I came back to the game a couple of weeks ago and since then I experienced the game crashing ... on a daily basis ... I use no add-ons, GOG is the newest version and win 11 on a PC that is well equiped makes me wonder what the problem is ...

does anyone have an idea what it could be?

Same here. Fresh install, crashes with no particular pattern. Unplayable at this point. What a shame - so much for a 3rd playthrough.

I have to agree, this happens for some time to me, as well. Only thing i get is thank you choomba for transmitting my crash report. If i had no other games to play instead it would enrage me a bit more. Still not a good feeling right now. Only thing i can hope for is a fast new patch solving this problem.

i see i am in the wrong CD Project red game forum.

I get the same problem with both Cyberpunk and Witcher 3. Crashes within the first 10-20 mins every time I try to play. It seems to be a Red Engine issue. Might try older Nvidia drivers and see what I get.

At least for me, my issue was my RAM. I don't know why only Cyberpunk and Witcher 3 seemed to crash for me, but they haven't crashed since I sorted my RAM issue. Maybe run a memtest if you are having this issue.

Same problem. This game has never crashed on me before but having downloaded and are playing this new version my game crashes randomly. Looks like the game and not a computer problem.

crashes after loading a save before entering game on ROG ALLY Z1 EXTREME. :s

Zero issues with other games. Up to date drivers, clean install, rock solid system with high end components.

Today it has crashed:

- While loading a save
- Using fast travel
- Equipping armor
- Speaking to a merchant
- etc etc

It's near completely unplayable.

Problem is still present and has been since patch 4 release. Would be nice to be fixed AFTER TWO DAMN YEARS!

Hi,
just for my understanding, are all of you haveing these issues running "Windows 11" ?

No. Game is unstable on Win 10 as well. Mostly running as it is meant to be played, meaning: all those new features on.

what worked here is : i used DX12 with low settings.. crash at loading.

So used DX11 EXE & at launch it resetted GFX settings to default. Now it works fine. So try this or delete your GFX settings file to make a new... (maybe V4 needs a fresh settings file, or DX11... do tests..)

PS: on my ROG ALLY i got 7GB for video then so only 9GB left for system + game, so it's not RAM pb even error text say it... i believe you must try that. and not tested on desktop PC, i think it works fine on it.

Using DX11 doesn't fix anything. Wouldn't wanna run DX12 on Ally anyway, but it's where all the new Patch 4 new grahic features are and i have PC fully capable to run it. I also changed my rig completely since then and the situation hasn't changed. For two years now there are new graphic features, but the game is still barely playable with them and CDPR is unfortunatelly doing squat shit, to fix it.

I'm still on W10, the game freezes and crashes a couple of times a day for the last 3 days. This is my third play through, never had a problem before. I find the new pop-up screen to log on to CD Project annoying.

For sure a current Witcher 3 v4 -related problem.

For an AMD RX 6700 XT , driver v. 25.6.1 performance profile, on Win11 I can "reproduce" game crashes/blackscreen esp. in closed room e.g. below Novigrad/Kaer Trolde, sometime after tab out of the game, return ingame and wait for fps degradation.

I had less and random crashes on an NVIDIA RTX 3070 , diver versions 560.94 / 566.03 / 572.83 on WIn10 and the same other hardware (Ryzen 7 5800X, 32 GB RAM, NVME SSD,... ) - and not such fps degradation.

[Game version v.4.0.4., clean reinstall in between, borderless window, 1080p and dx12: Raytracing on but lowered on features like RT for shadows (OFF) - for both graphic cards, and RT for environment OFF for 6700XT, too. PowerMAX and Memtest tools run = system temps and stability is ok, other games work like all around GamePass]