KNOWN ISSUE: Crashing at Random, Due to GPU-Related Errors

My game crashes directly upon launch, so that may prevent these lines from appearing for me.

The line that should exist ā€œlauncher overridesā€ doesn’t exist for me.

restart your steam
open the game (launcher is enough).
close it
the line should be there

Deleting shader cache files did not help. It didnt crash within 2-3 minutes of being in lobby, so i decided to test join a mission. it showed missions and joined one fine. then within 10 seconds of mission starting it crashed same error/hang/deadlock/ etc.

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I don’t really want to send people down some rabbithole in vain, but one thing I’ve noticed from going through all your log files is that you all seem to be running the same version of Windows11.

Have you tried to fully reinstall the drivers using DDU? (Display Driver Uninstaller Download version 18.0.5.8) (Do not attempt unless you know what you are doing! And read very carefully how it is supposed to be used!)
First run DDU to completely rid the system of every remnant of a driver, and then install the driver again from nvidia. This seem to be reported to be able to help with issues in Windows11 generally.

Another option could be to try to use the stable (studio) drivers instead of the gaming performance drivers, and see if that helps.

Meanwhile we’ll be working hard on trying to solve these issues once and for all.

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Crashing on windows 10! Gpu hang thing.

Loaded a mission, clicked ā€œReadyā€ and crashed. Guess I’ll wait for the next ā€œhotfixā€

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I’m gonna try this.

My game is still crashing after latest hotfix, new Nvidia drivers (clean install), and defaulted settings via the launcher.

Still only workaround is Worker Threads = 1.

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Yes, multiple times. Although I didn’t use DDU but Nvidia’s official tool which does the same thing but easier:
https://developer.nvidia.com/cleanup-tool

It didn’t help.

I downloaded this tool after I installed the studio driver to test, but it oddly gives a ā€œnvidia installation already in progress, do you want to cancel,ā€ etc. the driver is done installing, what is it refering to?

Tried DDU in safe mode and new drivers + the launcher override setting that @FatsharkJulia mentioned earlier.

Same crash in the same behavior - 1-2 minutes into a mission.

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Still crashes ~ Only workaround is 1 thread. And remember…Windows 11 not 10.

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Did full cleanup using nvidia tool. it wiped everything. reinstalled geforce experiance and installed new drivers (dec1). deleted the 3 shader files, reset settings to default in launcher, and I get the same exact crash. this time after about 2 minutes of just being in hub. didnt change any settings, just visited store to see the items.

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Still crashing on latest experimental version, worker threads a 1 is the workaround though still crash consistently on certain missions

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Random crashes all the time :confused: … I tried anything to fix/ find a workaround, no luck…
I didn’t have any crashes only during 3-days closed beta… but then it was only worse…
Please fix it!!

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