Unpredictable Unreal Engine crash occurring

[danielw289]

I'm running into an error that doesn't seem to be consistent in what triggers the crash, I can go several minutes into the game or, it can crash while in base camp. This has forced several re-starts and loss of progress.
Error is as follows:
LowLevelFatalError [File:Unkown] [Line: 198]
Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x887A0005 - 'REMOVED')

This seems tied to the recent Summer Update, as I played previously for a couple of hours on end without any problems.

[Yun and the Yuns]

Hey there, thanks for your report and sorry for the inconvenience.

[gammon.gameplay]

Same as well. Driver updating/rolling back unsuccessful in clearing this bug.

[danielw289]

Update on bug: Still getting this bug on occasion, however I've noticed it seems to happen more often when there seems to be loading up new areas mid-combat or at the beginning of new areas when I'm a rush to go through the loading screens on a speed-run.

I know there is a technical term for it, but it's not coming to mind: when the program is devoting resources to load up more of an area that is coming up, but trying to do it in the background so that there is less time spent at a loading screen and more time spent playing the actual level.

When I'm speed running I'm encountering more frame-drops and stutters as it's trying to stay ahead of my progress, and if I tap the loading screen as soon as I hear the horn, this error kicks more often. Not 100% of the time, but being in a rush does seem to provoke it.

When I'm not in a rush, particularly if I'm doing multiplayer with one of my friends who likes to "stop and smell the roses" so to speak and we take our time going through levels, it doesn't seem to be nearly as much of an issue.

So I'm guessing this has something to do with that background-loading stuff going on? Just trying to help narrow the symptoms / causes down.

[Roasted Chicken]

Also encountered this error, it won't even load the game, this happened after the summer update, as I never had this issue until now, although my backup computer has a geforce 980 ti, and my computer in the shop had a geforce rtx 3070, so it could be a video card issue?