A reason Vulkan might crash.

[Saabdriver]

I thought I would post here to possibly help someone else after pulling my hair out.

I have been playing NCAA 2011 Football on PCSX2 and just upgraded to V2.02. Then I started to get random shutdowns, and slow performance in the middle of games.

The only way to stop some if it was to switch back to DX12.

Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 750 Ti.

Solution: In the NVIDIA Desktop Control Panel you CANNOT have any settings that will interfere with the application. Example: Under "Manage 3D Settings", if PCSX2 has an internal setting such as Antialiasing, the setting on the Desktop must be set to "Application-Controlled". If you force a setting on the Desktop program and have it PCSX2, bad things will happen.

Also another tip. If you have 2 monitors shutting one off will improve performance.

After getting PCSX2, I have not returned to my gaming console. The graphics on the PC are so much better. If someone can figure out how to get game pad vibration on the PC, let me know.

   

[lightningterror]

I'm unable to reproduce it on a 1070, can you provide a gs dump of the game where it would crash?
Also a full step by step guide to reproduce?

[Saabdriver]

It occurred randomly.  Sometimes I could play 3 quarters and then shutdown, sometimes 2 minutes and shutdown.  I Googled the error message I was getting and found nothing.

   

Also, my NVIDIA driver was 530 and just updated to 560.94.

I really believe it was caused when I went in to the desktop program and forced settings.  Once I made everything "application controlled" the problem went away and the game has run far better. Vulkan fully utilizes my video card now to 90% with temps to 80C. Before it only sat in the 80% with poor frame rates and 60C.  You do not want to put the Desktop software in conflict with the Game software.

After adjusting, I played a full game without failures.