Screen freezes in RES, sound continues

[evovi]

Randomly happens to me as well, but more so as I'm in a res, I've had it dropping out of sc, entering sc and also when docking more so the transition from attempting to land to being magnetised - must be data change moment for sync with the server?

[TorTorden]

I don’t think it’s video related, because sometimes the game freezes at the same exact time for Victoria and I, and we’re not using the same GPU.

Nvidia 980ti here.

I suspect a network error that really isn't handled properly, my main reason for thinking that is I get more crashes when I'm also using team speak than not.

I have still only had about five crashes since horizons but four of them in the last few days.

[M. Kowalsky]

This sounds similar to something I used to experience quite regularly.
Since I wrote this in another forum a couple of weeks ago, I had zero occurance of the bug.

Make this what you will, but you might want to give it a go...

Maybe I was the only one but since Horizon or possibly my move to Windows 10, which happened about the same time, whenever I would swap (alt-TAB) to a browser (or any application) and access the network during a jump, the game would quite often freeze and then Windows would pop an error message as in the title.

The game would appear to be still running in the background (including speeding towards the star if my throttle was engaged!) but the display would not refresh.
The only way out was to kill and restart the process.

Now, after a bit of fiddling around I found the post below: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=153213

Which I re=state here for clarity:

1.Simply go to your registry: Start –> Run –> Type in “Regedit”
2.Go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers” and create a key of type “DWORD (32-bit)” or “QWORD (64-bit)” (depending on what system you’re using) and name “TdrDelay” with a value of 10 as Decimal value.
3.Reboot and play
In a nutshell it gives the GPU 10 seconds to recover/respond vs. 2 seconds (default).

Note that in my case, even though I have a 64 bit OS, setting a QWORD did nothing. In the end, I set a 32 bit variable and it *seemed* to have done the trick.
Mind you this is only after a day or so of casual testing, so YMMV.

[Black Rose]

Currently, I am experiencing a strange behavious: Now and then, when joining the fight in a HiRes against a Wanted ship, the screen freezes -- BUT the sound continues (and is not repeating/hangup). Controls are not responding.
I always emergency-logged as quickly as possible, since I don't know whether my ship actually continues to fly. Win10.

Anyone experiencing the same lately?

I was having a similar issue in a Haz Res Field and always if an Anaconda was present or in the battle I was in. I also experienced a totally red screen as if my vid card failed.

Since my system was only a few months old at the time I sent in a tech support request to my system builder; Falcon Northwest. I am searching for the email, but the lead tech supervisor told me it was an issue with the actual Elite client and the vid card drivers. More so with AMD than nVidia, but as soon as I find the email I'll post it.