It's called bisecting here, really good resource: https://wiki.redmodding.org/cyberpunk-2077-modding/for-mod-users/user-guide-troubleshooting

[DrThyme24]

Had this problem too, putting this up because it's one of the first results when googling the issue.

For me, putting Texture Quality from High to Medium worked. I may just be blind, but the option only seems to appear from the main menu, and not in-game.

Edit: After this, I put my Texture QUality back to high, switched my DLSS wizard "frames-outta-nowhere" to Balanced instead of Quality, and dropped a couple of graphic settings from Ultra to Medium. Seems stable now. Another point for the VRAM theory.

No idea if this is related to VRAM; I know nothing except that I have 8 gigs on a laptop RTX 4060, so seems like Dragon32 is onto something. I'm inclined to believe the kind fella.

However, the redmodding wiki (https://wiki.redmodding.org/cyberpunk-2077-modding/for-mod-users/user-guide-troubleshooting) tells me that Japantown specifically has a broken mesh, that crashes when you use Material and Texture Override (https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/5266). No idea if this is true, no idea if this is relevant; either way, good luck, ye who stumbled upon the same issue.

Edited March 4 by DrThyme24