NFS Rivals & Annoying Direct X error

[T3X4S]

I have done a fair share of searching for the right fix, but everything has been a waste of time.

I just bought Need for Speed Rivals and after about 5-10 minutes of play, the game pauses (sometimes the road disappears) and then I get a Direct X error.

DirectX function "Get Device Removed Reason" failed with

DXGI_Error_DEVICCE_HUNG: Device hung due to badly formed commands..

GPU:nVidia 760GTX

I am using the latest nVidia drivers & use eVGA's Precision X for the clocking & monitoring of the card.

Various sites say to up the volrage on your card, I did that - no help
Others say to underclock your card - no help
Many sites say its because Ambient Occlusion is disabled in the nVidia Control Panel - that it needs to be set to something other than "off" - no help.
Other sites say to delete most of your Direct X files and let the game rebuild them - nothing changed.

Card never gets above 55 degrees, so I dont think its an overheat issue -

Just wondering if a fellow neowinian knows of a real fix to this.
Apparently it happens in BF3 as well... or did.

Thanks

 

[The Evil Overlord]

I have done a fair share of searching for the right fix, but ~snip~

Sorry, I cannot help with nfs, but my games, including battlefield and sc 2 run just fine on whatever graphics setting except extreme (which gets the card into the 80's) but I am wondering about your 760, as I have an evga gtx760 also.....

Just out of curiosity, if your mobo has on board graphics, can you try uninstalling the card, and remove it?

Actually if your mobo does have on board graphics, try running nfs on that, just to see if it'll run, (even if at minimal settings)

Then try re installing the whole thing again to see if that helps?

[T3X4S]

No my mobo doesnt have onboard grfx unfortunately.

I though about going and buying a new video card, then though - "ok, I'll drop $500 on a card - then what if I get same error ?"- I'll throw the card and the computer through the window, then kick my dog and push an old lady down in the street.

So I didnt buy a new card - karma

[xendrome]

You've got a hardware problem.. maybe not enough power from the power supply, GFX card RAM going bad.. etc...

 

760GTX and what power supply?

[spaceelf]

I would ask if he has his non Unicode language set to anything unusual, though that's an uncommon problem it bonked me in a few Frostbite games.

[T3X4S]

You've got a hardware problem.. maybe not enough power from the power supply, GFX card RAM going bad.. etc...

 

760GTX and what power supply?

 

1 KW Seasonic Platinum

So many people are fixing their issues with a setting.  I have never had any other problems, in anything.

I doubt its hardware, but - I am admittedly stumped. 

 

I would ask if he has his non Unicode language set to anything unusual, though that's an uncommon problem it bonked me in a few Frostbite games.

Nope

[T3X4S]

Well, here is an update, I think.   I turned down all the grfx settings in the game to low, and it still crashed in under 5 minutes.
Then, I turned all settings on Ultra, and just played for 30 minutes without the slightest hiccup.

Im sure I simply didnt play long enough to trip it up, but that is the longest session I have played without a crash - go figure.

[+Red King Subscriber²]

Well, here is an update, I think.   I turned down all the grfx settings in the game to low, and it still crashed in under 5 minutes.

Then, I turned all settings on Ultra, and just played for 30 minutes without the slightest hiccup.

Im sure I simply didnt play long enough to trip it up, but that is the longest session I have played without a crash - go figure.

Sounds like a game engine issue.

[spaceelf]

I think I had that problem with my 660 once, but can't remember the cause.  Are you forcing any vsync options?

 

(I assume you tried the obvious - uninstalling the EVGA app - already)

[T3X4S]

I think I had that problem with my 660 once, but can't remember the cause.  Are you forcing any vsync options?

 

(I assume you tried the obvious - uninstalling the EVGA app - already)

I have always disabled v-sync.  If I get another crash - I'll try enabling.

As for the Precision X (evga) yes, originally It wasnt installed - I only re-installed it when I tried over/under clocking things.

Thank you to everyone who is trying to help me with this.  When I do get some quality time on it - it is pretty fun.

