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EA_David
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3 years ago

Re: NFS UNBOUND NVIDIA DLSS bug

Hi guys, thanks for the reports. 

From looking into this it appears to be related to VRAM usage. No specific cards is affected, but higher-powered cards tend to have more VRAM so it's less likely to occur. 

You can check your VRAM usage in your task manager within the performance tab, 
To open the task manager you can tab out and press Ctrl, Alt & Esc,



While you can avoid this graphical issue by disabling DLSS, please note that if you're encountering this you may also encounter other graphics-based issues, such as slow downs.

Tips to reduce VRAM usage are:

  • Disable any other applications that are running at the same time, particularly if they are VRAM hungry. 
  • Turning down graphics options (especially resolution) can also help with VRAM usage.

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  • Okay so.. The way I managed to (fix) mine was to first gob o GeForce Experience and optimize the game from there. Then started the game set graphics to auto and restart the game. Haven't had the problem since. I know that this isn't much of a solution for people with powerful machines and want to play the game on Ultra settings. But I'm playing it on a laptop so not much of a difference in quality for me since the display isn't that good.

  • ankey47's avatar
    ankey47
    3 years ago

    I don’t think its a V-Ram usage issue I have the same V-Ram usage in both AMD FSR 2 and DLSS settings, but it works just fine with AMD FSR 2. The problem is related to DLSS, the game was working just fine till vol 2, problem started since Vol 3 of the game came out.

  • Have the same issue, except mine is more back to the futureGraphical glitch

    Also when I try to change the upsampler, as soon as it gets to the AMD version, it gives me this error

    Direct X error

    Can't disable DLSS as it crashes the game ☹️

  • This is NOT the solution. I can set all graphics to low and close absolutely every other application using a smidge of VRAM and it does nothing. The issue still occurs. This is unacceptable and should be fixed ASAP since some people rely on DLSS to make the game even playable at all.

  • So after messing around with it. I finally found a way to turn the up sampler off without the game crashing every time. I had to set every graphical setting to low, exit the game, run nfs again, and only then I could turn the upsampler off.  Since then I haven’t had the “back to the future” glitch.  

    Definitely a DLSS issue, but from what I’ve seen on the forums it has not been fixed yet.  

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