Weird crashes and artifacts caused by Direct X ???

[Jeffery Bagley]

So I am having random crashes in Civ VI. Rising Storm version. I have been playing CIV since it first came out some 20 odd years ago. Lately having these weird crashes. If I am playing in direct x12 it usually occurs around discovering or moving around natural wonders. Sometimes I will get weird graphics artifacts around the wonders and certain units cause crazy artifacts. I can save and load back in direct x11 and some of them go away but others then occur. I have RTX 3080 with latest drivers and there just seems to be no pattern to them. I have taken to playing in window mode in direct x11 to get the most stable game but still get the artifacts. Yes, I have mods loaded and have tried eliminating them in single deletes to try and find a causative agent with no success. Playing a game now where the Great Barrier Reef and Ship of the Lines both cause wild graphics artifacts. Last game it was Knights and Spearmen. Anyone else have this issue or found a fix? I get the artifacts also in a base GS game with NO mods loaded.

 

[Jeffery Bagley]

As a follow up, I have noticed that when starting CIV in windowed mode in upper left border it will say DirectX (version #) is not responding. After a few seconds it will say it is starting in whatever version I am using.