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3 years ago

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[PC] DirectX Device Hung when playing Ultrawide / Large FOV

Loaded up BF2042 with my new RTX 4080 only to find severe stability issues when the viewport gets too wide. I was able to play a full match with no issue on my 4k TV, but switching the resolution to ...

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c33v33
3 years ago
@HedonismBot14 This seems fixed now on driver 528.02. Max settings, max FOV, have not crashed yet in my quick testing on 4080 FE.

c33v33

Rising Traveler

3 years ago

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/PC-DirectX-Device-Hung-when-playing-Ultrawide-Large-FOV/td-p/12065379

Workaround that worked for me is to set Terrain to High (i.e. not Ultra).

EDIT still an issue with latest Nvidia driver 527.37 (dec 1 2022)

EDIT2: still an issue with Battlefield update patch 3.1.0

Prodigypoint

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3 years ago

The patch for battlefield 2042 came out. Played for 30 minutes, no crashes now it seems. It used to fly out within 2-5 minutes. The latest Nvidia drivers.

EA_Atic
DICE Team
3 years ago
@Prodigypoint @HedonismBot14 @Kuiriel @RockaFeller @c33v33

Can you do a quick test for me put all graphic settings to ultra except terrain and see if the same crash keeps happening.

/Atic
- RockaFeller
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  3 years ago
  @EA_Atic will test now
- HedonismBot14
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  3 years ago
  @EA_Atic Yes can confirm having terrain set to High prevents the crashes. All other settings are fine at ultra!
- RockaFeller
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  3 years ago
  9900k 32gig ram rtx4080 all settings to ultra but terrain, low all was good, medium was all good, high even worked for me but as soon as i put terrain on ultra, it crashed right there with the error. and that was with fov maxed out