High Res textures causing crashes?

Sallington

I made a post yesterday about my constant crashes in Cyrodil. Well, last night I bit the bullet and turned my graphics to the medium preset.

Not 1 crash in about 2 hours of PvP, with some pretty heavy fighting in there.

Is there something about higher res texture/shadows, or any of the higher settings that could cause crashes? I'm running on a GTX970 and i74970k, so it's not like my hardware is struggling.

Cathexis

From what I've read the textures in many places in the game contain two layers, an initial model which was then covered by a higher def model. The lower rez models were never deleted, so your game has to work twice as hard as it should on high def textures. I run on medium and have had the same results.

Nestor

How much VRAM do you have? Usually when that gets filled, games will crash.

Putting things on Medium for PvP maybe be good thing anyway. There is a tradtion in MMO's to run at lower graphics settings to increase performance. Also, a lot of Cyrodiil is not as detailed as the rest of the game, so Medium probably does not drop the overall graphics all that much.

PS, have you tried High rather than Ultra?

Sallington

Nestor wrote: »

How much VRAM do you have? Usually when that gets filled, games will crash.

Putting things on Medium for PvP maybe be good thing anyway. There is a tradtion in MMO's to run at lower graphics settings to increase performance. Also, a lot of Cyrodiil is not as detailed as the rest of the game, so Medium probably does not drop the overall graphics all that much.

PS, have you tried High rather than Ultra?

3.5GB (lol gtx970 drama). on 1080p, not using anywhere near the cap on Ultra.

If I need to play on medium to not crash, so be it, but my rig is on the higher end. No way should I need to. The only other way the problem is on my end is if my hard drive is starting to go, and craps itself when trying to load the bigger textures.

Valnas

gtx 970 , 4610 HQ, 32 gb ram, crashes all day on ultra despite the fact i never get an fps drop, medium is stable.

Sallington

Valnas wrote: »

gtx 970 , 4610 HQ, 32 gb ram, crashes all day on ultra despite the fact i never get an fps drop, medium is stable.

High res textures confirmed to be crap?

Who do I call upon to give this attention? @Gina_Bruno ?

MaximillianDiE

Sallington wrote: »

Valnas wrote: »

gtx 970 , 4610 HQ, 32 gb ram, crashes all day on ultra despite the fact i never get an fps drop, medium is stable.

High res textures confirmed to be crap?

Who do I call upon to give this attention? @Gina_Bruno ?

That's odd - I still use a GTX670 as I have since before launch and never crash even when playing on high or ultra settings i wonder if its something to do with high end cards?

Cathexis

Set shadows to high and view distance to 70

Fundamentally there is no difference between 70 and 100 view distance (the extra 30 distance renders items that are beyond maximum viewing distance)

High shadows only renders shadows on screen (a cone in front of your character) while ultra shadows renders them in a circle around your character. You will not notice a difference.

Kobaal

I have a 960 GTX. 8 GB ram. with a Samsung SSD. Core i7 processor.

I play with textures on highest setting, view distance 100 but my particle effects are set to the lowest and shadows are off, no grass, blur, ambient occlusion, sunlight rays, etc etc...

I do crash on occasion but its rare.

Ezareth

Just upgraded to a 980 GTX Ti OC Gamer from a R290X Direct ii cu (Both cards overclocked) running at 2560X1600 with everything maxed/ultra. Have a 3770K overclocked i7 and Samsung SSD as well.

In two days the only times I've crashed on the new card was when playing around with Shadowplay on/off toggles and once last night in the zergfest on Azuras while I was setting up siege. Played for several hours on Chillrend afterwards without a crash.

For the record oddly I immediately noticed a slight graphics texture improvement on upgrading to the NVidia card as well. Nothing major but many of the particle effects seemed "sharper" and more pronounced. I wasn't expecting to see a change at all in anything except FPS minimums so that was surprising to me.

Vilestride

Does shadow play effect game crashing? also, the problem here is the only thing that makes this game better than most MMO's for me is it looks better, if we have to play on lower setting to even play, why not just play a better game that looks worse? which is most of them

ThyIronFist

You can have 320000 GBs of VRAM and a 60 GTX 980Ti in SLI and the game would still run very poor in Cyrodiil.

