Msi afterburner causing driver crash

[Raziel_Z32]

Hi steam buddies. just wanted to suggest to people who are having driver crashes that you should attempt playing with Msi afterburner completely closed down as it has stopped my driver crashes completely so far.

I spent days trying to get to the bottom of this thinking it was faulty drivers or dodgy installs of drivers just to find out it was Msi all along.

I hope this solution helps some of you having the same issues. :)

[Phat Monkey]

ah interesting, i have had a few crashes, always use afterburner for fan. Have u overclocked using MSI?

[Raziel_Z32]

I have in the past but tend to stick to factory overclock the msi 970 has. I use it mostly for fan control and cpu and gpu temps. I also had alot of trouble playing assassins creed unity with msi running which was strange. Every other game seems to be perfect with it though.

Other suggestions for helping with crashes are changing the witcher to prefer maximum performance in nvidia control panel and disabling nvidia streaming service which is used for streaming to nvidia shield etc. I have done all theses and can now play for hours on end.

[Phat Monkey]

cool thanks man...

[Raziel_Z32]

No problem :)

[glorfindel1975]

I had the same problem with my 780. Solved unistalling MSI and reinstalling it.

[Raziel_Z32]

I just updated it which still causes crash. I might try reinstall actually. Didn't think to try that. Thanks glorfindel.

[Raziel_Z32]

well I take it back. Got driver crash again even without msi afterburner :(

[Dukie]

You're sure your GPU isn't overheating? As a failsafe your driver will crash to prevent it from overheating.

[Loltak]

I could be a reason of some crash but it's not the only one, often it's due to the overlay.

Personnaly I've no crash with the 344.xx and for the moment wih the 353.06 even with the overlay.

[Raziel_Z32]

nah gpu is never overheating. I keep a close eye on my PC's health :)

I heard disabling nvidia hd audio can help with driver crashes since update 1.04 was released so I'll try that next.

http://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/383zd1/still_getting_display_driver_crashes_during_the/

One day I'll be able to play this damn game properly haha.

[Khayne]

for me having msi afterburner on to lower my factory oced 660ti's core clock fixes the crashing. if i dont lower the core clock the game crashes every 5-10 mins. its a gigabyte 660ti with +118mhz on the core from them.

[Raziel_Z32]

Thanks Khayne. I left the witcher running overnight just then with the nvidia hd audio drivers disabled and it hasn't crashed but maybe that's because Geralt stood still all night. I will try you solution if it crashes again while playing :)

[Swingeling]

Originally posted by Big Boss:

Thanks Khayne. I left the witcher running overnight just then with the nvidia hd audio drivers disabled and it hasn't crashed but maybe that's because Geralt stood still all night. I will try you solution if it crashes again while playing :)

I still cant play this! When I load my last save and I dont move Geralt, it can run all day. But as soon as I try to move/run around = "Witcher 3 Crash.."

[Raziel_Z32]

Yeah this seems to be my problem as well :( what specs you have?

I have
Windows 7
Msi gtx 970
I5 4570
750 watt gold power supply
8 gb 1866 dual channel ram.

[Raziel_Z32]

Oh and swing, is it driver crash? Or crash to desktop?