nVidia GTX 1060 6gb constantly crashes. would an AMD be better?

[clivewil]

as above, my MSI GTX 1060 6gb constantly dies under NMS - it almost always takes out the gfx driver and requires a restart, usually kills MSI Afterburner too which also needs to be quit/restarted, and has a few times given me a BSoD which needs a cold boot and a visit to the bios.

after much reading online, it seems the 1060's are trouble-prone - many are blaming nVidia's drivers, saying that the problems started at about the same time as the 2xxx series cards were released. (case in point: you now need to manually set 'prefer maximum performance' in the NV control panel, or the card might starve for power - this never was an issue with older drivers)

question: do you think i'd have more luck with an AMD GPU? i was looking at the RX 570 or 580, they have similar performance to the 1060 - and are a lot cheaper but use MUCH more power (e.g. 325w compared to the 1060's 125w) - i have a corsair 750w supply, so hopefully i can run an AMD without probs.

your thoughts?

[7th7andwich]

Played 70 hours without a single issue.
After the latest update the game freezes randomly and eventually crashes after freezing. This happens consistently after anywhere between 15 minutes - 5 hours.
Completely unpredictable but also inevitable.

My point is don't listen to the idiots saying "it's your own computer's fault"

HG pushed out an unstable build, plain and simple.

Others are having issues as well.

IDK why fanboys are so desperate to gaslight and pretend there are no problems with this game. Only by addressing problems can the game continue to improve.

[louismacdonald]

Well, we might not have experienced those problems ourselves yet. I use a 1070ti and have played 30+ hours since the update, no issues whatsoever.

[clivewil]

引用自 Mara Jadewind：

You could try OC your 1060 for some extra FPS see whether it could help..

actually i have it slightly underclocked, trying to gain stability at the cost of performance

one thing that finally swayed my decision was reading several sources online saying that AMD drivers tend to be more stable than nVidia's... plus a whole slew of people having trouble with the 1060 6gb in particular (the 3gb version seems much less troublesome)

引用自 7th7andwich：

HG pushed out an unstable build, plain and simple.
Others are having issues as well.

but corrupting my bios though! i had *never* heard of such a thing until now, and it's much much scarier than a simple CTD ever was.

it's one thing to lose a mere 20 minutes of game time, but something else to wonder if it is going to start damaging hardware... but it's only NMS that does this. bizarre stuff indeed.

[7th7andwich]

引用自 louismacdonald：

Well, we might not have experienced those problems ourselves yet. I use a 1070ti and have played 30+ hours since the update, no issues whatsoever.

Yes. That's how computers work. Different systems can encounter issues while other people never have a problem. A well developed piece of software doesn't have this problem.

[louismacdonald]

You're assuming others have the same issue as you, missing the OP also mentioned it could just as well be the mobo they are using.

There might be an issue with this update that causes poor 1060 performance without any changes to the 1070 series, but not all troubleshooting has been done yet :)

[7th7andwich]

引用自 louismacdonald：

You're assuming others have the same issue as you, missing the OP also mentioned it could just as well be the mobo they are using.

There might be an issue with this update that causes poor 1060 performance without any changes to the 1070 series, but not all troubleshooting has been done yet :)

I'm not assuming ♥♥♥♥. Numerous other users have mentioned they are having issues. This can be observed on the reviews, and also in other discussions here in the forums.

In my case it's also irrefutable, since again, 70+ hours without crashing, and it's only now an issue after this update, meanwhile other, much more taxing games, have zero problems for me.

Why is it so hard for you to admit that HG put out an unstable update? This is pretty normal, especially for smaller studios. Pretending it's not an issue only means it will take longer to solve, and it means bad reviews from the people who are getting crashes / freezes.

[louismacdonald]

Because gleaming a "vibe" from seeing a few reviews isn't how statistics work. There may be an issue with the update, but you are reaching based on your own experience without considering alternative solutions to what the OP is asking about.

[7th7andwich]

引用自 louismacdonald：

Because gleaming a "vibe" from seeing a few reviews isn't how statistics work. There may be an issue with the update, but you are reaching based on your own experience without considering alternative solutions to what the OP is asking about.