VRAM has nothing to do with this, I've got a GTX 970 as well and the game doesn't even reach 3.5GB in 1080p.

Cathexis

I wouldn't have nvidia experience installed at all. It's a menace.

If I run on high I get more crashes/lag but I run on two lower end sli cards.

danno8

OP, just making sure, don't be offended, but you have more than 4GB system RAM with that card right?

Sallington

danno8 wrote: »

OP, just making sure, don't be offended, but you have more than 4GB system RAM with that card right?

16GB

Soulac

Ezareth wrote: »

Just upgraded to a 980 GTX Ti OC Gamer from a R290X Direct ii cu (Both cards overclocked) running at 2560X1600 with everything maxed/ultra. Have a 3770K overclocked i7 and Samsung SSD as well.

In two days the only times I've crashed on the new card was when playing around with Shadowplay on/off toggles and once last night in the zergfest on Azuras while I was setting up siege. Played for several hours on Chillrend afterwards without a crash.

For the record oddly I immediately noticed a slight graphics texture improvement on upgrading to the NVidia card as well. Nothing major but many of the particle effects seemed "sharper" and more pronounced. I wasn't expecting to see a change at all in anything except FPS minimums so that was surprising to me.

Ya, I think shadowplay crashes your game.
Got nearly the same setup, just using a gtx 980 instead of the ti version.
If I let shadow play run the whole day the chance of eso crashing is quite high, mostly at least once a day.
Now I didn't use shadow play since a week and no crashes at all..

Gtx 980 4Gb
i7 3770k @ 4.3GHz
Samsung SSD
Playing on ultra settings @3440x1440 21:9

Ezareth

Soulac wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Just upgraded to a 980 GTX Ti OC Gamer from a R290X Direct ii cu (Both cards overclocked) running at 2560X1600 with everything maxed/ultra. Have a 3770K overclocked i7 and Samsung SSD as well.

In two days the only times I've crashed on the new card was when playing around with Shadowplay on/off toggles and once last night in the zergfest on Azuras while I was setting up siege. Played for several hours on Chillrend afterwards without a crash.

For the record oddly I immediately noticed a slight graphics texture improvement on upgrading to the NVidia card as well. Nothing major but many of the particle effects seemed "sharper" and more pronounced. I wasn't expecting to see a change at all in anything except FPS minimums so that was surprising to me.

Ya, I think shadowplay crashes your game.
Got nearly the same setup, just using a gtx 980 instead of the ti version.
If I let shadow play run the whole day the chance of eso crashing is quite high, mostly at least once a day.
Now I didn't use shadow play since a week and no crashes at all..

Gtx 980 4Gb
i7 3770k @ 4.3GHz
Samsung SSD
Playing on ultra settings @3440x1440 21:9

It was my first time playing with an Nvidia card and shadowplay so it took me a couple days to realize what was causing the random crashes.

I have a separate large platter drive I set up to store my ESO videos and run ESO on my SSD(C:). The default Shadow play setup typically stores your temporary cache file on on your C drive so what happens is when you're playing you're recording on your local drive but when you try to save a recording it tries to write it to another drive. In my case my large platter drive was going to sleep and it takes several seconds to spin back up which was causing shadowplay crashes. I moved the cache to my large drive with the video files and it hasn't crashed since.

I also definitely notice I *never* drop below 60 FPS with this card (or haven't in a week of play) where I did with the R9290X so yes having a faster card does have a benefit. I still get server lag and other issues occasionally though but crashing is not something that I have issues with.

Soulac

Ezareth wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Just upgraded to a 980 GTX Ti OC Gamer from a R290X Direct ii cu (Both cards overclocked) running at 2560X1600 with everything maxed/ultra. Have a 3770K overclocked i7 and Samsung SSD as well.

In two days the only times I've crashed on the new card was when playing around with Shadowplay on/off toggles and once last night in the zergfest on Azuras while I was setting up siege. Played for several hours on Chillrend afterwards without a crash.

For the record oddly I immediately noticed a slight graphics texture improvement on upgrading to the NVidia card as well. Nothing major but many of the particle effects seemed "sharper" and more pronounced. I wasn't expecting to see a change at all in anything except FPS minimums so that was surprising to me.

