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Lil_Maejok's avatar
Lil_Maejok
Rising Scout
8 months ago

DirectX Crash After Fast Travel

This has happened to me twice now and both times it happened immediately after fast traveling. I believe it's safe to say that there is something with fast traveling that is causing crashes with GPU's.

I will post my build below as well if it helps. I have included a picture of my AMD Adrenaline custom tuning settings. It's basically just a power limit increase + custom fan curve for optimal default performance. There is no overclock to the core or memory clock except for the enabling of "Fast Timings" on the memory. I have also included a picture showing my AMD Adrenaline Profile Settings for Skate. It is pretty default/native. There are screenshots of my in-game graphics settings as well.

Also it is worth noting, I do not have any temperature issues or overheating issues. All temps are within very acceptable ranges while playing for me. I have also tested stability with these settings using Cinebench 2024, AIDA64, FurMark 2 and 3D Mark. I play many other games and I can play them for hours straight with no issues. These are also very basic settings to change.

AMD Driver Version: Adrenalin 25.9.1 (September 08, 2025)

Build:

  • Mobo: ASUS X870E-E ROG Strix Gaming WiFi
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
  • AIO: Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE LCD 360mm
  • GPU: SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT
  • RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws M5 Neo RGB 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5-6000 CL28
  • SSD #1: Samsung 990 PRO 4TB
  • SSD #2: Samsung 990 PRO 2TB
  • PSU: Corsair RM1000x
  • Case: Corsair iCUE 5000x
  • Case Fans: Corsair: 3 Front intake (radiator), 3 side intake, 3 top exhaust, 1 back exhaust
  • OS: Windows 11 Pro x64
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8 Comments

  • Terryy94's avatar
    Terryy94
    Seasoned Observer
    8 months ago

    for me i freeze and have to hold the power button on my machine when it happens. ill SOMETIMES get that error you got in your directx_error.png but 99% of the time it just hard freezes my entire system and also it seems very random and not related to fast travel in my case.

  • Lil_Maejok's avatar
    Lil_Maejok
    Rising Scout
    8 months ago

    Dang I haven't had that happen to me yet. Luckily it just freezes and locks up and then crashes to desktop and displays that DirectX Error for me for now. It's done it once per day so far. If it does it again tomorrow I'll come pack and post again.

    One interesting thing to note is that when it crashes to the desktop, it completely quits out of the game and quits out of Steam even. I noticed this when Steam was no longer running in my taskbar afterwards. I also noticed my desktop icons were all gone and bugged out. The crash basically made me have to end the "explorer.exe" process and re-initialize it from the task manager in order to fix the problem. Either that or just restarting fixes it too.

  • Terryy94's avatar
    Terryy94
    Seasoned Observer
    8 months ago

    hey, so i decided to test whether or not this is a steam issue or not and moved to the EA App, which i now have 11 hours on. i've had no crashes or freezes ever since and does seem to be a steam specific thing from what i can tell or i've been insanely lucky. however, for sure on steam it would have froze/crashed for me about 2-6 times in that time frame but didnt at all on EA App. something to keep in mind and try if you havent yet!

  • Terryy94's avatar
    Terryy94
    Seasoned Observer
    8 months ago

    update: i've played around 6-7 more hours on the EA App since my last reply and still no freezing or crashing! you should give this a try and report back if this is the case for you too. thanks!

  • DisBanana's avatar
    DisBanana
    Hero+
    8 months ago

    Hi ! 

    As said by Terryy94​ and by my comprehension of this topic based on other topics, it seems to be a Steam related issue.

    You should give a try to the game via the EA App

  • Terryy94's avatar
    Terryy94
    Seasoned Observer
    8 months ago

    update again: it is not just steam.. details on my post here:

    https://forums.ea.com/idea/skate-bug-reports-en/crashingfreezing-on-pc-screenshot-attached/12678364

  • Lil_Maejok's avatar
    Lil_Maejok
    Rising Scout
    8 months ago

    Hmm strange. I haven't had it happen since the two times I described. I've only been hopping on to do dailies for an hour or so before logging off though. I imagine if I stayed in game for longer it would continue to happen.