DX 11 Beta not working How can i turn it off again?

[Nevra.5489]

I checked the box for the Beta. But when i Start gw2 it carshes when i get to the charselect screen(report sent). but how can i trun it off again so i can play again with dx9?

[farsight.8269]

Hi - same issue.

Game crashes after "setting directx 11 beta" option in "F11" panel at character selection screen.

Setting commandline "-dx9single" doesn't override "directx 11 beta" selection, is there another command line option to unset the directx 11 beta??

 

Would like to continue playing the game.

 

cheers!

[Ezraholic.7349]

Bump. Exactly same happening to me. I made sure I have no addons in my GW2 folder that could cause crash but since it happens right in the character selection screen, I can't get to options and turn DX11 off.

[Angel.3897]

same here

[Hexxat.4201]

I can't even open GW2 anymore after the update. What do I do?

[synnerman.7462]

I turned it on and fps went up BUT things were a little choppy so I restarted incase it was still updating. Relogged and ALL text in Menus and ingaem was just a blurred purple mess. I managed to get back into my options and untick dx11 and text is now fine.

[MithranArkanere.8957]

Star the game with -dx9 in the command line, then disable the DX11 setting in options and restart without the command.

 

To try the game with dx11 without enabling the setting, start the game with -dx11 in the command line.

[Healix.5819]

Delete Local.dat under %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/. Note this will reset your graphics, sound and remembered login.

[farsight.8269]

-dx9 on the command line allowed me in, and was able to disable directx11

 

[Nevra.5489]

4 minutes ago, MithranArkanere.8957 said:

Star the game with -dx9 in the command line, then disable the DX11 setting in options and restart without the command.

 

To try the game with dx11 without enabling the setting, start the game with -dx11 in the command line.

nice it worked with the -dx9 to get in and uncheck the box thx

[Lunchmeat.6907]

just wish i would stop crashing every 8 minutes. yes i timed it.

[Winderly.2718]

9 minutes ago, farsight.8269 said:

-dx9 on the command line allowed me in, and was able to disable directx11

 

you're a life saver, thank you

[Tenebrius Drakkar.5098]

Heya everyone 🙂

 

Do you know why passing through DX 11 makes my game totally blue, please ?

 

Tx in advance ❤️

Edited September 21, 2021 by Tenebrius Drakkar.5098

[Forgotten Legend.9281]

deleted my addons then: 

 

part 1: first 4 attempts.... game crashed before the character screen came up

part 2: next few attempts... got an error message from just correctly entering my password... no authentication code, just error message.

part 3: did -repair, fixed part 2

EDIT 1:

part4 : -dx9 it and disable dx11 renderer beta

part 5: -dx11

EDIT2:

so, part 4 works just fine and lets me in

part 5... well DX11 GW2 does not work on my system. it crashes before the character screen loads. mostly a black screen with a short character description of one character in super large type. and the ANET crash report box. (all addons deleted and precision x1 turned off or on doesn't matter. (i thought maybe the overlay was affecting it, but nope.)

Edited September 21, 2021 by Forgotten Legend.9281

[PrincessReia.3809]

19 minutes ago, Healix.5819 said:

Delete Local.dat under %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/. Note this will reset your graphics, sound and remembered login.

thank you for this

[draxynnic.3719]

23 minutes ago, Hexxat.4201 said:

I can't even open GW2 anymore after the update. What do I do?

I've got the same problem on my new computer. Launcher initialises, then shuts down again after a moment or two.

 

Been having issues with needing to repair integrity, so I thought I'd try uninstalling and doing a clean install. Nope, installer has the same problem.

 

My 2015 laptop was able to grab the update fine, but with its failing CPU fan, old-style hard drive, and multi-minute load times for zone transitions, it's hardly an ideal gaming rig...

Edited September 21, 2021 by draxynnic.3719

[evoknzzz.7401]

I'm on AMD (so no directx) and I can't play either.

[Winderly.2718]

21 minutes ago, Forgotten Legend.9281 said:

deleted my addons then: 

 

part 1: first 4 attempts.... game crashed before the character screen came up

part 2: next few attempts... got an error message from just correctly entering my password... no authentication code, just error message.

part 3: did -repair, fixed part 2

EDIT 1:

part4 : -dx9 it and disable dx11 renderer beta

part 5: -dx11

does part 5 crash the game or actually work ?

part5 also crashes for me.

i tried with dxvk, still crashes.

Edited September 21, 2021 by Winderly.2718

[farsight.8269]

Still having periodic issues when using the "directx 11" option in "F11" vs "-dx9" on the command line.
** Enhancement request **
Have an indicator for "Directx11" or "Directx9" on screen to tell at a glance which is being used.

 

Would aid in troubleshooting.

 

[Luthan.5236]

Yeah. I have UI bugs at the loading screen (where the name of the map would be also on the char selection) - I guess my computer is just too old lol. Barely could run it with DX9 and I thought DX11 would bring more performance (with same hardware) ... not requiring more hardware.

Might also be bugs or because it is beta. At least I could start it ... stuck at the loading screen now. I'll try to kill gw2.exe and using the command line for DX9 again as explained by others above.

Edit: Worked with -dx9

Edited September 21, 2021 by Luthan.5236

[Blaeys.3102]

I was able to open the game with it, but elements of the UI and enemies on the screen started not rendering/flashing in and out. Had to turn it off. 

 

That happens with a beta, so no biggie. Hope they work the kinks out of it.

[Forgotten Legend.9281]

18 minutes ago, Winderly.2718 said:

does part 5 crash the game or actually work ?

part5 also crashes for me.

i tried with dxvk, still crashes.

i just edited the old post, but to answer your Q..  NO... :(

-dx11 doesn't work on my rig. and i won't know why unless anet finds something in the crash report AND tells me how to fix it... i wonder if there's something running on my rig that's causing it, or if it's just a coding issue, or if it has something to do with it being an old rig ( i7-4930k with 32G Ram and 2 RTX 2070s in SLI ) and yes, the drivers are up to date, and GW2 has an SLI profile in the drivers.

[Winderly.2718]

17 minutes ago, Forgotten Legend.9281 said:

 

 

 

Then my machine is much older than your.

[Tagat.2790]

I am running GW2 on a Ryzen 5 3600 b450 chip set 16GB ram and on my old rig at work with a gtx760. When I first restarted client after enabling DX11 Beta it ran all the way to LA on my main char and crashed to desktop no crash report generated just straight to desktop in about 3min after logging in. Also FPS was lock at 30 even tho I had vsync and limiter off. Re logged in to GW2 to LA and ran around LA for 15 min no crash but FPS was still locked at 30. No add-on running. Afterburner overlay was running. I am assuming my FPS was locked because of the age of my GTX760 but not sure.

[MrFreebird.1037]

A little weird but I had the same issue, however only if I started the game through steam with the overlay. When I started the game through the files it worked first try.