Ya, I think shadowplay crashes your game.
Got nearly the same setup, just using a gtx 980 instead of the ti version.
If I let shadow play run the whole day the chance of eso crashing is quite high, mostly at least once a day.
Now I didn't use shadow play since a week and no crashes at all..

Gtx 980 4Gb
i7 3770k @ 4.3GHz
Samsung SSD
Playing on ultra settings @3440x1440 21:9

It was my first time playing with an Nvidia card and shadowplay so it took me a couple days to realize what was causing the random crashes.

I have a separate large platter drive I set up to store my ESO videos and run ESO on my SSD(C:). The default Shadow play setup typically stores your temporary cache file on on your C drive so what happens is when you're playing you're recording on your local drive but when you try to save a recording it tries to write it to another drive. In my case my large platter drive was going to sleep and it takes several seconds to spin back up which was causing shadowplay crashes. I moved the cache to my large drive with the video files and it hasn't crashed since.

I also definitely notice I *never* drop below 60 FPS with this card (or haven't in a week of play) where I did with the R9290X so yes having a faster card does have a benefit. I still get server lag and other issues occasionally though but crashing is not something that I have issues with.

Well in big fights your GPU won´t really matter, CPU is important.
Only way to get more FPS in large fights is to get a stronger CPU by buying a new one or overclocking..
My GPU is totally bored in eso :P

Sallington

Soulac wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Just upgraded to a 980 GTX Ti OC Gamer from a R290X Direct ii cu (Both cards overclocked) running at 2560X1600 with everything maxed/ultra. Have a 3770K overclocked i7 and Samsung SSD as well.

In two days the only times I've crashed on the new card was when playing around with Shadowplay on/off toggles and once last night in the zergfest on Azuras while I was setting up siege. Played for several hours on Chillrend afterwards without a crash.

For the record oddly I immediately noticed a slight graphics texture improvement on upgrading to the NVidia card as well. Nothing major but many of the particle effects seemed "sharper" and more pronounced. I wasn't expecting to see a change at all in anything except FPS minimums so that was surprising to me.

Ya, I think shadowplay crashes your game.
Got nearly the same setup, just using a gtx 980 instead of the ti version.
If I let shadow play run the whole day the chance of eso crashing is quite high, mostly at least once a day.
Now I didn't use shadow play since a week and no crashes at all..

Gtx 980 4Gb
i7 3770k @ 4.3GHz
Samsung SSD
Playing on ultra settings @3440x1440 21:9

It was my first time playing with an Nvidia card and shadowplay so it took me a couple days to realize what was causing the random crashes.

I have a separate large platter drive I set up to store my ESO videos and run ESO on my SSD(C:). The default Shadow play setup typically stores your temporary cache file on on your C drive so what happens is when you're playing you're recording on your local drive but when you try to save a recording it tries to write it to another drive. In my case my large platter drive was going to sleep and it takes several seconds to spin back up which was causing shadowplay crashes. I moved the cache to my large drive with the video files and it hasn't crashed since.

I also definitely notice I *never* drop below 60 FPS with this card (or haven't in a week of play) where I did with the R9290X so yes having a faster card does have a benefit. I still get server lag and other issues occasionally though but crashing is not something that I have issues with.

Well in big fights your GPU won´t really matter, CPU is important.
Only way to get more FPS in large fights is to get a stronger CPU by buying a new one or overclocking..
My GPU is totally bored in eso :P

The jump from an fx-6300 @4.5ghz to a stock i7-4790k was ridiculous. 15-20fps jump in PvP fights.

Ezareth

Soulac wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Just upgraded to a 980 GTX Ti OC Gamer from a R290X Direct ii cu (Both cards overclocked) running at 2560X1600 with everything maxed/ultra. Have a 3770K overclocked i7 and Samsung SSD as well.

In two days the only times I've crashed on the new card was when playing around with Shadowplay on/off toggles and once last night in the zergfest on Azuras while I was setting up siege. Played for several hours on Chillrend afterwards without a crash.

For the record oddly I immediately noticed a slight graphics texture improvement on upgrading to the NVidia card as well. Nothing major but many of the particle effects seemed "sharper" and more pronounced. I wasn't expecting to see a change at all in anything except FPS minimums so that was surprising to me.

