FIXED - DELETE DXGI FILES (I think they have something to do with reshade)


Hi,

I've played the Witcher 3 GOTY edition for over 20 hours so far, and suddenly, the game will not launch. There is a brief black screen that flashes (the game starting and immediately crashing) and then I'm back to my desktop.

Things I've tried:
-Verifying/repairing game files - no change.
-Uninstalling, reinstalling - no change.
-Leaving game installed, uninstalling GOG Galaxy, and starting the game from .exe - no change.
-Uninstalling all mods, reinstalling game - no change (also tried just uninstalling mods)
-Downloaded Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 10, added witcher3.exe to list, enabled force warp set to 11_1 - the game actually started, but got about .1 fps with GPU usage going haywire
-updated graphics drivers - no change

Can someone help, please? I have an RTX 2070 and i7 8750h, have been able to play the game just fine up until tonight. I've uninstalled recently installed programs, tried everything I think. On Windows 10, 16GB RAM. Below is part of the most recent (of quite a few crash logs) let me know if you need more of the log than this.

Crash reason: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (3221225477), Error writing location 0x4413af40

Crashed Thread:

Thread ID: 21104

callstack:
<Unknown Symbol>() + 0x0 - <Unknown File>(0)
D3DKMTQueryResourceInfo() + 0xafff - <Unknown File>(0)
DXGIGetDebugInterface1() + 0xa92e - <Unknown File>(0)
DXGIGetDebugInterface1() + 0xd5b6 - <Unknown File>(0)
PIXEndCapture() + 0x11d30 - <Unknown File>(0)
DXGIReportAdapterConfiguration() + 0x722b - <Unknown File>(0)
DXGIReportAdapterConfiguration() + 0x19df - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x2245 - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xc1c0d3 - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xbc4fb5 - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x27902 - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x27662 - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xba4ed0 - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x246447 - <Unknown File>(0)
Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x2465ee - <Unknown File>(0)
BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x14 - <Unknown File>(0)
RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x21 - <Unknown File>(0)

How to reproduce this problem: install reshade from their online download, into the game directory. Breaks the game entirely. I may have installed it incorrectly, but deleting the .otpg files and the reshade file (I think it was a .ini? maybe not, can't remember.) solves the problem.