Watch Dogs 2 crashing

[ChristopherG2001]

Hi everyone.
I just bought watch dogs 2 and have played it for a few hours at a stretch. Recently, whenever I'm playing the game - say 10-15 minutes in - the game randomly crashes, especially when I'm driving. I have tinkered around with the settings a bit. With low settings 1366X768 with 0.95 pixel density, I average around 25-30fps. I also externally turned down the distance scaling, so that far-away objects render only when I get closer.
When it crashes, the whole screen just pauses. The audio stops, then returns for a brief second and stops again. The whole game then crashes, returning to the desktop - no error message. Also, after this happens, my gpu memory and core clock automatically drop to what they are when the gpu is idling - and won't go back up even when I reopen the game, resulting in huge fps drops even when the game starts back up. This problem continues until i restart my pc.
Any ideas, please?

 

[nitrium]

Have you tried setting graphic options to "Windowed Borderless" (as opposed to the standard "Fullscreen")? I've found that this often helps improve stability for terrible console ports for some reason. Doesn't seem to affect performance much, so is worth trying.

 

[ChristopherG2001]

Have you tried setting graphic options to "Windowed Borderless" (as opposed to the standard "Fullscreen")? I've found that this often helps improve stability for terrible console ports for some reason. Doesn't seem to affect performance much, so is worth trying.

Hi, thanks for answering.
Sorry for the late reply, but yes I have tried that. Borderless window, windowed, changing my resolution as well - none of that has seemed to work for me, though I have heard it work for other people. It's strange since this only happened recently and I haven't updated the game recently, so there's been no changes to it. I've also tried running as admin, changing the priority of the game in task manager and using nvidia inspector to change the texture quality downscale thing (sorry, not sure what that's called). None of that has worked, though I did realise that the game crashes mostly during missions, or when I'm driving.

 

[Moshud]

Have you tried setting graphic options to "Windowed Borderless" (as opposed to the standard "Fullscreen")? I've found that this often helps improve stability for terrible console ports for some reason. Doesn't seem to affect performance much, so is worth trying.

Hi, thanks for answering.
Sorry for the late reply, but yes I have tried that. Borderless window, windowed, changing my resolution as well - none of that has seemed to work for me, though I have heard it work for other people. It's strange since this only happened recently and I haven't updated the game recently, so there's been no changes to it. I've also tried running as admin, changing the priority of the game in task manager and using nvidia inspector to change the texture quality downscale thing (sorry, not sure what that's called). None of that has worked, though I did realise that the game crashes mostly during missions, or when I'm driving.

You are not alone their buddy i played this game since launch on ultra with no issues at all with crashes however only in the last say about 4 weeks i get constant crashes 100% of the time and always 0-15 mins into the game sometimes i can hardly get past the ubisoft logo screen i have not changed any hardware in fact i have resorted to aggressively lowering settings to high and all other extras off and it still crashes.

 

[nitrium]

You are not alone their buddy i played this game since launch on ultra with no issues at all with crashes however only in the last say about 4 weeks i get constant crashes 100% of the time and always 0-15 mins into the game sometimes i can hardly get past the ubisoft logo screen i have not changed any hardware in fact i have resorted to aggressively lowering settings to high and all other extras off and it still crashes.

Sounds like a driver or game update issue to me. Have you tried rolling back your GPU driver?

 

[Moshud]

You are not alone their buddy i played this game since launch on ultra with no issues at all with crashes however only in the last say about 4 weeks i get constant crashes 100% of the time and always 0-15 mins into the game sometimes i can hardly get past the ubisoft logo screen i have not changed any hardware in fact i have resorted to aggressively lowering settings to high and all other extras off and it still crashes.

Sounds like a driver or game update issue to me. Have you tried rolling back your GPU driver?

Sorry for late reply, i have managed to finally get into the game however it still crashes mainly in shootouts when my life is on red, previously i could not get into game also titanfall 2 was another game that wouldn't load with instant messages on launch from Windows claiming that a problem had occurred, I THINK I HAVE FOUND A TEMP FIX
I originally had fast sync enabled in NCP and have since switched to VSYNC ON in NCP and VSYNC off in game titanfall 2 now plays without any issue however WD2 still crashes, (note still improvement as i could hardly load the game before)

 

[Moshud]

Hi everyone.
I just bought watch dogs 2 and have played it for a few hours at a stretch. Recently, whenever I'm playing the game - say 10-15 minutes in - the game randomly crashes, especially when I'm driving. I have tinkered around with the settings a bit. With low settings 1366X768 with 0.95 pixel density, I average around 25-30fps. I also externally turned down the distance scaling, so that far-away objects render only when I get closer.
When it crashes, the whole screen just pauses. The audio stops, then returns for a brief second and stops again. The whole game then crashes, returning to the desktop - no error message. Also, after this happens, my gpu memory and core clock automatically drop to what they are when the gpu is idling - and won't go back up even when I reopen the game, resulting in huge fps drops even when the game starts back up. This problem continues until i restart my pc.
Any ideas, please?

Found a permanent fix if you haven't by now, yesterday i was playing for hours rock solid stable without one crash.
What i did was
Lower my screen refresh rate by 1mhz buy creating a custom resolution of 164hz in NCP (native is 165hz), then i restored 3D manage settings in global and applied, thats it rebooted launched the game and didnt crash once.

 

[Aman_51]

Hi everyone.
I just bought watch dogs 2 and have played it for a few hours at a stretch. Recently, whenever I'm playing the game - say 10-15 minutes in - the game randomly crashes, especially when I'm driving. I have tinkered around with the settings a bit. With low settings 1366X768 with 0.95 pixel density, I average around 25-30fps. I also externally turned down the distance scaling, so that far-away objects render only when I get closer.
When it crashes, the whole screen just pauses. The audio stops, then returns for a brief second and stops again. The whole game then crashes, returning to the desktop - no error message. Also, after this happens, my gpu memory and core clock automatically drop to what they are when the gpu is idling - and won't go back up even when I reopen the game, resulting in huge fps drops even when the game starts back up. This problem continues until i restart my pc.
Any ideas, please?

Found a permanent fix if you haven't by now, yesterday i was playing for hours rock solid stable without one crash.
What i did was
Lower my screen refresh rate by 1mhz buy creating a custom resolution of 164hz in NCP (native is 165hz), then i restored 3D manage settings in global and applied, thats it rebooted launched the game and didnt crash once.

But Moshud I have a 60 hz refresh rate and I created a custom resolution of 59 hz...as you said...used it and restored defaults in global settings in NCP....STill game crashes on a point......It crashes at 2 points......when I ama doing the new dawn riots mission and
when i doing the TAP INTO HAUM'S DATA RETRIEVAL SYSTEM MISSION...IN both the cases the game crashes at the end part of these missions......When it crashes, the whole screen just pauses. The audio stops, then returns for a brief second and stops again. The whole game then crashes, returning to the desktop...I also get a uplay message that WATCH DOGS
has crashed and I also sent a crash report....PLS HELP ME.......I have bought this game recently as I have been waiting for it for months....Please help me