Ya, I think shadowplay crashes your game.
Got nearly the same setup, just using a gtx 980 instead of the ti version.
If I let shadow play run the whole day the chance of eso crashing is quite high, mostly at least once a day.
Now I didn't use shadow play since a week and no crashes at all..

Gtx 980 4Gb
i7 3770k @ 4.3GHz
Samsung SSD
Playing on ultra settings @3440x1440 21:9

It was my first time playing with an Nvidia card and shadowplay so it took me a couple days to realize what was causing the random crashes.

I have a separate large platter drive I set up to store my ESO videos and run ESO on my SSD(C:). The default Shadow play setup typically stores your temporary cache file on on your C drive so what happens is when you're playing you're recording on your local drive but when you try to save a recording it tries to write it to another drive. In my case my large platter drive was going to sleep and it takes several seconds to spin back up which was causing shadowplay crashes. I moved the cache to my large drive with the video files and it hasn't crashed since.

I also definitely notice I *never* drop below 60 FPS with this card (or haven't in a week of play) where I did with the R9290X so yes having a faster card does have a benefit. I still get server lag and other issues occasionally though but crashing is not something that I have issues with.

Well in big fights your GPU won´t really matter, CPU is important.
Only way to get more FPS in large fights is to get a stronger CPU by buying a new one or overclocking..
My GPU is totally bored in eso :P

At 2560X1600 has twice the number of pixels as 1080p and it's a little different as it uses larger targets a ton more video memory. This card is the first one that I haven't noticed a framedrop below 60FPS in any game on so far. I used to have to run Crossfire with the top end cards to play.

I've not seen my CPU reach 100% playing ESO to date.

Derra

Ezareth wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Just upgraded to a 980 GTX Ti OC Gamer from a R290X Direct ii cu (Both cards overclocked) running at 2560X1600 with everything maxed/ultra. Have a 3770K overclocked i7 and Samsung SSD as well.

In two days the only times I've crashed on the new card was when playing around with Shadowplay on/off toggles and once last night in the zergfest on Azuras while I was setting up siege. Played for several hours on Chillrend afterwards without a crash.

For the record oddly I immediately noticed a slight graphics texture improvement on upgrading to the NVidia card as well. Nothing major but many of the particle effects seemed "sharper" and more pronounced. I wasn't expecting to see a change at all in anything except FPS minimums so that was surprising to me.

Ya, I think shadowplay crashes your game.
Got nearly the same setup, just using a gtx 980 instead of the ti version.
If I let shadow play run the whole day the chance of eso crashing is quite high, mostly at least once a day.
Now I didn't use shadow play since a week and no crashes at all..

Gtx 980 4Gb
i7 3770k @ 4.3GHz
Samsung SSD
Playing on ultra settings @3440x1440 21:9

It was my first time playing with an Nvidia card and shadowplay so it took me a couple days to realize what was causing the random crashes.

I have a separate large platter drive I set up to store my ESO videos and run ESO on my SSD(C:). The default Shadow play setup typically stores your temporary cache file on on your C drive so what happens is when you're playing you're recording on your local drive but when you try to save a recording it tries to write it to another drive. In my case my large platter drive was going to sleep and it takes several seconds to spin back up which was causing shadowplay crashes. I moved the cache to my large drive with the video files and it hasn't crashed since.

I also definitely notice I *never* drop below 60 FPS with this card (or haven't in a week of play) where I did with the R9290X so yes having a faster card does have a benefit. I still get server lag and other issues occasionally though but crashing is not something that I have issues with.

I run an overclocked titan x with an aftermarket air cooler. In heavily crowded situations the game is 100% cpu limited. It happens every day that i go below 30fps when encountering large grp fights.
Either you have very empty campaigns overseas or never below 60 fps is a little exaggeration

Soulac

Ezareth wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Just upgraded to a 980 GTX Ti OC Gamer from a R290X Direct ii cu (Both cards overclocked) running at 2560X1600 with everything maxed/ultra. Have a 3770K overclocked i7 and Samsung SSD as well.

