Shaftz,
You have a different issue than the OP of that thread so I made a thread for just you.
You can’t access directX 12 because there is a critical driver bug with Windows 7’s current Nvidia driver for directx12. Basically it’s to the tune of “the game will extremely regularly crash, sometimes causing a full system lockup” so we disabled it to prevent it from affecting you. Anybody on Windows 7 will only have DirectX 11/Legacy settings as of this post. Nvidia will have to fix it with a future driver update.
You mentioned lockups, which shouldn’t happen regardless of directx version with your hardware. Let’s check to see what your hardware is actually doing. Grab hwmonitor and install it. Then, launch hwmonitor and play a game until it crashes. Once it does, check the “max” column of your test for CPU/GPU overheating. If those are getting too hot, clean the PC and take it to a PC tech if that doesn’t fix the overheating - that’d probably mean some of the heat hardware needs maintenance or replacement.
If you don’t see anything, let’s snag some screenshots:
- Maximize the HWMonitor window and expand all the nodes on the left
- Scroll all the way up
- Take a screenshot with the Print Screen (prtscn) key
- Open up the program Paint and press ctrl+v to paste in the test
- Crop the screen if you want to only show the test, then save it as Test1.JPG
- Scroll all the way down, then repeat steps 3-5.
- Upload them somewhere like imgur and link us to the results. We’ll use those to look for more options.
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