DX11 Crashing?

[AckersFury]

I'm not saying that the following is going to resolve the issue, but I feel it's worth mentioning.

Back when WoW launched DX11 support I was unable to play the game due to the very same driver related crashes some of you are talking about in this thread. I was positive that it had to be the DX11 client, as all other DX11 games were working without issue.

I tried different driver versions, nvidia control panel settings, game settings, etc. Nothing was working and I continued to wait for Blizzard to fix the client.

After reading the numerous threads on the topic, I started to notice a pattern: the issue was almost exclusively related to factory overclocked cards from EVGA and MSI. I was running a factory overclocked EVGA at the time, so I decided to change the clock speeds to match that of reference speeds for the board.

Crashes stopped entirely from that point on, all the way up until my next GPU upgrade. Sharing the information on the forums seemed to be fixing the issue for other players (though, not always).

To be clear, my GPU never experienced any issues related to the factory OC in any other games. Temps were well within normal ranges, no artifacting was ever present, and other games had never crashed before (specifically DX11 games).

Again, I'm not claiming that this is going to fix the issue, as we're talking about two completely different games. However, it seems to be so close to the issue I had with the DX11 client in WoW that I thought sharing my experience might help someone. It might be a long shot, but you never know.

well i turned my OC down 10mhz and played for a few hrs with no crashes so maybe this is it. the game is exploiting unstable oc's ...fingers crossed

[Noxe]

I don't know if this will help anyone or not, but in the offchance that it might, I'd be happy .

I also own an EVGA GTX 970 SC card.

When I got this card, my game (DX11 client, did not try the DX9 client) would also crash. Sometimes the crash would just be where the screen would flash black and the driver would stop working for a few seconds and that I had to restart the game client only, and sometimes it was a BSOD.

However, frustrated with the BSOD's, I flashed my motherboard bios (Gigabyte Z87X-D3H) to the latest version and that seemed to stop the BSOD crashes. I still experienced the driver crash once or twice after that, so I did a completely clean install of the Nvidia hotfix driver (53.38) from the WHQL 53.30 and since then I have not had a single crash. Everything has been running perfectly smooth. In fact, lately, I've been running two DX11 clients at the same time for 8-10 hours a day and have suffered no issues *knocks on wood*

My specs are:

Windows 7 Pro (64 bit)
Intel i5 4670 @ stock (non K version).
16GB G-Skill DDR3 1866 mhz ram
EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0
Some shitty 700W Cooler Master PSU

Good luck!

[Frost_Trunks]

I played a considerable amount over the holiday. I crashed once while in FS mode. I haven't updated my BIOS yet. I read the post about turning of OC on the video card. That sounds plausible. I'll give it a shot.

[Callidor]

Curious as to whether last night's patch has made any difference with this, specifically:

An issue when using DirectX 11 wherein the screen resolution may change to windowed mode while confirming a full screen mode resolution. (Windows)

Won't be able to play until this evening, but has anyone seen any difference so far?

EDIT: Tried it out...alt+tabs a little bit weirdly...window sometimes shrinks to a lower resolution, sometimes doesn't. Haven't had any random crashes yet, but sometimes can't recover from atl+tab =/

Looks like I'm still sticking with dx9 for now.

[Frost_Trunks]

Curious as to whether last night's patch has made any difference with this, specifically:

An issue when using DirectX 11 wherein the screen resolution may change to windowed mode while confirming a full screen mode resolution. (Windows)

Won't be able to play until this evening, but has anyone seen any difference so far?

EDIT: Tried it out...alt+tabs a little bit weirdly...window sometimes shrinks to a lower resolution, sometimes doesn't. Haven't had any random crashes yet, but sometimes can't recover from atl+tab =/

Looks like I'm still sticking with dx9 for now.

Alt+Tab seems to work the same to me. It's always thrown it into a smaller "windowed" mode when I do that. I didn't notice any changes after the update. I did notice with the last round of updates that the client doesn't error out when I /shutdown. I had one crash, but I was away from the computer when it happened.

One thing I did notice... When my client crashes, my fan on my video card stops too. I manually set my fan speed to about 50% to keep it cool. When I crash, it shuts down. I always have my temp monitoring software open, and it never hits above 60° C. Odd?

[Callidor]

Alt+Tab seems to work the same to me. It's always thrown it into a smaller "windowed" mode when I do that. I didn't notice any changes after the update. I did notice with the last round of updates that the client doesn't error out when I /shutdown. I had one crash, but I was away from the computer when it happened.

It's always done that for me as well, but up until the latest patch, that widow would be partially off my monitor, and I wouldn't be able to resize it, or interact with it, or anything. Now, it tends to shrink to a lower resolution window by default, in the center of my screen, which I can maximize, and even use to play the game without reselecting the game / going back into full screen mode.

While I didn't have any crashes yesterday, there were a few occasions where I would alt+tab, the window would minimize, and then I wouldn't be able to get the window back. The game was still running (I could hear sound effects, and even press buttons to open menus etc), but the window was just invisible.

I spent like an hour trying to reproduce the problem, hoping to figure out if there were specific circumstances that caused it, but no luck.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I keep having this issue where in full screen, the game may randomly freeze when I move into another zone and then recover, or it will just freeze outright and forces me to reboot since the game's full screen won't minimize even when I try to bring up the task manager.

[Frost_Trunks]

I keep having this issue where in full screen, the game may randomly freeze when I move into another zone and then recover, or it will just freeze outright and forces me to reboot since the game's full screen won't minimize even when I try to bring up the task manager.

I used to have this issue in highly populated areas, until I got my new graphics card. It would stutter, then freeze. Mor Dhona was good for it at peak times. I haven't had that happen in a long time. What video card do you have?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I used to have this issue in highly populated areas, until I got my new graphics card. It would stutter, then freeze. Mor Dhona was good for it at peak times. I haven't had that happen in a long time. What video card do you have?

GTX960
I have the character/object rendering set to minimum and it seems that I don't get this issue if I play the game in windowed mode. I never had this problem in full screen before 3.0 came around.

[Frost_Trunks]

GTX960
I have the character/object rendering set to minimum and it seems that I don't get this issue if I play the game in windowed mode. I never had this problem in full screen before 3.0 came around.

My old card was only 2GB, maybe it's running out of memory?

I switched back to DX9 last night. I had 2-3 crashes running full screen. Real annoying. No issues after the switch. >