Random crashes/freezes using NVIDIA gfx card

Auric_ESO

There is a beta 335 series that I've been using without problems. Then again I've never crashed before or after

jessenash1234_ESO

I run an i5-3470@3.2GHz with a GTX660 and Win7 64-bit. My driver is the new 337.50, and I'm currently running with 8 GB of RAM. I have not been able to upgrade to SSD yet so the game is still installed on a 1 TB HDD that I keep clean and defragmented. Other than that, I have set ESO to launch as admin, reassigned the variables mentioned above in the Settings txt file, and when I monitor CPU and GPU performance during playtime (even at extremely busy times) neither reach temperatures beyond 55 degrees, with the average being 45 degrees. My CPU runs at around 33% load most of the time and my GPU runs at anywhere from 40%-88% load, nearing 90% load mainly in the large outdoor areas while also engaged in mass combat.
Now, I have not had full-blown crashes since week one but what I do get are the 2 second - 10 second complete game freezes, and now since this week's most recent maintenance my game also drops to a constant 10 FPS at very specific moments - most commonly, when I am hit in the back by a heavy attack or if my stamina is depleted and I try and block a heavy attack. The heavy attack (as funny as this sounds) literally knocks me down to 10 FPS.
Also, I dropped to 10 FPS in the Volenfell dungeon in the Alik'r Desert. It was on the last boss, and he was using a special attack that did damage to me. This also brought my FPS down. When this happens, it stays down until I completely quit out of the game and relaunch it. My normal FPS according to in-game numbers (as well as PlayClaw) varies between 45-60, and it is only ever as low as 45 when I am staring across vast distances and also fighting. Of course, there are the occasional hickup but the FPS returns to normal and it rarely if ever happens. My system is quite stable, and has been performing admirably in all games since I built it last year. Even in ESO, it performs well for what it is and ESO does its job well, most of the time. But lately this FPS drop thing has got me a tab more worried. The momentary freezing I could handle, but permanent loss of FPS is strange and I have never seen it before like this, not a permanent drop that persists even after leaving the zone and/or game to character select.

Hrithmus

I have seen other posts about the GTX 700 series cards being like this. Your not the only one it seems like.

Cleofis

Same issue here, never had it till last patch and now it's happening more and more often. Happened twice in the last hour or two. 770 here.

Vodkaphile

krilleyy95 wrote: »

I freeze for a few seconds sometimes too with a brand new eVGA GTX 780, so my guess would be completely poor optimization on Zenimax's part

Poor optimization? Are you absolutely nuts? This is the most well-optimized game in MMO gaming history.

OP: Nvidia has terrible drivers right now. I rolled back to a driver from 5 months ago or so and I work flawlessly now. Nvidia has drivers that literally halve your FPS in games like Crysis 3 for no reason at all, so I'm just sticking with this old driver until they can either fix whatever it is they're breaking with the new drivers or offer an SLI profile for ESO, which they're reportedly working on, or might even be finished now.

Syndy

I have had absolutely NO crashes since I switched to a GTX 780 Ti.

Before I had two 7970s in Crossfire, and I crashed all the time.

My system specs are:

i7 3820 @ 3.6 GHz
16gb Ram
3GB EVGA GTX 780 Ti

Edit: I am currently running the 335.23 Nvidia Drivers

stefaan.de.wasch1b16_ESO

770 gtx here, and the only times I tend to freeze up for a few seconds is in Cyrodiil

deleted221205-002626

im having the same couple sec freezes as well with a gtx780. only lasts maybe 3secs then catches up but damn alot can happen in that 3secs!

16thSami

Same here. GTX560Ti. crashing all the time. freezing, locks up. black screen while in game. bsod,bluescreens,reboots..

thelonghop

jessenash1234_ESO wrote: »

I run an i5-3470@3.2GHz with a GTX660 and Win7 64-bit. My driver is the new 337.50, and I'm currently running with 8 GB of RAM. I have not been able to upgrade to SSD yet so the game is still installed on a 1 TB HDD that I keep clean and defragmented. Other than that, I have set ESO to launch as admin, reassigned the variables mentioned above in the Settings txt file, and when I monitor CPU and GPU performance during playtime (even at extremely busy times) neither reach temperatures beyond 55 degrees, with the average being 45 degrees. My CPU runs at around 33% load most of the time and my GPU runs at anywhere from 40%-88% load, nearing 90% load mainly in the large outdoor areas while also engaged in mass combat.
Now, I have not had full-blown crashes since week one but what I do get are the 2 second - 10 second complete game freezes, and now since this week's most recent maintenance my game also drops to a constant 10 FPS at very specific moments - most commonly, when I am hit in the back by a heavy attack or if my stamina is depleted and I try and block a heavy attack. The heavy attack (as funny as this sounds) literally knocks me down to 10 FPS.
Also, I dropped to 10 FPS in the Volenfell dungeon in the Alik'r Desert. It was on the last boss, and he was using a special attack that did damage to me. This also brought my FPS down. When this happens, it stays down until I completely quit out of the game and relaunch it. My normal FPS according to in-game numbers (as well as PlayClaw) varies between 45-60, and it is only ever as low as 45 when I am staring across vast distances and also fighting. Of course, there are the occasional hickup but the FPS returns to normal and it rarely if ever happens. My system is quite stable, and has been performing admirably in all games since I built it last year. Even in ESO, it performs well for what it is and ESO does its job well, most of the time. But lately this FPS drop thing has got me a tab more worried. The momentary freezing I could handle, but permanent loss of FPS is strange and I have never seen it before like this, not a permanent drop that persists even after leaving the zone and/or game to character select.

