UE5 GPU Crashed or D3D Device Removed Fix 

In this video i will give you some tips and tricks to maybe help with your gpu crashes when trying to load UE5. First 100 people gets discount on my UE5 Course www.udemy.com/course/how-to-create-a-movie-in-unreal-engine-5-beginners-edition/?couponCode=E44588FF283F5D34916A

Crashed so bad UE5 wouldn't even launch...Windows update, NVIDIA update, Registry fix, Power Management to Maximum. Finally everything works again - huge thank you!

Actually now there is a driver crash error on DX11. By the way, nanites do not always work on it. We need to wait for a fix/patch. What a helpful video!

Another tip: Some cards have overclocking by default so if you back off by underclocking the core frequency and memory by like 100 mhz it can help. Someone recommended this on the forum the other day and it worked for me.

Registry fix really helpful 🙏 Thank you ☺️

Thank you dude! I upgraded from unreal 3 to 5.1 and this fixed my problem

Awesome, thank you very much! It helped me too!

Thank you so much! It fixed the problem and helped a lot! Have a wonderful day! =D

You are a lifesaver!

Jae, thank you so much for sharing this info. This help tremendously with opening a sample project from Epic. 😍

Thanks for all these tips but unfortunaly these are not working for me , i must add that i am building large scenes with trees and lot's of foilage. I have a Rtx2070 : studio drivers , tdlr settings , ini files checked but it keeps being very unstable

Very useful thank you~

I just fixed on this way... open Epic Launcher.... on the UE5 Slot create desktop shortcut Unreal Editor..... then right click over ShortCut/Properties and then change the name on Target... add just the words -dx11 in my case is C:\UE_5.0\Engine\Binaries\Win64\UnrealEditor.exe -dx11 hope it helps

Thankyou! it worked!

whats that "TdrLevel" entry that is not mentioned?

Yes! I'm gonna try this !!

Its like substance painter all over again. I remember having to do that with substance painter a few years ago. Regarding those registry files.

First tip helps! Thank you good Sir

This worked so far thank you

smart asl bro thank you !

thanks bro, I hope this really help me with the lovely crash I have every 1 minute

thanks for tip, I have a question, why every time an animation renders an error always occurs? What's the solution? and sometimes the environment that I have created is always broken when rendering? I'm using 2 Nvidia 1660 Super GPUs and 16GB of RAM, is it because of the GPU?

Thank you !

You are a lifesaver it fixed all errors thanks man

Im stuggling with this. GPU crashed or d3d debug device and the log files says Fatal error - DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG

im running on my 2070s but if im having my MSI afterburner running background at the same time i start a UE5 project it just crashes

You save may job.. tnk a lot

Thanks to this problem I will fail my project for uni as this has not surfaced for me until 2 weeks into my work and now u don't have time to revert to new engine. Well ty Epic for that. Engine needs to go back to alpha crashes everywhere 😒

Hey, I'm having some issues with the movie render queue. Everytime i try to render a single or more frames even at 1080p it will freeze my whole computer to the point it won't register mouse input or with an delay of 20 seconds. It will either give me an "out of video memory error or just simply nothing until i reboot. The render queue window will never go past white screen. I have tried many options that i found on google and your video but i can't seem to fix it. initially i thought it was something in one of my projects so i started a new one but the issue persists. My PC specs: CPU: Ryzen 9 5900X GPU: RTX 3080 RAM: 16gb Corsair vengeance ( i know it is a little low but i have rendered an project succesfully with the same amount of ram with an outdated cpu / i7 4770)

For Regedit, just copy/paste this and hit enter. Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers

i have powerful hardware but UE5 only opens projects from the early access realise, if I try to open a new one, I just get the D3D error, my laptop with a 1060 can open new projects, any advice?