It's simple math cheif.
Game didn't used to crash.
Update happened.
Game crashes with significant frequency.
Other users have also mentioned problems.

Why on earth would you actively oppose an issue like this getting fixed?

[louismacdonald]

Yes, there's an issue with your own install of the game - and there are always issues for some players following an update. But, it's one grain of sand on a very large beach. Having a crappy experience doesn't mean the whole world feels the same way; and this other user's GPU problem might be caused by something else - we simply don't know. :)

[7th7andwich]

引用自 louismacdonald：

Yes, there's an issue with your own install of the game - and there are always issues for some players following an update. But, it's one grain of sand on a very large beach. Having a crappy experience doesn't mean the whole world feels the same way; and this other user's GPU problem might be caused by something else - we simply don't know. :)

interesting how you admit that users experience instability after this update, then go onto dismiss them as a small minority not worth caring about.
Thanks for admitting that I was right while trying to pretend you didn't.

[louismacdonald]

Asparagus.

[hippo]

i have an amd rx 580 8gb the equivilant to your gpu. it doesn't crash and for the first 4 months of the beyond update i wasn't able to load up the game to begin with but now i get sub par fps. still better than open gl was though. my cpu is an fx 8350. considering it takes a 1070 and up to get 60 fps at 1080p on high settings it's easy to see this game does not run well on anything. vulkan did not fix performance and with the rendering issues that have gotten worse with the switch to vulkan it's simply the games issue.

[Mara Jadewind]

引用自 7th7andwich：

引用自 louismacdonald：

You're assuming others have the same issue as you, missing the OP also mentioned it could just as well be the mobo they are using.

There might be an issue with this update that causes poor 1060 performance without any changes to the 1070 series, but not all troubleshooting has been done yet :)

I'm not assuming ♥♥♥♥. Numerous other users have mentioned they are having issues. This can be observed on the reviews, and also in other discussions here in the forums.

In my case it's also irrefutable, since again, 70+ hours without crashing, and it's only now an issue after this update, meanwhile other, much more taxing games, have zero problems for me.

Why is it so hard for you to admit that HG put out an unstable update? This is pretty normal, especially for smaller studios. Pretending it's not an issue only means it will take longer to solve, and it means bad reviews from the people who are getting crashes / freezes.

Fanbois gotta defend no matter what. Simple as that.

[7th7andwich]

引用自 Mara Jadewind：

引用自 7th7andwich：

I'm not assuming ♥♥♥♥. Numerous other users have mentioned they are having issues. This can be observed on the reviews, and also in other discussions here in the forums.

In my case it's also irrefutable, since again, 70+ hours without crashing, and it's only now an issue after this update, meanwhile other, much more taxing games, have zero problems for me.

Why is it so hard for you to admit that HG put out an unstable update? This is pretty normal, especially for smaller studios. Pretending it's not an issue only means it will take longer to solve, and it means bad reviews from the people who are getting crashes / freezes.

Fanbois gotta defend no matter what. Simple as that.

Yeah I guess you're right... It's just frustrating because I LIKE this game... So I want it to keep improving and NOT get bad reviews... and outright gaslighting people who are having issues is the opposite of what results in the game improving and getting good reviews

[James_T_Quirk]

I have a gaming rig as well, just for "nasty" Win Games, running a Nvidia 1080 GTX 8gb, on AMD 8350 w/32gb, WIN 7 Pro 64, Mine crashes as well, when I quit NMS it crashes to a shutdown, complete, quick .. but I am running AMD, Win 7, so not in spec for game, but now it's Win 10 Drivers & DX12 are the issue, it is a non starter, cause I can Use Win 10 Software in WINE On Linux to Run Cheap Crappy Software that thinks it is OS Dependant, and it works without a Issue, so it is in the code, I Suggest Hullo Games needs some real programmers, not microsoft's minions, 40% of Gaming base is Still running Win7, 35 % of Business is Still Running Win 7, get a Grip .. I have been running Linux since Amiga2000, So I will not be going to Win10, if I HAVE to change OS, will use Linux, like a Lot of People, who actually want their Computer to work for them, NOT Microsoft ..