I’ve uninstalled the drivers clean install and reinstalled 536.67. I have not played the game long enough to really give any judgement on drivers atm. But I have had PC lock ups still no fragmentation or artifacts. I have also gone in to Geforce control panel and limited FPS to 120 monitor is 144. I have also disabled Dynamic shadows in game, this one was huge for me, and played around with various other in-game settings to lower any type of stress.
My battle pass is completed at 64 and I am done for the season unless they update the game with significant improvements to stability and in-game “Fun”
It’s not the card dying, Just ran several benchmarks with Heaven benchmark no issues running ultra settings with tessellation. its Diablo 4. My crashes result in Fenris error’s. No other games gives me crashes, or stability issues.
Played GTFO max settings, apex max settings, and only other game POE max settings nothing causes stability issues. I get Fenris crashes with Diablo 4. My artifacts have gone away since doing a clean install of the latest driver. The crashes have not.
That’s not an argument. Games load the system differently. It’s not just the load, it’s the pattern of the load. That’s why stress tests aren’t really appropriate.
You can crash in one game at once, and in some stress test it will take a dozen minutes or it will be passed successfully.
I’m not claiming that your card is 100% guilty. But your conclusions are wrong.
You could also use something heavier. But there’s no telling what’s harder than the game or this stress test. It’s like getting punched in the liver or getting poked in the eye.
Be careful if your hardware is faulty it can burn out just like the cards burned out in D4 https://geeks3d.com/furmark/kombustor/
You said yourself:
“I have my own fan curve, lowered voltage and can set the fans to manual.”
All hardware must work 100% stable before you blame the game. I’d say, hardware must work stably in default settings first. Yours is not. If your card cannot pass a few minutes of play without custom underclocking, then it’s faulty. Get your card replaced before it dies. Your hardware issue has nothing to do with Blizzard, they cannot help you with your PC stability.
This is a bit of an assumption. While there’s a chance the card could be bad, it also could be something else.
This is actually good.
Potentially.
What I think you might be missing is the fact they went from having artifacts (which have now been fixed with a driver reinstall) to just having Fenris crashes, which may or may not be hardware related.
And if they are running other things and nothing is wrong, running tests that pass, and the only thing giving them a problem IS the game, then there is a valid point with their position.
This doesn’t excuse the hardware from potentially having an issue either, but its less likely now than it was a few posts back.
Its so funny when people blame the hardware. I literally got a new machine to run this. Ok you will say, new, maybe there is factory defect. Ok fair point, but why am I capable of running far more demanding games and have no issue.
" if the hardware is working correctly, it should protect itself" It does, that’s why I get thrown out of the game when I open my Inventory UI in town and temps go from 45C to 98C lol.
And my (gotta mention again new) machine, while performing amazing on highest settings cant handle 5 item textures in the inventory.
While I enjoy this game, when I dont get crashes, I am considering to leave it, as in the long term this kind of stress on the hardware will wear it down and moreover i feel sorry for paying 100$ for this game (yep stupid me preordered Ultimate edition) but in the end the machine itself is 40 times more expensive so you gotta make the choice.
All hardware has defects. If you don’t have defects in your hardware, it doesn’t need any driver updates, firmware updates, etc. And it doesn’t need support either. Because everything will work fine without it. Meanwhile, all the hardware is problematic and it’s only a matter of time before the next problem pops up.
Nvidia cards have a target temperature of 83 degrees, above this temperature the card should reduce the frequency, very strongly reset to normalize the temperature. All the way down to its base frequency. And if it drops below that, the card can no longer work properly. If used properly, the card should run at base frequencies under all loads.
That’s how your card works. Your flawless card. That can’t handle a simple game.
Only complaints about the heavy load on some parts of the hardware and poor performance are valid. No complaints about temperature, fan speed, etc. And your hardware should work fine even so. But a broken fps limiter in the game, that’s a problem.
yeah if you love your hardware dont play d4… it is needlessly stressing you GPU when your at a vendor… Blizzard is doing what they do best… ignoring the problem.
This tells me you really don’t understand how hardware works in general.
Most driver updates and fixes are designed around problems with software WAY more often than any hardware. As for your “All hardware has defects” statement.
Yes. All hardware does. BUT.
Most defects don’t show themselves till they are put beyond their designed limit.
Where we run into problems are those hardware that:
Have a flaw the Manufacturer didn’t account for or know about.
Have a flaw that developed over time and use.
Have a flaw that would only reveal itself when pushed beyond its expected operational design.
Drivers primarily are aimed to provide compatibility for Windows, programs, games, etc., more than they are written to overcome flaws. Not to say they don’t do this either, but its far less often than you lead people to believe with your statement.
Of course its OS is as flawless as everything else too, so it’s only the game that’s defective here. So there is no need for any updates to fix anything, including software.
Everything that man does contains mistakes. When doing something complicated, it is simply impossible not to make mistakes. And correcting hardware mistakes is problematic.
Went to nvidia forums and spoke with someone there regarding issue.
installed 528.49 Just the drivers, no other options and so far no crashes no memory issues and game has been running hours just fine. My only issue atm is latency.
I was also asked to run 3dmark firestrike even if my game is good. I’ll do that tomorrow.
I did a safe boot > ddu > reboot > install 528.49 just GPU driver. No problems.
I probably should of never upgraded my drivers to the latest that is when the problems started. I sent my 3dmark and my Hwinfo to the person helpiing me, i’ll see what he/she says regarding my data. But so far, it is good.
I suspect any of the drivers prior to the 535 line will be just fine. I’m on the 531.41 Studio drivers and have seen no oddities other than some straight up dumped to the desktop crashes that started with the 7/18 patch and got worse the patch after. I’m hoping 1.1.1 fixes that as it seems some regressions crept into the last two patches. Prior to 7/18 I had just one crash, ironically caused by the game choking on itself trying to load too many players at once (likely a netcode or inventory/stash code failure since it loads players’ stashes when they run by you).
None of my crashes have been Fenris related, and this trusty 1080 Ti workhorse hasn’t been north of 58C in D4 yet. Should be interesting once I have my 9900k rig put together in the near future. I’m sure that will run quite a bit warmer than my 4770k rig does now.