ASA Crash Poll: nVidia vs AMD vs Other GPUs

[psionprime]

I have a theory that those with nVidia GPUs crash the most. My wife has a i3-10100, 8G RAM, GTX1660 Super, 1920x1080, default game settings (sans motion blur and bloom) and crashes every half hour or so. I have a 7950x3D, 32G RAM, 7900XTX,  3440x1440 (sans motion blur and bloom) and have never crashed in ASA.

There are a lot of various arguments about the cause(s) for ASA crashes. This poll is just for what GPU you have. I haven't heard much from the Intel or Chinese GPU community with ASA issues, so am curious what you have if "Other" is picked.

 

Good Hunting !

PS

nVidia PC users, try using "-dx11" as a launch option. If that cures much of your crashes, petition nVidia to work with ASA devs to fix their dx12 driver. I put ASA on a new laptop with a nVidia 4090 and lasted about a minute before the shader crash. I moved my wife from 1660 super to a 3060Ti and it had crashes at launch. I used the "-dx11" launch option on both and, viola, no crashes since. My AMD 7900XTx system has,still, never crashed.

Update 2023-12-21 - I managed to get my 6900 XTX, 7950x3D using just the extra cached cores all AMD system to crash. I tried the new driver "Hyper-RX" mode and it crashed inside a minute with, ironically, a nVidia dx12 set of error messages that my wife's nVidia machine often gets. I put it back to quality with only anti-lag and enhanced sync options enabled and now no more crashes. A lot of this thread suggests issues with DX12 nVidia common code.

I start with native resolution 3440x1440; fullscreen; Epic preset; resolution scale 100; max framerate, motion blur, light bloom unchecked. I get about 60 fps +/- 30 ish

I personally run with console variables:

(turning off volumetric fog/clouds gets rid of the pixelated ick)
r.VolumetricFog 0
r.VolumetricCloud 0
(DOF off keeps things sharp in the distance. I see obelisk detail on a clear day as I expect it to be)
r.DepthofFieldQuality 0
(this was suggested for a crash. I don't think it matters on my system but here for reference)
ark.VertexCountScaling 1

Edited December 21, 2023 by psionprime
update

[Scheneighnay]

Hard to say, my friends playing on 1660 TIs crash more often than me but they also put more hours in. 

I do still crash on occasion with a 6600, just the sample group I've seen is overwhelmingly nvidia.

[zero064]

Are we talking about the inventory crash, or anything that'll cause the game to quit? For me (nvidia) the inventory crash is 99% of the problem.

[BertNoobians]

i crash in a certaun region in lava cave, always in broodmother and overseer. amd 5600x gpu.
my laptop cant spawn my char on a bed. amd 4700m.

device hung error i see the most.

everything is updated

[BigChungus1]

The poll doesn't have enough options to help us get any info out of it unfortunately. It should have at least 4 options. (AMD, few crashes. AMD, many crashes, Nvidia few crashes, Nvidia many crashes.) Then you have to qualify what counts as few crashes.

 

I'm on an AMD graphics card and I've got about 1 crash every 20 hours of gameplay if I had to guess. Not too bad for me. But if it crashed as much as some people claim I'd be piiiiiiissed. 

[Stewbawl]

i had a serious issue crashing repeatedly upon trying to launch into a server.  it was suggested to me to open the nvidea control pannel and change the GPU setting from auto and manually select the GPU you wanted it to use.  this has solved my issue and i have not had one crash since.

thought i'd share my experience.

[Scheneighnay]

So this is relevant: I just upgraded my RX 6600 to an RX 7700 XT, and I'm getting the inventory crash when I wasn't before.

[psionprime]

nVidia PC users, try using "-dx11" as a launch option. If that cures much of your crashes, petition nVidia to work with ASA devs to fix their dx12 driver. I put ASA on a new laptop with a nVidia 4090 and lasted about a minute before the shader crash. I moved my wife from 1660 super to a 3060Ti and it had crashes at launch. I used the "-dx11" launch option on both and, viola, no crashes since. My AMD 7900XTx system has,still, never crashed.

Edited November 24, 2023 by psionprime

[zero064]

21 minutes ago, psionprime said:

nVidia PC users, try using "-dx11" as a launch option. If that cures much of your crashes, petition nVidia to work with ASA devs to fix their dx12 driver. I put ASA on a new laptop with a nVidia 4090 and lasted about a minute before the shader crash. I moved my wife from 1660 super to a 3060Ti and it had crashes at launch. I used the "-dx11" launch option on both and, viola, no crashes since. My AMD 7900XTx system has,still, never crashed.

