Ok, so no luck on anything so far. Just posted the following on CD Project Red's Witcher 3 support forum. I think I'm going to open a ticket with them. Not that it will help, but I wasn't having ANY issues until I installed HoS, so worth a shot. Very frustrated right now...
Below is my post on the CDPR Witcher 3 Forums (has more info on what all I've tried and the error itself as well as system specs):
So very frustrated right now. Have over 103 hours in this game and have been putting off playing any of the expansion content so I could get both good endings of the game prior to doing so as well as kind of wait for closer to the release of the second expansion so I could play both HoS and B&W back to back.
So, because B&W is rumored to come out next month I went ahead and purchased the Expansion pack, installed that, now I cannot play the game for 20 minutes without a crash..SOME type of crash, as it is completely random.
It DOES NOT matter what I'm doing in-game this happens (being in a load screen/inventory/etc... it is irrelevant, it will simply do it while I'm walking around with the game running as smooth as butter...just CRASH). I played for HOURS to get the second ending just last week before I went ahead and installed the Expansion pass, but now, I can't do anything....CRASH.
When the game crashes is about as random as how as well...It may: give me a blue screen, freeze the PC and force me to do a manual restart (i.e. hold the power button), freeze the game (but allow me to kill via the control panel), go black and not totally freeze though (will not recover however and I can still hear Geralt getting killed in the background or other random game noises - until eventually that dies too), sometimes it just goes to the desktop and without any error at all, sometimes I'll get a Witcher 3 has stopped responding... I mean it's all over the place.
I have tried almost every fix I've read about, including: setting my pc and graphics card back to factory settings (no overclocking anywhere),downclocking my video card and power on it, reverting back to Feb drivers, then Jan drivers, then said hell with it and went all the way back to last ones they had (Oct'15), turned off Auto-Restart in my system settings for when Windows crashes, turned off GOG in-game overlay in the DLC area, ran without GOG client on (directly through the .exe), ran through Steam as a non-steam game pointing directly to the .exe, cut off Geforce experience, removed MSI Afterburner and RivaTuner from pc entirely (just in case), checked and verified the game files via GOG, ran in windowed borderless, full screen, and any other option it offered, and some other things that I know I'm forgetting to mention... and STILL get the crash.
This OBVIOUSLY has something to do with the update, as just last week it was FINE, ZERO crashes...then downloaded and installed HoS, and BAM, can't run it for 20 minutes (and that's the LONGEST I can get it to go...often it may crash within 2 minutes). I have no issues getting into the game. It actually loads very fast and seems to run flawlessly. There is no obvious performance issues occurring when this happens, it is literally out of nowhere.
Below are some system specs for my rig:
Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1
Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
16GB RAM
64 Bit OS
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980Ti with latest drivers (10.18.13.6451)
Unfortunately not all of my game crashes produce a crash report in the bin > x64 folder. As a matter of fact neither crash from today has (one it crashed back to desktop - just stopped running) the other was a blue screen, neither triggered a crash report. However, 8 of my crashes from 3/17 triggered a report, so I've attached one of those for reference (they all appear to be the "Exception_Access_Violation (3221225477) error"). I have also attached an image of my blue screen error which references a "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" error. I like to note however, that I have used my PC for HOURS during this time and not once had issues...until I try to play Witcher 3, so just want to clarify the blue screen ONLY occurs while playing the game.
Blue Screen Error:
(attached - couldn't figure out how to insert into the GOG forum)
Crash Log from Gog Games > Witcher 3 Wild Hunt > bin > x64 is actually below, as I couldn't upload it, so having to paste it in and it's really LONG.
Any help or advice would be appreciated as I am at my wits end and so frustrated as this is one of my favorite games, and I was really stoked to start in on a new game plus and tackle the expansions. Was really looking forward to logging another 100+ hours on this game, so this recent upset definitely has me wanting to throw my desktop through my monitor ... think I may have turned hulk-green due to this a couple of times as a matter of fact...
PLEASE HELP!!!
Below is part my crash log from Gog Games Witcher 3. The GOG forums will not post my response when I input the whole message and I can't attach it....
Red Engine Crash Log
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Build: Not Set [ Compiled Jan 15 2016 ]
User: Big Al
Crash reason: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (3221225477), Error writing location 0x28d35058
Crashed Thread:
Thread ID: 5340
callstack:
<Unknown Symbol>() + 0x0 - <Unknown File>(0)
<Unknown Symbol>() + 0x0 - <Unknown File>(0)
<Unknown Symbol>() + 0x0 - <Unknown File>(0)
<Unknown Symbol>() + 0x0 - <Unknown File>(0)
<Unknown Symbol>() + 0x0 - <Unknown File>(0)
<Unknown Symbol>() + 0x0 - <Unknown File>(0)
Debug Information
================================================================
Commandline: "C:\GOG Games\The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt\bin\x64\witcher3.exe"
Thread ID: 4816
callstack:
Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x1038cc - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x6b7434 - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0xc4e36 - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xe1d22 - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0xbf99a - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xe2007 - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x9f6 - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x38cdd - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xe3d - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x11ec - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x22d778 - <Unknown File>(0)
BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0xd - <Unknown File>(0)
RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x21 - <Unknown File>(0)
....plus lots more of Thread ID's and Unknown file>(0) reports (all on the same log).
Post edited March 20, 2016 by stacycmc