Sounds like a very similar situatiion Reinsol. Also just anecdotally it does sound like GTX 970 is in particular having the issue. I am still running everything else Ultra with SSAO and experience no crashes in the past 15 hours. I'm upgrading my entire computer (aside from the graphics card), but am nervous about bumping AO back up until a patch comes out from either NVIDIA or Bioware to address this. Does anyone have an eta or have heard anything?
Wow, I guess I jinxed myself. Just played for about an hour and get a black screen reset, with AO set to SSAO. Might have to lower some other settings as Reinsol has done. It's a weird reset too, because I hear music for about 10 seconds after the screen goes black, then my computer is non-responsive. If I just hit the reset button on my comp though, it won't come back up. I have to do a hard power button shut down, wait a few seconds and reset to start back up. It's almost like something overheated, but I've monitored temps and nothing is significantly high.
Oh, and the reset was at a rift. I'm not sure why, but I seem to get the resets at a MUCH higher rate when I'm at rifts with the little cloaked screaming demons that shield themselves and fly across the battlefield (don't know the name, but they are less common, only high level rifts).
