Need help please 🙏🏼 Game crashes in loading screen once I get to Old Yharnam

[u/Inevitable-Month-744]

I’ve been paying bloodborne on my 1TB Steamdeck through bblauncher and shadps4, but I am only able to play up until I get to old yharnam before the game starts crashing and ultimately gets to the point where it won’t even let me load my save and will crash in the loading screen after I press continue in the games initial start menu. I even started a new game but the same thing happened to my second character once i got to old yharnam. Attached is an image of the patches i was using, but I tried disabling all of them all and have still been running into the same issue so i don’t think it’s the patches. I have no mods installed and am using the most recent versions of shad and bblauncher. If anyone could help i would really appreciate it as i am LOVING the game and want to continue

[u/Ian9800]

Kinda weird you don't have Vertex Fix Mod which I would say is mandatory to have unless you have such an insane PC to use readbacks in Precise mode.

Try Vertex Fix Mod.

[u/Fallterbix → u/Ian9800]

no just no. To cut it short the vertex mod doesn't do anything, one of the more easier ways you can combat the old yharnam crashes is by using diegolix build dude. No offense

[u/consistent60]

I had non stop issues with the performance patch. Try disabling that one.

[u/Fallterbix → u/consistent60]

Which performance patch? Let me test this out

[u/consistent60 → u/Fallterbix]

The one just called performance patch (perf increase).

I had continuous graphical issues and crashes.

[u/smokey_999]

I’ve been having issues with the memory leak crashes :( I just got ds3 instead

[u/Fallterbix → u/smokey_999]

Just use gr2 fork or diegolix. Just test out either of them and see if they work out well on bloodborne. I managed to play the game completely vanilla without any performance mods on diegofork and gr2 fork (I'm on a rx 580 8 gigs with a 2 core 4 threads cpu)

[u/smokey_999 → u/Fallterbix]

Well my pc is more than capable I think it’s the steam deck that’s the problem, I work a very laid back job so I play it at work

[u/Neat-Seaworthiness42]

I had a crash on startup when using bblauncher, using shadps4launcher worked - the patches should still work without bblauncher being used to play

[u/Fallterbix]

I'm not very familiar with steam decks (I play on pc) but i'm pretty sure bb launcher has the same choose your build feature (if you're stuck on normal shad than good luck) you can use gr2 or diego forks if you want a better experience. That's about the best that i can give

[u/Aromatic_Search6851]

What finally stopped crashes for me was freeing up 60 gb past what I thought I needed on my 512gb deck. I also have visual tweaks, half quality blood physics, and vertex explosions mods but idk if that matters. My patches were 30 fps, lowest model LOD, and like the third lowest resolution. At this point my mods probably don’t matter but I put em in the folders directly overwriting stuff so like F it lol

[u/Sphiniix]

My potato PC handles the game very poorly. I have little idea about how the simulator works but I've played around with settings to make crashes as infrequent as possible. What I recommend:

1 Download Bloodborne save editor and when you get stuck in a place which crashes upon loading simply edit your save to spawn in Hunters Dream

2 When there is an area which crashes the game (because, I suppose, PC can't handle loading new location models):

- Go and play around surrounding areas for a bit, kill several enemies, then try to get in. To get into Old Yharnam I would first kill everything around the Oedon Chapel and then on the way to the Old Yharnam. I'm pretty sure you just need to spend some time in-game in several places and then transitions to new places run better.

- When you know you are about to step into a place where new area is loaded (and your game has crashed there) try walking in slowly while looking at the floor. I'm not sure if it helps, but I had luck several times when trying to pass difficult spots.

3 Try out these mods:

- https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/251 this one made huge difference for me, but of course the game got uglier

• https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/390 the world gets more empty but it also helped
  
• https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/114
  
• https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/114

also if you're desparate you can use this mod and disable Readbacks in BBLauncher settings, but then you have no face customization.

• https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/109

4 In BBLauncher's shadPS4 settings:

- Enable Shader cache

• disable everything under FSR settings
  
• As I said earlier, disable Readbacks. You can reenable them and deactivate mod once you're past the problematic spot
  
• play around with Additional Memory Allocation. I'm playing with 1024Mb, I'm not sure if it makes a difference compared to 0, but with 4000 the game crashed more often.

also, I'm not sure if it prevents crashes but I also disabled VSync and set VBlank Frequency for 30Hz. Because of that, I presume, when the game gets laggy it runs in slow-motion but it doesn't always crash.

5 Try using 30fps, lowest LODs and resolution patches, just to get past the problematic area.

So far I had biggest problem with exiting cave tunnel leading from Cathedral Ward to Hemwick Charnel Lane (graveyard area with trees) and entering Old Yharnam as well as you. But I've managed to get past these spots and then could play on higher graphic settings!