Doom Eternal Freezing

[Stormite]

When it launched it worked without issues and all the times after that i played the game.
It worked for 150h without a problem

I7-12700
16GB RAM
RTX 2070 Super
Its installed on a SSD.

All of a sudden when i installed the game again this year and tried to play it, freeze after freeze and anything that i have tried doesn't work.
Disable steam overlay, RT off, controller not connected to the PC. Medium setting and so on.
It works for longer if the setting are on Medium than on High or Doom forbid Ultra.

What happened and does anybody knows what to do to Fix this ?

Also did anybody notify Id about this ?

Sorry i honestly tried everything and wasted a lot of time on this.

[D.T.]

A friend of mine has that same card and has the same issue. You wouldn't happen to be using windows without a registered key for it would you? I'm betting that is the issue with my friend specifically, but it could be due to the drivers themselves, as that card is more than capable. I ran through the game several times on a gtx 1070 8GB before upgrading to a 3070 ti, and I've only had 1 freeze so far and it was due to playing for 6+ hours with the coop mod.

Years ago I had another friend who always used windows without registered keys and it severely limited his ability to edit anything and a large portion of his games were unstable, despite him having more than capable hardware. He finally got a key for his windows copy and everything was fine afterwards.

Edit: I noticed you have 16 gigs of ram, that's kinda low for today's standards, even for Eternal. Sounds like it runs out of memory, since you and my friend get more game time in when they lower their gfx settings before it freezes. I'd check your page file and make sure its set to around 50% more than your physical ram, and see if the issue still persists.

Edit 2: Also what fps and resolution are you trying to play Eternal at? That could be a contributing factor as well.

[Stormite]

The Windows might be the problem ? Could be, as i had a system with a reg.key for OS. But that Rig has been sold. And im not sure that i played Eternal on my new PC yet. I think i did but not sure.

As for the RAM i do need to upgrade, the thought has crossed my mind. But again it worked more than fine before on a weaker Rig.

Every other thing work more than fine, kinda weird that, that(OS) would the issue. But i guess don't cross of anything that you haven't tried.

[Headtaker]

Originally posted by Stormite:

The Windows might be the problem ? Could be, as i had a system with a reg.key for OS. But that Rig has been sold. And im not sure that i played Eternal on my new PC yet. I think i did but not sure.

As for the RAM i do need to upgrade, the thought has crossed my mind. But again it worked more than fine before on a weaker Rig.

Every other thing work more than fine, kinda weird that, that(OS) would the issue. But i guess don't cross of anything that you haven't tried.

I think i have managed to fix it while running everything on max settings, but need to monitor my game more to make sure, but try the following :

START WITH SWITCHING YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVER TO AN OLDER VERSION, I switched my 4090rtx from version 555.99 to an old driver of 546.33, MOST LIKELY IT WAS THIS.

0. make sure your system runs the minimum system requirements, also make sure your hardware isn't faulty (run reliable stress tests, such as those in 3dmark to verify)
00. disable the present from compute setting in doom eternal settings
1. disable all 3rd party overlays (such as steam ,discord, gamebar, fps counter, geforce experience, gamebar can be tricky)
2. Disable steam shader precaching (google it so u know how to do it)
3. go to doom eternal gamedirectory right click and properties, DOOMEternalx64vk.exe and idTechLauncher.exe, make both run as admin, windows 8 compatibility
4. restore graphics card control panel 3d settings to default (make power option high performance)
5. disable any overclocking, including RAM, GPU, CPU.
6. update bios
7. in windows go to settings/system/graphic settings/browse doom eternal application, set it to high performance
8. edit windows power plan, make it high performance
9. if none of this work, do a clean boot (disable all background services and only run the necessary ones), its a small chance but something in the background could be interfering with your game

[Stormite]

Originally posted by Headtaker:

Originally posted by Stormite:

The Windows might be the problem ? Could be, as i had a system with a reg.key for OS. But that Rig has been sold. And im not sure that i played Eternal on my new PC yet. I think i did but not sure.

As for the RAM i do need to upgrade, the thought has crossed my mind. But again it worked more than fine before on a weaker Rig.

Every other thing work more than fine, kinda weird that, that(OS) would the issue. But i guess don't cross of anything that you haven't tried.

