DirectX error? Badly formed commands?

[strykeforce]

Dear readers,

Since yesterday I installed Dragon Age Inquisition. After 10 minutes of playing All of my 3 screens turned black and I received this error:

For people that cannot see the image:

DirectX function "GetDeviceRemovedReason" failed with DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG ("The application's device failed due to badly formed commands sent by the application. This is an design-time issue that should be investigated and fixed. "). GPU: "NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 ", Driver: 35012

I am not sure if it crashed in other games too but I guess it does sice I had a similair problem in the past. I solved that problem by clocking down my graphics card with MSI afterburner. The card has now -129 MHZ Core clock and -502 MHZ Memory clock. I installed the latest drivers yesterday (350.12). Could this be the problem? I upgraded them because my drivers where outdated for Dragon Age Inquisition. I had upgraded my drivers from 331.35 or something.

Specs:
MSI Gtx 660 twin frozr
Intel i7 2600 @ 3,4ghz
500W be quiet 80+ silver
1x4gb rram 1x2gb ram

Temps are normal only the cpu gets a little warmer around 75 Celsius

I hope you guys can help me to solve this problem once and for all. I am getting sick of al the problems with my computer 🙁

Anyway thank you for your time reading this / responding to this!

Have a good day,

Tim

 

[ingtar33]

this game destroys high end graphics cards and cpus... it's almost a legit stress test for stable overclocks on both the cpu and gpu... so yes. this is very normal for DA:I

If your system isn't stable then it will continue to crash out on you.

btw: i'm pretty sure 6gb of ram isn't good enough for this game. I recall regularly hitting 6.5gb of ram usage in windows, and 2.5gb of vram usage on my gpu with this title (granted i play it in ultra)

and temps will get high because it will hit all 8 threads of your i7 pretty consistently. This game just beats up hardware. I said it almost was a stress test, remember?

 

[theunliked]

Your ram is unbalanced. If you are going two sticks of ram, they should be the same GB. Or, you could get one 8GB stick of ram:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231567&cm_re=8gb_ddr3-_-20-231-567-_-Product

Back to the problem, it could be that you underclocked your GPU too much. Try increasing your memory clock to about -300 to -200 then test it. What are your gpu temps while playing? I don't think the cpu temps are the problem because this is clearly video-related.

 

[strykeforce]

The gpu stays around 50 to 55, I will try to clock my gpu higher when I am back home. Are you by the way sure my RAM is unbalanced. This was a pc build by HP and I modified it with a new case, gpu and psu.

If so is HP realy putting unbalanced RAM in a pc? I don't know much about ram.

 

[theunliked]

The gpu stays around 50 to 55, I will try to clock my gpu higher when I am back home. Are you by the way sure my RAM is unbalanced. This was a pc build by HP and I modified it with a new case, gpu and psu.

If so is HP realy putting unbalanced RAM in a pc? I don't know much about ram.

What? HP built the pc with two ram sticks, one 4GB and one 2GB? This should not be, someone correct me if I'm wrong. I'm actually surprised that HP would do that.

 

[strykeforce]

The gpu stays around 50 to 55, I will try to clock my gpu higher when I am back home. Are you by the way sure my RAM is unbalanced. This was a pc build by HP and I modified it with a new case, gpu and psu.

If so is HP realy putting unbalanced RAM in a pc? I don't know much about ram.

What? HP built the pc with two ram sticks, one 4GB and one 2GB? This should not be, someone correct me if I'm wrong. I'm actually surprised that HP would do that.

Ok, I have found the stock specs of my pc when I bought it here they are:

 

[theunliked]

Hmm...is your psu 300W?
Did clocking your gpu higher work?