So I was doing a stream of X4’s upcoming expansion, Split Vendetta, and at one moment, all three of my monitors went black. When they came back into existence, OBS was still streaming, but apparently something about a codec crashing caused it to stop recording. I checked X1 Precision and found no errors or problems (though the memory was a bit hot) and there were no error messages or anything anywhere else I could find.
Might anyone know what could cause such an occurrence? Thanks in advance.
K according to the OBS folks on their Discord, it could be a driver crash, which I guess is possible given the game was a beta.
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That would be particularly likely if you're running all three monitors off the same card, and if they all went black simultaneously. Driver crash becomes highly likely at that point. Those are often logged in the System log, so you can pop in and look if it happens again.
Yeah, all three connected to the same card. How can I see the system log?
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Ah I found the event viewer. Wow this thing is amazing. So under System, around the time of the incident, this happened:
No hardware events though, thankfully. Anyone know what that might mean?
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From google this looks like a part of Windows that resets the video driver if it detects an issue (long delay or lock up) that would result in a BSOD. Given that you mention that game is still in a beta state, I'd imagine that's where the problem lies if it doesn't happen with any other game.
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That's seriously what I'm hoping.
Someone on the EVGA forums said it might be unstable hardware, and asked me to put my card in debug mode. I so hope it's not hardware related.
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I wouldn't worry about debug mode and all unless you keep having the problem, with different games. It could easily be a driver bug, one set off by this specific game.
I hope that's all it is.
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I only have one screen, but I'll see the occasional black screen and desktop restoration, normally followed by a Windows notification that the graphic driver crashed.
It's very infrequent, maybe two or three times a year, but it does happen once in awhile.
Same here, very infrequently happens. And on that note, can we all just take a moment to appreciate the fact that this sort of thing happens so infrequently these days, compared to how commonplace it was a decade or two back? Even BSODs are virtually nonexistent.
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Usually when all my screens go black it is because one of my browsers blows up and start eating memory.
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