I think i have managed to fix it while running everything on max settings, but need to monitor my game more to make sure, but try the following :

START WITH SWITCHING YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVER TO AN OLDER VERSION, I switched my 4090rtx from version 555.99 to an old driver of 546.33, MOST LIKELY IT WAS THIS.

0. make sure your system runs the minimum system requirements, also make sure your hardware isn't faulty (run reliable stress tests, such as those in 3dmark to verify)
00. disable the present from compute setting in doom eternal settings
1. disable all 3rd party overlays (such as steam ,discord, gamebar, fps counter, geforce experience, gamebar can be tricky)
2. Disable steam shader precaching (google it so u know how to do it)
3. go to doom eternal gamedirectory right click and properties, DOOMEternalx64vk.exe and idTechLauncher.exe, make both run as admin, windows 8 compatibility
4. restore graphics card control panel 3d settings to default (make power option high performance)
5. disable any overclocking, including RAM, GPU, CPU.
6. update bios
7. in windows go to settings/system/graphic settings/browse doom eternal application, set it to high performance
8. edit windows power plan, make it high performance
9. if none of this work, do a clean boot (disable all background services and only run the necessary ones), its a small chance but something in the background could be interfering with your game

Thanks the Driver 546.33 installation fixed it for me. It crashed the first time but worked for longer and the second time i started the game it worked as it should.

Everything else i tried before but it didn't work for me. Some of the things i reverted but some of the stayed such as 2 and 8. and also Present from compute is OFF in the game settings.

RTX is off for me, DLSS is Performance. VSYNC is off.

Im gonna play around with the Steam overlay as i want to take screenshots in the game.
And also the Memory pool size. I know it worked on High before and it does now i think but gotta play it more.

[D.T.]

Drivers were definitely up there for things to try. Probably one of the easier things to try before crossing off the list. Glad you figured it out, will let my buddy know too and hope he is willing to revert to a more stable driver release as well.

[Headtaker]

If u want to try with the latest 555.99 , try these nvidia control panel settings (an nvidia employee told me, i tried it a bit, it works but looks a bit worse than max in game settings) :

Anisoptropic filtering 4x
Antialiasing - Mode: Override any application setting
Antialiasing - Setting: 4x
Antialiasing - Transparency: Multisample/or 2x
Shader Cache: Off
Texture filtering - Anisoptropic sample options: Off
Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: Clamp
Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization: On
Triple buffering: On
Vsync Off

My game freezes just like before when i try anything above anisoptropic filtering 4x with 555.99 driver

[D.T.]

For whatever it may be worth (and for anyone else reading in the future), I'm on driver version 552.22 with an nvidia rtx 3070ti and have no issues, everything set to ultra nightmare settings. I can play with raytracing on, at native without any resolution gimmicks like DLSS/Scaling, at steadily over 100 fps. As soon as I start to stream it with raytracing on however, it dips down to the 20's and 30's fps and looks like slow motion when it gets that low.

win 10 (up-to-date with updates)
32gb ram
i7 4790k devils canyon overclocked to 4.5ghz
nvidia rtx 3070ti 8gb
msi Z97 MPOWER MAX AC motherboard
850w corsair power supply
corsair liquid cooling for cpu
1tb ssd
1080p

I couldn't tell you what driver version I was using with my gtx 1080 though, but I also didn't have any issues with it.

[pawel86ck]

I had the same problem on my PC (7800X3D, RTX4080S). What fixed the problem was turning off forced vsync in the nvidia control panel to application controlled. I set vsync to adaptive in the game settings and now everything works perfectly.

[pawel86ck]

Originally posted by D.T.:

For whatever it may be worth (and for anyone else reading in the future), I'm on driver version 552.22 with an nvidia rtx 3070ti and have no issues, everything set to ultra nightmare settings. I can play with raytracing on, at native without any resolution gimmicks like DLSS/Scaling, at steadily over 100 fps. As soon as I start to stream it with raytracing on however, it dips down to the 20's and 30's fps and looks like slow motion when it gets that low.

win 10 (up-to-date with updates)
32gb ram
i7 4790k devils canyon overclocked to 4.5ghz
nvidia rtx 3070ti 8gb
msi Z97 MPOWER MAX AC motherboard
850w corsair power supply
corsair liquid cooling for cpu
1tb ssd
1080p

I couldn't tell you what driver version I was using with my gtx 1080 though, but I also didn't have any issues with it.

It seems your GPU run out of vram.