On-foot crashed three different ways during combat CG

Wheeltalk · Feb 21, 2022

Hi all,

Hopefully this can get to FDev's attention. I was just playing in a ground conflict zone, and Odyssey crashed three times, costing me at least two full battles' worth of combat vouchers for the current ongoing community goal.

At first, I finished a battle at the CZ, and the game hung after the fight was over. I had no option to call a dropship in to pick me up, nor an Apex. I also didn't get about 4.5 million CR worth of bond vouchers that I was earning towards the community goal.

Then, I exited and relogged into the game. I was immediately met with a rebuy screen, listing "Dominator Suit" as my vehicle and 0 as my rebuy cost. Strange on its own, but I guess it makes sense since the game crashed when I wasn't in a ship.

The third crash, I was part-way through another ground CZ battle, and after I got defeated, the dropship just hung in mid-air and refused to let me re-drop. Needless to say, I also didn't get any bond vouchers for this crashed battle, so I'm short a total of two entire battles' worth of vouchers.

Anybody else have similar issues? In case it matters, my PC has a core i7-8700 and a GTX 1070, and my internet connection is gigabit fiber.

STRONTIUM DOG · Feb 21, 2022

my guess its the servers acting up as this is a sometimes thing for me same symptoms...……………..
must have more than 10 peeps playing and cant cope with demand very well

Northpin · Feb 21, 2022

Wheeltalk said:
Anybody else have similar issues? In case it matters, my PC has a core i7-8700 and a GTX 1070, and my internet connection is gigabit fiber.

Cooling of the system is ok? All components solid? (Odyssey is known to be rather taxing on the system)
Drivers updated?
Is there anyone in the house that might abuse the internet connection? Like someone else having some torrent client running, some tv doin 4k streaming... you get the idea

Asking because my experience was perfectly stable having spent many hours over the weekend in the ground CZ and getting 2 account into Top 10%
For reference, i'm playing on a Ryzen 9 5900hx with RTX 3080/16gb (Nvidia Drivers 497.09) gaming laptop, gigabit internet connection (fiber), Asus AX86U router.

I did had to restart the game once - after a session about 2h long, half way in a CZ my FPS dropped below 30 and they consistently stood there. So after that CZ ended i restarted the game client and then everything went back to normal (40-45+). But as i said, it was not a crash, but a voluntary restart.

Wheeltalk · Feb 21, 2022

Northpin said:
Cooling of the system is ok? All components solid? (Odyssey is known to be rather taxing on the system)
Drivers updated?
Is there anyone in the house that might abuse the internet connection? Like someone else having some torrent client running, some tv doin 4k streaming... you get the idea

Asking because my experience was perfectly stable having spent many hours over the weekend in the ground CZ and getting 2 account into Top 10%
For reference, i'm playing on a Ryzen 9 5900hx with RTX 3080/16gb (Nvidia Drivers 497.09) gaming laptop, gigabit internet connection (fiber), Asus AX86U router.

I did had to restart the game once - after a session about 2h long, half way in a CZ my FPS dropped below 30 and they consistently stood there. So after that CZ ended i restarted the game client and then everything went back to normal (40-45+). But as i said, it was not a crash, but a voluntary restart.

All components seem solid. Cooling is okay - not great, but okay. The case is an SFF case and the graphics card is a single-fan card, but it's in a clean part of my desk with lots of breathing room above it (for GPU fan) and behind it (for CPU fan). It's been probably 3 years since the last time I saw it thermal throttle. The hanging didn't seem to be a GPU problem, as I was still able to see animations e.g. the thrusters on the dropships, guns being fired, etc. and was still able to move the camera around smoothly.

At the time this happened, only two people were home, and I'm the only heavy internet user of the two. Computer is plugged directly into a Netgear gigabit switch, and the switch is plugged into the TP-link gigabit router.

kamikazze · Feb 23, 2022

Same for me but not in the CG. I've crashed to desktop three times in a row in 30 minutes while trying to sneak into the settlement on foot. I also have GTX 1070 and believe it's the latest nVidia drivers to blame (I currently have version 511.79). Planning to roll back to something older and see what happens.

kamikazze · Feb 23, 2022

Confirmed - it's an issue with nVidia drivers. I've rolled back to reportedly stable version (497.09) and issue gone away. Not a single crash after 3 hours on foot.

Northpin · Feb 23, 2022

kamikazze said:
Confirmed - it's an issue with nVidia drivers. I've rolled back to reportedly stable version (497.09) and issue gone away. Not a single crash after 3 hours on foot.

Well, that's a rather nice confirmation, cause as i said i run 497.09 drivers for quite a while and they were rather stable.
But i do i have the update driver notification for quite a while and i was tempted to update the drivers. Think i will stay on 497.09 for some more time

Rhaazerus Orzhov · Feb 27, 2022

kamikazze said:
Same for me but not in the CG. I've crashed to desktop three times in a row in 30 minutes while trying to sneak into the settlement on foot. I also have GTX 1070 and believe it's the latest nVidia drivers to blame (I currently have version 511.79). Planning to roll back to something older and see what happens.

Currently dealing with the same issue of random crashes, and running the 511.79 Nvidia driver.
Random crashes at differing amounts of playtime, crashing while on planet, while in space, SRV, on-foot, etc.
Only started happening for me on the latest hotfix (10.03)
I'm gonna roll it back and see what happens.
Edit: Seems it's not a graphics driver issue for me. Tried rolling my driver back to 497.09 and still having the same crashes. Even tried underclocking and still getting the same issues. Really not sure what the heck is going on, but this hotfix really seems to have jacked up ED for me.

kamikazze · Apr 9, 2022

Rhaazerus Orzhov said:
Currently dealing with the same issue of random crashes, and running the 511.79 Nvidia driver.
Random crashes at differing amounts of playtime, crashing while on planet, while in space, SRV, on-foot, etc.
Only started happening for me on the latest hotfix (10.03)
I'm gonna roll it back and see what happens.
Edit: Seems it's not a graphics driver issue for me. Tried rolling my driver back to 497.09 and still having the same crashes. Even tried underclocking and still getting the same issues. Really not sure what the heck is going on, but this hotfix really seems to have jacked up ED for me.

Sorry for long time without reply, had to do some tests. It seems like I've found it. Looks like nVidia implemented some kind of additional power management last year, and it seems like it was not entirely compatible with older cards with Pascal architecture (i.e. GeForce GTX 10X0 series). So I've searched a bit and found, what version 466.77 doesn't have this functionality and running great for most games while also providing better performance. I gave it a try a voila - all crashes to desktop are gone now for Odyssey. I've checked it for 5 hours are there was no issues. Also it seems like performance was really smoother than on the latest versions.

So it's still a driver issue, we just have to roll back even more, to version 466.77, which works just fine.