The game is TDR crashing (timeout gpu recovery) very frequently and randomly after 1.04, with 352.86 driver. I'm on a gtx 980. Game is almost unplayable at this point after 1.04. TDR crashing way too much.

Does it make any difference setting Power Management to Prefer Maximum in NVidia Control Panel?

no, that's been with prefer max perf on the entire time.

I am with you Shellfade - I can't even get past the combat tutorial - hopefully there will a patch for this soon

It's probably the 352.86 driver. I literally just moments ago had error while browsing chrome, nothing else but background crap going.

yeah I've been glued to the nvidia and guru forums since I've been crashing so much in the witcher 3. Strange thing is I'm not having any tdr crashes while using chrome at all. It just crashes the witcher 3 after 30 min to an hour of gameplay, every single time.

I've tried a few fixes to stop this damn game from TDR crashing with 352.86 but nothing works. Always crashes after 30 minutes to 1 hour of gameplay.

-removed galaxy.dll from 64x folder
-removed reshade/sweetfx that I was using thinking it might be causing conflicts
-set nvidia control panel back to defaults other than prefer max performance setting which is on.
-fullscreen and borderless windowed mode
-lowered a stable overclock
-tried running the game in a higher priority
-tried running it as admin

Nothing stops the tdr crash. Definitely driver and 1.04 issue going on

its not the driver i tried the new nvidia driver and the one before it i tried it with gog galaxy and without i could play the game for hours before patch 1.04.
I tried jut using patch 1.03 but now that doesn't even work my game plays for about 5 minutes then crashes to desktop but i can still hear the sound and i am not pressing any buttons to make it minimize.
All of a sudden i am unable to play the game.

1. Try driver clean install. If that fails.
2. Try .net framework clean install. If that fails.
3. Wait for new patch or rollback feature to be included in galaxy.

Not sure if you did this either but after 1.04 Nvidia put out another optimization on Gfroce experience. When it gets applied it crashes the game unless you do a reboot. That seems to solve the issue.