Consistent Driver Timeout on Second Mission Cutscene

[blakesu]

Does anyone know how to fix this? Nothing I've found worked online, most of everything boiled down to:
windowed mode 800x600
30FPS limit
LOW graphics preset

Despite this working for others, it's not working for me. My driver always times-out and my game always crashes and my PC always has a heart attack.
Please help

PC specs:
r5 2600
rx 5700 xt
16GB RAM
1000W PSU
game on m.2 SSD

[Zephyr]

Your entire PC is not really capable of running the game, sorry. You are just at the bare minimum for 30 FPS average (source Steam Store).

About timeouts, no idea, maybe the RX 5700Xt (driver) does not properly support the game.
Your CPU can only sustain 30 FPS average at best (any situation). There will be horrible stutters. With your kind of PC I would find the game unplayable :). The CPU is definitely the most problematic component if you can fif the timeouts.

You could try to check out if you have the newest driver (last released) for the GPU. Make a clean install with DDU, Display driver unistaller. If this does not work, look if someone with a 5700XT got to run the game with a specific driver. Try to use such a driver (again clean install).

Lastly, if you have the money: You could upgrade. A Ryzen 5700X3d is 200-220 $ and is "godlike" superior to your CPU. It can be directly used on your mainboard with a Bios update.

You should increase RAM to 32 GB perhaps. 16 GB are okish, but could present a problem. A 32 GB DDR 4 3200 CL16 kit would suffice, should not be more than 35-45$, a new complete kit is much better for stability than putting in more RAM sticks

A RX 7700XT for about 400$ (about 65 % faster than a 5700XT) or a RX 7800 XT for about 450$ (twice as fast as a 5700XT, for sure worth the cost) would be a very nice touch also.

You should wait until January-February. AMD is expected
to reveal new powerful entry-upper mid tier GPUs.

Overall 650-750$ maximum investment could transform your PC to a very capable relatively modern machine again. Everything else can be kept. If you have the money, I would highly recommend such a step. Otherwise modern games will simply play abysmal.

As far as upgrade options go, this is a very fine deal. The other good option would be to build a new AM5 system atm. With the upgrades I suggested your PC should be very fine for the next 2-3 years still, however.

[Voldo]

Poor guy running the toaster specs.

[blakesu]

Originally posted by Zephyr:

Your entire PC is not really capable of running the game, sorry. You are just at the bare minimum for 30 FPS average (source Steam Store).

About timeouts, no idea, maybe the RX 5700Xt (driver) does not properly support the game.
Your CPU can only sustain 30 FPS average at best (any situation). There will be horrible stutters. With your kind of PC I would find the game unplayable :). The CPU is definitely the most problematic component if you can fif the timeouts.

You could try to check out if you have the newest driver (last released) for the GPU. Make a clean install with DDU, Display driver unistaller. If this does not work, look if someone with a 5700XT got to run the game with a specific driver. Try to use such a driver (again clean install).

Lastly, if you have the money: You could upgrade. A Ryzen 5700X3d is 200-220 $ and is "godlike" superior to your CPU. It can be directly used on your mainboard with a Bios update.

You should increase RAM to 32 GB perhaps. 16 GB are okish, but could present a problem. A 32 GB DDR 4 3200 CL16 kit would suffice, should not be more than 35-45$, a new complete kit is much better for stability than putting in more RAM sticks

A RX 7700XT for about 400$ (about 65 % faster than a 5700XT) or a RX 7800 XT for about 450$ (twice as fast as a 5700XT, for sure worth the cost) would be a very nice touch also.

You should wait until January-February. AMD is expected
to reveal new powerful entry-upper mid tier GPUs.

Overall 650-750$ maximum investment could transform your PC to a very capable relatively modern machine again. Everything else can be kept. If you have the money, I would highly recommend such a step. Otherwise modern games will simply play abysmal.

As far as upgrade options go, this is a very fine deal. The other good option would be to build a new AM5 system atm. With the upgrades I suggested your PC should be very fine for the next 2-3 years still, however.

I appreciate the reply but also don’t appreciate the asserting things you don’t understand or know about? My average FPS for this game is 63 my dude

The game has never given me any issues other than the driver timeout at the start of that cutscene, if I couldn’t run the game, I wouldn’t have any playtime at all

I ain’t spending $700 for something that can be fixed through driver and game updates and efforts on my end to solve the bottleneck

[blakesu]

Originally posted by Voldo:

Poor guy running the toaster specs.

This toaster runs 1440p Med-Ultra on every game I play

[Zephyr]

Originally posted by Pretty Boy:

Originally posted by Voldo:

Poor guy running the toaster specs.

This toaster runs 1440p Med-Ultra on every game I play

Your PC is just bare minimum, still. If you do get 63 average at all times have fun. Did you get to the larger battles? I doubt you will have anythig like 60 FPS once you do.
Drivers might fix the timeouts, or might not. Not sure if there are still new drivers being made for your GPU. If you are happy with your system and do not require more from the settings everything is fine.

