Buggy graphics are ruining the game for me!

xl-jedi

xl-jedi
On transition to hyperspace, something happens that crashes the NVidia graphics driver.
(and yes, I have the latest driver for my dual cards, it's maybe 6 mos old: NVidia driver 340.52)

When this happens, the game keeps playing, I can hear the sound, but I get dropped to the desktop and when I click on the elite icon in the program bar it does not take me back into the game. ...or at least it does not display the visuals of the game in any way. Since it occurs during hyperspace, when the sequence is over, it plows me into a star and when I finally get logged back in, I'm greeted with an insurance bill for the destroyed ship.

Granted, I don't have the fanciest graphics cards available but they do work fine for me on all the games I play on fairly high graphics settings. This game, I have it set to the lowest graphics settings and I seem to have problems still.

  • The skybox is messed up, I can see visible seams in the galaxy view and sometimes one of the panels of the skybox has stars but no background "gasses, and coloring" so it looks like a stark black background joined to one with gasses and color, which looks really bad.
  • Proximity to planets as I approach star ports causes frame stuttering (I think related to loading the planet skins, or something)
  • Periodically, during transition to hyperspace the graphics component of the game crashes while the game itself plays on
  • The worst of it is, since the game keeps playing, I don't think it realizes it crashed and doesn't even give me an option to send a crash report

I guess the worst of it is, there is no option to send a crash report and it costs me a lot in insurance for wrecking ships. :(
 

TriumphANT

TriumphANT
xl-jedi said:
On transition to hyperspace, something happens that crashes the NVidia graphics driver.
(and yes, I have the latest driver for my dual cards, it's maybe 6 mos old: NVidia driver 340.52)
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Why, oh why are you running a 6 month old driver, when the latest driver directly supports Elite Dangerous? Even my ridiculously underpowered work machine (GT610) is on 347.52.

Also, please tell us what hardware you are using. OS version and basic spec of PC would be useful too perhaps.
 

Madbeard

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xl-jedi said:
On transition to hyperspace, something happens that crashes the NVidia graphics driver.
(and yes, I have the latest driver for my dual cards, it's maybe 6 mos old: NVidia driver 340.52)

When this happens, the game keeps playing, I can hear the sound, but I get dropped to the desktop and when I click on the elite icon in the program bar it does not take me back into the game. ...or at least it does not display the visuals of the game in any way. Since it occurs during hyperspace, when the sequence is over, it plows me into a star and when I finally get logged back in, I'm greeted with an insurance bill for the destroyed ship.

Granted, I don't have the fanciest graphics cards available but they do work fine for me on all the games I play on fairly high graphics settings. This game, I have it set to the lowest graphics settings and I seem to have problems still.

  • The skybox is messed up, I can see visible seams in the galaxy view and sometimes one of the panels of the skybox has stars but no background "gasses, and coloring" so it looks like a stark black background joined to one with gasses and color, which looks really bad.
  • Proximity to planets as I approach star ports causes frame stuttering (I think related to loading the planet skins, or something)
  • Periodically, during transition to hyperspace the graphics component of the game crashes while the game itself plays on
  • The worst of it is, since the game keeps playing, I don't think it realizes it crashed and doesn't even give me an option to send a crash report

I guess the worst of it is, there is no option to send a crash report and it costs me a lot in insurance for wrecking ships. :(
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Latest drivers? You mean ancient right?
 

xl-jedi

xl-jedi
TriumphANT said:
Why, oh why are you running a 6 month old driver, when the latest driver directly supports Elite Dangerous? Even my ridiculously underpowered work machine (GT610) is on 347.52.

Also, please tell us what hardware you are using. OS version and basic spec of PC would be useful too perhaps.
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It's the latest driver available that supports the GT9600's (according to my NVidia update tool)

...as I mentioned, not the fanciest cards, but I play lots of games just fine with these; the DCS flight sims on high graphics settings run fine.

I read thru 347.52 cards supported and didn't see the 9600's on there. If someone can confirm the 347.52 will work with the 9000 series, I'll try it out.
 
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Ackoman

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xl-jedi said:
It's the latest driver available that supports the GT9600's (according to my NVidia update tool)

...as I mentioned, not the fanciest cards, but I play lots of games just fine with these; the DCS flight sims on high graphics settings run fine.

