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How I Fixed My Crashing Problems

By xDTrammell

I was getting constant crashing issues when playing the game primary during cut-scenes. This is how I fixed my problems

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9 Aug, 2020 @ 3:31am

9 Aug, 2020 @ 9:20pm

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Overview

NVIDIA Drivers

Seldom crashes due to game trying to write to nonexistent memory address

Special K

In Game Settings

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NVIDIA Drivers

I did a clean driver install of GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 451.85 which can be found here. GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 451.85[nvidia.custhelp.com] This driver was released on July 24th and is newer than the version that will download through GeForce Experience.

This will also force the game to recompile the shader cache.

Note: Driver may have to be installed twice for it to take effect.

Seldom crashes due to game trying to write to nonexistent memory address

Open <path-to-game>\HorizonZeroDawn.exe in a hex editor (e.g. HxD[mh-nexus.de]).

Search for

C7 04 25 00 00 00 00 A7 DC EA 0D

and replace all instances with,

90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90

Make sure to select Hex-Values and not Text-String.

Save the changes.

Source[www.pcgamingwiki.com]

Special K

Download Special K from here. SpecialK.7z[sk-data.special-k.info]

After downloading and extracting the Special K files open SKIF.exe

Start the Special K service by clicking on Global Injection > Start Service

Go back to Steam Game Management tab and scroll down to Horizon Zero Dawn.

Click on the logo to launch the game.

The game wont open the first time because you have to make a few changes to the INI file to get special K to work but you have to run the game with it once for it to generate the INI file.

The ini file is located in
%USERPROFILE%.\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\Horizon Zero Dawn

You need to change these in the INI file,

[API.Hook] LastKnown=64 d3d11=false d3d12=true

[Render.FrameRate] TargetFPS=60.0 SleeplessRenderThread=true SleeplessWindowThread=true

add this to the INI file I added it above the Render.FrameRate section.

[Macro.FPS] Ctrl+Shift+1=TargetFPS 60 Ctrl+Shift+2=TargetFPS 45 Ctrl+Shift+3=TargetFPS 30 Ctrl+Shift+0=TargetFPS 0

The person that put out the changes for the INI file to get this working with Horizon also added this note but I could not get the game to work properly in full screen mode.

Fullscreen Exclusive mode is absolutely necessary for sane framepacing in this game. The engine uses double-buffered VSYNC and crashes if you attempt to add additional backbuffers using SK's swapchain settings.

Here is the source for the Special K information. https://discourse.differentk.fyi/t/horizon-zero-dawn/224

From now on you will launch the game through the Special K launcher.

IMPORTANT: no OSD is yet available, to know Special K is loaded pres CTRL+SHIFT+T, you should hear an achievement sound.

Be aware, if you play any online game with specialK launched, you could get a ban. Be careful about that, some anticheat are very, very "dumb" and you will never get help from any support about that.

In Game Settings

These are my in game settings.

20 Comments

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ʟɨʄɛ ǟռɖ ɖɛǟȶɦ 31 Oct, 2020 @ 5:17pm

crash game issue

opsedar 28 Aug, 2020 @ 6:30pm

Using Special K improved frame rate consistency the most, sad that unable to get it running with Nvidia Freestyle/Reshade. Any tips?

Pickles von Brine 24 Aug, 2020 @ 7:37pm

Remember, this worked for him and others. It may not work for you. There are various outlires with this game causing problems. At least for me, this guide allowed me to play the game for 3-4 hours before a crash vs 45 minutes.

Those of you who are crashing on startup there are other things going on. Make sure to run the game as administrator and see if that helps.

Burninator 21 Aug, 2020 @ 6:15am

This won't work on Epic Games version because it scans Steam library only. There is no ability to add another exe that I can see in the program?

ich bin ich 15 Aug, 2020 @ 11:11am

didin't change shit here

Sukuna 15 Aug, 2020 @ 3:53am

yea now it's pretty much crashing on startup ~ please don't make users having to be smarter than developers of the game.. I get it you may be genius & you're helping us average ( non - software engineers ) a lot but ~ this shouldn't be how our job to do so for every bloody game there is nowadays. This self made & explore bug-fix shtick needs to end.

Pickles von Brine 14 Aug, 2020 @ 7:46pm

It isn't expected to do this, but for now this is what we need to do. Honestly, not the worst thing in the world. I love this game, but it is also not an excuse to allow this game to be released like this. However, I do not hold Guerilla responsible. I am thinking it is likely a publisher setting a firm release date. That, coupled with difficulties with the port (it happens, even though PS4 is "a PC" there is enough to make it no so simple) can lead to things like this.

I really do think it was also due to an inexperienced outsourced team and the publisher being cheap.

Either that or an honest mistake that slipped through the developement team.

S0l 14 Aug, 2020 @ 7:57am

What? Download what? I expect the game to work... not fix it from various angles on purchasing.

St. Old Man 14 Aug, 2020 @ 5:18am

Удалил все сохранения игра запустилась!

Waffle 13 Aug, 2020 @ 4:39pm

Yea, good catch. I realized the admin mode messed it up after i posted that.

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