KINGofCRA5H
Member
Has anyone had any luck with limiting crashes? I keep getting black screens and I have to use task manager to close the game. This is with new nvidia drivers.
GTX 980 FTW
Win 8.1
4790k
GTX 980 FTW
Win 8.1
4790k
Witcher 3 PC Performance Thread
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CybernatonEvolution
Member
This. I am using Nvidia's FXAA but with LOD bias set to allow instead of clamp, and its value is -0.5. There is minor shimmering but the image quality is good and without excessive blur. On the other hand, The Witcher 3's Temporal AA misses a lot of distant jaggies (5+ meters) and still leaves a lot of shimmering; it has a medium performance impact as well.
I have always hated blurry AA methods, but I might switch to FXAA permanently instead of SweetFX's SMAA solely because of the shimmering reduction. Lumasharpen+LOD bias seems to make FXAA tremendously viable and more well-rounded AA method.
viveks86
Member
I had one when I went totally bonkers with the INI tweaks. Never had any during gameplay. I wonder what's causing this
Yeah, I had this 3 times yesterady. Usually happened when I was loading a save. Really sucked.
Also, has anyone with a 970 tried downsampling yet? Any word on what the FPS hit is?
Your video card is factory overclock. Have you tried running it at normal stock speed for that chipset?
Oh, Father of the Abyss, no half-refresh rate required?
I'm sure you've heard this before, but have you tried lowering that FTW overclock? It's unfortunate since it defeats the purpose of owning an FTW card, but it may be currently required for stability with the Witcher 3 and latest drivers.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Exact same set-up, exact same issues. GTX980, 4790k. I think it got a bit better when I switched from borderless window mode to full screen mode.
Fatmanp
Member
Bumping up motion blur should help aswell.
veggiesaurus
Member
I'm getting constant freezes (after about 20 seconds of gameplay). The music continues in the backgrounds but everything else stops. I though it was my overclocked GPU, but even at stock it continues to freeze. Any ideas?
I've got a 970 with the latest drivers, and I'm getting very similar crashes. Usually mine entail the video frame freezing, but sound continues to play. I need to bring up the task manager and kill the process to get out of it.
It sounds to me like it's either an issue with the game or with the newest drivers... or both.
Everything else works flawlessly on my system.
ChawlieTheFair
pip pip cheerio you slags!
You wouldn't be Win 8.1 would you?
Sorry, Win7 64.
Static Jak
Member
I haven't had any gameplay crashes. Only 2 inventory menu lock ups.
Have had more than a few driver failures while simply using Chrome since I installed the new driver.
m_shortpants
Member
1080p?
I have a 5970 which is two 5870's crossfired on the same PCB, but unfortunately don't have it installed right now on another computer.
viveks86
Member
Oh yeah! That happened to me once yesterday and was wondering what that was all about.
ChawlieTheFair
pip pip cheerio you slags!
Ya'll have 144/120hz monitors by any chance? Just trying to see what I could narrow it down to, got the same problem, except when I first played it yesterday it was fine for several hours, got off, now I get crashes within 2 minutes of playing.
That sounds like a typical "nvlddmkm" display driver crash, id 13 or 14. Have a look at the event viewer in the control panel and you'll most certainly confirm that's the case.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
Yeah, exact same crashes for me.
Switching to fullscreen enabled me to play longer before it crashed.
I have heard this, yes, but how do I download my GPU? I'm using MSI afterburner btw
viveks86
Member
Toggle triple buffering in your control panel and restart. It should stick then
Self_Destructive
Member
It's mostly likely due to the fact that your windows desktop resolution is different than the one you have chosen in game. It could also be that you might have more than one display connected.. I haven't really done any testing yet. But what worked for me is:
I had my desktop res at 1440p and when I tried to run the game at 4K it would always be in BWM... switch your desktop to the res you want to run the game in and it should let you run fullscreen.
Just FYI, my GTX 460 is running it at 1080p low at roughly 30-40 fps, with some dips. How tolerable the experience is is probably personal preference, and I might benefit from some higher settings by sacrificing resolution, but it's playable.
Then again, I have a i7 4790k and 16GB RAM so it's obviously the only bottleneck. I'm still on it because my old PC broke and I needed a new CPU, but I'm waiting for AMD to show their hand before I commit to a new GPU.
holygeesus
Banned
I'm not sure what the hit is, but I'm running it at one step up from 1080p and it's not dropping from 60.
