GTX680 And Losing DirectX Device

Just a heads up, I had no crashes for a week with GTX 680 SLI. This is without DoF and AO.

People who get this crash on a regular basis can you please look at your Windows log files and see if your system suffers off TDR's when XIV is crashing, look for this line:

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

Oh and Nvidia could not reproduce this issue yet so don't expect anything being fixed in the next drivers, I got a PM from their tech support guy today:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z...eFFXIV_680.jpg

I filed him more detailed descriptions about the problem as well as log files.

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Originally Posted by Franzisca

Just a heads up, I had no crashes for a week with GTX 680 SLI. This is without DoF and AO.

People who get this crash on a regular basis can you please look at your Windows log files and see if your system suffers off TDR's when XIV is crashing, look for this line:

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

Oh and Nvidia could not reproduce this issue yet so don't expect anything being fixed in the next drivers, I got a PM from their tech support guy today:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z...eFFXIV_680.jpg

I filed him more detailed descriptions about the problem as well as log files.

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They have to walk around the cities, inside them. Gridania, uldah, limsa lominsa. With AO and DOF on, because thats when the crashes happen and it loses directx.

Anyone could record a video of the crash upload it to YouTube and give them the link. That's how easy it is to reproduce it. I would do it now, but I'm at work.

I reproduced it in a 22 min video beginning to end. Gonna upload it later tonight. Thing is 3.3gb

This is the link to the Nvidia forum problems for gtx 680. I put the link for the crash bug that is happening with this video card. Hope nvidia will be able to reproduce it and put a fix.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s...0#entry1395990

From what i see on this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cJRl...=youtube_gdata

The problem is that for some reason the video card stop working for a moment and restart after it. You can reproduce the same effect using the keys Win + P to change the display device if you have more than one display or you can also have the same effect changing the desktop resolution.

On both ways you are making the video card stop the acceleration and restart it to make the change of display/resolution. So the problem i think is there is something thats its making restart the acceleration after some time.

I don't know much of nvidia drivers but from a little googled i think you can debug the error using the GLExpert of the nvidia PerfKit.

Good Luck guys! Don't feel but about this, on Ati is almost the same, i have a 7950 and I'm still waiting for a good driver. ;)

I found this old Windower prevents the game from halting when the video card hardware is reset while the game in running. Be sure to choose Alternate injection method so it's not loaded into the ffxilogin process (so your login info will be safe). If this doesn't help... well SE really needs to fix this so this problem is resolved (It's SE's fault and NO ONE ELSES!)

BTW can you notice any difference with AO enabled?

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Originally Posted by Laraul

I found this old Windower prevents the game from halting when the video card hardware is reset while the game in running. Be sure to choose Alternate injection method so it's not loaded into the ffxilogin process (so your login info will be safe). If this doesn't help... well SE really needs to fix this so this problem is resolved (It's SE's fault and NO ONE ELSES!)

BTW can you notice any difference with AO enabled?

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Yes. The background looks alive and deep.

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Originally Posted by Noir

Yes. The background looks alive and deep.

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That's DoF not AO. :)

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Originally Posted by Laraul

That's DoF not AO. :)

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Thats right. lol/ my mistake.

Tested the game with Vsync on and AO and DoF off and got a directx crash on stand by outside the city. ><

AO, seems to emulate the way light radiates in real life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_occlusion

I turned off DoF, and it seems to help.
I can stay in Uldah longer, but still crashes.

The game becomes too stressful when using AO, how did you guys manage to use AO?

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Originally Posted by Tofutofu

I turned off DoF, and it seems to help.
I can stay in Uldah longer, but still crashes.

The game becomes too stressful when using AO, how did you guys manage to use AO?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cJRl...e_gdata_player

With these configs it's fine. But you get directx error at some point