Silent CTD after new patch.

So I just yesterday I got my hands on Hearts of Stone and prepared myself to get back into the game. Spent 140+ hours some months ago and everything was working really well without even as much problems as many people had with the patches and all.

Now, after newest patch my game just doesn’t start. It pops in task manager for about a minute and disappears. There’s no error message.

Let me say sorry for yet another similar topic, but I’ve spent couple hours reading through others and didn’t find anything helpful yet.

I’m posting the crash log here:

Red Engine Crash Log

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Build: Not Set [ Compiled Sep 28 2015 ]

User: Pokora

Crash reason: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (3221225477), Error reading location 0x00000074

Crashed Thread:

Thread ID: 2284

callstack:

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x6e8b44 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x6e48d8 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x6e3764 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x6e33c7 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x6b5259 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0xc4602 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x115a08 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x1140af – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0xbf267 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xa99 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x3878d – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xe9d – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x124c – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x22c568 – <Unknown File>(0)

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

Debug Information

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Commandline: "D:\Steam\steamapps\common\The Witcher 3\bin\x64\witcher3.exe"

Thread ID: 6120

callstack:

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 1736

callstack:

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 3112

callstack:

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 6108

callstack:

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xb62967 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xb77e70 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x234277 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x23441e – <Unknown File>(0)

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 6116

callstack:

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xb77e70 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x234277 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x23441e – <Unknown File>(0)

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 3616

callstack:

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 5040

callstack:

DllUnregisterServer() + 0x45ad – <Unknown File>(0)

DllUnregisterServer() + 0x48a6 – <Unknown File>(0)

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 3968

callstack:

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 3120

callstack:

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 2920

callstack:

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 3104

callstack:

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 3136

callstack:

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xb77e70 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x234277 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x23441e – <Unknown File>(0)

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 3108

callstack:

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xb77e70 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x234277 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x23441e – <Unknown File>(0)

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

================================================== ==============

Thread ID: 2544

callstack:

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xb77e70 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x234277 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x23441e – <Unknown File>(0)

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

================================================== ==============

Thread ID: 9012

callstack:

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xb77e70 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x234277 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x23441e – <Unknown File>(0)

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 3168

callstack:

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xb77e70 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x234277 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x23441e – <Unknown File>(0)

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 1088

callstack:

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xb204e – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xb77e70 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x234277 – <Unknown File>(0)

Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x23441e – <Unknown File>(0)

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

================================================== ==============

Thread ID: 5000

callstack:

NiGetApexSDK() + 0x9767a3 – <Unknown File>(0)

NiGetApexSDK() + 0x97685c – <Unknown File>(0)

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Thread ID: 5508

callstack:

NiGetApexSDK() + 0x9767a3 – <Unknown File>(0)

NiGetApexSDK() + 0x97685c – <Unknown File>(0)

BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 – <Unknown File>(0)

RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 – <Unknown File>(0)

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Game

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I’ll start with saying that I’ve already tried the most obvious stuff. I validated the game files, I reinstalled VCredist, I’v tried old and newer drivers, I’ve reinstalled the whole game, removed the config files from documents and checked for dll files that get mentioned most often – found only xinput, and tried deleting and running too.

I’m running Windows 10, I did try compatibility and running as admin. Also the game is NOT installed on C:/ drive.

Any idea what am I missing and/or how can I fix this?

Silent CTD after new patch.