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

[Illusion of Progress]

The RX 6800 series has 16 GB VRAM, and the RX 7900 XT/XTX has 20 GB/24 GB respectively, so I see almost no chance the RX 7800 series won't have at least 16 GB.

I would like to see the RX 7700 series also have that much, and for the RX 7600 series take on 12 GB, rather than going with 8 GB. But the x60/x600 are seeming more and more like entry level stuff anymore rather than mid-range so who knows.

Publicado originalmente por Chris J:

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

He knows a lot, though. Like, a lot.

He was probably partially responding to my above suggestion by adding that the IGP your CPU has should give enough performance for testing purposes.

[Chris J]

Publicado originalmente por 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.

yeah let me just get an overpriced 4090 no problem. PC gaming is a waste of time and money

[Chris J]

Publicado originalmente por Illusion of Progress:

The RX 6800 series has 16 GB VRAM, and the RX 7900 XT/XTX has 20 GB/24 GB respectively, so I see almost no chance the RX 7800 series won't have at least 16 GB.

I would like to see the RX 7700 series also have that much, and for the RX 7600 series take on 12 GB, rather than going with 8 GB. But the x60/x600 are seeming more and more like entry level stuff anymore rather than mid-range so who knows.

Publicado originalmente por Chris J:

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

He knows a lot, though. Like, a lot.

He was probably partially responding to my above suggestion by adding that the IGP your CPU has should give enough performance for testing purposes.

yeah sure he knows alot giving people useless suggestions like going back to an outdated NVIDIA Driver (Which also didnt work btw) i can tell he has no experience in hardware and PC Building

[Chris J]

Publicado originalmente por UserNotFound:

Publicado originalmente por 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...

Yeah monitored it uses about 7GB,s VRAM still crashes so obviously not VRAM related. RTX 3080 is a much stronger GPU than a 3060. Blame NVIDIA for making overpriced junk cards then im not spending another $2000 just for a graphics card wastte of money be outdated by the time they release the 5000 series. Rather buy a console and not deal with headaches

[Julien, cut it out.]

There has been another open-world Ubisoft game, AC:Origins, that exhbited a similiar issue - game crashed when certain conditions were met, like diving under water - for several driver versions, that has only been adressed recently by a driver hotfix (531.58).
Try an older driver version. Maybe even 457.09.

> Could be an RT (DX12) issue.

For instance, the game 'Control' consistently crashes at the exact same event in the Anchor fight when using the DX12 API (RT). This behaviour has been reported several times since early 2020 and has not been adressed by the published/developer.
The issue is so convoluted, if you look it up, you'll find several, wildly different solutions being suggested, discussed and approved by the community. The common ground is; the issue occurs only under DX12/ RT.
Some of them "solved" the issue by disabling 'Fullscreen optimization', some people "solved" the issue by disabling Windows' Control Flow Guard, others by setting the CPU affinity to 4 threads and still others reported avoiding the crash by reducing their graphics settings to a minimum or even disabling the sound.

So, my question'd be, does the game crash under DX11?

> Recompile shaders for the game, i.e. delete shader cache.

[Illusion of Progress]

Publicado originalmente por Chris J:

Publicado originalmente por Illusion of Progress:

The RX 6800 series has 16 GB VRAM, and the RX 7900 XT/XTX has 20 GB/24 GB respectively, so I see almost no chance the RX 7800 series won't have at least 16 GB.

I would like to see the RX 7700 series also have that much, and for the RX 7600 series take on 12 GB, rather than going with 8 GB. But the x60/x600 are seeming more and more like entry level stuff anymore rather than mid-range so who knows.

He knows a lot, though. Like, a lot.

He was probably partially responding to my above suggestion by adding that the IGP your CPU has should give enough performance for testing purposes.

yeah sure he knows alot giving people useless suggestions like going back to an outdated NVIDIA Driver (Which also didnt work btw) i can tell he has no experience in hardware and PC Building

I mean his suggestion(s) may not always work or be to your liking. I don't always agree with him either. But to say he knows nothing is wrong. He's helped others for years and years and he is at least trying.

I mean, from what I've gathered...

You've uninstalled and reinstalled drivers.

You've done so using DDU.

You were asked to try with different game settings. No word back from you in if you tried or if it worked.

You were asked to reseat the GPU (or possible try another one). Same as above.

Going on that, trying different driver versions is often good advice for troubleshooting. Again, you're getting upset at not liking the idea of it but nobody is saying you should have to like the idea of it. Troubleshooting is NOT fun. Been there, done that a bit recently. It's SUPER frustrating, even for those of us who get this stuff. And there are things you don't WANT to do because you go "well if it IS that, that's unacceptable anyway so i won't try". But you SHOULD try and do things that rule out factors and narrow down what the cause might be.

Otherwise we're all guessing in the dark.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Also if you use RTSS (RivaTuner) or apps like that, try temporarily disable those to see if it's a culprit for crashing any of your games.

Same for GeForce Experience. To test this, simply uninstall that fully from the system.
It's easily to reinstall later if ever need it again.

After doing a full wipe with DDU and installing 531.41 ~ and rebooting of course.
Download the latest hotfix 531.58 and install afterwards ~ rebooting when install completes.
Then try your games again and see if this helps.

If not sure where to get 531.58, here...
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/download-nvidia-releases-hotfix-driver-531-58-to-fix-game-issues-on-geforce-rtx-30-series.html

[Grynte]

yeah, i had the same issue a year ago, and since them my drivers has bin fried in the weirdest way possible that no one can explain or fix- xD

[Carlsberg]

You could try the tested by evga driver from their website instead of nvidia. Also if your running from a power bar try direct connection to mains to eliminate possible power drops as the cause.

[_I_]

gpu driver crash is often weak or underpowered psu

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Publicado originalmente por smallcat:

I had an issue with Watch Dogs 2 . But it was my fault . I uninstalled something called Easy Anti cheat because i didnt know where it had come from and upon starting the game my PC bluescreened/ crashed for the first time ever . I ran verifying the game files , apparently the missing thing was reinstalled and i finished the game.

I was very angry because i felt Ubisoft punish me for no reason . Ultimatelly it was not intentional . They must have shown a message .

That's kind of odd. It should have just tossed up a simple error, not a BSoD