The game crashes unexpectedly during play.
The game crashes unexpectedly during play.
In certain regions (just a few), the game frequently stops working. Occasionally it happens occasionally, other times it ends within a minute after restarting. So far, two areas have caused major problems: Graveyard and Financial District. Crashes occur just seconds after I load the game again. Reducing graphics settings resolved the issue completely in Graveyard, but the visual quality was poor. In the Financial District, progress is limited to a few minutes before another crash. I’m about 40% through the game and anticipate more crashes soon. I’d rather fix it now rather than risk further damage. So far, no solution has helped—downgrading to an older version didn’t work, changing DLLs or updating BIOS/firmware didn’t resolve it, disabling certain features, boosting settings, adjusting resolution, etc., all failed. When the last crash happened, MSI Afterburner showed memory usage jumping from 33GB to 54GB, RAM usage spiking from 16.4GB to 17.6GB, while VRAM stayed steady at 9.5GB. My card is a 6900XT with 16GB VRAM and a 12700kf CPU. This looks like a RAM problem, but why am I the only one facing it on my high-end machine? Anyone know what to do?
It seems you've encountered similar issues before where having more VRAM than system RAM didn't prevent crashes. Assets load from VRAM but require system RAM first, so insufficient memory causes problems. Consider reducing resolution or texture quality to resolve the issue.
It seems you're revisiting an old problem that recently triggered a new error. You found a relevant discussion here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...30bc686cba. While following the initial steps, running the "sfc /scannow" command revealed a fix for the issue. After a restart and another game session, you were able to play without crashes, especially in the Financial District area, suggesting the problem may have been resolved.
There was a superb new Radeon driver update yesterday with the best Fluid Motion Frames Feature ever. All games run so superb fluid now with this AI in-between-frames rendering like they where melted butter, even Tekken 8 which before sometimes had a slight stutter for the fracture of a second before doing certain moves - a pure dream. Unfortunately.... The Last of Us kept crashing all the time. As usual. Even with the newest driver. And of course no game update to solve this problem will come, ever. I also read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/co...graveyard/ ... and it seems to be a problem of the game itself, a bug in the game engine making the game crash all the time an early area called "Graveyard" and somewhere in an area called "Finance District". Plus everyone kept saying " you need to switch off AMD BAR - but in the BIOS. I was able to play it after I switched it off in the BIOS... " Since the new driver update AMD SAM (or BAR) has now a new tab now called "Smart Technology", the Last of Us maybe does not like Smart Technology with AMD SAM so one needs to switch off all that Smart Technology for the time being. I did two things, switched off AMD BAR (you can do that by setting PCIe_1 slot to x3, or switch it off somewhere hidden deeper in the BIOS functions). So switch if off this way, and boot. You should also set the graphics and AI functions to lowest settings, this (sometimes) delays the unavoidable crash also for a minute or so. Afterwards you ran as fast as possible through the graveyard area with all these empty suburb gardens and houses where the game kept crashing all the time (you have about 30 seconds to one minute until it crashes) so simply run as fast as possible through the level to the cat door and when you´re out, you are safe and the bug is overcome. The game should run completely normal afterwards with no more crashes as soon as you are through this cat door, like every other fine well-mannered game behaves. Switch everything back to ultra maxed-out graphics settings and 2k resolution and AMD FSR2. Voilá - now the game runs perfect, for almost half an hour now Finally. Maybe a few random crashes will occur every few hours, but the game is no longer unplayable and no longer keeps crashing every minute like it did in the Graveyard level. Enjoy the apocalypse!