Had no crashes so far but frequent hitching makes it unplayable. Settings don't matter. My system is outdated but plays Doom Eternal, Witcher 3 etc just fine at 1080p with either maxed settings (almost any game) or just a bit reduced (doom eternal, dunno if I could increase). I've only ever had issues with a few very badly optimized games before iirc.
People with NASA Mainframe-level PC's are reporting the same issue seemingly irrespective of OS or HD/SSD, graphics card, processor... None of the suggested fixes do anything. Note that not everyone has these hitching issues, but so far no one has figured out what specifically causes them on some systems.
Lots of reports of the game eating any amount of RAM people have (no matter the amount) and whatnot.
EDIT: They often state that the ram usage is close to or at 100% but task manager still says that there's RAM left for some reason. Some weird bug?
Loads of issues like entire lines of goods missing from stores (certain faction's armor and such), quest bugs, some bandit types bizarrely overpowered and murdering elite faction infantry easy, bizarre item stats...
There's a lot of stuff wrong which even a basic internal SP test should have caught... Weird.
For the long dev time this is disappointing... Time to wait even longer, I guess.
If there's one thing you can say for Taleworlds it's that while they're not super-competent on a technical level and never were, they do support their products seemingly forever.
So I'm hoping this will be playable for me eventually...
I have massive performance issues too. My CPU is old as fuck so I figured it might be responsible, but no. The fan isn't running loudly, it's not overheating, it seems to be doing less intensive work than with some other games. My GPU is only a year old and pretty good, so it can't be the culprit. I think the issue is RAM and memory leaks. The game runs decently enough at first, but the longer I play the worse performance gets. Just now I quit the game because it had gotten bad enough to become unresponsive. Tried to ctrl-alt-del to open task manager but my Win 7 told me it couldn't open the ctrl-alt-del menu, which points to there not being enough RAM for it. So I patiently waited for the menu to become responsive at least and quit the game that way, which took over 5 minutes.
I googled the issue and it seems to be a memory leak issue. Other people are experiencing it, too.