
Here's a final suggestion should your issue persist. This serves the purpose of eliminating the cause more than it attempts to resolve the issue, but if you have overheating hardware, it needs to be addressed immediately. If it really is overheating, the GPU fan should cause a noticeable sound difference, not to mention the game would crash soon after. If you can, find a large group of wolves or nekkers or something. With that 'thorough' concept in mind, test the stability during game play. This is the default setting, so its kind of a long shot, but when it comes to troubleshooting, you need to be thorough. but it might be power settings.Ĭheck the ' Manage 3D Settings' category in the NVIDIA Control Panel and make sure your Power Management Mode is set to Optimal Power. the behavior you describe kind of suggests it. I can see why there are several posts suspecting it might be your video card overheating. Any hints on this would be greatly appreciated because at this point I just can't be bothered playing anything at all. I honestly have no clue how to properly test my motherboard or PSU. I ran a CPU test the other day (hot CPU tester, not sure if that's any good or if someone can recommend some other software) and after 6 hours of testing it informed me it found a faulty checksum in some of its calculations, so I'm thinking the CPU could be at fault. This leaves either the PSU, the motherboard or the CPU. Considering I've installed it on different HDD's I don't think it's a drive fault either.

My graphics card is brand new (and I had crashes before I switched it out as well) so I don't /think/ it's responsible but it could be. I ran memtest a while back and it turned up with no errors. I recently also played through x-com again and this would also crash (but very rarely in comparison to the witcher 3).I just formated my entire computer and reinstalled windows and it still crashed within 3 minutes of starting a new game, so I'm pretty sure some hardware is at fault.Installing via gog galaxy and stand-alone.Messing around with in-game settings (fps limit, hair works, fullscreen/windowed, lowest graphics, highest graphics, resolution etc).Installing the game on another hardrive.It can crash at any point (while moving, while playing gwent, while loading and while doing just about nothing).Īn APPCRASH always looks like this: Problem Event Name: APPCRASHĪdditional Information 2: 755c2ef5ca0cfe56d868b4b01f50b3beĪdditional Information 4: f44ecf6ab3842bb0e5d8de5a0f380bfc Typically I'll either get an actual error (APPCRASH) or it'll just boot me to desktop with no errors.

I'm pretty sure it's some faulty hardware of mine but I'm not sure to start. I've still played it a fair bit but now I'm at my wits end (playing 10 minutes before a crash is considered good, often it'll crash while loading). So The Witcher 3 has been crashing constantly ever since I started playing it and I'm having a hard time diagnosing it.
