The fix is to lower your graphic cards clock speed if you have a factory overclocked card out of the box like me. I had this problem too. First its the directx crash. Then after I lowered graphics settings like some other suggested, I started to have white screen crash. It was crashing left and right. Then I stumbled to a post that says all this crash was caused by overclocked Nvidia graphic card getting overheated. At first I didn't think this applies to me. Because I never tinkered with my card out of the box. But it turns out my card was factory overclocked, it's a EVGA superclocked GTX 660. Normal clock should be around 988, but it's factory superclocked to 1045. I downloaded EVGA precisionx 16 from steam and manually down clocked it by -70. No crash ever since. The only slight annoyance is that I have to run precisionX everytime before firing up inquisition lol.
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Just wanted to thank you Virtualreality for this post. Followed your advice, downloaded EVGA PrecisionX from Steam, reduced my core clock by 70hz, and haven't seen a DirectX issue since. I used to play with all my video settings on low thinking it was helping, but apparently, the fix you recommended allows me to set my video settings to whatever I feel like.
Dunno why I wasted all my time trying the other recommended fixes before this one.
Attached image shows where to edit your settings in EVGA PrecisionX16 (for computer illiterate people like myself). My card is a factory overclocked Galaxy GTX670. If you have a factory overclocked card, try this fix.
Thx again! 🙂
