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Post by deadlydwarf on Dec 16, 2016 2:25:02 GMT
My game keeps crashing. I get this message saying it's a DirectX issue. What do I need to do? Is this an update driver issue?
I'm using a Dell Alienware Desktop purchased in 2015. Also, I'm not using full screen, but windows. Do I need to lower my settings?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2016 19:44:18 GMT
For me, that same crash happened when my video card hit 80 C. I upped fan speed, and the crash (Error: Direct X Device Removed) doesn't happen anymore, and i think we have the same desktop.
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Post by deadlydwarf on Dec 19, 2016 19:59:57 GMT
For me, that same crash happened when my video card hit 80 C. I upped fan speed, and the crash (Error: Direct X Device Removed) doesn't happen anymore, and i think we have the same desktop. How do you increase the fan speed and how much can I safely increase the speed? I did get the game running again after updating a whole bunch of drivers and running repair from the Origins platform. Also, something you may have run into, I sometimes run the game in windowed mode so that I can quickly switch over to check email. Sometimes that will cause the game to crash and I'll have to restart. Is there any setting I could adjust to prevent that or should I simply not run it in windowed mode? (Really dumb question: what does "my video card hit 80 C." mean? Does it mean the card overheated? How do you check that?) |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2016 20:03:08 GMT
The driver gets weird with frostbite engine games when the video card gets warm (from "overclock" or "boost clock"). This has happened to me on most origin games like crysis 3, battlefield, and dragon age. I fixed this by setting "agressive" fan curve in EVGA Precision X Software. With regards to temperature, 80 degrees celsius is usually the cut off for your graphics card.
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Post by deadlydwarf on Dec 19, 2016 21:45:15 GMT
The driver gets weird with frostbite engine games when the video card gets warm (from "overclock" or "boost clock"). This has happened to me on most origin games like crysis 3, battlefield, and dragon age. I fixed this by setting "agressive" fan curve in EVGA Precision X Software. With regards to temperature, 80 degrees celsius is usually the cut off for your graphics card. EVGA Precision X software....is that something that should be pre-loaded on my machine? Or something I should download? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2016 8:46:04 GMT
EVGA Precision X is a 'overclocking' software. It did not come with the computer, i just downloaded it for my desktop. It lets you change the fan speed for the video card! There is MSI Afterburner for AMD Radeon Graphics Cards as well, as EVGA Precision X is for NVIDIA only. You can download both of these for free i think. Good luck and tell me if it works!
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Post by Gileadan on Dec 20, 2016 9:39:11 GMT
You can check out your GPU temperature with GPU-Z. Free download, does not install anything on your system, just an exe to run. It can log your GPU's clock speed and temperatures to a text file while you play.
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Post by deadlydwarf on Dec 20, 2016 18:53:40 GMT
EVGA Precision X is a 'overclocking' software. It did not come with the computer, i just downloaded it for my desktop. It lets you change the fan speed for the video card! There is MSI Afterburner for AMD Radeon Graphics Cards as well, as EVGA Precision X is for NVIDIA only. You can download both of these for free i think. Good luck and tell me if it works! I'll give that a shot! Thanks! |
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