Top Class

Chilling video

FIX: Install Windows Update ( KB5005565 ). ( Change program Compatibility: [Windows 8], [X] Run as Administrator) I have yet to get this d3d error again and it seems my games are running better so I'd say Microsoft fixed the problem with their latest patch. I will update here if the problem returns. (date of posting: 7/11/22) (I'm not sure if its related, but if you have the start menu in a different position, This also seems to be conflicting with games, I set that back to normal as well)

I just had the same issue for the 5.0.3._ the fix was to jump back the previous driver (2070Super) 456.71 ..and no issue ever since.

If this doesn't solve your issue, try to set the TdrLevel to 0. This will disable all checks on windows side. I had issues when exiting VR using oculus link where dx12 was crashing my gpu on purpose for some reasons.

I get this D3DDEBUG error but their's nothing showing what that is or how enable it or install it.

I got it open and it slow when running the game, however, it’s a gorgeous map

Hey JS - are your VR experiences pretty much crash free now on the 4090? Asking as I'm using 5.1 and still getting this error on a 4090

First if you have msi afterburner or some system overlay rivatuner you need to close it and everything would be okay

wow reading these comments about msi afterburner. it was my rivatuner running in background, i closed it and it works. didnt have msi afterburner running.

Boom, I somehow feel mentioned in the video... ...no more crashes :))))))

In my case, it begin to work just closing RivaTuner

if someone still encounter with this bug, especially at launch try to modify same file in config folder and change from dx12 to dx11

is this a Nvidia exclusive thing? I moved from a Vega 56 to a 2080. On the vega i had never encountered this problem. I open the same projects with the 2080 and they just crash constantly.

Mate....im making new game in UE and i was thinking.....can i make snipers like snipers from warzone?

save my day bro thanks...

Latest Nvidia drivers are completely buggy with Unreal Engine. Got "GPU Crashed or D3D Device Removed" every 2 minutes with these latest drivers. This issue with Windows 11 and DX12 has been around for months, and nothing has been fixed since. The various tips found on the forums work more or less well. For me, the 517.40 drivers are much more stable, so there is a problem with the drivers. Nvidia, It's time to get the job done!

The Reg key thing seemed to work, thanks. Now I wish I could find the reflection resolution (all i ever see is "r.ReflectionMethod=1" )

Got a new 4070 ti installed and this started happening . I had a 2070 super and had none of these issues be a thing so idk at this point what to do . Any help ?

Hello, I've been having this issue with certain projects on a machine with a 2080S. Oddly my machine was exactly the same except I had an RX 5700. With that card, even with the exact same project, I never got this error or crashes when rendering. Do you have any idea why this might be?

Turning off RTSS solved the issue for me ( haven't followed any steps from this video ). Others might want to switch to DX11 as UE5 runs in DX12 by default.

wow thanks a lot the registry works for me.... i

If you dont have the two delay things in there what do you do after you make a new registry item and 'name it whatever'

Hey! I'm also sitting here and struggling with errors UE5. After the scene rendering starts, it crashes with this error "Assertion failed: Size > 0 [File:D:\build\++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Buffer.cpp] [Line: 345]". Who knows how to solve it?

When I try to render locally I get error "gpu crashed or d3d removed" I have an AMD Ryzen 5 +Radeon RX Vega 7. Is there a workaround for this?

make a new what? and name it "whatever" WTF!

What drivers are you using for nvidia?

I did everything as you showed but the error is still there. If I switch to directX 11 then the problem goes away, but then I can't enable nanite display

This problem is back again, trying to open existing projects in UE 5.2. Rolling back to DX11 prevents the crash but is not a solution for nanite/lumen.

Please pin this solution as well as I've been searching for hours when I had this issue! Disable RivaTuner statistics, it will (not always) crash UE5 editor. RivaTuner is an overlay server for MSI afterburner to show FPS, temps etc.

have a very nice pc but still nothing works i gave up and stick work again only with ue4

How did you get to the first registry editor? Your voice is low and you mumble. Image on screen is too small to read and follow along.

How come this happens on my new 3060 ti but not on my 1660 Super

is a 3050ti good enough

Just updated from 5.0.3 to 5.1 and getting this error everytime I open a blank project, or an existing project. It's driving me crazy!

