[FX 8350, GTX 970] I completely fixed my crashing issue + get a completely stable 60 FPS. ~20 hours with zero crashes
I'm cross posting my reddit post. Sorry if there are any formatting issues.
Okay so since I started playing on Monday night my game has been plagued with crashes and freezes. I was getting 2 different kinds. The first involved the game window minimizing and then closing by itself. The second was a freeze; the game window was still up but the picture was frozen...game still running according to the sounds that kept playing (had to CTRL ALT Delete and kill the app)
I did a few different things to make my game stop crashing and run better.
Minimizing type of crash - Used to perform a clean install of the GTA V drivers (350.12). This got rid of this kind of crash completely. Unfortunately, the freezing was still there.
Freezing type of crash - I believe underclocking my card fixed this. I underclocked to -20 on the core and memory clocks via MSI Afterburner.
Nvidia Control Panel Tweaks -
I've been playing for over 20 hours with 0 crashes. I WAS getting crashes every 10-30 minutes before I did this.
I hope this helps guys. I know how frustrating waiting for devs to fix something like this can be.
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*****I used the program "DDU" to do a clean driver install.
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Also with these setting I've been ALL over Velen. I have NEVER seen my framerate drop below 57. Even then it's only for a split second and that only happened in Novigrad.
I HIGHLY recommend these graphics settings. I haven't had a game run this well since Dark Souls II
I'm cross posting my reddit post. Sorry if there are any formatting issues.
Okay so since I started playing on Monday night my game has been plagued with crashes and freezes. I was getting 2 different kinds. The first involved the game window minimizing and then closing by itself. The second was a freeze; the game window was still up but the picture was frozen...game still running according to the sounds that kept playing (had to CTRL ALT Delete and kill the app)
I did a few different things to make my game stop crashing and run better.
Minimizing type of crash - Used to perform a clean install of the GTA V drivers (350.12). This got rid of this kind of crash completely. Unfortunately, the freezing was still there.
Freezing type of crash - I believe underclocking my card fixed this. I underclocked to -20 on the core and memory clocks via MSI Afterburner.
Nvidia Control Panel Tweaks -
- I turned off in game AA and turned on FXAA in the Nvidia Control Panel (this is mostly for performance, but I can't rule out that it didn't help the crashes.)
- Maximum Prerendered Frames = 1
- Power Management Mode = Prefer Maximum Performance
- Vertical Sync - Adaptive
- VSync - Off
- Max Frames Per Second - Unlimited
- Display Mode - Full Screen
- Nvidia Hairworks - Off
- Number of Background Characters - Ultra
- Shadow Quality - Low (can't really notice a difference in quality of shadows to justify leaving this on Ultra, after all I want really stable 60 FPS)
- Terrain Quality - Ultra
- Water Quality - High
- Grass Density - High
- Texture Quality - Ultra
- Foliage Visibility Range - High
- Detail Level - Ultra
- Hardware Cursor - Off (I use a controller so I don't even know what this does. I assume you could leave it on if you need it)
- Motion Blur - On
- Blur - On
- Anti Aliasing - Off (we turned on FXAA in the Nvidia Control Panel)
- Bloom - On
- Sharpening - Off
- Ambient Occlusion - SSAO
- Depth of Field - Off
- Chromatic Aberration - On
- Vignetting - Off
- Light Shafts - On
I've been playing for over 20 hours with 0 crashes. I WAS getting crashes every 10-30 minutes before I did this.
I hope this helps guys. I know how frustrating waiting for devs to fix something like this can be.
---------- Updated at 06:41 AM ----------
*****I used the program "DDU" to do a clean driver install.
---------- Updated at 06:46 AM ----------
Also with these setting I've been ALL over Velen. I have NEVER seen my framerate drop below 57. Even then it's only for a split second and that only happened in Novigrad.
I HIGHLY recommend these graphics settings. I haven't had a game run this well since Dark Souls II