PSA: Fix for video freeze on Nvidia cards [at least my GTX 1060]

[Reasonance]

So I finally found out how to solve the problem of video freezing [while sound and controls still work]. I only tested it for 50 minutes but it should work fine - before that I barely could reach the on foot section of the prologue.

So the problem is enabled DSR [Dynamic Super Resolution] in nVidia Control Panel [AFAIK it defaults to OFF so that's why this problem isn't that common on nvidia cards]

Thing is, it's a global setting that's disabled by default, but it's system wide - you can't change it on a per game basis, you have to remove all the DSR scaling factors.

The way it works is probably the reason why it broke the game - it hooks very very low in display processing [it creates fake resolutions to downsample from - so convincingly that it even adds them to windows desktop resolution menu]. It's always on even if you do not use those supersampled resolutions - best evidence is that your screen will flicker for a moment when you disable them - the same way it does during driver installation process.

It also explains why fullscreen Nier freeze video so well it blocked even Ctrl+Alt+Del and windows 10 Desktop Manager \ Task View [Win+Tab] - near driver level freeze will do that

tl;dr: Disable DSR in nVidia Control Panel [turn off all scaling factors]

Also force borderless windowed but you all probably know that by now.

Game is awesome, just please make those 30fps cutscenes at least work smoothly, k?

[Install Gentoo]

I have DSR on off to begin with. It can't be this. That said I haven't had the white screen happen for more than 2 hours now.

[Doctor M]

where do i find it in the control panel

[Reasonance]

it worked for me, and with it on I sometimes froze in menu

[Doctor M]

Originally posted by Install Gentoo:

I have DSR on off to begin with. It can't be this. That said I haven't had the white screen happen for more than 2 hours now.

do you have any idea how you got it to work or did it just suddenly start working

[Reasonance]

It's off by default so if you don't remember turning it on it's probably not that

but still:
Manage 3D Settings -> Global Settings tab - DSR - Factors - you have to deselect all active ones for it to turn off

[TataruTaru]

http://prntscr.com/elcl64 - DSR in Nvidia

[Install Gentoo]

Originally posted by masterkill165:

Originally posted by Install Gentoo:

I have DSR on off to begin with. It can't be this. That said I haven't had the white screen happen for more than 2 hours now.

do you have any idea how you got it to work or did it just suddenly start working

I haven't done anything myself, so I still save like crazy.

[Doctor M]

Originally posted by Reasonance:

It's off by default so if you don't remember turning it on it's probably not that

but still:
Manage 3D Settings -> Global Settings tab - DSR - Factors - you have to deselect all active ones for it to turn off

Originally posted by Kendjin:

http://prntscr.com/elcl64

thanks both of you and you are right it already off for me so i still have no idea what my problem is

[Reasonance]

My only guess is maybe any other thing that hooks really low into video driver, but I don't know what that could be - RTSS and similair are too high level probably so - any other downsampling solution might be responsible too though - gedosato etc. though they aren't always on like DSR

BTW. My system is i7 6700k + ASUS STRIX 1060 6GB + 16 GB DDR4 RAM @3Ghz XMP on

Game works fine at high at 1080p60 with no AA [had around 55 FPS with 2-4x, I hope patch or new drivers might help with that, might OC the card a bit and go back to 2x AA though]

[Annini]

My DSR is off too. The freezings happen randomly.

[Ragnarok]

I do not even have DSR settings in my Nvidia control panel. Help. Please?