This is exclusive for those running nVidia Geforce video cards, driver version 314.07

What are the optimal settings for your video card(s) ? Download the GeForce Expereince program here http://www.geforce.com/drivers/geforce-experience

After install, Run the program as admin, it will search for all related games. Select Optimal recommended settings for the currently active "screen resolution". So, if your screen resolution on your desktop IS NOT the same as the in game resolution, then change your desktop resolution to the same as in C3 before running the GE program

You can revert back you desktop resolution after the settings have been applied to C3

If you still experience the CryEngine3 DXGI error, up your video card voltage by .10 to .15 increase . For example: If your current voltage is set at 1.150 and experiencing the DXGI crash
, after applying the GE optmized settings, then up the video card voltage to 1.160 or 1.65 whatever nearest to the voltage settings is rounded to

This will help find the bottom end stability and then work your way up on desired OC resolution quality

1080p I ran as V-sync and my cards stayed very cool and stable. I dont run V-sync at lower resolutions

I keep wondering how many more times people are going to be saying dumb things, that it's an unstable OC, especially when:

1)I have no OC whatsoever.
2)The Beta ran WITHOUT ANY CRASHING with the AMD 13.1 drivers.
3) As soon as I installed 13.2 beta it started giving me the DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE REMOVED.
4) http://i.imgur.com/xJWyISS.png
5) And finally, I've never had such a problem ever before.

Conclusion: Either both AMD and Nvidia released drivers which do something wrong, or Crytek are the one that are doing the wrong things OR It's Microsoft's DX11 that has some bug, that is now appearing due to specific conditions with code being met i.e undefined behaviour.

I am having this error also, I have absolutely no OC at all. I am using the most current nvida drivers.

I am having this error also, I have absolutely no OC at all. I am using the most current nvida drivers.

It has nothing to do with OCing. Just run the nVidia tool in the OP to optimize the settings, then up the voltage as discribed in the OP.


The OP remedy allows you to find the base settings that your Vid and CE3 likes regardless if you OCed or not