The Witcher 3 crashes to desktop with no error message

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PickleMan3458

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I've had The Witcher 3 for a few months and around two weeks ago it started crashing to the desktop with no error message. I've had a couple crashes before but this is different. It happens usually after an around an hour of playtime. So I've been trying to limit myself to an hour of playtime to avoid these crashes all together and so far it's worked. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.

Here are the settings I'm running it at.
1920x1080
Unlimited FPS
Hairworks On
Hairworks AA - 4
Hairworks - High
Number of Background Characters - High
Shadow Quality - High
Terrain Quality - Ultra
Water Quality - Ultra
Grass Density- Ultra
Texture Quality- Ultra
Foliage Visibility Range - High
Detail Level - Ultra

My Specs
i5-4460
8gb RAM
EVGA GTX 970 Overclocked
Seagate 1tb HDD
 
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James Mason
Probably a driver issue. I'm not sure your system is actually capable of running it at that setting but.... you have been all this time so *shrug* (Could also be a failing PSU issue if it was fine and then is no longer fine when the card starts drawing more power than the PSU can provide)

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file...
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James Mason

James Mason

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Probably a driver issue. I'm not sure your system is actually capable of running it at that setting but.... you have been all this time so *shrug* (Could also be a failing PSU issue if it was fine and then is no longer fine when the card starts drawing more power than the PSU can provide)

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
 
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