I'm also having this issue.
Am also using Windows 7 64-bit but with a Geforce GTX 760.
Seems to happen in dialogue and on the Inquisition map - not super regularly but it's happened every couple of hours so far.
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The last several versions of DICE's Frostbite engine seem particularly sensitive to minor instabilities in GPUs, and even mild overheating. Overclocked GPUs, even factory overclocks, often must be downclocked, or you'll have to reduce the number of pixels with a lowered screen resolution.
With this game, whatever they have done with the Frostbite engine seems far worse, as was the case with Crysis 3 -- even ordinary n60, n70 cards seem to be running into it among nVIDIA products.
Geforce GPUs seem most affected, I think.
I got the same thing again a little while ago (replaying the introduction to the map room.)
It only seems to occur during cut scenes / dialogue / map screen. Haven't had it happen while I'm running about in the world as of yet.
Screenshotted the dialogue incase that is helpful.Appreciate your insight into this Gorath, definately seems to be an issue with the Frostbite engine, I'm hoping there's a solution to it that might work from Battlefield 4 or something.
UPDATE. I can confirm the below doesn't fix this:
I've tried to following (pulled from a similar issue with BF4), at the moment I haven't confirmed if this fixes anything but will let everyone know if this pans out.
1. Install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package AND DirectX Redistributable.
DirectX
Go to Main DA:I Folder then __Installer\directx\redist and run DXSETUP.exe as Administrator.Microsoft Visual C++
Go to Main DA:I Folder then __Installer\vc\vc2012Update3\redist and run vcredist_x64 OR/AND vcredist_x86 as Administrator.
Ok, following on from this I'm going to try the following workarounds and update them if I can confirm they don't work.
Seems like I can reliably recreate the crash on the map room introduction (haven't been able to get past it without it crashing the game yet.)
1. Run the game in borderless or windowed mode. (changes crash to blank white screen)
2. Underclock graphics card. (no effect.)
3. Complete reinstall of graphics drivers (untested)
4. Enable VSYNC (doesn't fix)
@Nikells wrote:Since switching to Windowed Fullscreen mode I haven't had the crash, it's looking hopeful that this could be the fix for it.
Difference for me when change to windowed fullscreen, is the computer does a hard lock up, and need to turn off power to get it up and running again. In normal fullscreen it keep throw out DX errors and crash to desktop.
The game run fine until the starter area was over and went to the map. Did people actually test this game beyond the first 30 mins? geeze.
@ruffio74 wrote:Difference for me when change to windowed fullscreen, is the computer does a hard lock up, and need to turn off power to get it up and running again. In normal fullscreen it keep throw out DX errors and crash to desktop.
The game run fine until the starter area was over and went to the map. Did people actually test this game beyond the first 30 mins? geeze.
It doesn't even get to the menu screen in windowed fullscreen?
NVIDIA 770 I have had to reboot my PC every time this happens. Nothing is overclocked. Factory system stock settings.
@Shoguth wrote:
NVIDIA 770 I have had to reboot my PC every time this happens. Nothing is overclocked. Factory system stock settings.
Try to downclock it somewhat anyway, why not?
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I have sth like this on daily basis. What am I supposed to do?
For me it very reliably crashes n the first map room cutscene. I cannot move the story past this point.
@Nikells wrote:Ok, following on from this I'm going to try the following workarounds and update them if I can confirm they don't work.
Seems like I can reliably recreate the crash on the map room introduction (haven't been able to get past it without it crashing the game yet.)
My Solution!
I have 2 GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost cards in Sli configuration; using drivers version 344.75. I was suffering from this crash/error on multible occasions (cutscenes and the war room.) The game was unplayable.
I searched for solutions and tried many of them (reloading drivers, reinstalling VC, turning off Ambient Occlusion, lowering my GPU Mhz, etc...) None fixed my error, although some resulted in having the error less often, but only somewhat playable if I skipped through cutscenes as quickly as possible, but still unable to use the war room (since you can't skip.)
*After doing the following, I have had over 3 days of uninterupted gameplay through many long cutscenes and uses of the war room.*
Using Nvidia's Geforce Experience as a guide, I set my graphic settings to the recomended optimal settings. They are as follows:
Ambient Occlusion SSAO
Display Mode Full-screen
Effects Quality Low
Graphics Quality Custom
Mesh Quality High
Multisample Anti-Aliasing Off
Post-process Anti-Aliasing High
Post-process Quality Medium
Resolution 1920x1080
Resolution Scale 100
Shadow Quality Medium
Terrain Quality Medium
Tessellation Quality Off
Texture Quality Low
Vegetation Quality Medium
Water Quality High
Now, the graphics are noticeably worse than they were when I had the settings at High/Ultra, but not bad. I have not tried to increase any of the above to see if I can improve graphics and not get the error (why mess with a good thing.) All I can say is I LOVE THIS GAME and have been enjoying it without incident since I used those settings. Moreover, this worked for me and my setup (with factory overclock included!) I hope that if you are using the 650 Ti Boost this will work for you, or if you are using a different card, you can install Geforce Experience and try the recommended optimal settings to get the game to work for you.
*Note: I did have to manually make the changes, the program could not make the changes for me.
Good Luck and Happy Gaming!!
P.S. Has anybody else found themself singing "The Inquisition" from Mel Brook's History of the World Part I while playing this game??
Absolutely wonderful! 12 hours with no crash, just smooth gameplay. I just followed your settings, did nothing else, GTX 650 Ti Boost. Thank you, you're a SAINT.
Reverted latest Nvidia river, and had 16 hours of no directx errors, from every 20 minutes.
Then NOPE !!!
I get the same thing on 780 ti classified kingpin
My game started crashing really hard lately and I think I found a fix - at least my game didn't crush for the whole day yesterday, and that's many hours of playing.
(I'm running it on GTX 760 with an overclocked AMD FX-6300 CPU).
What fixed it for me was:
- Run fullscreen windowed mode
- Disable ambient occlusion
I run everything else ultra, except for my terrain set to 'High'.
The moment I tried switching back to fullscreen my game crashed.
Right now I'm just hoping I'll get new driver update asap. Do try it and tell me, if it helped you as well. 😕mileyhappy:
UPDATE:
So today my gamescreen flashed into white using these settings - even so, of all the options I tried, this one held out longest.
me too this crash
No sure if this has been mentioned previously in the thread but I was able to get a stable game by changing the display settings over to the Mantle setting, this bypasses directx but can only be done when you have both AMD cpu and gpu. but from what i've read most poeple have the nvidia gpus so this wont help you.
"Try to downclock it somewhat anyway, why not? "
First downclocking does nothing to fix the issue for me. Second why in the hell should people have to downclock perfectly good hardware and play a game on terrible graphics settings because they refuse to fix the issue in Frostbite?
Frostbite is supposed to be EA's flagship engine for a lot of upcoming games and it's can't even handle mildly OC'ed GPU's apparently.
Bioware so far has not even addressed the issue and are ignoring us.
