Constant Crashes!!!

[rhynosmiz]

I have used Metro Last Light Redux and Metro 2033 Redux with three different video cards and different resolutions and they still KEEP CRASHING! I've used a GTX 780, 780Ti, and 980 and they all crash. The only way I've been able to play for more than 10 minutes is in "Safe Mode" which drops the resolution way down. I see others are having this problem but is anyting being done about it? I'm pissed I paid the $100 bucks for the original titles and now another $25 and I can't play the new Redux titles! What gives?

[adventure into pancakes]

I've only recently started having problems, my game constantly crashes now. using the latest drivers which I'm starting to think is the issue -> 344.11

[rhynosmiz]

Thanks. I had the problem before 344.11 but it wasn't nearly as bad.

[Captain Blue]

Originally posted by adventure into pancakes:

I've only recently started having problems, my game constantly crashes now. using the latest drivers which I'm starting to think is the issue -> 344.11

I'm about 90% sure it's not a driver problem because I used my old 9800 GTX+ Black Edition on max settings getting like 30 - 40 fps and playing in an area that crashes 100% on DX11 and randonly crashes on DX10 but I got no crashes after over an hour of testing. Granted that 9800 is DX10 only but even after an hour I would of got a crash on my GTX580. So I'm fairly confident it's not a driver issue. Especially when the game still crashes on different drivers and I've tried at least 4 drivers. At best changing the drivers changes the areas that will crash so maybe drivers is part the problem but it's more like 4A didn't code the game properly for Nvidia drivers rather than Nvidia making bad drivers. The problem could potentially be fixed by either party but this really is 4A games fault, Nvidia shouldn't have to fix 4A's poor code for them.

[Nintonito]

Idk I played up to Black Station no crashes. GTX 660M, running DX11 on very high, no SSAA, no PhysX, no tessalation at 1080p. Latest drivers.

[astrix]

People crash with maxed out setttings. One of the "solutions" is turn of physx and tesselation. Bought redux to enjoy ultimate graphics my system can handle had the original games if i wanted "just" the story.

[Nintonito]

Originally posted by jogibeard:

People crash with maxed out setttings. One of the "solutions" is turn of physx and tesselation. Bought redux to enjoy ultimate graphics my system can handle had the original games if i wanted "just" the story.

I can run tessalation without crashing, I choose not to do so for an extra frame rate boost. PhysX is easily going to crash computers, this isn't the first time it's caused that. Even with the upgrade to PhysX 3.0 (which I'm amazed Last Light never originally used) the effects still cause unstable frame timing and mad performance issues for systems. Now the crashing is usually only for Nvidia, because AMD users run everything on the CPU, which is stable but slow as hell. GPU acceleration is where the instability really gets intense.

[troylights]

2033 Redux crashes even on low settings. I thought the issue with display driver crash was solved for me, and then it happened again in Cursed Station with nothing in particular happening on the screen. I set NVidia control panel to HD 4000 integrated but then decided it wasn't worth the sacrifice in quality over my mediocre GT 630m. I'm also playing the original 2033 chapter for chapter, and it runs flawlessly on normal DX9 settings. I may not have a great gaming laptop (besides at least having an i7 cpu), but this is the only game that has issues. I haven't bothered to dl LL Redux yet.

[Captain Blue]

Originally posted by Nintonito:

Originally posted by jogibeard:

People crash with maxed out setttings. One of the "solutions" is turn of physx and tesselation. Bought redux to enjoy ultimate graphics my system can handle had the original games if i wanted "just" the story.

I can run tessalation without crashing, I choose not to do so for an extra frame rate boost. PhysX is easily going to crash computers, this isn't the first time it's caused that. Even with the upgrade to PhysX 3.0 (which I'm amazed Last Light never originally used) the effects still cause unstable frame timing and mad performance issues for systems. Now the crashing is usually only for Nvidia, because AMD users run everything on the CPU, which is stable but slow as hell. GPU acceleration is where the instability really gets intense.

This isn't true I have PhysX set to the CPU because it has better performance in this game. Display drivers still crash.