praetorian012

I've turned down my GPU to 80% and it's still causing my display drivers to crash. Its only in battle. I'll try ccleaner and see if that helps.

I guess I have horrible timing for missions then. Night battles seem darker than OW, but it's probably my mind playing tricks on me.

It seems like every battle I get in is either at night or at twilight. The glow of the ship lights is very pretty, but everything being so dark kind of sucks. The darkness makes screen glare very apparent. Also since I have a dual monitor, usually with a web page with a wight background open and going back and forth between the two makes my eyes strain. I would really like to see more day time battles, or be able to turn off night battles perhaps.

It looks like both cards are capable of having the same problem in the game. I have done 2 battles so far, 1 trader capture and 1 midshipman mission. The GPU speed is at 95% and the game graphics are set at medium. No problems so far. I will start testing with higher graphics settings and report any problems.

FXAA and AA are both already off. I will try reducing the GPU clock to 95% and test that.

I have tried updating my video drivers, then totally uninstalling my video and audio drivers and installing drivers from a time that the game was running smoothly. Both did not work. The GPU was around 70°C and no more than 80°C every time. My hardware is: Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX Processor: AMD FD6300WMHKBOX FX-6300 6-Core Processor Black Edition Video card: Asus STRIX-R9380-DC2OC-4GD5-GAMING Radeon R9 380 RAM: Kingston HyperX Beast 8 GB Kit (2x4 GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 1866MHz DDR3 Hardware summary: 3.5 GHz 6-core CPU; Radeon R9 380 graphics card with 1.01 GHz core and 4 GB GDDR5 memory; 2x 4Gb DDR3 1600 MHz RAM; 2x 8Gb DDR3 1866 DDR3 RAM. The GPU and memory clock are both stock and haven't been overclocked. I am not sure where to go to turn of FXAA. For testing I can use throw-away basic cutters to engage trader ships until I am more confident I can finish a mission.

I figured I would start a new, more general thread. Ever since the patch around the beginning of April, just about every battle the game will crash my video driver. I've tried several things now, from lowering the video settings all the way, re-installing drivers and disabling others. I used to be able to run the game very smoothly at the highest graphics settings and still get nearly 60 fps and not overheat anything. Before the 4/13 patch it was an annoyance having to either restart the game or my entire computer. I would get back in to the battle after the AI had pounded my ship and I could escape and try again (or just get back to port and log off, hopping the problem would be fixed later). Now with the new changes, I logged back in, with much more deadly AI sitting and blasting the side of my ship until the armor is almost gone. The AI shooting my ship kept resetting the escape timer, and since I was in a constitution vs 2x constitutions, I was lucky to have gotten away far enough to be able to escape. Before I was willing to test things. Now I really don't want to risk loosing this expensive ship. I have filed a bug report in game, hoping that it can give more hard data. I would love to see the new port battles and land, but it is impossible for me to confidently enter a battle. This is game breaking for me.

I fully removed the 270 and was able to do one mission fine. The next one crashed my game and display driver. The GPU temp was 63 degrees C.

The GPU temp wasn't very high any time it happened. The highest temp I saw was no more than 60 degrees C. I'm running a Radeon R9 380 crossfired with a R9 270. The problem has only started just recently. The game has been running great for me since it launched on steam until a few days ago, about the time of the last patch.

I'm having a very similar problem. It's always when I'm in a battle which makes it much worse than if it was just open world. The entire computer will freeze and if I'm lucky it will say that my Radeon video driver has stopped responding and has recovered. Even if this happens the game will be totally frozen and have to be restarted. Probably half the time the it just crashes my computer and stops sending data to the monitors and the computer has to be restarted. I have disabled all of my audio drivers and it still crashes. This is agonizing because I am very close to ranking up and now I am afraid to try a mission and have it crash my computer.