Unwatched Dog - Disable Watchdog Timeout Exitprocess

Hello.  I have move on from x86 and Windows in general.  This mod will not be update any longer.  Please read below for an alternative.  Please feel free to take source code and modify it for new version and or post update as your own.  Entire mod is public domain.  Take care!

Valyrius has made version for CET + UI tweak (Assume you are use if on Nexus).  I would suggest using their mod if you are not need for external modification.

  CET mod does better for 99% of user.

Thank you fixing perms :)

This exist as a fix for something specific probably only to me but maybe it will help someone else.  It will disable CRASHED Cyberpunk2077 has flatlined Message: Watchdog timeout! (120 seconds).

Sometimes, when rendering a screenshot with PT enabled, the game will take a very long time to finish processing.  I think this is a VRAM issue but I wouldn't know where to start with that!

DLL just acts as a runtime byte patch to make the jump non conditional, avoiding the artificial crash.  This is a hack to fix underlying issue and probably isn't best practice but it saves my game from crashing when I want to take a screenshot.  Render when this happens will probably take many minutes (for my case) but will finish without force exit.  I usually restart the game afterwards so it is not slow anymore.

It is messy and cut out from personal patches project however source code is here:

GitHub: heheoppsy/CP77UnwatchedDog

Included DLL injector:

GitHub: heheoppsy/Dll_Inject

Warnings:

I don't know what the effects of negating the engine watchdog exit are so it could have any number of unintended consequence.  I've used it for a few hours with no issues for what it is worth.

Virustotal has flagged both files, mostly with AI engine.  Source code is included in page, files are false positive.

Use:

Launch cyberpunk 2077 then use "fix.bat" and follow prompt

If someone has already fixed this I can remove mod page

Feel free to use this for anything at all, claim as your own, sell, whatever you would like

Source and binary completely free for any purpose

Manual patch:

It was requested in comments, if you would like to patch executable permanently:

for 2. 2 Cyberpunk2077.exe (SHA256: af9456bf57daf5dd1289466697fab8efb5ba3845e1541b46f239a417d54f4615)

File offset @ 0x29DA88D

Binary pattern: 74 ? 8B 05 ? ? ? ? 4C 8D 0D

0x74 -> 0xEB (jz -> jmp)

for 2. 13 Cyberpunk2077.exe (SHA256: 84073b86b1cc0694e6faf5251a8c9ecdcdb49ded695cf1946826ec1f9af68134)

File offset @ 0x299423D

Binary pattern: 74 ? 8B 05 ? ? ? ? 4C