Regarding Random Crashes with NVidia GPUs

[0ulooked]

Regarding Random Crashes with NVidia GPUs

I wanna know if the devs are working to solve this because I don't wanna do the 100 step work-around to temporarily fix this. (also since I play GTA V alot I don't want to roll back the driver to a version before the GTA V driver). There could be problems with the new Nvidia driver but since many users are reporting different kinds of crashing, it's obvious that there's a problem with the code. I think it might be a few memory leaks contained in the executable (which is strangely big at 40 something MB) that's causing the problem, which was also an issue with the previous title.Anyway, I just wanna know if they're planning on fixing this soon because I want to effing play >_

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my rig:Intel i7 3820 @ 3.7ghz32gb DDR3 RAM @ 1600 mhzNvidia GTX 680 4gb GDDR5The game runs smoothly at 40+ FPS on ultra settings at 1080p. Just the annoying random CTD every 5-50 min.

 

[dooooonut]

Same here. Tried all the workarounds and I am still crashing every 5-20 minutes. Still waiting on some kind of word that they're aware of the problem and are addressing it. But maybe everyone is on vacation already.

 

[spike4379]

cdpr wont comment/ havent and i doubt they will, hopefully working on a fix or theyre rolling around in our money

 

[Zanderat]

Dual GTX 760 in SLI. No crashes.

 

[Melodiusfunk]

It is not just nvidia. Also amd.

 

[Slammey]

For Nvidia users. Go into the Control Panel and set Preferred Single GPU and put it to Maximum performance. Did not have a single crash in nearly 2 hours of play.

 

[Melodiusfunk]

Good news that it worked for you Slammey but alas, no luck for us.

 

[Slammey]

I'm sorry to hear that Actually I always put that option on no matter witch game I play. I also put pre-rendered frames to 1. And lastly, I change the Witcher3.exe process to high in task manager once I start the game. I know it had beneficial results in GTAV so maybe that could help too.Good luck!!

 

[agentbb007]

Random Freezing Too

I'm experiencing random freezing too, here are my specs: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit Core i5-3570K 16GB RAM Dual Titan X in SLI ROG Swift monitor - running full screen with GSync enabled

 

[PrincessMassacre]

well, considering users in other games are also having 970/980 problems, as well as some other random models from nvidia... i'd say... buy ati... ps4/xbox/wii all have... it's also why ati gets more dev time... cuz its on all the consoles ;o

and if your shit don't run on ati/console, then you might as well declare bankruptcy ;o

and when people talk about 'console parity', they really mean ati parity, cuz technically, it has parity with all the consoles and PC... lulz?

sorry, im always this parity pooper.

 

[Melodiusfunk]

Well issue is happening for people including my partner on amd/ati systems. So not just nvidia unfortunately.

 

[PrincessMassacre]

that really needs more context... maybe on a 6000 series or 5000 series ati, which are below min spec. i don't see many issue with cards other than those. theyre like 5-6 years old.

 

[Melodiusfunk]

Partners r9 280x is crashing. Not quite as often as my gtx 680 but still reasonably often at random times.

 

[PrincessMassacre]

Partners r9 280x is crashing. Not quite as often as my gtx 680 but still reasonably often at random times.

well technically, consoles use 7000 series, something about the 7850/7870 generation, so probably already GCN 1.0 architecture, i haven't really bothered to check.

(xbone 7790, ps4 7870 actually, still GCN 1.0)

r9 series is a bit newer GCN 1.2 revision, so that could explain some of it. it basically has higher parity with consoles than nvidia cards.

i use 7870 actually, so same as ps4, same core architecture as both. i don't expect any issues beside low frame rate ;o (min spec, although i can get 30-50 fps, 40 avg on high settings, with a few useless things turned medium/off).

 

[tahirahmed]

I was having crashes every 10 - 20 mins but it was actually my Nvidia driver crashing that caused game crash too so I solved it by removing the driver completely using DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) and then did a fresh install again (without Geforce Experience) and now it doesn't crash 2 hours straight.

 

[Asmodean778]

The game seems to hate overclocked gpus. I'm 99.9% sure my OC is stable. but the game's having none of it. I've to set it to default clocks if I don't want the game crashing the driver every 10 minutes. Which is quite unfortunate, because I was banking on my overclock bumping my 970 to 980 performance for this. Every frame counts at 1440p.

 

[dark666105]

Seems to be a thing with hairworks for me, drives me nuts since I have a GPU that can run it. If its the same crashing problem I am having just turn hairworks off till they fix it.

 

[johnblah1231]

yep, OC was the problem for me - after setting default clock game never crashed again