Death Stranding Director's Cut crashes when Optiscaler is installed

[piee-kun]

Using Epic Games version of Death Stranding Director's Cut, having Optiscaler installed causes the game to not launch, leaves no logs, and nothing in Reliability Report. Using 0.7.0 pre-23, with nvngx.dll named as dxgi.dll

EDIT: Should mention that I replaced libxess with the one from the release, however using the original also causes the aforementioned issue.

[cdozdil]

Hi,

It's a know issue but thanks for reporting. Will give you a heads up if I can fix it. Meanwhile you can use OptiScaler as nvngx.dll but this will not let you use FG features.

[cdozdil]

Hi,

Could you try again with this release?

https://github.com/cdozdil/OptiScaler/releases/tag/v0.7.0-pre36

[piee-kun]

Game launches but returns an error error.txt

[piee-kun]

Weird, on second try it launched fine, but crashed when entering Graphics Settings

[cdozdil]

Hi,

Try deleting setting.ini from game folder (to reset settings)

[piee-kun]

Game crashes when trying to launch into a save file

[cdozdil]

Could you share optiscaler.log file?

[piee-kun]

OptiScaler.log

[brad86m]

Sadly, still an issue with latest versions. Game fails to launch with Optiscaler

[EQQx110]

My game crashes too with a windows that looks the same, but just sometimes when changing the graphical settings a lot or when changing a specific setting of the OptiScaler. If you want more specific information I can try to make the game crash to tell you exactly what I do, when it happens and post the errors, it might help to solve the problem in case it's correlated

[cdozdil]

Hi,

If you are still interested could you check with latest nightly release?

[EQQx110]

With the latest nightly release it crashed after I tried to enable FSR2 from the graphic settings:

error.txt

[cdozdil]

Could you send optiscaler.log?

[EQQx110]

I triggered the error again since the .log was overwritten. error.txt OptiScaler.log For me it happens when I try to activate FSR2 while in-game, if I do it form the title screen it doesn't crash. There might be other triggers but I haven't tested yet.

[TheRazerMD]

Probably using a custom FSR2 implementation. Did you try using Fsr2Pattern=true in nvngx.ini to see if that helps?

[notNSANE]

hi.

I tried the 3 solutions with the very latest nightly version but DLSS, FSR and XeSS all crashed the game while loading into the game; using AMD GPU.

This mod works following the AMD instructions, launches into the game correctly, but Frame Gen creates a lot of artifacts: https://www.nexusmods.com/deathstranding/mods/68

[brodrigz]

Following these instructions makes it possible to launch the game with FG: https://github.com/cdozdil/OptiScaler/issues/111

But it seems that this game really doesnt support FG really well, for me it gave me about 20+ frames (100 to 120, not capped) at the cost of severe ghosting, and HudFix simply negates any frame gain, tested DLSS and FSR