I read thru 347.52 cards supported and didn't see the 9600's on there. If someone can confirm the 347.52 will work with the 9000 series, I'll try it out.
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I think the sad fact is that the GT9600 does not meet the minimum requirements for the game.
 

TriumphANT

TriumphANT
xl-jedi said:
It's the latest driver available that supports the GT9600's (according to my NVidia update tool)

...as I mentioned, not the fanciest cards, but I play lots of games just fine with these; the DCS flight sims on high graphics settings run fine.

I read thru 347.52 cards supported and didn't see the 9600's on there. If someone can confirm the 347.52 will work with the 9000 series, I'll try it out.
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Yes, you're correct. The last driver release for the 9600 was about a year ago or so. Although old, those 9600 GT cards are excellent, and DO meet the minimum spec for ED, especially if you've got a pair of them. Are you running a DX10 capable OS? Vista, 7, 8 or 8.1?

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Ackoman said:
I think the sad fact is that the GT9600 does not meet the minimum requirements for the game.
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Any top-end 8-series GT or above card should be fine. "DX 10 card with 1 GB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro)"
 

Ackoman

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TriumphANT said:
Yes, you're correct. The last driver release for the 9600 was about a year ago or so. Although old, those 9600 GT cards are excellent, and DO meet the minimum spec for ED, especially if you've got a pair of them. Are you running a DX10 capable OS? Vista, 7, 8 or 8.1?

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Any top-end 8-series GT or above card should be fine. "DX 10 card with 1 GB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro)"
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Got my info from here:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=36749
 

xl-jedi

xl-jedi
512 each... so 1GB total

It may be that this is the first game I have come across that is dicey... I tend to push my machine upgrades to max.

May be time to look for a new pair of $150-ish cards to drop in.

If no one chimes in that they have seen similar graphics issues as I have described, I'll certainly take it under advisement.
 
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Retu81

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xl-jedi said:
512 each... so 1GB total

It may be that this is the first game I have come across that is dicey... I tend to push my machine upgrades to max.

May be time to look for a new pair of $150-ish cards to drop in.

If no one chimes in that they have seen similar graphics issues as I have described, I'll certainly take it under advisement.
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Umm... SLI doesn't double the effective video memory.
 

INSTG8R

INSTG8R
xl-jedi said:
512 each... so 1GB total

It may be that this is the first game I have come across that is dicey... I tend to push my machine upgrades to max.

May be time to look for a new pair of $150-ish cards to drop in.

If no one chimes in that they have seen similar graphics issues as I have described, I'll certainly take it under advisement.
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Yeah sorry SLI doesn't work that way. The Memory is Mirrored not Shared. you only have 512GB of VRAM at hand which is below specs for this game
 

xl-jedi

xl-jedi
INSTG8R said:
Yeah sorry SLI doesn't work that way. The Memory is Mirrored not Shared. you only have 512GB of VRAM at hand which is below specs for this game
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Hmmm... yeah, I think it might be time for a trip over to the computer store.
The game otherwise runs fine, but I think the crashing is related to running DX10 maybe? occasionally, I see a note that says something to the effect, unknown DX10 D3D command. Surprised it runs as well as it does then... frame rates are no issue at all.
 
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TriumphANT

TriumphANT
xl-jedi said:
Hmmm... yeah, I think it might be time for a trip over to computer store.
The game otherwise runs fine, but I think the crashing is related to running DX10 maybe?
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Don't worry, it'll be worth it!! Or just look for something decent on eBay. According to the official ED minimum specs, it should be a GTX260 or better, but there are GTX560's (my card) on eBay for around the £30 ($50?) mark. A huge improvement in every way over what you have.
 

xl-jedi

xl-jedi
INSTG8R said:
Well for $150 you could prolly get a 750ti which would be head and shoulders above what your currently using.
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I usually pickup a pair of cards in the $150 range and that typically will put me on par with a single card that costs more than double.
Shoot these 9600's lasted me what? ...4 or 5 years? Can't complain too hard I guess.
 

INSTG8R

INSTG8R
While SLI and Crossfire have come a very long way, there is no simpler solution than buying the most powerful single card you can afford.
 
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