Yes, that’s exactly what happened to me. Your GPU recovered way faster than mine though
Same with a RTX 3070 here, Soulbinder seems to consistently trigger it for me. The driver manages to recover for me, but its still a very scary hiccup. Same kind of crash as the clip posted up in the thread, also locks my second monitor for a bit.
It seemed like 11.2 swapped things to Direct X12 for me when I always had it set to Direct X11 on a 1080TI, was having similar graphical problems with visually crashing but not DCing on Saladbar and here’s to hoping that reverting that fixes it.
Adding that I am also having the same issues.
NVIDIA RTX 3090 - Tested on driver version 580.97, and whatever was before it. I do not have the issue anywhere other than inside the raid. \
Will revert to DX11 and see if that resolves it. It’s consistant enough I can literally walk into the raid and teleport and it happens so at least an easy LFR test
Having the same issue as well with RTX 5080/9800X3D. Happened 5 times across 2 pulls of Soulbinder and a few more times on the trash after it. Will try changing DX12 → DX11
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hope to hear about any possible solutions other than just having to run dx11
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Welp, I tried the Dx11 fix… And I got the GPU crash/freeze/graphical refresh immediately on pulling the first boss of the raid tonight lol. Didn’t even have to wait for the third boss.
Really hoping for a fix with maintenance tomorrow. This is making the tier painful to play through.
Crash Tally for this raid run - Normal Raid, Dx11, playing Shaman
Plex Sen: 1
Loomi: 0
Soulbinder: 0
Trash before Araz: 1
Araz: 1
Hunters: 0
Fractillus: 1
Nexus-King: 2
Dimensius pre-fight knockback/RP: 1
Dimensius: idk i’m tired of keeping track but reliably once per pull, not at the same time. once before phase change, once during flying section…
I will try the DX11 and no optional gpu features for this week but im not getting my hopes high. Its an actual very scary crash, even if the driver recovers, really hope this gets addressed very soon.
I am consistently crashing 2-3 times per fight in this raid due to this. This is completely game breaking and I really need this to be fixed. The most recent nvidia drivers don’t seem to fix this issue. I can’t progress through heroic raids due to this. It does not happen in any other content.
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Same symptom and same specific nvidia driver crash from all the threads on transmog and appearance tabs crashing in dx12 in dozens of other bug reports. For a lot of us transmog causes the same freeze&reload of the world since 11.1.7 and since 11.2 it seems a broader range of people, hardware and scenarios cause that same Event 153 for nvlddmkm crash.
Nerfing our multi thread performance and visual quality to DX11 should not be considered a fix, just hiding the issue that Blizzard has so far remained completely silent on since 11.1.7 when it started happening.
I’ve been having the issue as well to the point that the first boss of the new LFR wing (Araz) was constantly causing it to happen.
Changed settings to Direct 11, turned low latency mode to built in (it was set to nvidia something), turned down view distance to 7 (was 10), turned Anti-aliasing off.
The issue didn’t happen in the second wing of LFR after these changes, though my fps was a bit rocky on Araz which could just be the boss itself causing me issues.
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RTX 2070 and I’ve also been having problems identical to Mirumage. Even the red box appearing on the floor when the driver recovers is identical. I’ve been having the issue sometimes when opening the appearance tab or transmog in general since 11.2, but had just started experiencing it in the raid this week. Like others, it seems to happen much more frequently and reliably on Soulbinder and Forgeweaver, but I’ve had it happen all throughout the instance… I updated to driver 581.08 this week when the crashes in raid started and have now rolled back to 580.88. I have another raid tomorrow and will report back if this fixed the issue.
Another raid night and more crashes. Running Dx11 again tonight, and this time I’m noticing that every time one of the doors opens off the initial hub zone inside the raid (“The Forge Core,”) the freeze is happening.
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I have the exact problem !! its become really annoying we need a fix for this!!
4070ti super here and the same problem in the same bosses going to myth with this #$%% problem
Yep same problem u solved?
I found another solution on Reddit: Disable “Optional GPU features” under the Compatibility Settings section of the graphics settings. Seemed to resolve the issue for me for now, though would still love to see this fixed.
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this was the solution
The same thing is happening to me in M+ and PvP, but much worse—the screen freeze lasts several seconds, and today it caused my game to crash on its own.
Switching to DirectX11 only solved the problem for a few days. But today it started happening again.
try Disable “Optional GPU features” under the Compatibility Settings
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