I installed the witcher 3 with GOG Galaxy and have experienced sudden freezing. My screen got frozen, but still can hear BGM and SE, and even I can controll Geralt with my xboxpad.

I have reinstalled my pc's windows 8.1, and installing the witcher 3 with downloaded files divided in seven piece(which you can get from your GOG library). planing to update further situation.



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It worked for me 4hours, but after that game freeze again.

Same problem. Started happening after roughly 2 hours of gameplay.

Game will simply freeze. Cursor can't move, but I can still hear sound.
I have to alt+control+del out and game then crashes.

This is happening every ten minutes now, making the game unplayable.

I'll wait a few days for more patches...

GTX970 with latest drivers
8 G of ram
i5 4460
Win 7 64bit

Same here.

Same here as well. The game tends to freeze randomly and I can't do anything to shut it down except signing out of Windows or rebooting my system completely. Help?

10 minutes? What would I give for 10 minutes! Even each time i quit the game trouhg game menu, I still have to use ctrl+alt+del to quit the game proces. ANGRY

This is what I am experiencing, typically can play 10-20 minutes before it freezes, sometimes it will be instant and sometimes I can go for an hour. It will freeze during cutscenes, out in the open, or while talking. It is only the screen though, the sound continues normally and when I was streaming with a friend watching he was still able to see me move on the stream, even though on my screen I was frozen.

Graphic options don't appear to affect the duration I can play before the freeze, Geforce experience says I should be able to play at 60 FPS ultra, but even lowering everything to bare minimum still freezes.

FX 6300 six core
GTX 960 with latest driver
16 gb RAM
Windows 8.1

The fix is to turn off Vsync and to uncap FPS int he video options. That seems to have worked for many others that experienced freezing issues.

same prob here
can play 5-30 min


i7-4790k
GTX 780TI
32 gb ram
win 7

same here

Same here

Here but with an AMD 290 Low settings 16 g ram, Win 7 64 AMD FX 6300 6 core.

I too get random freezing - and at different resolutions as well.

I have the game on two different rigs; still get random freezing. Both computers are rock solid otherwise and can pass gaming/benchmarks etc. all day without issue.

I think the new drivers are not that good either - might be that in combination with the actual game.

Hopefully there is a fix soon.

Thank you, this seems to have worked for me, at the very least I haven't had a freeze for 3 hours since doing this.

Yep, just started having this problem after fixing the screen tearing I keep having in game. I turned vsync on in full screen mode and now my game is freezing like crazy. Sucks because I can't stand screen tearing, but constant freezing pisses me off even more so yeah.

Solves it for a few but all the tricks and helps doesn't do squat for me. What worked best is to put everything on low and put it to windowed mode - that game me a solid ten minutes before the game crashed with the driver quit responding message...

Unoptimized and unplayable so far.