Frequent crashes with DX12 renderer

[Slacker]

Been experiencing some crashes mid-missions lately.

Please find the crash dump below, as well as the relevant (I suppose) excerpt from the console log.

console log

<<Crash>>HRESULT: 2147942487 = E_INVALIDARG

At `E:\agent-work\data-dir\engine_release_wom_2019_07_08\runtime\d3d12_render_device\d3d12_debug.cpp:503` in function `stingray::aftermath::ensure`
<</Crash>>
<<Callstack>>
{00007ff7892b0000, 089e4000, 5d5421ac, 7156ac37-9cc7-42d0-b955-df7fb70601da, 00000001, E:\agent-work\tmp-builds\engine_release_wom_2019_07_08\engine\win64_dx12\release\vermintide2_dx12.pdb}
{00007ff9efa20000, 001f0000, c00f8a30, cfd10e5f-223f-ee5f-2622-7cb82510fedc, 00000001, ntdll.pdb}
{00007ff9ee7c0000, 000b2000, d12f214a, b6f0e183-c96d-92a6-97ef-a1f4b153b815, 00000001, kernel32.pdb}

0x00007ff7892b0000:0x00000000002bcc60 
0x00007ff7892b0000:0x00000000002be592 
0x00007ff7892b0000:0x00000000002be84b 
0x00007ff7892b0000:0x00000000002bb2b0 
0x00007ff7892b0000:0x000000000033dc90 
0x00007ff7892b0000:0x0000000000327178 
0x00007ff7892b0000:0x00000000003303a3 
0x00007ff7892b0000:0x000000000032f71f 
0x00007ff7892b0000:0x0000000000322520 
0x00007ff7892b0000:0x0000000000067c99 
0x00007ff7892b0000:0x0000000000069065 
0x00007ff7892b0000:0x0000000000069526 
0x00007ff7892b0000:0x00000000002dba72 
0x00007ff9ee7c0000:0x0000000000017bd4 BaseThreadInitThunk
0x00007ff9efa20000:0x000000000006ce71 RtlUserThreadStart
<</Callstack>>
<<Crash version>>1<</Crash version>>
<<Thread name>>renderer<</Thread name>>
<<Platform>>win32<</Platform>>
<<Build identifier>>83132e6601b4<</Build identifier>>
<<Build type>>release<</Build type>>
<<Product version>>Developer Build (1.3.0.0)<</Product version>>
<<Session>>c28d358c-862e-4f45-9f5f-1ac057d9100a<</Session>>
<<System Information>>--- CPU
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Logical processors: 8
Family: 0:6, Model: 3:12
Type: 0, Stepping: 3
Features: SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 SSE4.2
Feature bits:
EBX: 00000000 00010000 00001000 00000000 
ECX: 01111111 11111010 11111011 10111111 
EDX: 10111111 11101011 11111011 11111111 
--- Memory
Physical   Total:     32701MB
           Available: 30331MB
--- OS
Windows version 10.0 build 18362, 64 bit
Windows 10
Machine ID 5f7fca63-8d9e-4f97-8e0c-365dbd889caa
--- Graphics
Graphics card: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (DirectX 12.0, 4072MB) 
Graphics card: Microsoft Basic Render Driver (DirectX 12.1, 0MB) 
--- Network
Network interface: Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (2) I218-V (IPv4)
--- Input
Input device: Mouse (18.1): Mouse
Input device: Keyboard (19.4): Keyboard
Input device: Generic (17.0): USB Gaming Mouse
Input device: Generic (17.0): USB Keyboard
Input device: Generic (17.0): Sound Blaster Tactic(3D) Alpha
<</System Information>>
<<Console Log>>C:\Users\rob\AppData\Roaming\fatshark\Vermintide 2\console_logs\console-2019-08-18-21.45.30-c28d358c-862e-4f45-9f5f-1ac057d9100a.log<</Console Log>>
<<Crash Dump>>C:\Users\rob\AppData\Roaming\fatshark\Vermintide 2\crash_dumps\crash_dump-2019-08-18-21.45.30-c28d358c-862e-4f45-9f5f-1ac057d9100a.dmp<</Crash Dump>>
<<Plugins>>
RazerChroma
CrashMonitor
navigation
cjson
lcurl
rule database
tobii_eyetracking_plugin
wwise_plugin
<</Plugins>>
[Log end]

crash_dump-2019-08-18-21.45.30-c28d358c-862e-4f45-9f5f-1ac057d9100a.dmp (512.6 KB)

[FatsharkJulia]

Could you please switch to DirectX 11 within the launcher’s ‘Settings’ menu and see if the crashes persist?

[Slacker]

Sure, since it was supposedly the DX12 renderer failing here…

I’ll report back once I get to play another session.

Thanks!

[Slacker]

Well, I’ve played some and, as expected, I didn’t encounter any crashes.

Sadly enough, the performance hit when going back do DX11 renderer is just unbearable.

Updated the graphics driver in hope that its the root cause. Can’t really tell if that started with a particular version. The idea of rolling back to previous ones just to rule that out doesn’t sound too appealing either…

Will see if anything changes in DX12…

[Slacker]

For what it’s worth, I went back to driver version 19.6.1 (June 7) on my (rather old, now) R9 290 and, so far, I’m not experiencing any aforementioned crashes.

What I did experience, however, were severe performance drops during beastmen terror events on Cataclysm (granted there’s a lot of enemies on screen), and occasional, very severe freezes. I am not sure these are present on the newer drivers, however.

What I can safely say is that the above performance hiccups and freezes are unique to WoM version of the game, while the crashes were first observed on 07.21 with engine_release_celebrate_2019_02_25, so these are not WoM specific.