New Nvidia Driver (GTA V release) 350.12 - Game Crashes

macneisd · Apr 26, 2015

that's interesting, sounds worth a try. I rolled back after 350 was causing persistent system crashes with my 2 x EVGA GTX 980. all is well just now so I will probably leave it alone for now but that's something to keep in mind.

thanks for posting!

(even later to the party!)

Alkalizer · Apr 26, 2015

I have a GTX 980 and I have purposefully not upgraded to the 350.12 driver because it literally crashes every 5 minutes, I'm still using the 347 which works well.

Midnight_Sun323 · Apr 26, 2015

350.12 was working okay-ish for me. I would occasionally get these little patches of static. It also would not accept any overclock at all, it would just lock the card down to 405mhz. However, since upgrading to Windows 10 build 10061, I get huge fps drops that last for about 5 seconds then go back to 100+. I haven't had time to try it with GTA V or any other games yet.

Commander Debic · Apr 27, 2015

I was okay on my gtx 970 with gta v and Elite but then started to experience regular total black screen crashes accompanied by a loud audio hum on GTA V. Dropped the gta v game down to high from ultra high, and took my 4k screen res down a notch, rolled back drivers to last months ones and it seems to have cured it, at the moment. ED never crashed though when playing with the new GTA V drivers and also at full bore resolution.

Zplintz · Apr 27, 2015

If the driver is bad, just roll it back again.

Fenris Wolf · May 1, 2015

Just installed this version earlier today (GTX 770) and now the higher screen resolutions have disappeared!

Can't set my screen to anything higher than 1920x1080. I was running at 3600px

clivewil · May 1, 2015

ED itself ran fine for me under the new driver but almost everthing else didn't -ED's launcher played up, firefox kept freezing, explorer.exe kept dying... plus several others.

BoldRover · May 1, 2015

Just got a new PC last week.

GTX-970 MSI. ED crashes or causes bluescreens. GTA V just crashes. Neither are playable.

Having big argument with store now. I am downloading 347.88 drivers now to test, since I never used them on this new machine.

However, PRIME95 test indicates FATAL ERRORS on all 4 cores (I5 4690) . Does anyone have experience with this test?

lunithy · May 1, 2015

Have a look in event viewer for any shenanigans my guess it could be socket problems as in the i5 is not in right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAbuZ_LQJCo

WiseDuck · May 1, 2015

UltraZippy said:
A buddy of mine has updated to this new driver 350.12 and his game now crashes out constantly, I don't want to update to this driver if its going to ruin my game. Has anyone else had crashes since the driver update? I am running a 770 and I think he has a Gtx980 so it might no happen to me.

Had a search of the forums so if I missed a thread I apologize , tia commanders

UZ

I have stopped playing because of crashes (GTX 980). I crash when I make a jump, either as soon as i jump or just before exiting the jump. I can still hear the sound of my ship cooking itself as it exits the jump and flies into the star behind a black screen and I have to kill the process. I get a nvidia warning about a kernal driver failure.

It's odd because ED is the only game that crashes my pc. I get more game time on star citizen than I ever do on ED

BoldRover · May 1, 2015

lunithy said:
Have a look in event viewer for any shenanigans my guess it could be socket problems as in the i5 is not in right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAbuZ_LQJCo

347.88 just crashed after few minutes again in GTA V.

Event log is full of CRITICAL & ERROR info.
PRIME95 test shows FATAL ERROR: hardware problem.

All have been sent to store.
I already resinstalled WIN 8.1.
Just tried the geforce driver downgrade.
Will be dropping by tomorrow. Fed up with this. :-(
I bought the PC last week this shouldn't be my problem imo.

giller13 · May 9, 2015

giller13 said:
Just wanted to update folks. On a whim, I turned off all of the cache checks and virtual caching, thinking maybe the network or hard drive caching were not releasing a file fast enough for D3D to be happy. Played for 3 hours with no crashes, with multiple shifts/jumps, dockings, dog fights, etc. I did notice more quick pauses when jumping into a system or approaching a dock, but nothing untoward. I'll be playing more this evening. If I can get a few 2-3 hours sessions in, or one long session, I'll call it "fixed" enough to play for now.

I'm going to officially call turning off the caching a "fix" for this. No crashes since that turned that all off. 10+ hours of playing at least, with multiple jumps, dog fights, mining, etc...

Good luck, all!

dominathan · May 9, 2015

spacedyemeerkat said:
Several people have posted that Elite is causing issues with overclocked 980s (no idea if yours is) and it seems to be happening since the most recent drivers were introduced. I'm one of those people: I now have to run Elite at stock speeds while more graphically demanding games and applications are perfectly dandy with overclocking applied.

It was definitely the overclock. When I boosted my 980 to 1400Mhz, it crashed every 5 minutes. I lowered it to 1300 (still OCed, but barely) and it was fairly stable. There were a couple of instances when it ALMOST crashed, but it seemed to recover.

Dbrn47 · May 10, 2015

I have been doing tons of research and talking to both Nvidia and EVGA. Found an answer for myself over on the bug forum. Turning off both Vsync and Frame limiting stopped the crashes completely. I refuse to downclock a card I paid 600 bucks for and I'm glad I didn't because it's fine now.

Jharii · May 11, 2015

I have the same issues with the 350.12 drivers crashing my PC. I just rolled back to 347.88. I will provide results after I have tried it out.

Marc Alexander · May 11, 2015

Fenris Wolf said:
Just installed this version earlier today (GTX 770) and now the higher screen resolutions have disappeared!

Can't set my screen to anything higher than 1920x1080. I was running at 3600px

I maybe had the same problem after this update - it basically disabled DSR. All is good now. I ticked all available options and let Geforce Experience optimise the game (just my personal choice).

[video=youtube;Il2rwVi4JX8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2rwVi4JX8[/video]

Ancipital · May 11, 2015

Marc Alexander said:
I maybe had the same problem after an update - it basically disabled DSR. All is good now.

It often clears the DSR factors list on update- but it's not disabled, just returned to defaults. You just re-add the factors,and it all works again.

Marc Alexander · May 11, 2015

Ancipital said:
It often clears the DSR factors list on update- but it's not disabled, just returned to defaults. You just re-add the factors,and it all works again.

What he said

Judz · May 11, 2015

Try a full clean install with drivers, rolling back drivers is a waste of time. I have never had a crash yet in any game.

Gen.Fussypants · May 11, 2015

The problem is exclusive to the GTX980. Myself and two of my buddies all have the exact same card. We all had the exact same crashes. After the update to the GTAV drivers we all started crashing even more. What we discovered, due to research on these forums and other places, is that the crashes are due to the GPU clock rate. Using Afterburner (or other software if you prefer) lower the clock rate between 100-200MHz. (Make sure and apply it before you start the game each time, or set it up to be automatic) You do not need to adjust Memory clock rates.

We found this solved crashes across multiple games: Planetside 2, Warframe, Dragon Age, etc.

Gen. Fussypants