F1 23 Crashes to Desktop, No Errors.
Product: F1 23 Platform:Steam-PC Please specify your platform model. PC Summarize your bug Game crashes to desktop after 10-20 minutes of gameplay. It happens randomly. No error is provided. Happe...
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Bad news, I just booted my PC, started Steam and loaded F1 23. Didn't touch anything, went straight to the F1 World Time Trials Monza, as usual, and on the first lap the game crashed. So it looks like the "it only crashes when you touch settings" theory is busted. Interesting why it was always stable so far after I removed the hardware settings XML. So far it never crashed directly after I removed the file. But now on the next day it crashes again within the first 1-2 laps.
In the Windows Event log, however, I found the following (and it looks like it was there also with the former crashes):
Two Event Errors within 2 seconds (I think right when it crashed) - sorry, in German but I guess you've seen that Event Error before:
Die Beschreibung für die Ereignis-ID "0" aus der Quelle "nvlddmkm" wurde nicht gefunden. Entweder ist die Komponente, die dieses Ereignis auslöst, nicht auf dem lokalen Computer installiert, oder die Installation ist beschädigt. Sie können die Komponente auf dem lokalen Computer installieren oder reparieren.
Falls das Ereignis auf einem anderen Computer aufgetreten ist, mussten die Anzeigeinformationen mit dem Ereignis gespeichert werden.
Die folgenden Informationen wurden mit dem Ereignis gespeichert:
\Device\000000b5
Error occurred on GPUID: 100
One second later the following warning event:
Der Anzeigetreiber "nvlddmkm" reagiert nicht mehr und wurde wiederhergestellt.
I have the latest nVidia driver 536.67 installed.
Edit: Just to add, I did a system check with SFC and DISM two days ago, after the first crashes, and the system was fine. Also, to mention again, I have games I play many hours in a row and never ever had a game crash or bluescreen of any kind. Looks like now it's indeed time for a mainboard BIOS upgrade.
The nvlddmkm issue is an incredibly well known, widely reported bug in every single NVIDIA driver version in the 53X driver set. The last known stable driver was 528.49. I would suggest using DDU in Safemode to completely remove all traces of the garbage driver, and then install the 528.49 drivers.
Thanks for the hint. The strange thing is that this issue only occurs in this very specific situation in F1 23. I didn't have a single crash (or appearance in the event log for this) in any of my other games that I currently play many, many more hours than F1 23. I will, however, keep that in mind as an option to go through if no other solution can be found.
PS: If I stay on nVidia 528.xx driver, then for any issue I report (no matter for which game / software) the immediate answer would be "update your outdated nVidia driver, before that we cannot help" 😉
