Game has a chance to load infinitely after "The First Night" cutscene

[mittlivstomi]

UPDATE

We have been looking more into this and we are suspecting it's a race condition from the original game that only shows itself in specific hardware configurations. The game gets stuck while trying to free a sound that is already playing. We're not yet sure why this only happens in specific systems.

Original Post

All DLC installed, no mods, no codes.

Video displaying the issue: https://youtu.be/njjprlwH8_E

PC specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5800X
• GPU: RTX 2080
• GPU Driver: NVIDIA Driver 572.16
• OS: Windows 10
• Version: 22H2

[Aleatoryframesz]

It crashes for me too after passing day 2 of Apotos and after the cinematic, it's frustrating

[FabledFarfetchd]

same i havent found a solution yet.
edited: i found a solution that might work i changed it from 120 fps to 60 fps and didnt crash

[Aleatoryframesz]

I had it set at 60 fps....

[mittlivstomi]

same i havent found a solution yet. edited: i found a solution that might work i changed it from 120 fps to 60 fps and didnt crash

The issue persists regardless of what FPS, rendering API, or quality options the game is set to use. I should have mentioned that in my original post but I forgot.

[Belthazar90]

Yeah, I have the black screen as well. The stage works fine and runs well... but I just can't get past the cutscene. I've tried a lot of setup configurations, with low frame rates, low shadows, disabling antialising, switching Xbox/PS3 Style loading. Nothing seems to work. I've even tried fiddling with the config file, trying to switch renderer but so far it didn't do much.

I'm using Ryzen 5 5500 CPU... so I wonder if that's the issue.

[pfnieto]

Have the same issue here with a 5800x3D and a 3080.

[Pvanderkaap]

Yeah same problem here running on a 3070 and Ryzen CPU
OS: Windows 10 Pro - version 22H2

Edit: So i've found the fix for me and it was installing Windows 11 lol, I have no idea what the reason behind it is but it just immediately loaded without issue this time.

[Pato0804]

The solution in my case was to install the nvidia drivers version 566.36, by reinstalling them I was able to pass the level