Store Page
Last Epoch
All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews

Last Epoch

Store Page
Cranor Mar 13, 2023 @ 6:58am
Last Epoch crashing GPU randomly
Short of it, I've been having a blast playing the last two days, but as I entered the level 100 monolith stage today I've now been content soft locked due to my GPUs hitting the bucket.

Two 980s so I don't expect too much of them these days, but it bothers me when I played the game perfectly fine up until this point. I've attempted the same boss now 10+ times and I always crash on it around the 40% health mark due to GPU going up to 100%. I did this same boss thrice yesterday without issues (bone dragon thingy in reign of dragons).

Worth to keep in mind that I played through cyberpunk on this setup without any real hardware issues.
< >
Showing 1-13 of 13 comments
Livy Mar 13, 2023 @ 7:23am 
Yeah, there is some random points in this game where it decides it want to use ALL the gpu even with relatively low settings.
#1
Cranor Mar 13, 2023 @ 9:06am 
Oh yeah no I was playing on medium all the way through the campaign with no issues at all, it became a bit spiky at monoliths so I lowered it to low and it was smooth from there on out until this.

Feels weird knowing I've crashed more today trying to fix this than my entire first playthrough of cyberpunk on launch week...
#2
Phil Mar 13, 2023 @ 9:54am 
The game is still garbage when it comes to GPU usage. Yes indeed. It's easy to replicate. Open the game, login, enter any location which has mobs. Now open a Google Chrome and navigate (alt+ tab). After 10 seconds, alt+ tab back and you will see the GPU temp really high for no reason whatsoever
#3
Cranor Mar 13, 2023 @ 9:58am 
Originally posted by philmello:
The game is still garbage when it comes to GPU usage. Yes indeed. It's easy to replicate. Open the game, login, enter any location which has mobs. Now open a Google Chrome and navigate (alt+ tab). After 10 seconds, alt+ tab back and you will see the GPU temp really high for no reason whatsoever

I get that it might just be an example for the topic as a whole, but I was testing around with these things and nothing helped me get through that boss encounter or even seemingly remotely change the window the crash happened,

Good to know it's not just me though, suppose I just have to shelf the game until something is done about it...
#4
Evrir Mar 13, 2023 @ 10:49am 
I might end up waiting a bit myself because my PC is older and having it run that hot is just a no go. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find what's causing it because the game has been proving to be fantastic.
#5
Phil Mar 13, 2023 @ 4:52pm 
Originally posted by Cranor:
Originally posted by philmello:
The game is still garbage when it comes to GPU usage. Yes indeed. It's easy to replicate. Open the game, login, enter any location which has mobs. Now open a Google Chrome and navigate (alt+ tab). After 10 seconds, alt+ tab back and you will see the GPU temp really high for no reason whatsoever

I get that it might just be an example for the topic as a whole, but I was testing around with these things and nothing helped me get through that boss encounter or even seemingly remotely change the window the crash happened,

Good to know it's not just me though, suppose I just have to shelf the game until something is done about it...

The worst part, friend, is: Terrible performance still in the game after years, can demand more than Cyberpunk on Ultra Ray Tracing. It's just incredibly bad optmized.
Last edited by Phil; Mar 13, 2023 @ 4:53pm
#6
RodHull Mar 13, 2023 @ 5:08pm 
Wait for the defence force to turn up and tell you its your rig and the game is fine

But yes the game runs poorly, always has. Unity doesn't help of course added to that it runs very poorly on some high end machines.
#7
Unserious Mar 13, 2023 @ 5:42pm 
Black screen and C++ error...
When I try run NVIDIA Control Panel I saw a message that GPU is not detected :(
After restarting the PC, everything was back to normal, thankfully.
#8
MathersC137 Mar 14, 2023 @ 6:21am 
Same issue im 5 hours in no problems and now all of a sudden in the courtyard im having constant crashes and even my pc restarted. what a shame hopefully theres an update soon as i cannot play at all or progress the story.
#9
Megakruemel[GER] Mar 14, 2023 @ 7:34am 
Originally posted by Unserious:
Black screen and C++ error...
When I try run NVIDIA Control Panel I saw a message that GPU is not detected :(
After restarting the PC, everything was back to normal, thankfully.

Yeah the "no gpu detected" part sounds like a Driver crash to me. Unity has been weird with older gpus (and sometimes newer drivers on new gpus) for a while now but there should be something the devs can do.


Most of these issues are very weird and very specific to Unity. Rimworld, another game made in unity, also had a problem with caching some graphics (or rather, the loading of those cached graphics) and would randomly freeze an entire pc because of the GPU drivers just biting it. Even though Rimworld is not very graphically demanding.
Another one was just corrupting VRAM randomly.

I'm currently on a new PC and I'll wait a bit for this game to be optimized before buying I think. The sudden boosts in GPU use might just be a memory leak or poor occlusion logics caused by how the engine is handling the game environment.
#10
Vyss A'lare Mar 16, 2023 @ 2:12pm 
There is definitely some animation/texture in the game that kills the driver. I'll play at 140+ fps and randomly slam into a <1fps occassionally and my pc starts flipping out. Usually can power through with minions as once the mob that causes it dies it resolves.
#11
magelord01 Mar 16, 2023 @ 5:34pm 
Originally posted by MegakruemelGER:
Originally posted by Unserious:
Black screen and C++ error...
When I try run NVIDIA Control Panel I saw a message that GPU is not detected :(
After restarting the PC, everything was back to normal, thankfully.

Yeah the "no gpu detected" part sounds like a Driver crash to me. Unity has been weird with older gpus (and sometimes newer drivers on new gpus) for a while now but there should be something the devs can do.


Most of these issues are very weird and very specific to Unity. Rimworld, another game made in unity, also had a problem with caching some graphics (or rather, the loading of those cached graphics) and would randomly freeze an entire pc because of the GPU drivers just biting it. Even though Rimworld is not very graphically demanding.
Another one was just corrupting VRAM randomly.

I'm currently on a new PC and I'll wait a bit for this game to be optimized before buying I think. The sudden boosts in GPU use might just be a memory leak or poor occlusion logics caused by how the engine is handling the game environment.

Another possibility is that this game is secretly hogging your GPU resources to run a clandestine cryptocurrency-mining operation. Yes, there have been some games in the past that have done just that.
#12
Livy Mar 17, 2023 @ 3:01am 
Originally posted by magelord01:
Another possibility is that this game is secretly hogging your GPU resources to run a clandestine cryptocurrency-mining operation. Yes, there have been some games in the past that have done just that.
Doubt that since then it would have been persistent so long as the game was running.

Would also probably have come with a few "disable firewall" warnings.
#13
< >
Showing 1-13 of 13 comments
Per page: 1530 50

Last Epoch > Steam-related Discussion > Topic Details
Date Posted: Mar 13, 2023 @ 6:58am
Posts: 13

Discussions Rules and Guidelines