Dont work. But i try shut by closing Rivia Tuner and done.

Yeah this fix helps to some extent but the root problem is the engine. At least the editor has memory leaks all over the place. It even crashed on me multiple times in the Blank Template because it managed to fill up 10GB of VRAM in seconds, not often but sometimes and thats bad enough and shows that there are some underlying problems in the engine when loading/unloading assets. I didnt even to anything in the editor at that time, i was browsing through my music library on my secondary monitor when all of a sudden all fans ramped up and i could see VRAM starting to fill up to it's limit in HWINFO64. Epic focuses a little bit to much on Nanite and Lumen while leaving bugs (some of them dating back to UE 4.18 and earlier) and memory leaks on the table because they are low priority for them. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to have those new features but stability and useabilty should always be top priority in a production environment and an empty scene should never be able crash the editor even if left open for multple days because there is just nothing to process or to fill up memory with. Another easy example of their ignorance regarding to bugs would be the DateTime nodes which are broken since the 5.0 Previews, this would take seconds to fix but they are broken for over a year now (i've managed to fix it myself by copying blueprint nodes out of UE4 into UE5 so the functionality is still there but the nodes are all messed up). Virtual Memory also has some big problems with memory leaks, even if you set a limit in the INI files (PoolSizeVRAMPercentage in WindowsEngine.ini, which by default is at 70% of the gpu memory), the engine can still overrule those settings and fill up VRAM to its limit. It's a great engine but as great as it is, as broken it is.

Sometimes happens to me too. But only when i activate the OC MSI Afterburner. Any fix?

What do mean "name it whatever?" - I dont have those so... I'm confused. You said be careful in RegEdit so i don't want to do anything if it's not clear

I have a 2022 ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (AMD) and even with doing this regedit it's crashing. I can't even load a blank new level without it bombing out

My gtx is not utilizing at all only 5 to 10 percent what i do?

Hi I have problem with scalability when I want Change ue4 crashed I can't fix it please help me

MSI Afterburner/Rivatuner can cause this problem

I did not have this problem until I changed the RAM and installed a new one, and then any model I want to add in 8k quality, this problem comes to me, and I did your method and nothing happened, I will delete the unreal engine and install it again

Heres my fix = Deactivate RTSS Riva Turner overlay.

i try it on laptop and now it dont turn on help pleas 😔

Sadly none of this worked for me. It seems to be a bug with directX12 in unreal engine 5.1.1, because when you switch back to directX11 it works just fine. Maybe it works better in UE 5.2 but I'm not sure if I want to migrate my project just in case something would brake. Thanks anyways.

Man im using a 3080ti and still getting this bs error and there aint shit i can do to figure out how to fix it. Got me mega tilted.

got a 1080ti and it still crashes hmmm, here's hoping this will ix it! :)

close afterburner

it doesn't work for me on rtx 3060 ti

thanks. 1st one worked. 5.1.1 crashed on opening

This happened to me yesterday I forgot to save my project I lost everything I wanted to break the whole computer

I have a Rtx 3080 ti and it still crashes 😭

I use a laptop that has Intel Celerron and it does that, yikes

It was indeed RTSS (RivaTunerStatisticsServer), which I have been using at launch in recent months for some G-Sync game optimizations! I’m still able to let RTSS run and do its thing and I no longer get UE5 d3d errors if I add a profile for the main UnrealEditor.exe as an Application Profile and set its detection level to: None

Check your GPU temperature

UE5 is a fucking headache - plagued with issues like this which I've never had in previous versions....pretty much at the end of my game dev tether...

"Tips to maybe help" If i cook my eggs overeasy it maybe will help unreal5 run better. Is the equivelent of that sentence.

I don't have TdrDelay or TdrDdiDelay in this folder. Anyone know why not?

hhahhah why the unreal engine 5 never crashes on my rx580

my shit was 2048 LMFAO resolution capture

Yeah mine still crashes.. I don't even have anything loaded, when I try to right click or open a menu it just crashes. I hate this engine 🥲