Constant Crashes - Failed to present D3D11 swapchain due to device removed.

Windows 11 (Ver: 25931.1000)
Unity Ver: 2022.3.7f1 LTS
CPU: Intel i3 10100f (Overclocked from 3.6Ghz to 4.3)
GPU: RTX 2060 6GB VRAM (Overclocked +220 Core Clock +200 Memory Clock)
RAM: 16 GB DDR4 G-Skill 2400 MHz (Overclocked to 2666)
Displays: main horizontal monitor full HD 75 Hz, secondary vertical monitor 1024 x 1280 75 Hz

Problem persists even if I turn off all overclocks, only happens in a specific part of a specific scene where there are a lot of objects, and only when the post processing volumes are on.

 

Hey everyone.

For the last two weeks I've started having the same issue. However, in one of my previous projects I used URP in 3D and created a game for several weeks (for fun) without any shaders, and no crashes at all. In my current project I use the Stylized Water 2 shader and I get the crash atleast once a day if I sit for a few hours and work on the project. The only similar thing to other crashes I've read about, is the shader part. Hence, dx11 problems with the GPU.

I've not found any fixes, and have ran software such as Memtest, Prime95, OCCD, FurMark, etc. to test all of my PC components to their max capabilities, and it always comes back clean. If I play games, work on other things or just use my PC normally this issue never occurs.

I also have the latest drivers in everything, haven't tried switching drivers since it feels useless to do as the problem recides in Unity with shaders apparently.. atleast for me.

If I try to replicate it, the best thing I can do is to start my game where I can sail my ship across the seas and simply just wait.. in 5-15m the crash will occur. I have quite low ram on the PC (16gb ddr4 3200mhz) but my GPU (rtx 3070ti) and CPU (5800x) is more than capable to run such a game as the one I am creating, even with the editors high PC resource needs.

Hopefully this can get resolved soon, tried all fixes but to no avail.

Regards,
Victor

 

Windows 11 22H2 Laptop
Nvidia RTX 3070
Unity 2022.3.7

 

Windows 10
GTX 1660 AND GTX 670 both crash
Unity 2022.3.8

 

Hey guys, might be unrelated to everyone's crashes, but figured I'd chip in in case I can save at least one person from the annoyance we went through the past month.

After angrily having crashes for the last month every time we generated a character in run-time and getting a damn swap chain crash, I finally forced myself and downgraded the engine version back to the original 2022.3.1f1 release.

Lo and behold, the crashes are fixed. We tried this on 3 different PCs dealing with the issue and it fixed it for everyone.
Two PCs running Windows 10, one Windows 11.
All running NVIDIA cards (1060, RTX 2070, RTX 3080), 2 Intel i7, 1 Ryzen 5800x.

So after extensive digging for what script, asset, or change to the render pipeline did it, after multiple library rebuilds, and bothering with testing render backends like dx12 (performance was worse across the board for everyone) or Vulcan, in the end, it was - and I should have suspected this right away - Unity breaking something that simply worked perfectly fine just weeks prior.

For everyone dealing with this issue, I'd recommend forcing yourself to downgrade the editor (or upgrade it). Might take care of your issue.

For 2022.3 users I **believe** it was still fine back when we were working on 3.4 but I can't be bothered to download every single unity version now and check one by one.

EDIT: WELP, it's back to crashing for everyone again after no idea what, be it PC restart or editor restart - hard to say. At this point we're completely lost as to what causes this but working reliably is completely impossible.

EDIT 2 (11/09):
We ended up porting to OpenGL. No more crashes, The in-editor framerate has dropped by 3-5 fps on average so not too terrible. Will periodically check back on DX11 if the issue got fixed though. If you need to keep working at all costs, that's the fastest route that will cost the least FPS loss.

 

We have this issuse on 2022.2.20f1.After upgrade to 2022.3.8f1,everything goes fine.

 

If someone encounters this issue still running DX11 I recommend looking at NVIDIA 527.56 drivers... they're ancient (December 2022) but no more reported crash issues on anyone's end here.
It would be great if someone could also test it out and confirm they have gotten rid of the issue using older drivers.

 

2022.3.9f1, still crashes on DX11, Nvidia RTX 3050, Windows 11.
Changed editor to OpenGLES3 graphics. Editor crashed once but looks like was random in UI scene (not in the problematic scene while I used DX11)

 

2023.1 Happens to me as well

Windows 11 Pro Ver 22621.2283
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz 3.79 GHz
RAM: 32.0 GB
GPU: NVidia RTX 3070 8GB vram

At first I thought it was a faulty renderer feature I had made but even after removing it completely it still happens, I also experience extreme lagging issues with small particle systems.

Also crashes immediately if I open Unity or drag it to my 4k screen

 

Checking back in to say I switched a project from URP back to standard on 2022.3.5f1 and it made things worse. The issue had been dormant for some time. Resizing the scene window is an instant crash, but otherwise it happens somewhat randomly.

 

Just chiming in with my experience with this problem.

I'm currently running Unity 2020.3.48 LTS (the last 2020 release) on a fairly ancient Intel i7 4790K, 32GB RAM and nVidia RTX 2080, currently using driver 536.67 on Win 10 21H2.

I have a 4K display (Samsung HDR TV via HDMI) front and center with a portrait rotated 1440p HP monitor (via DisplayPort) on the RHS.

I used to have this issue every single day with previous 2019 and 2020 editor versions. In fact I waited for it - Unity was going to crash within 10-15mins of starting. Guaranteed. Even if left alone with no other apps running, but you could usually coax a crash by just inspecting a prefab without even loading a scene. The editor window just freezes, usually blacks out, the whole Win desktop stalls, blinks, and then the DX swapchain error shows.

I could then restart Unity straight away safe in the knowledge it wouldn't crash again. Switch the PC off at night, and the cycle starts again next day.

This is all working on the same (DX11) game project for the last 5 years (solo dev). Note that the game's build never has these crashes, it's just the Editor.

I chased through multiple nVidia driver versions (plus latest versions of all other drivers for my aging PC), upgraded through multiple Unity versions and updated Win10 (1903 -> 21H2) and nothing stands out as "fixing the problem".

However one working pattern change I did make that results in stable "I don't expect it to crash at all" development is that I no longer use the secondary monitor as frequently. I mainly develop on the 4K monitor exclusively these days and there are no crashes. Sure enough though, when I enable the secondary display for occasional tasks (profiling, etc) the editor will crash within minutes.

Gut feeling tells me that editor changes (v2019+) are conflicting with Win10's DX/D3D layer resulting in GPU crashes, possibly due to refresh rate conflicts (due to the multi monitor setup in my case).

Also guessing there are just more Unity dev's using Win PC/nVidia hardware skewing the feedback (it looks primarily like an nVidia issue reading the discussion, but note there are some Apple, AMD GFX, and Intel Xe GFX users chiming in).

TLDR: Apologies for the narrative rather than solutions, but those with multi-monitor setups might have something new to try out (see how you get on with a single display for a while).

 

I have a AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor and AMD Radeon RX 6600M gpu and I've been facing this problem since a couple of months. I never found a solution so now I have to remember to keep saving my project file after every 2 mins.