Same crashes here, then I turned off Hairworks and didn't' get anymore black screen crashes.

Now the game freezes occasionally, once when trying to revive and once when entering Inventory. Annoying.

the same

After opening movie was fihished, then game crashed to desktop.


My PC:

i5 2400
Msi GTX 960 (2G ram)
8G ram
Win7 64bit

Actually I would suggest avoiding latest Witcher 3 game ready drivers. A lot of issues for a lot of people, not only in games. Same crashes/freezes even on browsers and random applications.

Wait, Nvidia "meant to be played" actually has more problems than AMD? O_o

Same here, 750ti with latest nvidia drivers. The game runs very smoothly on high settings, but crashes very often, mostly without any error messages. It happens more often in the inventory, but also completely randomly when playing or seconds after starting the game. Sometimes I can play for hours without a single crash and sometimes it crashes every 5 minutes. Depending on settings (a combination of locking fps, borderless/fullscreen and vsync seem to have the most effect) the stability seems to vary greatly. For now I was able to keep the crashes to a minimum by locking the fps to 30 and running the game as administrator. but of course being limited to 30 fps is not ideal and it sucks having to replay a longer quest because the game will inevitably crash at some point.

I hope CDPR or NVidia will find a way to fix whatever seems to be the issue here for so many people.

Same here. Seems to happen mostly inside menus, while reading book, around crafting, that type of thing. But it's not clear and cut reproducible.

I got a crash or freeze every hour or so.

GTX970, latest stable nVidia drivers.

For those of you still crashing on menus, try turning off the controller vibration/rumble in options. I crashed a couple times in the inventory, and found that option suggested by a few people in different threads (they and myself use keyboard+mouse, no controller). I don't know why it would affect the inventory, but I played for about 6 hours today without a single crash.

It's crashing if I open the menus one too many times. I played for an hour without touching the menu and everything was fine. Then browsing through quest logs or items and it just turns black. Can hear sound and the game still working but it's just all black. No error message or log turns up and I have to force the application to shutdown via Task manager.

I am somewhat happy I got a refund for the pre-order and just used the bundled copy with my video card.

Patience I suppose but it's such an engrossing game and it's such a tease that you can't play it.

i5 2400
GTX 970
8 GB Ram
Windows 7

Well, add me to the list of folks who's tired of having the game freeze up. It's usually when I'm using the inventory or crafting menus. However, the game just freezes, the curser stops moving but the music and sound effects are still going on around me. The only way to get out of it is to Ctrl-Alt-Del and use the Task Manager to close the program and then start over. I'll say this much, it sure is encouraging A LOT of saving on my part, because I never know when I"ll lose it all.

Win 7-64
i7-4770k
16GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 750 Ti (driver v. 352.86)

I don't have dual monitors or an overclock, but the problem you're describing did happen a lot with my old GTX 680, and the only thing that would fix it was to underclock it. I haven't had the same problem with this GPU, at least it's not telling me that the driver is crashing in this game, even though the symptoms are similar.

Yeah try underclocking your card even if you have not overclocked at all. Did mine by 100mhz and have had no issues since.

My game crashes in the end of first griffon cinematic, when the monster is flying down on Vesemir. It just shuts down, momentally.
i5 2500k (overclocked)
Radeon HD7950
8GB RAM
Windows 7 64 bit

I'm getting the crash to desktop but the sound is still on. It happens at the same place every time and I can't progress as it's during the first main quest "Lilac & Gooseberries"

Soon as I go to the Nilfgaardian outpost and talk to the guards on the gate it crashes just before the transition to the cutscene.

I didn't have latest drivers but do now and still a problem, running on a GTX980 with everything switched on/turned up.

Literally had no problems whatsoever up until this point. So frustrating!

Could it be an issue with GOG maybe? seen a YouTube vid that suggests deleting or renaming the Galaxy.dll to stop crashes or freezes


EDIT: Ok so I tried the renaming/deleting of the .dll file and this worked for me, I have finally progressed past the point it kept crashing!!

So go to GOG Games folder, Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, then open the bin and x64 folders, in there you'll find Galaxy.dll which you simply need to rename (I renamed mine dead.dll but also made a copy of the original first and put it in a folder on my desktop just incase)

If you go at event viewer you will find same error its just not poping out on destkop. Underclock is not a solution, its accepting that card is fault and someone is lazy to RMA it or buy another one :) My overclock is giving me like 15-20fps in W3 so thats not acceptable. Look at guru3d forums, a lot of people have crashes, its driver related.