fixing the game against developers will.. (forcing DX11 through Windows.)

[K0NG]

All the Youtubers and streamers who got early keys complained about Crashes related through DX12.

the devs straight ignoring the fact that the game is unplayable with DX12 and do not give an option to change it.


but you can force it straight through windows (10).

Open your Options, go to Apps and klick on optional features.
Klick on Add Feature and look for Graphics tools.

Install the Graphics tools. (after klicking on install go back with the arrow on the top left and wait until it is installed.)

if it's done press Windows+R and type dxcpl

if you are in the direct x control panel klick in the Direct 3D 10/11/12 List on Edit List

there you klick on the 3 dots and go chose both .exe (Grid.exe and Grid_dx12.exe)

both paths should be visible in the List of processes and folders now.

Press OK

Now you look all the way down at Device Settings and make a check on Disable Feature Level Upgrade and chose in the list called Feature level limit: 11_1.

you klick on confirm and start the game.

the game will still be called Grid DirectX12 because the games name has DirectX12 in it but the game now runs natively in Direct X11.1

This fixed the crashing immediately for me and i have now even better performance (around 15% more FPS and a much more stable experience.)



it's a shame that Codemasters does something like this even if everyone told them the issue WEEKS AGO!

[Reizo Ryuu]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Sethioz:

as I said, it's a struggle. I have dx11 on windows xp, but it's pain to get anything working, you get 100 error messages before something works. Basically you can get dx12 on win xp too, but it requires lot of work as microsoft doesn't provide native support for it. They do it on purpose to kill out the old windows versions.

They gave too much control to users with win xp, so now they trying to take it away with win 10, I mean win 10 requires SIGNED DRIVERS, which means companies who want to have their own drivers, must pay lot of money to microsoft to have their driver signed .. it's all about $$$$$ and who else knows $$$$$ better than microsoft? they're all about greed and control.

Uhh that's not even slightly the same, WoW CoD and Gears 5 have support for DX12 on W7 straight through microsoft themselves; it's as close as "native support" as you can get because they themselves ported it over. It's nothing like forcing dx11 on xp through some weird russian patch.

[Sethioz]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Nelly D Racer:

I'm guessing DX11 was left in for pre-release videos. Probably explains why the cracked version going around has both DX11 and DX12 available.

.. when cracked version is actually better than legit one LOL

[Nelly D Racer]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Sethioz:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Nelly D Racer:

I'm guessing DX11 was left in for pre-release videos. Probably explains why the cracked version going around has both DX11 and DX12 available.

.. when cracked version is actually better than legit one LOL

Which flat out sucks by the way.

[Chat]

I play with DX12 and I didn't any crash stange

[Nelly D Racer]

For the most part mine did as well and then it started randomly crashing halfway through every race.

[ChLoNiCaL-EST]

Thank you K0NG__. Game looks much better in DX11. Everything is smoother and FPS is higher.

[Judith]

Plz Devs fix the compatibility mode for DX11

[Simon Watton]

im getting constant crashes with i7700 and a GTX1050 @ 1080p...im gutted. The error is saying its DX12, and theres me thinking my system would be enough. I see a refund coming.

[Sethioz]

Początkowo opublikowane przez mr watton:

im getting constant crashes with i7700 and a GTX1050 @ 1080p...im gutted. The error is saying its DX12, and theres me thinking my system would be enough. I see a refund coming.

crashes can be caused by badly maintained system. after i solved my dx12 issues on win 10, game runs like a dream. i run it in 4k maxed out settings with GTX 1080 and no lag or crashes, played 3 hours straight with no issues whatsoever.

I'm not saying it's necessarily your pc, but most likely it is. could also be sound drivers, i noticed GRID requires more than just casual audio, try updating your audio drivers and see if that fixes it.

[Simon Watton]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Sethioz:

Początkowo opublikowane przez mr watton:

im getting constant crashes with i7700 and a GTX1050 @ 1080p...im gutted. The error is saying its DX12, and theres me thinking my system would be enough. I see a refund coming.

crashes can be caused by badly maintained system. after i solved my dx12 issues on win 10, game runs like a dream. i run it in 4k maxed out settings with GTX 1080 and no lag or crashes, played 3 hours straight with no issues whatsoever.

I'm not saying it's necessarily your pc, but most likely it is. could also be sound drivers, i noticed GRID requires more than just casual audio, try updating your audio drivers and see if that fixes it.

Thanks for the reply. My system is fully maintained and I check it almost daily for updates and system tweeks. Just received my refund now, but hey, I could always buy it for my Xbox. I’m sure that would be a much happier experience.

[Sethioz]

Początkowo opublikowane przez mr watton:

Thanks for the reply. My system is fully maintained and I check it almost daily for updates and system tweeks. Just received my refund now, but hey, I could always buy it for my Xbox. I’m sure that would be a much happier experience.

personally i'd never give up, but well if you rather get a refund than play, well up to you. I guess that's why ppl praise the consoles, cuz all consoles are exactly same, so if devs test it and it works, then it will work on all consoles, but PCs have millions of different hardware and software configurations and you never know when something goes wrong.

Usually i'd be very mad if game doesn't work on launch, but DX12 is very new, this is second game that I see, which uses DX12. just give everyone time to optimize DX12 related stuff.

[Mcnab]

i tried everything to get game to launch but no joy,

old specs phenom 955 be cpu
msi 970 gaming motherboard
gtx 760 graphics
ddr3 ram. game would not go past start screen,

new specs
ryzen 2600 cpu
msi tomahawk max board
same card gtx 760
ddr4 ram.

game now works like a dream, very expensive i know but hey i needed to upgrade anyway,

im thinking its a cpu problem as i tried a titan x gfx card and faster ram overclocked cpu still would not launch.

hope this helps someone

Ohh and thanks Kong for the help.

[Axe]

FIXED ISSUE ON MY GAMING LAPTOP .. hopefully this will work for you too.

I have literally spent all day tweaking every setting and trying every fix...

I Applied the fix posted by K0ng__ in the Steam forums to limit the usage of DX to 11.1, this did make a slight improvement but not much. (entitled fixing the game against developers will.. (forcing DX11 through Windows.)

I then saw in the crash logs that it was using my onboARD graphics , not my NVIDIA gfx card,

Then I setup a rule in nvidia control panel to use the nvidia card for the grid_12x.exe file , but this still caused the game to crash when i went into 'options | video'

when I cheked the crash log i saw it was still using my onboard gfx , not my nvidia card

Went back to nvidia control panel, created a global setting for EVERYtHING to use the nvidia card and at the same time I un-did everything in Kongs__ steam fix...

Then I launched GRID and it worked! 

I dont know if I needed to do both the global setting AND undo K0ngs__ settings.. but its working AND ITS WELL worth it!!

Good luck all , I  hope this helps you!

Axe

[SjakieNL]

Hi All,

Thnx Kong it worked ))

Not the first time after adding your fix but after 2 times starting the game i quickly changed to windowed(alt enter) in the game and changed that to windowed fullscreen, now it works!

now multiplayer fix......

SjakieNL

[™xGRADOmax]

Please tell me! Instead of the GRID.exe file, I got the CrashSender1406 file. Can this be fixed? Or so everyone?