In two days the only times I've crashed on the new card was when playing around with Shadowplay on/off toggles and once last night in the zergfest on Azuras while I was setting up siege. Played for several hours on Chillrend afterwards without a crash.

For the record oddly I immediately noticed a slight graphics texture improvement on upgrading to the NVidia card as well. Nothing major but many of the particle effects seemed "sharper" and more pronounced. I wasn't expecting to see a change at all in anything except FPS minimums so that was surprising to me.

Ya, I think shadowplay crashes your game.
Got nearly the same setup, just using a gtx 980 instead of the ti version.
If I let shadow play run the whole day the chance of eso crashing is quite high, mostly at least once a day.
Now I didn't use shadow play since a week and no crashes at all..

Gtx 980 4Gb
i7 3770k @ 4.3GHz
Samsung SSD
Playing on ultra settings @3440x1440 21:9

It was my first time playing with an Nvidia card and shadowplay so it took me a couple days to realize what was causing the random crashes.

I have a separate large platter drive I set up to store my ESO videos and run ESO on my SSD(C:). The default Shadow play setup typically stores your temporary cache file on on your C drive so what happens is when you're playing you're recording on your local drive but when you try to save a recording it tries to write it to another drive. In my case my large platter drive was going to sleep and it takes several seconds to spin back up which was causing shadowplay crashes. I moved the cache to my large drive with the video files and it hasn't crashed since.

I also definitely notice I *never* drop below 60 FPS with this card (or haven't in a week of play) where I did with the R9290X so yes having a faster card does have a benefit. I still get server lag and other issues occasionally though but crashing is not something that I have issues with.

Well in big fights your GPU won´t really matter, CPU is important.
Only way to get more FPS in large fights is to get a stronger CPU by buying a new one or overclocking..
My GPU is totally bored in eso :P

At 2560X1600 has twice the number of pixels as 1080p and it's a little different as it uses larger targets a ton more video memory. This card is the first one that I haven't noticed a framedrop below 60FPS in any game on so far. I used to have to run Crossfire with the top end cards to play.

I've not seen my CPU reach 100% playing ESO to date.

I play on 3440x1440, no matter what graphic options i change, the fps stays the same in fights.
Even if i reduce the resolution to 720p everything stays the same.
My GPU is bored and my CPU at the limit. :P

Sallington

Soulac wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Just upgraded to a 980 GTX Ti OC Gamer from a R290X Direct ii cu (Both cards overclocked) running at 2560X1600 with everything maxed/ultra. Have a 3770K overclocked i7 and Samsung SSD as well.

In two days the only times I've crashed on the new card was when playing around with Shadowplay on/off toggles and once last night in the zergfest on Azuras while I was setting up siege. Played for several hours on Chillrend afterwards without a crash.

For the record oddly I immediately noticed a slight graphics texture improvement on upgrading to the NVidia card as well. Nothing major but many of the particle effects seemed "sharper" and more pronounced. I wasn't expecting to see a change at all in anything except FPS minimums so that was surprising to me.

Ya, I think shadowplay crashes your game.
Got nearly the same setup, just using a gtx 980 instead of the ti version.
If I let shadow play run the whole day the chance of eso crashing is quite high, mostly at least once a day.
Now I didn't use shadow play since a week and no crashes at all..

Gtx 980 4Gb
i7 3770k @ 4.3GHz
Samsung SSD
Playing on ultra settings @3440x1440 21:9

It was my first time playing with an Nvidia card and shadowplay so it took me a couple days to realize what was causing the random crashes.

I have a separate large platter drive I set up to store my ESO videos and run ESO on my SSD(C:). The default Shadow play setup typically stores your temporary cache file on on your C drive so what happens is when you're playing you're recording on your local drive but when you try to save a recording it tries to write it to another drive. In my case my large platter drive was going to sleep and it takes several seconds to spin back up which was causing shadowplay crashes. I moved the cache to my large drive with the video files and it hasn't crashed since.

I also definitely notice I *never* drop below 60 FPS with this card (or haven't in a week of play) where I did with the R9290X so yes having a faster card does have a benefit. I still get server lag and other issues occasionally though but crashing is not something that I have issues with.

