Screen freeze during Race

It's been 10 days since my driver switched from his Nvidia to AMD graphics card and he has not had a single screen freeze since. Although I have not had one either with my GTX 760 either so again its not any specific Nvidia cards but seems to be (possibly) an AMS coding issue.

 

I haven't had a screen freeze either for at least a week so maybe this is fixed now (crosses fingers).

 

@Thiago Izequiel
@Renato Simioni
Perhaps Reiza can shed some light on this issue for us?

 

Bought a 1080GTX on the weekend, so far so good no freezes yet
Have not had a freeze for about 10 days

 

That's a good start... but not quite a practical solution.

 

Since update of the graphic card driver and effective settings made according to the Automobilista manual advices .... all freezes are gone in my case ...even at high graphic settings, even with the weakest part of my config ... a GTX650 TI Nvidia.... waiting for a good price for a new one

NB and not using DynHud online.

 

Hi Jemp, what driver version # are you currently using, 368.81?

@Reiza, help pls. Using 365.19 or latest 368.81, AMS now keeps crashing (SP) in the middle of a session (Single Race or Test). Event Log points to ntdll.dll or DINPUT8.DLL. Run Verify Files already multiple times. Now trying w/o Dynhud (renamed the folder) and the sessions seem to last. So while w/o Dynhud, how do I display the car positions/times (like in SCE with num_6)? Currently Num_6 just shows assist settings (Invulnerability, ABS, etc), not the names,position, times.

 

I'm still on 368.69,Sherpa ... as I hadn't the time yet to download and install the latest version.
But I'm only with one single monitor.... that's our main difference ( without taking the graphic card into account ).
Did you tried yet with one single monitor ? ... just for cheking it's not part of the problem with triples ?

 

My driver is on a single monitor w/Nvidia and it froze up for a few seconds nearly every race. Not once now since he is on AMD. You know one thing that is even more interesting now that I think about it, he had the same problem in SCE. But never was it a problem in RF1.

 

Now I think about it .... when I installed the driver 368.69 and updated the Nvidia Experience I noticed after 1 or 2 days in the Task manager that a console.exe was opened.
The Nvidia Streaming processes were active .... while I never used them. I unactivated them once more ( as they already made problems with other programs before ... and after a previous Nvidia Experience update I didn't mind having a look at this console ) ....

I wonder if this is not this Nvidia Streaming processes making problems.
Reason why maybe AMD users don't have these problems.

I'm no expert in PC ... so it's just an idea for more accurate PC experts than myself.

 

Thanks, thought first it was the LCD, not MFD. Sorry for OT again, does this MFD cycle & show other displays or just name/position (as pressing assigned button just turns it on/off, not cycle)? I recall SCE once had a display activated by default with the spacebar.

 

i have not changed anything in the system, just trying to get AMS to look smooth and nice GFX wise, without any luck so far. all other SIMS run smooth as butter on my system. and now AMS in game, while testing, racing, practice and/ or while driving randomly blacks out for 2-5 seconds, then comes back and continues as if nothing happened. (basically black screen and no nothing happening, then back AMS car and full control of car) (Nvidia driver 368.22 now updating to see if it will be different to 368.81)

- so far tested: only happening on Spa circuit, any vehicle i try, and when you hit replay, like rubber banding/ vehicle is back and forth quickly and then gets released and everything continues normally
- has not happened on Montreal circuit

wanted to update, screen freezes only on MOD tracks/ MOD vehicles, deleted all the MODS all works no freezes and no stutters.

 

OK so the issue continues to be Nvidia only, although the configuration to replicate the problem is not clear at this time. My friend is still good 3-4 weeks after changing from Nvidia to AMD...not a single screen freeze since.

 

what Nvidia GPU is he using?
(I have Nvidia GTX Titan-X and not a single freeze, 368.81 updated today, only did so because i thought the problem was the driver) at least for me it was the MOD cars and tracks. once removed/ fresh install no more freezes and no more stutters. (and maybe has nothing to do with it...)

 

He used a GTX 660TI. And I had the same card without a single freeze as well. So we know its not a specific gpu and likely not even a specific driver version but everyone in this thread uses an Nvidia gpu and has the issue. And he did a fresh windows install with no luck. Only after moving to an AMD card did it get fixed. Very odd issue here for sure!

 

I moved from my GTX980 to a GTX1080 and the freezes have stopped . weird issue

 

hmm that is very strange issues for sure! weird!

 

Had same issue using the Boxer Cup @ Portland be it alone on track or with more cars (online) I get 100% disk use all of sudden what causes the frozen screen for a second. Did not happen in any other track for now so no idea if it's related.