[spaceelf]

Yeah the only solid advice I'm finding around is trying older drivers.  It's never been the greatest option but sometimes it is necessary.

[T3X4S]

That was actually going to be my next step.  Trying a driver from a few months ago.

I mentioned this issue to a friend who is a big gamer, he said it seems like devs only care about polishing the console games anymore - PC games, they could care less...

I dunno

[spaceelf]

That was actually going to be my next step.  Trying a driver from a few months ago.

I mentioned this issue to a friend who is a big gamer, he said it seems like devs only care about polishing the console games anymore - PC games, they could care less...

I dunno

It's more the PC gaming ecosystem as a whole is fairly broken.  I have high hopes for DX12, but I really don't expect much.

 

Hell, EA's pushed the new tech faster than any other publisher, which probably contributed to their reputation given the XP diehards.

[T3X4S]

Well here is a strange update.  I remembered having some issues a couple of months ago where nVidia driver would crash and immediately recover when I would stream something from my computer.  I decided to yank the DisplayPort cable and use HDMI - it fixed that issue.

Well - so far it seems to have fixed this issue as well.  I played for about 45 minutes just now with no crash.

It seems my card has a DisplayPort issue - weird.

 

[T3X4S]

Unfortunately, my glitchy DP port was not the answer.  I am connected via HDMI and still getting the crashes.  I have no idea what causes it in the game.  Over the weekend I played 2x for about an hour each session with no problems.  Just now I had 3 crashes in 20 minutes.

I hope a DirectX pro or gamer who had this issue will see this thread and knows what to do.

Until then - this sucks because the game is kinda fun.

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

If you still happen to throw the videocard away feel free to throw it here

The nvidia forum is full of the same problem with NFS rivals.

One thing I read that might help is making sure you got the latest patch installed(1.4.0 if I remember correctly) and latest directx 11.

Other then that I suggest to check regularly if there was a hotfix driver released by nvidia or a new patch by ea.

EA had this problem also with bf4 and other games...

[T3X4S]

FWIW - I finally think I found the solution.

After digging through pages on EA's support forum, someone from EA mentioned to make both Orion and NFS Critics always "run as Administrator"

I changed all of the clock settings on my videocard back to the way it was originally (slightly OC'd) and made the changes -

I was able to play for a total of 4 hours the last few days without the slightest hiccup - even cranked all the setting up as high as they go and things are good.


Just thought if someone else saw this thread they might try these steps after all else has failed.

[lambosv220]

FWIW - I finally think I found the solution.

After digging through pages on EA's support forum, someone from EA mentioned to make both Orion and NFS Critics always "run as Administrator"

I changed all of the clock settings on my videocard back to the way it was originally (slightly OC'd) and made the changes -

I was able to play for a total of 4 hours the last few days without the slightest hiccup - even cranked all the setting up as high as they go and things are good.

Just thought if someone else saw this thread they might try these steps after all else has failed.

Um this didn't work for me, I have this in the "target" of nfs rivals... i right click the desktop icon and after all of the stuff in the target zone i put this (without quotes) "-GameTime.MaxSimFps 60 -GameTime.ForceSimRate 60+" and it forces it to run at 60fps, it works amazingly but it says that stupid message after 5-20 mins of playing and it never stops doing it no matter what i do, i even did run as admin and it still does it can you help me? maybe its that thing i put it to make it run at 60fps? i dont know it used to work fine and ever since i re-installed it (long story) it's been doing this direct x message,

[T3X4S]

It didnt work for me either - I had to lower quality settings to get it to be stable - basically, once the vRAM gets all used up (and it will) the game crashes.

Lowering everything to Medium did the trick - damned irritating.

I am about to do a new build, so the next video card will be much more powerful.

[T3X4S]

Well I finally figured out the problem.

Been playing for about 5-6 hours with no issues.

Apparently, the game will eat up all of your vRAM - when it gets to almost all of it - it craps out.

So, to avoid this, I had to turn all the main visual settings from Ultra or High to medium.

A crap way to play - but it works.

[Gregoris]

Hey guys I've done something very simple and it worked for me.  I open the game in maximized mode and not in full screen!!!!!