Game crash when changing Anti Aliasing

Been googling this every day to see if someone else was having the same problem, finally found this post. I'm stuck on TAA because every single time, 100% of the time, the game crashes the second I move it from TAA to FXAA (the next in line).

5900X, 4090, 32gb ram, ssd

@joshuacant @Solfermoney 

First, just try resetting your GPU defaults via its control panel and then Apply and set your anti-aliasing preference in-game.

If the same crash happens, either update or reinstall your video drivers.

Thanks.

I have never changed settings in my nvidia control panel, and I tried to play today with the newest driver release from last night and I'm still having the same issue.

Honestly I'm glad to hear its not just me that's having this issue... I thought it was just something with my gpu 😮‍💨

I did the reset, and I also installed the newest driver that came out yesterday. No change. Instant crash any time I change the AA.

I did notice I have a folder full of crash dump files. One for every time I've tried to change the AA, it seems. They have filenames like `CrashDump_2022.12.09_21.53.37.474.mdmp` where the time and date obviously change, that's just the most recent one from me testing it moments before making this post.

Try manually editing the settings file..

1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Need For Speed(TM) Unbound\settings
2. Open the file PROFILEOPTIONS_profile in a text editor (ex. Notepad)
3. Find GstRender.AntiAliasingPost, change the value to 0
4. File > Save
5. Launch game

GstRender.AntiAliasingPost 0 = Off

GstRender.AntiAliasingPost 1 = FXAA

GstRender.AntiAliasingPost 2 = TAA

Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, setting this value to 0 or 1 causes the game to crash when launching.

It gets as far as a black screen and then the process crashes, and returns to the EA launcher. Something is going on where the game will not run on my system without TAA enabled. When returned to a value of 2, the game loads normally. Both the OP and I have Nvidia 40 series graphics cards and Ryzen processors, perhaps there is a clue there, or maybe it's something else entirely.

I do have 6 fresh new mdmp files in the crashdumps folder from trying this out. I have no idea if these files are being submitted automatically or not. If anyone working on the game finds this thread and wants the dumps, I'm holding onto them for now.

Provide the mdmp files and I'll look through them

Thanks for the offer, but I figured might as well do it myself. I have 20 crashdumps, from the 20 times I've tried to change the AA settings to anything other than TAA. I loaded up about half of them, at random, and they all cited the same thing.

ExceptionAddress: 0000000142985fac (NeedForSpeedUnbound!ffxFsr2ResourceIsNull+0x00000000007f591c)
ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation)
ExceptionFlags: 00000000
NumberParameters: 2
Parameter[0]: 0000000000000000
Parameter[1]: 0000000000000008
Attempt to read from address 0000000000000008
PROCESS_NAME: NeedForSpeedUnbound.exe
READ_ADDRESS: 0000000000000008
ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at 0x%p referenced memory at 0x%p. The memory could not be %s.
EXCEPTION_CODE_STR: c0000005
EXCEPTION_PARAMETER1: 0000000000000000
EXCEPTION_PARAMETER2: 0000000000000008
ADDITIONAL_DEBUG_TEXT: Followup set based on attribute [Is_ChosenCrashFollowupThread] from Frame:[0] on thread:[PSEUDO_THREAD]
STACK_TEXT:
00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 memory_corruption!NeedForSpeedUnbound.exe+0x0
STACK_COMMAND: ** Pseudo Context ** ManagedPseudo ** Value: ffffffff ** ; kb
SYMBOL_NAME: memory_corruption!NeedForSpeedUnbound.exe
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: MEMORY_CORRUPTION_LARGE_256_c0000005_memory_corruption!NeedForSpeedUnbound.exe

The game runs great as long as I leave TAA alone. Everything maxed out at 4K with no DLSS frame gen or upscaling.