Deus Ex: Human Revolution crashing

[STU9000]

Just started playing this on Steam and really enjoying it, only it keeps crashing all the time. It's virtually unplayable, seems to crash on autosave, which can't be disabled as far as I know. Can't get past certain points in the game unless i restart.

Getting nowhere asking on Steam forums or googling so thought I'd try here. As far as i can tell it's probably an issue with the graphics card or drivers.

I have an NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M and I'm on DirectX 11

 

[Solarstarshines]

Just started playing this on Steam and really enjoying it, only it keeps crashing all the time. It's virtually unplayable, seems to crash on autosave, which can't be disabled as far as I know. Can't get past certain points in the game unless i restart.

Getting nowhere asking on Steam forums or googling so thought I'd try here. As far as i can tell it's probably an issue with the graphics card or drivers.

I have an NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M and I'm on DirectX 11

have you right clicked on the Dues app in the steam program and proceed to verify integrity of game cache

If that doesn't work reinstall netframework 4 and direct x run time

 

[STU9000]

No. How do I do all those things?

it has happened a few times on other games, but seems to be getting worse on DX to the point where it's virtually unplayable.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Ok well I don't have it installed anymore but here is a Screen shot you right click on the game go to properties then to local files and as you see in the picture it has the options of what to do

You will want to Verify the game Integrity

 

[STU9000]

OK ta, will look into that. I just had a look into seeing whether I am up to date with the drivers and downloaded this from here-

NVIDIA DRIVERS 306.97WHQL

GEFORCE R304 DRIVER



Version:
306.97 WHQL
Release Date:
2012.10.10
Operating System:
Windows 8 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit
Language:
English (U.S.)
File Size:
220 MB

I checked windows update and no mention of an update on 10-10-12 so not sure if I have the most up to date drivers installed for my graphics cards. How do i check what drivers I have installed, can't find how to do this in Device manager?

 

[Solarstarshines]

If you are using a Laptop you can't update the drivers unless the Manufatuer has them if you updated i hope you got them from the makers site

that is probably the issue

 

[STU9000]

OK i thought Windows Update did all that. I have that and Vaio update, not sure how it all works really. How do i check what drivers I have at the moment before I update? Is there a way to auto check for drivers so I can be sure they are the correct drivers?

 

[Solarstarshines]

OK i thought Windows Update did all that. I have that and Vaio update, not sure how it all works really. How do i check what drivers I have at the moment before I update? Is there a way to auto check for drivers so I can be sure they are the correct drivers?

I would try going through the Vaio update as it should be a complete package for everything
Windows updates some of the things not all it also produces generic drivers just to let you know

Most cases people don't need all that update software but seems most laptop makers make it impossible to go with out it seems like

anyhow it should have a description of what it updates the main one you are looking for is video driver also im not sure if you are using switchable graphics this could be a problem as well but you did note the video card shows up as main gpu

 

[STU9000]

Seems to be a graphics driver update and a few other things on Vaio Update, looking into this now.

Generally like to steer clear of manufactures third party software, but I guess Sony know what they are doing.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Seems to be a graphics driver update and a few other things on Vaio Update, looking into this now.

Generally like to steer clear of manufactures third party software, but I guess Sony know what they are doing.

What sucks is unless you do a clean install it is stuck with the recovery partition Vaios software
I find his rather disturbing

But that is part of there recovery software i suppose

 

[STU9000]

I just updated the drivers and still the same problem. This update was released in may it says but i think there is one more recently that didn't come up in the Vaio update. Starting to think it could just be a bug in the game and tempted to ask for a refund now.

 

[Solarstarshines]

did you update the direct x run time ?

also alot of games need NETFRAMWORK4 look those up on the microsoft site

download them reinstall them and see if it has been fixed

 

[STU9000]

Tried turning off some of the settings in properties. It appeared to want to reinstall direct X 11 when i started it up again, but still the problem persists. I have had no other problems with any other games until this.

How do update direct X run time and what's this netframwork 4?

 

[STU9000]

I just tried turning off Direct X 11 in the options and it seems to have fixed the issue. Not really sure why or why Direct X is required, or as yet if this will impair the quality of the game..?

Will report back, if anyone knows any other way to fix this please let me know.

 

[STU9000]

Seems to be working fine so far now I turned off DX11 bar a few minor glitches with the video tutorials. Other people seem to have solved the problem this way as well. Since I don't know what DX11 is or does I have no idea why this has solved the issue. As far as I was aware i thought these games needed DX to run?

 

[Solarstarshines]

could be your card is not dx11 but could be dx10

 

[STU9000]

My computer is pretty new, pretty much top spec as of 1 year ago.

What exactly does DX do anyway?

 

[Solarstarshines]

DirectX - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia