Driver Crash Issues On Watch Dogs Legion

[Chris J]

Was in the middle of Playing Watch Dogs Legion i went and started shooting as an albion drone then the game froze and crash this is the warning i got in my event log. It even does it with my GPU downclocked and on stock with nothing overclocked. this is on an RTX 3080


https://imgur.com/a/V8uoUVs

[emoticorpse]

did you disable your page file? Try enabling it if you did.

[Chris J]

引用自 emoticorpse：

did you disable your page file? Try enabling it if you did.

to be honest ive left it on to windows to handle all that havent even touched the page file. i did use DDU to clean wipe the drivers and installed 531.41 which is the latest driver and im still experiencing these errors and trying everything in my power and knowledge to figure it out

[emoticorpse]

Do you know how to do the cpu validation thing? go to this site https://valid.x86.fr/ and have it shoot that page out with your system information then post that link here.

[Chris J]

引用自 emoticorpse：

Do you know how to do the cpu validation thing? go to this site https://valid.x86.fr/ and have it shoot that page out with your system information then post that link here.

if you need my system info this is what i got


i9-10900k
MSI Z490 Tomahawk
EVGA RTX 3080
32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3600Mhz Ram
1TB SSD
10TB Seagate Ironwolf HDD
Seasonic GX-1000w Power Supply

[Illusion of Progress]

How common are these crashes? I see five entries in your screenshot but they are from the exact time, so I presume they are from the same occurrence. Are the other four entries the same as the one shown?

If you've tried reinstalling drivers and gone the DDU route, my next approaches would be looking up if that specific game has any known issues that might cause it (especially if everything else works fine), and possibly trying to reduce video settings to see if that stops the crashes. That's obviously not an ideal solution, but it might help for troubleshooting purposes.

[Chris J]

引用自 Illusion of Progress：

How common are these crashes? I see five entries in your screenshot but they are from the exact time, so I presume they are from the same occurrence. Are the other four entries the same as the one shown?

If you've tried reinstalling drivers and gone the DDU route, my next approaches would be looking up if that specific game has any known issues that might cause it (especially if everything else works fine), and possibly trying to reduce video settings to see if that stops the crashes. That's obviously not an ideal solution, but it might help for troubleshooting purposes.

i did do a DDU earlier and did a fresh install of the 531.41 NVIDIA Driver. i dont get those same type of errors shown in the screenshot the errors im getting NOW are just "nvlddmkm
\Device\Video3
Error occurred on GPUID: 100" these are the only ones im getting the error code has been the exact same since and the game keeps on crashing as usual. There arnt any mentions of these crashes anyway i even asked and looked on Ubisoft Forums.

[Illusion of Progress]

That's just pointing that the drivers are crashing and what device is involved.

Have you tried reseating the video card?

Turning down video settings?

Another video card to try? The CPU has onboard but I'm not sure if it will run that game well or not.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Intel UHD is not great but the ones that comes with Intel 10th Gen and later CPUs should technically work ok in most games. You could at least test with that.

[Chris J]

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

Intel UHD is not great but the ones that comes with Intel 10th Gen and later CPUs should technically work ok in most games. You could at least test with that.

ive got an RTX 3080 dont respond to me you dont have any knowledge in hardware

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Ok and you could have a faulty GPU.
Testing with your Intel UHD iGPU is just a means of testing another GPU is all.

[UserNotFound]

Watch Dog Legions is a VRAM hog, so I guess my question is to the OP, what res and ingame settings didcha use? IF HD texture has been enabled, or set to highest, try lowering it or disabling it. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the 8GB RTX 3070/3070 Ti, and to some extend, the 10GB RTX 3080 has been deliberately kneecapped by nVidia (all part of their early obsolescence masterplan) because nVidia'd allotted less amount of VRAM than these powerful cards deserved. Having more VRAM means that they can last longer, and that's not what nVidia wants.

I've read that even at 1080P, at certain setting, 8GB VRAM can be saturated. As to driver being the cause, well, so far many have been playing the game with whatever drivers they have without issue, you can try 531.58 and see if it help....or, as Bad_Motha had suggested, it could be the GPU is faulty to some extend.

[Chris J]

引用自 UserNotFound：

Watch Dog Legions is a VRAM hog, so I guess my question is to the OP, what res and ingame settings didcha use? IF HD texture has been enabled, or set to highest, try lowering it. I've read that even at 1080P, at certain setting, VRAM is saturated. As to driver being the cause, well, so far many have been playing the game with whatever drivers they have, you can try 531.58 and see if it help....

i tested it just now with the textures on medium and reduced some other settings it lasted a bit longer but went to the same area shot the same drone boom crash

[Bad 💀 Motha]

From the looks of the OP's previous posts; such as in "The Last of Us" Steam Forum; user says he doesn't think should have to run lower then 4K for his Games.

Well I got news for him then, you should have picked a better GPU. As a 3080 nor 10GB VRAM is going to be enough for that. Maybe in some older games at 4K, but not most of the newer ones.

[UserNotFound]

引用自 Chris J：

i tested it just now with the textures on medium and reduced some other settings it lasted a bit longer but went to the same area shot the same drone boom crash

Try disabling HD Texture altogether and see if that helps...enable MSI AB and monitor VRAM usage/allotment during game, it might give you an idea as to whether 10GB VRAM is sufficient for your ingame setting and res.

PS. I'd edited my previous reply...

[UserNotFound]

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

From the looks of the OP's previous posts; such as in "The Last of Us" Steam Forum; user says he doesn't think should have to run lower then 4K for his Games.

Well I got news for him then, you should have picked a better GPU. As a 3080 nor 10GB VRAM is going to be enough for that. Maybe in some older games at 4K, but not most of the newer ones.

I think there is a game or two wher the RTX 3060 12GB beats the RTX 3080 10GB simply because of VRAM, this only solidifies my belief that nVidia deliberately crippled their higher end cards with less VRAM, other than their flagship cards.

Now, imagine that had they sold, or allowed their partners to modify their cards like they did long a ways back, I think eVGA did something like this, things would be so different. Imagine a 20GB RTX 3080 Superclock, that sucker would be so much more relevant with modern games than the 10GB version is right now.

Edit - As things stand, 16GB looks to be the sweet spot for 4K gaming, I hope AMD releases the RX 7800 XT with 16GB of VRAM, it would again reinforce my belief that nVidia cripples its higher end cards with less VRAM, like the 12GB on the RTX 4070/4070 Ti or the older RTX 3080 Ti 12GB (all very capable cards, in fact, so capable they actually deserve more VRAM)