Graphics issues on Nvidia cards (DirectX 11)

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@neofit wrote:

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@Nodens_Tanthul wrote:

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neofit wrote

    Hmm, what was the first compatible one then, and what glitches?

I decided to play DA2 before Inquisition, installed it yesterday, and I'm seeing the game freeze for about 1 sec every 10 seconds or so (i7-920, GTX-780, 8 GB RAM, W7/64, no overclocking), during fights, or just looking around, or during cutscenes. Both in DX11 and DX9, on a SATA3 drive or an SSD.This does qualify as a "glitch" to me, Arma3 is way smoother than this.

Good thing is (arguably), is that I don't even have to roll back my driver, I'm still on 335.23 (lazy, I know, but why fix things that are not broken?). So technically since I am on a driver that is 3-4 months older than the last known good one, I should be OK, right? Or do I have to switch to the 340.52?

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 What you are describing sounds entirely unrelated to the graphics driver. In any case the glitches were invisible models (characters walking around with invisible bodies etc) and weird shadows.

 If I had to make an educated guess I'd say you're dealing with somekind of timeout. I suggest checking your event viewer for logs that pertain to timeouts or possibly TDR errors.

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I do not have any CPU spikes when this happens (I have a Logitech G19 display so I can monitor it in real-time). Event logs don't have anything. From the other games that I currently have installed, ressource hungry ones like Skyrim and Styx don't do this freezing thingy. So I presumed it's DA2's fault.

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I can confidently say that my stuttering/freezing problem is gone.

I tried fiddling with Hyperthreading, C1E and other BIOS settings that I had problems in the past with in other games, to no avail. In case I was having networking issues, tried playing disconnected from the Bioware site.

Then made a clean install of 340.52 and bam, smooth as a baby's as silk. So it looks like 340.52 is not "the last good driver", it's "THE good driver". Or maybe "the one 2014 driver for DA2".

 Edit: All of the above is wrong. I forgot to re-renable something after reinstalling the driver: Shadowplay. If I enable it in the 340.52 drivers, the freezing is back. Even though I am using an SSD to save and as temp, and I never had this in any other game, like Arma 2-3 or Styx or any other. Anyway, sorry for all this rambling.