DirectX Error
So I've managed to play through the introductory bit, in the infirmary when trying to leave the game crashed with a DirectX error popup saying the following: See a few others have ran into th...
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SOLUTION THAT HELPED ME.
So I had the exact same issue everyone is reporting here, spent most of the day doing everything reinstalling, re-install drivers, reinstall DX, nothing worked, until I did a deeper dive into event viewer and searching the specific issue causing the crashes, in my case this is what was the issue:
Windows Paging size was to little,
Do the following and let me know if it helps you:
- Search on your PC for "View advanced system settings".
- Go to Performance -> Settings.
- Go to Advanced.
- You will see Virtual Memory.
- Click change, then select "Custom Size" on your C drive, make sure you select your C drive (Your hard drive with OS installed)
- Add a value 1.5 times more than your systems memory, in my case I have 16GB of RAM, so I put 24000 in the Initial size and on the maximum size you can just put 100mb more, so for me, this value is 24100.
- Reboot your device.
(Keep in mind the higher the paging size, the more storage is occupied from your C-drive)
To be clear:
Initial size - 24000
Maximum size - 24100.
Hope this helps at least some of you, I been able to play without interruptions, and before I struggled to even pass the character creation.
About how much storage is left available on your C drive for this to work for you. I really dont want to delete Bg3 lol
I have over 600GB open on my drive, but I also only had the one crash so far
Honestly not that much, i'm still trying to delete big files but right now I only have 22GB free and it runs flawlessly. If you fall in this ball park you should still be okay. (FYI im running on 128GB SSD for OS)
Does this need to be the drive the game is on or the C drive? I'm running off an external SSD. Not seeing an option to change anything?
Tick of "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" at the top, than you should be able to change it. The changes needs to be for the C-drive.
I tried this it didn't work for me. Is there anything we can do to fix this?
Sorry to hear man, its **bleep** when nothing works, trust me before I found this fix for me, I did everything, defragged, reinstalled, downgraded windows update, repaired the game, Reinstalled DX, reslotted GPU, cleared CMOS, reset bios, the list goes on, nothing worked aside from what I shared here.
In my case I looked in event viewer and thats where I spotted the Virtual Memory running low, cause I have 16GB Ram, the game runs about 98% of that memory, increasing your VM made sure there was backup memory if it reached 100%.
I thought I would update my post here. A few hours deeper into the game, after the start of it. This problem stopped. I've been running it straight for over 12 hours and haven't crashed even once. It could be the above post that resolved it, or it could just be the game. But the problem seems fixed now. When I play my second time, I'll be able to tell if it's at the start of the game or if it's fixed.
This worked for me! I got a big stutter like the game was going to crash (like it had before with this Direct X error), but it only lasted half a second and the game continued!
Happy to hear, it worked in some case, I have been having blast without issues since my post, I guess every device specification is different so it may not be the solution to all. 😅