Well in big fights your GPU won´t really matter, CPU is important.
Only way to get more FPS in large fights is to get a stronger CPU by buying a new one or overclocking..
My GPU is totally bored in eso :P

At 2560X1600 has twice the number of pixels as 1080p and it's a little different as it uses larger targets a ton more video memory. This card is the first one that I haven't noticed a framedrop below 60FPS in any game on so far. I used to have to run Crossfire with the top end cards to play.

I've not seen my CPU reach 100% playing ESO to date.

I play on 3440x1440, no matter what graphic options i change, the fps stays the same in fights.
Even if i reduce the resolution to 720p everything stays the same.
My GPU is bored and my CPU at the limit. :P

I've had the same experience. My GPU is rarely taxed, and outside of big battles and crowded cities, it's a constant 60FPS.

Tessie

Soulac wrote: »

Playing on ultra settings @3440x1440 21:9

Off-topic
@Soulac I just upgraded to the Dell 34" and love playing at that aspect ratio. Great for immersion. And when I don't care about immersion, I can have my mini-map take up 1/3 of the screen (ok, not so mini).

On-Topic
I was having numerous crashes and hangs per day until I upgraded to Nvidia 353.30. I was also having zoning issues, where I wouldn't complete a transition upon leaving a dungeon without restarting the client. Both the crashing and zoning issues went away when I updated the driver. I can't understand how the driver could of fixed the zoning problem.

i7-3770, 16gb, GTX 980, 3440x1440

Xael

@Sallington

I can assure you Shadowplay is not the problem as not having Nvidia experience installed still causes the freeze or blackscreen crash. Just like the other thread you and I are in, this is no different.

I just started messing around with Shadowplay and I am having no problems. I am also not using the DSR, my monitor naturally gives me 1920x1200 res. So you can rule out the DSR which used to cause a lot of problems a few months back.

Soulac

Tessie wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Playing on ultra settings @3440x1440 21:9

Off-topic
@Soulac I just upgraded to the Dell 34" and love playing at that aspect ratio. Great for immersion. And when I don't care about immersion, I can have my mini-map take up 1/3 of the screen (ok, not so mini).

On-Topic
I was having numerous crashes and hangs per day until I upgraded to Nvidia 353.30. I was also having zoning issues, where I wouldn't complete a transition upon leaving a dungeon without restarting the client. Both the crashing and zoning issues went away when I updated the driver. I can't understand how the driver could of fixed the zoning problem.

i7-3770, 16gb, GTX 980, 3440x1440

Got the 34" Dell as well, just too awesome.
So much room for activities!

Elderpatriot

I noticed that TESO plays sound but shows only blackscreen when launchend while in Fullscreen mode and shadowplay is enabled. (Nvidia driver 353.30, GF Experience 2.5.12.11)

My specs: Windows 8.1 64bit, GTX 970 Nvidia, Xeon E3 1231V3, 8GB DDR3 Ram

It loads fine when in windowed mode. Changed since last Nvidia driver or TESO-Patch - dont know what patch is responsible. In earlier versions it was completly fine.

By the way: I realy dislike playing with Dynamic Super resolution in borderless windowed mode since the Interface is scaled down together with the resolution. In earlier versions this did not happen - who the heck asked for this or ever wanted tiny, dwarfish unreadable text in 4K-DSR ????

But only in borerless windowmode the DSR-Smoothing applies. In native Fullscreen it does not. So now you can pick between lower quality DSR with readable texts or HQ DSR with smoothing and small little texts - congratulations Nvidia/Zenimax.Didnt fix the DSR-problem, but added a new one.

Ezareth

Derra wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Soulac wrote: »

Ezareth wrote: »

Just upgraded to a 980 GTX Ti OC Gamer from a R290X Direct ii cu (Both cards overclocked) running at 2560X1600 with everything maxed/ultra. Have a 3770K overclocked i7 and Samsung SSD as well.

In two days the only times I've crashed on the new card was when playing around with Shadowplay on/off toggles and once last night in the zergfest on Azuras while I was setting up siege. Played for several hours on Chillrend afterwards without a crash.

For the record oddly I immediately noticed a slight graphics texture improvement on upgrading to the NVidia card as well. Nothing major but many of the particle effects seemed "sharper" and more pronounced. I wasn't expecting to see a change at all in anything except FPS minimums so that was surprising to me.

