Hi,

Just an update. In the end I bit the bullet and did a fresh install of Windows 11. After reinstalling LFS, I was able to run yesterday's race normally. I did still find some audio glitches here or there, mostly it seems to be LFS and Discord not playing nice with each other? But nothing that would make me crash and end the race prematurely (and yesterday's race was SO6, so the error would have most definitely end in a DNF).

I would like to investigate a bit further into issue, but for the time being the drastic solution seems to be working. I should be racing again next Monday, so I'll report back if I run into the D3D error once more or if my problem has come to an end with the "nuke it" fix.

Here goes the log. I have attached as a file in the end.

The error that appears in the log was:
D3D device error : D3DERR_DEVICEHUNG

Last edited by VicRCDE, Fri 14 Mar 2025, 15:40.

Hi,

To answer a few questions:
- GPU utilisation does not get over 40/50%. I have the game limited to 100fps since my monitor cannot refresh faster than that. This is something I have done for a few years now.
- Temps do not exceed 60 degrees on the GPU.
- When the freeze/crash happens, I see GPU utilisation shoot up to 100%, then it goes to 0% until it the game returns back to normal.
- Sometimes the freeze/crash is so bad that it has bluescreened Windows.

In regards to the GPU driver, I hadn't updated it since December last year. I did run a few races in December and January without issues, until early February, when the problems started.

Now, when I reinstalled the driver back to ensure it wasn't the issue, I installed a newer version that was just released. I still did run into the issue (hence the post), though the freeze was only maybe 10 secs instead of 30-40 secs.

I will try to see if I can get to the deb.log file and copy it here, and see if there are any clues that could help.

Thanks!

Hi all,

For a few weeks now, I've been running into this issue in LFS where, when our races run (CESAV), the game will crash for a few seconds and then recover.

The problem is that this usually happens in the middle of our race event (around 23:00 - 23:10), which means I usually end up in a wall, crashed, and I have to retire from the race. This is becoming extremly frustrating, as I've lost a lot of points due to this ongoing issue.

Steps I took to remidiate the issue:
- Reinstall LFS (game still crashed).
- Wipe previous graphic card driver (via DDU) and reinstall it fresh (game still crashed).
- Install new version driver (game still crashed).
- Stop all automatic Windows and graphics auto-updates (yep, game still crashed).

The game until that point runs smooth, and after the crash, if I can proceed, also will run find. I can't find the issue that is causing this crash so far, so I ask for your help if anyone has found himself in the same pickle.

In case it's helpful, here are the PC specs:
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
- AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
- Asus TUF Gaming B650-plus
- 32GB Corsair RAM (AMD SmartAccess Memory is enabled, but has been since the system was built)
- Samsung 990 PRO 1TB (where LFS is installed)
- Windows 11 (updated right now to latest version from a couple of weeks ago)

This has been 4 or 5 weeks running, so any suggestions are welcomed. I'll probably try with a fresh install of Windows as a next step, but I would like to avoid it if possible - especially since the system was built over a year ago and I run with no issues...

Entry number : 33
Entry name : LCR - Hotdog Racing
Car: FZ70 4GTS
Entered driver (Ingame name / LFSW name / Country) : LCR-HR»VCK / VicRCDE / Spain
Entered driver (Ingame name / LFSW name / Country) : LCR-HR»MAXXIS / lacondeguy16 / Spain