I have almost the same setup and have the same results. Just installed the latest nvidia beta driver and still getting the same results.

I'm running
Windows 7 Home Premium SP 1
i5-3570K @3.4GHz
16GB RAM
EVGA GTX 670
Intel SSD

There's just no way this setup should be having these freezes. It's sporadic and anywhere from 1-10 secs. I'm at a loss for what to do.

Jeremy

I use a Nvdia card too and had this same problem.

What I did was close down the launcher from my desktop after I start playing the game and that fixed it. So might want to try that if you haven't already.

Skirmish840

Yup gtx 680 on an Alienware X51r2 machine 8gig Ultra settings and tuned up AA in Nvidia Control, I get the same thing, I'm running 50-60 fps all the time, even getting 30-40 in big battle pvp, but I still get the freezes of up to 30sec. Last night my Son saved my but I got the spike but he didn't and so killed the mob I could no longer attack. My Son is running this game on a laptop with a gt540m 8gig medium settings.

Daethz

Think I was experiencing this the other day. Would have weird moments where it was like my camera stalled.
GPU: Nvidia 770gtx 4gb Edition Windforcex3 2.0
Driver Version = Beta 337.50
OS: W8.1
CPU: i5 3570k

Check it out ZOS, also for me anyways this only happend right after 1.0.8 and I think it suddenly stopped happening after the first day.

LadyDestiny

Same here. Tried all the work arounds, everything is updated and even a fresh install of everything including the game, but to no avail I still keep getting the ctd. I know it is not the add ons, have tried playing without them and still ctd. Strange thing is, I get most of my ctd when standing afk or at the bank, starting to interact with an npc.........random but quite often. Nvidea user here too. This is the only game I have ever this problem . No problem on swtor, lotro, wow, swg or steam or any other games. I really wish they would look into this and find out what the problem is with nvidea. A large part of the community is having this issue.

mrbifta

I have AMD FX8350, asus sabretooth mobo, GTX770 (335.23 drivers) 8 gig ram , Win 8.1 - 64.

Done all the recommended fixes, flush dns, port forwarding, updated everything tried every combo of graphics settings I could and still meh.

I have used the temp recorder, and nothing gets above 50deg, apart from gpu which tops out at 66deg.

Kept an eye on cpu, ram and gpu usage, never gets anywhere near 75% on any of them.

I get constant pauses that last 2 to 10 seconds each. They can happen as often as every 10 seconds and happen everywhere while doing anything, start attacking, screen stops, sound keeps going, then fast forward to being dead lol.

They get much more frequent when I have an ingame menu open, like when repoting gold spammers and bots and when talking to quest npcs, screen pauses, their speech keeps going then it unpauses.

This started happening a lot more after the last patch and is now making the game pretty much unplayable.
I have had plenty of contact with cst, recieved decent support emails, not just cut n paste nonsense, but actual answers and suggestions to my problems but nothings worked so far.

Really enjoyed this game so far, have to go solo as dungeons and pvp just make it worse, so looking forward to this issue getting fixed so I can do everything else.

Essee

I have a 560ti and was having regular crashes too. I tried so many different things to fix the issue, tried many different drivers, tried running in DX9, reinstalling ESO, reinstalling windows etc... Eventually as a last resort I changed the stock thermal paste on my GFX card and haven't had a single crash in hours of gaming since. Might not work for everyone but its worth a try if desperate.

theyancey

I have win 8.1 pro, 64 bit, and a 660 TI card. I'm not having any of these problems.

The_Death_Princess

there is a thread from first part of release talking about 2-3 second freezes (and for others its longer). I learned that if you go int the usersetting.txt file in the ESO Live folder and manually fix a negative one to a zero problem is solved.

To do this easily access the file (use text editor only), search the word 'thread' like needle and thread and change the two lines -1 values to 0.

Since Craglorn patch it went from 1 line to do to 2 lines. Once I did this my game again never freezes.

BulbousMeathead

I have a GTX 660 and I was frequently having the problem where the graphics card crashes when loading a new area (ie when travelling via a wayshrine or going into a dungeon) . Random spots would appear on the screen and an error message would pop up on the system tray. The D3D9 fix worked for me:

SET GraphicsDriver.7 "D3D11"" to "SET GraphicsDriver.7 "D3D9"

It still crashes, but now recovers a few seconds later, instead of crashing the whole game.

However, what you describe sounds a bit different, so not sure if the above is applicable to you.

Good luck. I hope you find the solution.