I never experienced the DirectX error when playing on medium graphics for a while and right when i bummped them up to high, 10 mins later the error popped up and crashed bf4. I am going to drop the graphics back down to medium and test this to see if it is a problem with the high and ultra graphic settings. I will update on this topic because this error is very annoying and i want to find a way to fix it. Most of you probably dont want to drop down to meduim to test this but it is worth a try, what would you rather have, flawless graphics with the anticipation of a crash anytime during the game or manageable graphics without a worry about crashes? You decide but i will try to see if changing the graphics works.
I'm having exactly this problem. Was playing fine at medium settings but changed some of them to high and it crashed on me. The worst part is, this is surely one of many bugs we will encounter with this game, judging by how buggy bf3 has been. ☹️
This has worked for me, and havn't seen the error in a few hours. Here are my specs
Intel core 3970x six core
32 gigs of Corsair Vengeance 1866mhz ddr3
GTX 690 watercooled
Coolermaster 1300 watts p/s
I'm a firm believer of removing drivers manually, since day one. I don't like using Geforce Experience bs software, and these are the steps i took. Only because they leave old driver stuff on your pc and can conflict.
Download the 331.40 beta drivers, this is what i downloaded over at the nvidia website, and works flawlessly for me, no more direcx hung error. Make sure you remember where you saved it to.
Download driver sweeper http://www.techspot.com/downloads.php?action=download_now&id=4266&evp=32db47643586947b685d0fcff107c1... and install it.
-Uninstall your graphics driver via control panel, manually.
-Restart in safe mode, for me it's mashing F8 on bootup
-Start up driver sweeper, and select Display and Phsyx for nvidia, and click on Clean.
-Open up windows explore and locate your nvidia folder, which is C:\NVIDIA for me, and delete that folder.
-Restart in normal mode, locate the 331.40 drivers you downloaded earlier and install it. Follow the instructions and you should be good to go after this.
You shouldn't have to go into your nvidia panel and have your video card Phsyx settings run in CPU mode. It should be fine as Auto-select mode. If you've made that change from earlier recommendations, I'd probably set it back to (Recommended). That's how i'm running the phsyx settings atm. I hope this helps, and i'll keep an eye out on this post to see what results you guys get from this. GOODLUCK!
Has anyone tried the above recommendations?
I changed my settings to medium about an hour ago and havn't had a device removed crash since on multi player, havn't tried single player yet but it always crashes at the end of the last level so it shouldn't be hard to see if it has worked or not, lol.
*edit* played single player and more multiplayer tonight and no more device removed crashes at all. Only crash I get now is the sound loop crash which doesn't happen very often so I can wait for a patch. Hopefully DICE can figure out what it is about high settings that causes the crash because the game plays perfect on high, no stutters or dramatic frame rate dips but it crashes occasionally. The game doesn't look that different on medium but still if I can play on high I would like to 🙂