Ya, I think shadowplay crashes your game.
Got nearly the same setup, just using a gtx 980 instead of the ti version.
If I let shadow play run the whole day the chance of eso crashing is quite high, mostly at least once a day.
Now I didn't use shadow play since a week and no crashes at all..

Gtx 980 4Gb
i7 3770k @ 4.3GHz
Samsung SSD
Playing on ultra settings @3440x1440 21:9

It was my first time playing with an Nvidia card and shadowplay so it took me a couple days to realize what was causing the random crashes.

I have a separate large platter drive I set up to store my ESO videos and run ESO on my SSD(C:). The default Shadow play setup typically stores your temporary cache file on on your C drive so what happens is when you're playing you're recording on your local drive but when you try to save a recording it tries to write it to another drive. In my case my large platter drive was going to sleep and it takes several seconds to spin back up which was causing shadowplay crashes. I moved the cache to my large drive with the video files and it hasn't crashed since.

I also definitely notice I *never* drop below 60 FPS with this card (or haven't in a week of play) where I did with the R9290X so yes having a faster card does have a benefit. I still get server lag and other issues occasionally though but crashing is not something that I have issues with.

I run an overclocked titan x with an aftermarket air cooler. In heavily crowded situations the game is 100% cpu limited. It happens every day that i go below 30fps when encountering large grp fights.
Either you have very empty campaigns overseas or never below 60 fps is a little exaggeration

Well not exaggerated but then again I avoid zerg campaigns and zerging in general as 99% of the time I'm PvPing it is solo or in a group of 2 looking for small combat fights so you could be right that I'm not putting myself in situations that would stress my CPU. That said, I did notice it would to the 40s and 50s on the R9290X so the extra GPU is doing *something* for me.

Elderpatriot wrote: »

I noticed that TESO plays sound but shows only blackscreen when launchend while in Fullscreen mode and shadowplay is enabled. (Nvidia driver 353.30, GF Experience 2.5.12.11)

My specs: Windows 8.1 64bit, GTX 970 Nvidia, Xeon E3 1231V3, 8GB DDR3 Ram

It loads fine when in windowed mode. Changed since last Nvidia driver or TESO-Patch - dont know what patch is responsible. In earlier versions it was completly fine.

By the way: I realy dislike playing with Dynamic Super resolution in borderless windowed mode since the Interface is scaled down together with the resolution. In earlier versions this did not happen - who the heck asked for this or ever wanted tiny, dwarfish unreadable text in 4K-DSR ????

But only in borerless windowmode the DSR-Smoothing applies. In native Fullscreen it does not. So now you can pick between lower quality DSR with readable texts or HQ DSR with smoothing and small little texts - congratulations Nvidia/Zenimax.Didnt fix the DSR-problem, but added a new one.

There is an interface scaling option in the menus, that isn't working in DSR?

Elderpatriot

There is an interface scaling option in the menus, that isn't working in DSR?

Right...i have overlooked it. It is set in the video-settings, not in the interface settings (which is strange). May be they new patch has resettet it to zero.

I updated to Nvidia Hotfix 353.49 - still the game refuses to launch when Nvidia Shadowplay is already enabled. Only Sound and blackscreen - then it stops working and crashes. Current Workaround is to disable Shadowplay, launch the game, enable Shadowplay (desktop recording) and switch to borderless windowed modus - if u want to capture your gameplay.

Ezareth

Elderpatriot wrote: »

There is an interface scaling option in the menus, that isn't working in DSR?

Right...i have overlooked it. It is set in the video-settings, not in the interface settings (which is strange). May be they new patch has resettet it to zero.

I updated to Nvidia Hotfix 353.49 - still the game refuses to launch when Nvidia Shadowplay is already enabled. Only Sound and blackscreen - then it stops working and crashes. Current Workaround is to disable Shadowplay, launch the game, enable Shadowplay (desktop recording) and switch to borderless windowed modus - if u want to capture your gameplay.

Ahh that explains. Yeah new patches always reset those settings, annoying for me as well.

I run in windowed mode normally so I have to record desktop for shadowplay to work for me.