So much crashing

[Bluesky]

Is it normal that modifing the default settings leads to crashing? It's working fine on my 4080 but as soon as I use "Custom" mode of DLSS3 and start for instance disabling then reenabling superresolution, crash.
Also ALT+Tab crashes too
Seems very stable

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Crashing when you alt-tab is a normal thing. Remember that the original Portal came from an era when most games didn't support proper alt-tab'ing so that's to be expected. They did include a way to fix this though.

When you first start the game at the main menu click "Options" underneath achievements. Now Nvidia and Valve DO tell us we shouldn't change any of these settings in there but there is one you can change that is fine: "Display mode". On the video tab change "Display mode" from "Full Screen" to "Run in a window (No border)" and click apply. Do note that on some systems when you first click apply there the game may crash once more then when you re-start it the setting should be applied, this is normal. Once that setting is set then you should be able to play the game and alt-tab normally.

As to your comment about super resolution, are you referring to the Alt-X menu?

"If you are then with Super Resolution you should only select either "DLSS" or "None". I don't know why they included the other options for Super Resolution but they do break things a lot. So either pick DLSS or None and it should work for you.

It's not that the game is unstable. It's just you may be picking the wrong settings.

[Bluesky]

Thanks. I managed to get it running okay by first updating all my drivers, but that didn't stop the crashing, so I added -w 1920 -h 1080 to the game launch options. It seems fine now

[deadlybydsgn]

I was wanting to try a newer version of DLSS, but I can't find where this game keeps its nvngx_dlss.dll. Can you tell me where you found it? Thanks!

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Originally posted by deadlybydsgn:

I was wanting to try a newer version of DLSS, but I can't find where this game keeps its nvngx_dlss.dll. Can you tell me where you found it? Thanks!

That is unrelated to this thread or this discussion. You might want to try creating a new thread to discuss that.