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Brainfart Jan 7, 2024 @ 5:53am
Occasional graphics driver crashing
About every 3 hours or so while playing the game (Not over one session), my graphics driver crashes. There is a short lag spike, then the screen freezes but everything else still works. I can move and hear everything, even when opening the esc menu. I could continue to play the game blind if I wanted.
It has happened 3 times so far in different levels but with extremely similar error messages in the event viewer, which makes me believe that this is a problem with the game and not my PC.
I am using a Geforce GTX 770 on Windows 10 with recently updated driver (30.0.14.7464).
The error messages are:
Graphics SM Warp Exception on (GPC 1, TPC 1): Out Of Range Register Graphics SM Global Exception on (GPC 1, TPC 1): Physical Multiple Warp Errors Graphics Exception: ESR 0x50ce48=0x39000d 0x50ce50=0x4 0x50ce44=0xb2ff2 0x50ce4c=0xe000007f
Then there is an error message that nvlddmkm has stopped reacting and was reset.
The only difference between the instances is the ESR 0x50ce48=0x39000d part. The others are: ESR 0x50ce48=0x38000d and ESR 0x50ce48=0x3f000d

I can probably provide further logs or crash reports, if you need more.

Now I know that this is a very old card but I think it would be worthwhile to make the game more robust and just handle this kind of driver crash, so the screen still updates after the driver is reset by the OS.
If there ever is something like that implemented, I would gladly play the game for a few hours until the crash happens and report if the game handles it gracefully.
Last edited by Brainfart; Jan 7, 2024 @ 5:53am
Date Posted: Jan 7, 2024 @ 5:53am
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