Fixed my crashes (SFC and Underclocking GPU)

[Ruiner]

My game was crashing every 5 minutes and I've spent the last full day testing memory, testing CPU, testing GPU, re-seating everything etc. and everything is fine. Temps are great due to open loop watercooling.

I did 2 things which may have helped.

I ran the Windows system file checker first:
Press your windows key
type:
command prompt
right click on the command prompt and run as admin
type:
sfc /scannow
it may take a while, mine found a few missing files and downloaded them

Then I downloaded MSI afterburner, and noticed my clock speeds were far too high (I have an Aorus Xtreme 1080Ti, but my clock speeds were 12% higher than they should have been for this card).

I dropped my core clock by 291MHz and my memory clock by 28MHz (memory speeds are weird, for my card it's the reported memory speed divided by 4 in HWMonitor).

I'm using the older 460.89 drivers as the last 2 driver releases were unstable.

Intel i7 7700K
Aorus 1080Ti Xtreme 11GB

[Ruiner]

Well the game has been running for the entire prologue without crashing.

I don't know if it was 1.05 or the things I tried, but it seems to work now. So if you're crashing (I was soft-crashing) it's worth a shot.

The newest drivers are absolutely not required if you have issues with them (solid colour crash on both monitors in Windows).

[TXenocide!]

hi been looking at and testing your method to try and fix the crashes, i did sfc /scannow and nothing was missing and i'll test it now or soon, also my specs are a little older than yours but the game still runs but still crashes if you'd like i could post my specs? or not if you don't want to see them?

[TXenocide!]

oh also its late where i live so i might not be able to reply till tomorrow so sry if i don't reply til later

[Tanár Úr]

I can attest to this. Had crashes with varying frequencies. Underclocking my GTX 1080 core by about 300 MHz helped. Didn't have a crash since.