Frame Generation crashing games (possibly solved)

[rankftw]

Hi,

I just upgraded from a 3080 to a 4090 and I'm having trouble with 3 games in particular, Cyberpunk, Diablo 4 and The Witcher.

When I have Frame Generation enabled the games just close by themselves all of a sudden. No driver crash or anything like that, they just close. I can play for hours at max settings with RT on but as soon as Frame Generation is enabled the game will crash within a few minutes.

I have completely removed any trace of old drivers using DDU in safe mode and closed all background programs/services to try and rule things out.

Event Viewer doesn't show any errors when this happens either.

This happens at both stock and OC on the GPU.

Any idea?

 

[Kelt]

Any possibility of trying the card in another system?

 

[Poneros]

Interesting. For me the out-of-the-blue crashing in CP2077 happened in relation to dynamic resolution being on (perfectly fine off), but I don't think the other 2 have DRS. Usually such crashes happen as a result of a memory leak, so perhaps with FG on that's what happens. Sometimes the issues are entirely game/driver/windows related and out of your hands. F.ex. I couldn't launch No Man's Sky on Steam for like 6+ months ever since they did a major game overhaul BUT found out the game launched perfectly fine on GOG (drm-free ftw). Now with the newest update I can launch it on steam again. Didn't change anything on my end, they just messed up along the way somehow. Sadly troubleshooting can be a real PITA sometimes on PC.

Was it a fresh windows install too?

 

[rankftw]

Any possibility of trying the card in another system?

I could try in another if it came to it.

Interesting. For me the out-of-the-blue crashing in CP2077 happened in relation to dynamic resolution being on (perfectly fine off), but I don't think the other 2 have DRS. Usually such crashes happen as a result of a memory leak, so perhaps with FG on that's what happens. Sometimes the issues are entirely game/driver/windows related and out of your hands. F.ex. I couldn't launch No Man's Sky on Steam for like 6+ months ever since they did a major game overhaul BUT found out the game launched perfectly fine on GOG (drm-free ftw). Now with the newest update I can launch it on steam again. Didn't change anything on my end, they just messed up along the way somehow. Sadly troubleshooting can be a real PITA sometimes on PC.

Was it a fresh windows install too?

It's just strange that everything works fine without FG then crashes with it. I didn't fresh install Windows.

 

[Kelt]

I could try in another if it came to it.



It's just strange that everything works fine without FG then crashes with it. I didn't fresh install Windows.

That would be my first port of call.

 

[Marak]

What's your PSU?

My 3090 did that a lot on an older PSU due to transient spikes and I had to replace it.

Allegedly the 4000 series don't have spikes as bad as the 3000's but I bet they still have them.

Try under clocking and undervolting to see if it still happens.

 

[rankftw]

I think this may have ended up being related to the Nvidia overlay or the Sharpen+ filter. I normally apply about 15% sharpen to my games because I like the way it looks. Last night I was playing Dying Light 2 for a couple of hours with FG enabled and had no issues. I then applied the filter and within 2 minutes I got a CTD. I then tested Cyberpunk with no filter and managed to play for a long time without it crashing. After applying the filter it crashed after 5 minutes. I'm going to go off of this being my issue unless something else comes to light.