Everything Ultra except shadows at Medium and Foliage High and DoF off. HairWorks off naturally.
3570k/16GB/970 (OC to 980 speeds)
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bodine1231
Member
When upgrading from a 970 to a Titan,do I have to uninstall the latest driver or is the Titan considered the same family as the 970?
Dictator93
Member
Static Jak
Member
Ha, started the game after posting and had a gameplay crash that was definitely due to a driver crash. Think I jinxed myself.
Probably a good idea to reinstall drivers. The other step is to send the unused 970 to Piggus.
Decided to let my old 670 4gb go out with a bang before I installed my 970 last night. Played the game on ultra with just the foliage distance turned down to high. Fucking thing held like a champ. Surprised the hell out of me that I was able to play in the 30+ fps range. I need to benchmark it to make sure it was not a placebo effect happening. However, the only time I had slowdown was with Geralt's hair covering more than 50% of the screen. Might send the 970 back since my 670 held so well and just wait for next years cards.
I do, and it looks like a single blue scanline across the horizontal of the screen.
Titan classic.
No OC, ohh jesus i really hope it's not a hardware problem . :_:
In Afterburner, move the core and memory slider to the left. Hit apply. You can also type " - " and a number into the box then hit enter key.
Instead of adding to the clock speed slider, subtract from it. Start with -20Mhz and see what happens.
EDIT: Beaten!
I'm on a GTX 460 1GB, which is slower, and it's just about playable at 1080p low. He's fine as long as he realises the settings will have to be way down and/or he sacrifices some resolution.
Got my first crash an hour and 15 minutes in. I have an overclocked GTX 980 SC. I was doing one of the sidequests that involved talking to a guy near a battlefield when I got a blackscreen during the conversation. Video card is stable on every other game, but got a display driver stopped responding message in my event logs. Not sure if this has to do with the game or if my overclock just isn't stable with this game for some reason.
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For me part of the system hard locks after about 30-40 minutes. This happened in AC Unity too, not sure what is the cause. The display goes out, so monitor tells me there is no signal, there is a weird buzzing sound from audio, and the GPU fan goes max speed. Sometimes it reboots itself after 5 seconds or so, sometimes I have to manually reboot it. Other games, CS GO, DOTA 2, BF4 gives no issues. I replace the cooling paste on my GPU every 6 months, and just did again this morning. But it still crashed. Also, temperatures are well below limits at time or before crash. Max CPU temperature is about 65-70C, and GPU is 65-70C. Overclocks are mild too, 2500K@4.2GHz, and GTX 680 at +10Mhz, +150MHz.
Generally, with troubleshooting, start by running your hardware at stock speed for that chipset. So, yeah, downclock your video card.
Zomba13
Member
GTX780
i5-4670k
16GB RAM
Win 7
So I'm playing at 1080p with everyone on max except Shadows at High, AA off and fancyhair off and a 30fps cap. Usually I want 60fps and best looking but with this I can't and I like it looking as pretty as possible and I'm ok with 30fps if it's a constant 30fps (which mine appears to be. I did have to lower shadows a bit after noticing some frames drop when it was very windy in a dense bushy area but was solid 30 when I knocked the shadows down). Without the frame cap I'm getting ~30-45.
Had one crash when I ran past some drowners once but nothing since.
i5-4670k
16GB RAM
Win 7
So I'm playing at 1080p with everyone on max except Shadows at High, AA off and fancyhair off and a 30fps cap. Usually I want 60fps and best looking but with this I can't and I like it looking as pretty as possible and I'm ok with 30fps if it's a constant 30fps (which mine appears to be. I did have to lower shadows a bit after noticing some frames drop when it was very windy in a dense bushy area but was solid 30 when I knocked the shadows down). Without the frame cap I'm getting ~30-45.
Had one crash when I ran past some drowners once but nothing since.
OK, thank you for your help (and to everyone else that gave some advice) i'm gonna play for a bit and hope that it was a game problem, if no, i'll try reinstalling my driver.
Thanks again guys.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
So just move both sliders all the way left and hit apply? OK I'll try this tonight. Thanks.