Just personally I would never even bother with such heavy compromises, for me it would be unplayable. Btw. that you followed advise from others probably with similar specs: 30 FPS cap, 800*600P+ everything as low as possible simply proves everything I wrote. About the "Toasters" of others I mean and by extension likely yours. These are awful settings :).

[blakesu]

Originally posted by Zephyr:

Originally posted by Pretty Boy:

This toaster runs 1440p Med-Ultra on every game I play

Your PC is just bare minimum, still. If you do get 63 average at all times have fun. Did you get to the larger battles? I doubt you will have anythig like 60 FPS once you do.
Drivers might fix the timeouts, or might not. Not sure if there are still new drivers being made for your GPU. If you are happy with your system and do not require more from the settings everything is fine.

Just personally I would never even bother with such heavy compromises, for me it would be unplayable. Btw. that you followed advise from others probably with similar specs: 30 FPS cap, 800*600P+ everything as low as possible simply proves everything I wrote. About the "Toasters" of others I mean and by extension likely yours. These are awful settings :).

My guy really posting without reading any of the posts like bruh why are gamers like this

[Zephyr]

Originally posted by Pretty Boy:

Originally posted by Zephyr:

Your PC is just bare minimum, still. If you do get 63 average at all times have fun. Did you get to the larger battles? I doubt you will have anythig like 60 FPS once you do.
Drivers might fix the timeouts, or might not. Not sure if there are still new drivers being made for your GPU. If you are happy with your system and do not require more from the settings everything is fine.

Just personally I would never even bother with such heavy compromises, for me it would be unplayable. Btw. that you followed advise from others probably with similar specs: 30 FPS cap, 800*600P+ everything as low as possible simply proves everything I wrote. About the "Toasters" of others I mean and by extension likely yours. These are awful settings :).

My guy really posting without reading any of the posts like bruh why are gamers like this

Well, whatever :) Be happy your way.

Btw.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2183900/discussions/0/4763207778569030559/

Such threads are the only ones that could actually help with the specific driver timeout, only. But I suppose you found all of them already. In case you have not, there are also beta driver links (last post, for example) and supposedly the beta drivers worked for some. I would recommend a clean installation for such drivers. There are other work arounds than what you described, too.

[Kotzi]

Try a clean reinstall of your drivers, i can recommend DDU. Otherwise, your GPU might be dying. Had similar symptoms when mine broke. Everything was "fine" untill i wanted to play something more demanding and only then did it freeze. Just for clarification, dont be mad, you have your primary GPU selected?

[Jorge666]

Try disabling mpo, ive got 6950xt/5800x3d and get driver timeouts all the time not just with this game

[gcekia]

7800xt/5800x3d
I used to get driver timeouts in some specific areas. I lowered gpu clock speed for this game by about 200MHz-problem solved. It's obviously an AMD driver issue, though, as I shouldn't need to do that. Other than that, it runs great on my system at 1440.

[Jorge666]

Originally posted by gcekia:

7800xt/5800x3d
I used to get driver timeouts in some specific areas. I lowered gpu clock speed for this game by about 200MHz-problem solved. It's obviously an AMD driver issue, though, as I shouldn't need to do that. Other than that, it runs great on my system at 1440.

Same here get 120-140fps with frame gen on at 1440p, I only ever was getting them when I loaded the game up, as soon as I got in the battle barge it would crash, sometimes do that twice but then run absolutely fine, I did also read something about it booting up too fast, ive not had any today since I disabled multiplane overlay (touch wood...)

[blakesu]

Originally posted by jorge666:

Originally posted by gcekia:

7800xt/5800x3d
I used to get driver timeouts in some specific areas. I lowered gpu clock speed for this game by about 200MHz-problem solved. It's obviously an AMD driver issue, though, as I shouldn't need to do that. Other than that, it runs great on my system at 1440.

Same here get 120-140fps with frame gen on at 1440p, I only ever was getting them when I loaded the game up, as soon as I got in the battle barge it would crash, sometimes do that twice but then run absolutely fine, I did also read something about it booting up too fast, ive not had any today since I disabled multiplane overlay (touch wood...)

I managed to brute-force it to work by just pausing at the literal nano-second the cutscene appears and just skipping it as fast as I could.
Haven't had any issues since and I've played like 5 other missions.

[Jorge666]

Originally posted by Pretty Boy:

Originally posted by jorge666:

Same here get 120-140fps with frame gen on at 1440p, I only ever was getting them when I loaded the game up, as soon as I got in the battle barge it would crash, sometimes do that twice but then run absolutely fine, I did also read something about it booting up too fast, ive not had any today since I disabled multiplane overlay (touch wood...)

I managed to brute-force it to work by just pausing at the literal nano-second the cutscene appears and just skipping it as fast as I could.
Haven't had any issues since and I've played like 5 other missions.

Well after what I said I read about booting up too fast (my pc literally takes 12 second to boot) I've been waiting a few minutes before I open the game, so im gonna try booting it up and opening the game immediately and see if it crashes so I know whether its the booting too fast or whether the mpo disable is whats stopped the crashes thus far, if it is the mpo disable it might be worth you doing that as it was a very easy process, just downloaded a file double click to open and that was it