Computers suck
Added 2023-07-21 09:37:48 +0000 UTCIf any of you are secretly an engineer at NVIDIA or Microsoft, could you please come over to my house and fix my computer?
Destiny has been triggering some inconvenient crashes, but lately, their cadence has bellowed from a monthly occurrence to every time I loaded into a Crucible activity. It’s not even a blue screen. I yearn for blue screens–so much more useful information.
So I gave up and reinstalled Windows. Back to irregular crashes and I can play Destiny and program Braytech alongside it again.
It’s made for an unenjoyable week. It’s unfortunate that specific combinations of hardware and drivers don’t always mix well. My configuration isn’t particularly unique and now I have almost nothing installed (Windows login so fast!).
I wish I could test different components to isolate the problem hardware but it’s probably the video card (they used to be called video cards!!!) and they cost a lot of legendary shards
Anyway, this was just a rant post ty 4 reading <3
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Just crashed. I went days. 🤷
Tom
2023-07-27 10:59:43 +0000 UTCFinal update: using the Game Ready Driver version 528.49 from February 8, 2023, the release prior to Lightfall, and I'm seeing good performance and I haven't crashed yet. Being able to play and work at the same time makes life a lot easier. Small but measurable progress made during matchmaking for Gambit haha without the threat of needing to restart and re-setup my dev environment every time
Tom
2023-07-27 09:11:16 +0000 UTCThanks for your comments guys! Here's the really fun part of my "crashes" - they're typically not traditional crashes. My displays go to sleep as if the system were off or in standby. When Destiny triggers this phenomenon, it doesn't usually crash. In fact, I can open Spotify on my phone and remote play to my desktop as if there was nothing wrong. Looking at Reliability Monitor, I do get a few crashes, notably the desktop window manager and hardware event is also noted: LKD_0x141_Tdr:6_IMAGE_nvlddmkm.sys_Ampere It was suggested I try WIN + CTRL + SHIFT + B - the internet seems to think it triggers Windows to restart the display driver but I never found confirmation that it actually goes this deep. All it does for me is make the system do a cute little beep. Anyway, I'm installing a driver from February 28 for fun!
Tom
2023-07-22 02:54:04 +0000 UTCI do actually work at NVIDIA, but probably not in the area you were hoping for lol, all the advice I can give is listed above already. I am also curious what kind of crashes, does the game just exit and you’re left at the desktop? Does your PC hard reset?
Jonathan Alexander
2023-07-21 22:25:43 +0000 UTCNot an engineer, but been building computers since the 90's A few questions: Graphic Card and Driver Version? Montherboard & CPU? PSU Wattage? Do you see any other weird behavior outside of D2? Michael Above is correct. The latest drivers for the 3000/4000 series have wrecked havoc on so many setups. They've gotten extra-sloppy recently with driver updates to even my son's 1000 series card screwing up a bunch of stuff. Adam also has a good point about using Whocrashed. It can yield a wealth of information.
Chad Jackson
2023-07-21 15:28:29 +0000 UTCIf you have a 3000/4000 series gpu, apparently the fix is to roll back your driver way back, to January-ish. I’d search for what the best time to roll back is to though, as I don’t have those series of cards. I have seen that fix in particular quite a lot on twitter though
Michael Collins
2023-07-21 15:08:13 +0000 UTCPower supply? You can also try https://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed
Adam
2023-07-21 09:39:31 +0000 UTC
