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8 years ago
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Crashing to desktop

NFS Payback keep crashing to desktop. It cashes mostly in the game menu(TAB).  What happens is that it just freezes and then i hear the windows error sound. Then i have to kill the game in taskmanage...
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    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Think I've found a solution for Asus mobos and Nvidia cards.

    Just to be sure, I clean installed Windows 10 again.

    I have an Asus Ranger VII mother board and Gigabyte GTX 1080ti

    Did a lot of elimination and what has worked for me now was:
    - In BIOS, set "Multicore Enhancement" from Auto to Disabled. 

            ***  Multicore Enhancement sets max Turbo Boost and voltage up too all cores at the same time. Unless you need your CPU to be maxed all doing not much at all... turn this off.

    - Right click desktop, click NVIDIA Control Panel, Click Manage 3D setting, scroll down to Power management mode, set to "Prefer maximum performance" and once done click Apply in the bottom right hand corner.

    These settings have worked so far for me. Been able to play for hours with no crashing or exiting to desktop with no errors popping up.

    Had tried:

    - "Clean boot and no UAC" fix - failed

    - No overclock on CPU and underclocking GPU - failed

    - Lowering resolution and graphics setting - failed

    I hope these settings help you out.

    I've had this issue for quite some time and was really irritating me. I stumbled across a JayzTwoCents video about overlocking Pascal based graphics cards and Asus multicore enhancement, and it just clicked. I was probably drawing too much power for the CPU going full ham on all cores all the time. And was probably reaching a default power cap for the GPU regardless of using any overclocking software tweaks or not.

    My simplified specs

    Intel i7 4790K Devil's Canyon

    Gigabyte GTX 1080Ti Aorus Extreme

    Asus Ranger VII

    16GB Ram

    Asus MG279Q 144Hz Monitor

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Anonymous
8 years ago

I started having this issue since Mass Effect Andromeda. And seriously haven't not played it since because of this issue.  I since then tried other Origin games in my library and all the "AAA" titles do the same thing: play for 5-20 mins then crash to desktop, no warning, no errors. 
Games i've tested:

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Battlefield 3,4 & 1

Mass Effect Andromeda

Mirrors Edge Catalyst

Battlefront 1 & 2

All games crashed in under 20 minutes.  Running returned to stock CPU (i7 4790K) and "gaming" mode (out of the box settings) on my Gigabyte GTX1080ti Aorus Extreme Edition @ 1440p.

Games NOT from EA run perfectly fine.  EA/Origin games used to run just fine until I played ME:A. 
This is a software issue, probably Origin itself.  I've numerous fixes but nothing has worked.  If i have to underclock my card to Founders edition clock just to run EA Games, then I want my money back and you EA to buy me a GTX1080Ti FE just to stay as a customer. 

You EA are losing customers, many of which, especially PC players, are longtime customers by not supporting them support you.  It seems you want everyone to only play on "consoles" by making games only work with PS4 and XBone.

Fix it.

***EDIT***

Underclocked my 1080Ti and no change.  Crashes within 20 mins

Intel i7 4790K Devil's Canyon

Gigabyte GTX 1080Ti Aorus Extreme

Asus Ranger VII

16GB Ram

Asus MG279Q 144Hz Monitor

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
8 years ago

Think I've found a solution for Asus mobos and Nvidia cards.

Just to be sure, I clean installed Windows 10 again.

I have an Asus Ranger VII mother board and Gigabyte GTX 1080ti

Did a lot of elimination and what has worked for me now was:
- In BIOS, set "Multicore Enhancement" from Auto to Disabled. 

        ***  Multicore Enhancement sets max Turbo Boost and voltage up too all cores at the same time. Unless you need your CPU to be maxed all doing not much at all... turn this off.

- Right click desktop, click NVIDIA Control Panel, Click Manage 3D setting, scroll down to Power management mode, set to "Prefer maximum performance" and once done click Apply in the bottom right hand corner.

These settings have worked so far for me. Been able to play for hours with no crashing or exiting to desktop with no errors popping up.

Had tried:

- "Clean boot and no UAC" fix - failed

- No overclock on CPU and underclocking GPU - failed

- Lowering resolution and graphics setting - failed

I hope these settings help you out.

I've had this issue for quite some time and was really irritating me. I stumbled across a JayzTwoCents video about overlocking Pascal based graphics cards and Asus multicore enhancement, and it just clicked. I was probably drawing too much power for the CPU going full ham on all cores all the time. And was probably reaching a default power cap for the GPU regardless of using any overclocking software tweaks or not.

My simplified specs

Intel i7 4790K Devil's Canyon

Gigabyte GTX 1080Ti Aorus Extreme

Asus Ranger VII

16GB Ram

Asus MG279Q 144Hz Monitor

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