I might give it a try honestly. I use Ultra low latency with gsync and vsync on - thats the only settings i change in NVCP. might try ultra off and vsync off and see how it goes.
its sort of frustrating having a high end system and only 1 game has excessive crashes during critical moments of gameplay. do you think people only with high end systems are experiencing crashes because , ofc we want to play at high settings. i havent seen anyone with a gtx 1660 complain lol.
You are more or less correct. I see on the forums more people with higher end systems complaining than I do lower end. But I do get them from all forms of setups.
Yeah, any other game, I can crank it up, max it out, and its fine. This one. Nope. Its uber sensitive. And after a month of testing earlier this year, the only conclusion I can come up with is to try to keep the in-game latency response to around 9-10ms. (which is why the 100FPS is the break point)
An FPS lower than that, the in-game latency goes up. But if you get to where the game FPS isn’t rock stable at say… 120FPS (because it can dip when doing certain things) it seems to spike the system. And this is less noticeable with DLSS, but you pretty much need DLSS in order to keep the frame rate higher anyway.
I can crank the game to max settings, max RT, everything. Choose an FPS of 400 in-game. And the system will try to hit FPS as high as 200. But it becomes a stutter fest, as the RT is very demanding for some reason. And then you get big swings in the performance, and that I think is what leads to crashing randomly.
Here is a video I did on this a couple months ago, and have learned more since, but you get the idea:
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEaZxWCrCEw
And I can fill up and max out my Virtual Memory, especially if I teleport from town to town, over and over with those settings. That really causes it to blow up. I have been fortunate that my system has been relatively problem free, but I have constantly taken steps to keep it stable and adjusting as they continue to add to the game.
So yeah. I disable RT completely. I set a cap of 100FPS, and the game plays fine really for me. I’m currently still running the 566.36 driver though. I haven’t ventured to the newer ones yet. But I tested the system with every driver between 551.31 to 566.36 without any issues with any of them.
still going on 4/4/25, just crashed sitting on the char select screen. lost 3 undercity mythic chance keys so far to this BS. Elden Ring runs fine, so it’s not my system. Oh, btw, it’s not just here, steams Avowed gives me a “fatal error” crash after a few mins of running. something bad is here. Edit: What I didn’t know at the time is the game reset all previous settings, including ray tracing, which most vids recommend shutting off. After getting to the DLSS swapper part of this video, the game runs fine normally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNX1wIHyssI
Well which is it?
Just because one game runs fine doesn’t mean another one won’t.
If it were my system, I would check the following:
I’ve been playing PoE 2 since it launched, I’ve had every issue the game created. Today I moved over to D4, and what do you know, this issue rears it’s ugly head. I’ve gone back and fourth with NVIDIA driver reinstalls, even wiped my drives and reinstalled Windows 10. Issues with PoE 2 are mostly resolved with the new patch, but is it the NVIDIA drivers causing all these problems?
All of them? No. A lot of issues in varying degrees with many players? Yes.
Not to mention all the problems with the drivers dropped since the 50xx cards launched.
yeah, it does, if your graphics card is from the year 952AD, no game will run, logic. thx, but 561.09 did nothing. the game was resetting the ray tracing to on every crash and I didn’t know it. I thought “save settings” meant just that, not “save till we decide to crash again, then we’ll just put everything back that was causing it to fail, b/c that’s fun.”
The problem with going back to an older driver is how you go back to an older driver.
There are KNOWN issues with using pretty much any nVidia recommended method, which is why its practically required to use the DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) tool created by Wagnarsoft and FOLLOWING their directions on its use.
This effectively removes any and all “pieces” of the driver, including incorrect DLSS file versions and other bits that get left behind from other methods. Rendering the Windows system back into a state before it knew what an nVidia card was.
But you have to follow their steps on using the tool for best results.
Secondly, the Ray Tracing in this game pretty much blows. I run a 4080 Super, bolted to a 12900K with 32GB of DDR5 and a high speed NVME drive. And I have to keep Ray Tracing completely disabled, just for the game to maintain a stable 100FPS frame rate with DLSS set at DLAA and graphics to Ultra (minus Ray Tracing) @ 1440p.
But my system plays the game perfectly fine in this scenario.
Then your LocalPrefs file is damaged. Exit the game and delete it. You can find it under Documents\Diablo IV. The game will then create a new one on its next launch and reset the in-game settings to defaults.
Tip.
If you run multiple computers with the same Microsoft account AND use OneDrive, it can mess up that settings file, especially if you play the game on more than one system. I had to manually restrict my laptop from syncing the file to prevent this, but eventually Microsoft did some damn update that broke my setting and ended up syncing it anyway, so I removed OneDrive from the laptop entirely.
This just started on me today…worked fine yesterday.
This started happening to me today, the game was working fine yesterday and now I cant get past the character select menu. Tried reinstalling too…
This is what finally helped me and maybe it will help for all of you who didn’t get proper Blizzard support.
Short background: Started to get exactly same issues, but I haven’t updated any driver. I had newest one 576.28 for longer time but issue appeared from yesterday.
I tried, everything without using DDU in Safe mode and nothing helped.
Solution for me:
This same thing happened to me. I did the safemode uninstall with DDU, installed 566.36 and rebooted back into the OS. Same situation.
I play WoW, and a handful of other AAA titles, I’ve even let a benchmark software run for 10+ minutes on full settings, my RTX 4080 Super never even came close to overheating, never threw any errors.
Diablo 4 is the only game that is throwing this error. Whatever is happening it’s on Blizzards side.
Having the same trouble. Nonstop crashes after 5-10 mins of play. Tried the DDU uninstall/redux back to 566.36….no luck. Running RTX 4090. Any other suggestions? Only started acting up a few days ago. Also similar to others, I was not/am not having issues with other games at all.
Turning off Ray Tracing help for me. All crashes stopped. Hope it helps
I found that going into my virus software (Malwarebytes) and turning OFF “Real Time Protection” options was the ticket for me.
I used to experience the Graphics Initialization Failed message every 30 - 50 minutes. Generally in the Pit.
I’m having this error now, too, ever since the last patch.
It happens A LOT during Infernal Hordes. I’ve wasted so many keys.
Since the last patch this happened to me 3 times in 2 hours of gameplay
never had this before. Nvidia driver just updated. Gforce 4080super
I reverted to nVidia driver 566.36 and I haven’t had any crashes on any games since that time.
I recommend people do the same until nVidia figures it out. I think the problem lies with them.
Was having this issue for a bit as well. I have rtx407, I lowered my graphics settings to minimal and it seems to work fine now with the latest drivers installed.
I’m guessing its one of those settings in quality
I wasn’t going to try to one up everything slowly to determine which one but definitely one of those settings causes the crash.
tthis persists, im getting tired of the constant crap trying to play the game on my 2 days off work… its either this or my game just freezes cause its eating my ram and gpu like if im playing on a intel 486…and i specifically bought my computer less then a year ago with enough hardware to play diablo4 at max, per recommendation on their own webpage.