I rolled back to the 327.23 drivers and this issue, as well as some other ones I was having with the 331.58 and 331.65 drivers in other programs appear to have completely vanished.
I'm running SLI EVGA 650 Ti Boost SC 2gb, in Win 8.1 x64, and after testing it, I've regained my ability to limit my FPS to 60 (I get nasty screen tearing with my monitor) in Precision X without still having screen tearing issues with the newer drivers, my FPS doesn't budge off of 60 at all in any situation on Ultra with MLAA 2x, the occasional "Driver has stopped responding and recovered" issue has gone away, and benchmarking scores have gone up a decent amount. Even the rarely occuring Firefox hiccup has disappeared with Hardware Acceleration on.
And, most importantly, after hours of goofing off in Test Range and SP, I haven't gotten the DXGI_Error_Device_Hung problem at all. I can't speak for ATI cards, but it appears that a good bit of this was on the driver end for Nvidia. Don't trust the new drivers, unless you're actually going okay.
But just to test, after getting a driver crash in a few games on Steam, I decided to stress test my cards to make sure it wasn't any hardware faults, and after running Valley and Heaven benches for about an hour each, both ran with pretty much expected performance.
So, I booted into safemode, did a clean wipe of the 331.65 drivers, restarted back into safe mode and installed the 327.23 driver. I also left out the stupid Nvidia Experience thing because it's annoying and doesn't really serve any use other than harassing me the occasional pop-up.
Someone else should give rolling back to older drivers a go and see how it works out. Correlate things! For Science!
I'll go ahead and give it a try. Since I pretty much have used/tried all the drivers up until the 327.23 driver.
The 331.40/.58/.65 might work for a while... but eventually I get the error. I will update right away if it doesn't work. If it appears to work I will give it up to 2 days before it fails.
I will be using "DDU Version: 7.4" to uninstall the drivers as I have been in safe mode.
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Will update in a few days if all goes well, since I have nothing else to lose and tried everything up to this point
*update*
Did not work for me ☹️ Already receiving the error
It's the same point I was at.
Hopefully this works. So damn frustrating. I just want to play the game I paid for. :/
Thanks for the help anyways. Im almost just over it. EA needs to acknowledge the issue and someone needs to fix it.
I DID IT ! I DID IT ! THANKS to Zeus,Demetra,Jisus,Allah and 320.49 driver! BF4 work almost on ultra with high FPS! I hope now you will can help another guys with this problem. I will wright about it on BF forum! Thanks and BYE! =) From Russia with love. (GTX 660)
