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MABrock1980
Seasoned Newcomer
4 days ago

Crashing to Desktop (no error)

During my first full play-though, the only issues I had with crashing were with mods installed.

Mods have been completely removed, and the game ran fine till the end, but since starting a new game (not NG+), the crashes have been more frequent.

The game's been repaired, and uninstalled and re-installed, and still, I get sporadic crashes.  It's not a particular area, it doesn't appear to be under a particular load (the latest was during the final section of the fight against the arch-demon at Weisshaupt, but it's also done it when in dialogue or wandering around the lighthouse) and no settings have changed since the first playthrough.

The only thing that's changed is the DA Day update.

B650 GAMING X AX V2; AMD Ryzen 5 7600X ; AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE; 32GB DDR5 6000MHz

  • sweetpoison0011's avatar
    sweetpoison0011
    Seasoned Adventurer

    You can try to delete the system shader's cache and AMD's ones. The locations for system's cache are c:\Users\[uername]\AppData\Local\cache\ and c:\Users\[uername]\AppData\Local\D3DSCache\

    In addition, clean from time to time the %temp% folder and what is inside c:\windows\temp (admin rights required for last one). Example for cleaning temp files:

    @echo off
    
    pushd %temp%
    for /d %%D in (*) do rd /s /q "%%D"
    del /f /q *
    
    pushd c:\windows\temp
    for /d %%D in (*) do rd /s /q "%%D"
    del /f /q *
    popd

    Save the code as  .bat file and call it from time to time to eliminate the ballast (part of maintenance routine). 

    Unfortunately I don't know where AMD store it's shader cache but it sould be something similar to nvidia c:\Users\[uername]\AppData\Roaming\NVIDIA\ComputeCache  , c:\Users\[uername]\AppData\LocalLow\NVIDIA\PerDriverVersion\DXCache\

    If you manage to find the exact location post it here in help for other AMD video card users.

    Additional note, I clear all caches after each game update and when I'm done with one game and switch to another.

    • MABrock1980's avatar
      MABrock1980
      Seasoned Newcomer

      I think you're onto something with this, as it does seem more stable when the cache is clear, but having to wait five minutes for the shaders to load every time I boot the game is far from ideal.

      • sweetpoison0011's avatar
        sweetpoison0011
        Seasoned Adventurer

        I can't guarantee an improvement. It's just what I do after each video driver update, major windows update and as mentioned games updates or switch (overall about once every 2 weeks). The clean up temp files is on .bat file set up in schedule 30 min after log on, the cache clean up is another .bat file to be called on demand. Not sure it matters but not all shaders are build at game start-up and after cleaning system cache I expect the game to crash once or twice before get back to stable state. 

        Did you found where AMD store the shaders cache?

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