It's a good idea, but it doesn't work for me. My framerate dropped to an unplayable 20-40 (it was 60-110) and there were some graphical glitches, like most parts of the obelisks not being visible.

On the plus side, it didn't crash. RTX3080 here.

Edited November 24, 2023 by zero064

[udo]

On 11/24/2023 at 8:49 PM, psionprime said:

nVidia PC users, try using "-dx11" as a launch option. If that cures much of your crashes, petition nVidia to work with ASA devs to fix their dx12 driver. I put ASA on a new laptop with a nVidia 4090 and lasted about a minute before the shader crash. I moved my wife from 1660 super to a 3060Ti and it had crashes at launch. I used the "-dx11" launch option on both and, viola, no crashes since. My AMD 7900XTx system has,still, never crashed.

all that does for me on my 4080 is reduce frames toi about 20fps , 

[udo]

adding to this thread , whatever todays patch did it seriously reptared the game for me , have been unable to load into game today to even play 

[udo]

i put my old 2080 ti back in no difference in crash frequenbcy , so its not the higher 4080 that i thought was casuiung the crashes 

 

[Wycked]

Both. Wife has a 6750xt and I have a 4070ti. They both crash.

[udo]

17 minutes ago, Wycked said:

Both. Wife has a 6750xt and I have a 4070ti. They both crash.

do u crash when loading into game ? and when playing after successful load in ?

 

i have updated my bios , i have tweaked all setting in bios for maximum effcciency , i have tried all fixes online , same result over and over , until wildcard and nvidia fix whatever is broken it wont change , 

 

lets just keep pumping out small fixes and event mods

[Frozenhole]

Have nvidia but i dont crash with a 12 G card. If the game crashes its because the servers are garbage.

[udo]

1 hour ago, Frozenhole said:

Have nvidia but i dont crash with a 12 G card. If the game crashes its because the servers are garbage.

i dont crash on my steam deck , doesnt mean the games isnt broken for a great many players with high end hardware .

[Joebl0w13]

1 hour ago, Frozenhole said:

Have nvidia but i dont crash with a 12 G card. If the game crashes its because the servers are garbage.

The game is crashing for people on the client. Has nothing to do with the servers. 

[udo]

4 minutes ago, Joebl0w13 said:

The game is crashing for people on the client. Has nothing to do with the servers. 

ANNOYING that players post not crashing on older hardware , steaM deck runs fine ,my 7 year old GAMING laptop , with tweaks runs fine no crashes , my new high end i9 4080 crashes due to driver errors

 

[Joebl0w13]

2 minutes ago, udo said:

ANNOYING that players post not crashing on older hardware , steaM deck runs fine ,my 7 year old GAMING laptop , with tweaks runs fine no crashes , my new high end i9 4080 crashes due to driver errors

 

New is not always better. 

[udo]

18 minutes ago, Joebl0w13 said:

New is not always better. 

it is , when its running right , full epic @70-90 fps the game looks glorious ,early days ran fine , with each patch they push out makes it worse ,  

 

makes me wonder what specs the devs tested the game on ....

Edited December 21, 2023 by udo

[psionprime]

We are trying studio version of drivers, on my wife's. Been an hour and no issue so far.

[Wycked]

On 12/21/2023 at 10:43 AM, udo said:

do u crash when loading into game ? and when playing after successful load in ?

 

i have updated my bios , i have tweaked all setting in bios for maximum effcciency , i have tried all fixes online , same result over and over , until wildcard and nvidia fix whatever is broken it wont change , 

 

lets just keep pumping out small fixes and event mods

Yes. We both crash at game loading and while playing. It's not often, maybe 1-2 times every couple of days though. If we open the game settings it is a guarantee that it will crash.

[TargetOne]

I don't think the poll itself has much merit. It's going to be heavily skewed towards Nvidia, just by virtue of Nvidia being the most popular GPU series.

I will say that "ark.VertexCountScaling 1" eliminated maybe 99% of my in-game crashes, which were mostly happening when accessing (or especially, exiting) any inventory screen. I can play for hours with out any crashes after that command, regardless of ANY other settings.

Edit to say, RTX 3060 TI (8GB) GPU.

Edited December 24, 2023 by TargetOne
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