I have found that my freezing stops if I change the power management setting in NVidia control panel to prefer maximum performance.
If I have that set to normal then it freezes on the character select screen.
This game appears to have been made kind of crappy so far.
I’ve been telling my guildies to hold off. Here there be bugs.
FYI: It is JUST this game. I can play Cyberpunk 2077 with NO issues at all!
I wanted to reply on this thread as I have on many others related to this topic. I am likewise experiencing the freeze/crash with audio still playing. I also have to alt +f4. I’ve tried all 6 of the recommended fixes in the one single post I’ve managed to find from the devs and none of them worked. I also underclocked my computer, no help. I’ve double checked my monitor htz, nope. I’ve changed every last setting to low, no help. I’ve clean installed old drivers, nope. I’ve locked power, nada. I cleaned out my pc, opened up the case, have house AC going straight through, sure keeps my computer nice and cool but doesn’t help crash. (Seriously haven’t seen this baby pop up over 60C since then lol.) I’ve now decided that it clearly isn’t just me and there is literally nothing else I can do besides buy an all brand new pc. Very disheartened by the lack of dev or community manager responses.
1080 ti
i7 7700
32gb ram
1k watt ps
windows 10
Played for 6h with no issues, farming, questing.
Was in town, opened map and game/driver crashed 
Yeah, yesterday I didn’t update on the thread anymore but:
I cleared my DxCache, I cleaned my registry etc., I turned everything to low with 30FPS cap, no tuning from Afterburner aaaaaaaaaand I managed to play.
I then started to slowly turn up each option to see when it goes boom. I am now playing at my normal very high setting, 60FPS cap, with medium on Terrain, Post-processing and Textures. Still without Afterburner, I just let the GPU and CPU do whatever they feel.
I played for 4hrs I believe with no crash in or outside of town and closed the game normally.
I am no software engineer, but from my personal testing I feel it has something to do with the rendering of the game. I think moving in new areas or just making complex movements like rapier fleche suddenly spikes the GPU in order to render a lot of terrain and texture suddenly.
I don’t know if the DxCache and Reg clean-up actually helped, but the settings above+dynamic scaling in order to maintain FPS seems to have helped a lot somehow. Maybe it’s just an issue of login, crash, login, crash, login, play for 6hrs, so, randomness.
I guess I’ll just stick with what I have for now, and just hope it will be fixed sometime soon.
P.S: I also turned off V-Sync because I feel it had some awkward interactions with the display.
Yeah its pretty random 
90% of the time it happened to me it was on the world map or trading post, the rest while in the world.
I haven’t changed stuff, 90fps cap, gsync, v-sync, 100% power limit.
Everything on low except for textures.
<2021-10-07 08:51:41.425>: [Info] (AZCore): [Rendering] Present failed, error code -2005270523. Attempting to recover…
Definitely something between the rendering and gpu driver imo
This guy seems to have cracked something. It might have to do with PhysX and/or Geforce Exprience:
Damn after the update a whole lot more topics about the game freezing has popped up. Devs keep saying the same thing too which baffles me… (VERIFY THIS, REINSTALL THAT, CHECK INTEGRITY, ETC) same copy paste post. I wish they would at least try to talk to us as a regular person not a simple BOT response.
For me the update lowered my performance. Slight lag issues and FPS is now 40ish and dips into the low 20s when pre update it was always capped at 60. Even during rifts and wars.
I have been playing today with 0 crashes full very high.
I don’t know what changed but again, here’s what I did recently:
Cleared DxCache, Cleaned Registry, Dedusted PC, Turned off any kind of hardware accelaration from Discord, Turned off Vsync.
Perhaps this will help, perhaps not, wish you luck <3
I didn’t change anything since yesterday and today played ~10h without closing the game just fine. The issue is with the game itself or servers, idk, but not on user side for sure.
I haven’t had crashes exactly but I get freezes every 5-10 seconds in game - all troubleshooting options exhausted (thanks Devs) and its gamebreaking. Kinda over it because I paid for a dead and frozen game.
Was not happening for a day or two, and today before the maintenance it happened 3 times in 1 hour. (even with the newest nvidia driver)
Still have the same error in event viewer “nvlddmkm stopped responding 4101”
yep yep looks like a memory leak was introduced. Never had any crashes since closed beta until last patch
I saw an interesting variant this morning. I was attacking an enemy and the video froze, but while it was frozen I heard attacks hit and the ding from the enemy dying. So the game is obviously still running, but the rendering is freezing up for some reason. I’ve also noticed I get fewer video glitches after moving the game to SSD. I suspect there are some issues with texture streaming (loading textures dynamically, for the lay people) that are causing the video to stall.
Hasn’t happened to me at all, until about an hour before down time just now. Then it happened every couple of minutes. I noticed it seemed to happen mostly when a mob had particle effects.
It happened to me while fighting aswell, but had it when looking at the map too
I had this happen when I was fighting at the boar farm and it always happened when tuskgore spawned and you get him to about halfway, game would freeze for 7 seconds then unfreeze… really weird. No issues previously or there after… only at the boar farm for me.
Yeah not the same issue we are having, our game is freezing ( GPU Usage & clocks goes to idle values, so the game stopped rendering) and the only way to get in again is to kill it in task manager.
@Madman do you have something in the Windows Event Viewer when your freeze is happening ?
FWIW when I see the short freezes it’s generally accompanied by the fans in my computer going to max speed.
I feel like there is something wrong with CPU’s actually. I noticed that my GPU sits comfy at around 70% usage. My CPU on the other hand is on 60% but when the game needs to render some new lighting/shadows or complex effects it jumps up to 100% and then down to 10-20% followed by an fps drop down to 10-16.
I used to play medium settings uncap and had like 50fps. Now till Monday I need to play low and cap at 30…
I am on a 3 year old MSI Gaming Laptop with i7700 HQ and 1050Ti
I can see that most people have the same issues with much better GPUs than me. Such a shame