Game started to crash or even leads to bluescreens

[Bóbr]

As the title says: I could play the game for a few weeks without problems. Performance was good, no big bugs or chrashes. Like 2 weeks ago the game suddenly had crashes (I had to reset the PC) or even Bluescreens (problem mentioned there was the GPU driver).
Strange thing about it: it either crashed in the first 2 or 3 minutes or I could play for hours.

Since then I updated the driver 2 times... didn't help.
I started Windows in safe mode, deleted the driver and reinstalled it... didn't help.
It tried lowering some settings and that did not help either.

Now when I get into the game all "world shadows" (mountains, trees,...) are going on and off all the time before the game crashes. I tried different shadow and lighting settings, but that did not seem to work. Also today it crashed after I was in game for a minute and went back to menu.

I thought maybe my GPU is broken, but every other game works well. Even badly optimized games that got some lags (Warhammer 3 in the campaign map has some locations where somehow the FPS drop hard) work. I already searched here in the forum and googled the problem, but I did not find a real solution.

My reg: AMD Ryzon 5 5600X
16GB Ram
Geforce GTX 1060 6 GB

[Twisty]

There has been a few of these issues floating around and the best advice I've seen is to verify your game files in steam

[Lince_SPAIN]

try a different PSU, yours is on its way out

[Bóbr]

While verifying my game files it downloaded 2mb, but that did not change the problem. I tried different solutions, like lowering the graphic settings and changing my settings in Windows system to "high performance", but that did not get rid of the world shadows going on and off all the time. I did no long time test yet, but it seems like the crashes are gone.

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Regular Sized Rudy:

While verifying my game files it downloaded 2mb, but that did not change the problem. I tried different solutions, like lowering the graphic settings and changing my settings in Windows system to "high performance", but that did not get rid of the world shadows going on and off all the time. I did no long time test yet, but it seems like the crashes are gone.

hast du mal die temp files und den shader cache gelöscht ?
Grafikprobleme dieser Art sind meist dort zu suchen.

Was sagt eigentlich deine Windows Ereignisanzeige was den BOSD verursacht hat ?

[Bóbr]

Originally posted by dark-breed:

Originally posted by Regular Sized Rudy:

While verifying my game files it downloaded 2mb, but that did not change the problem. I tried different solutions, like lowering the graphic settings and changing my settings in Windows system to "high performance", but that did not get rid of the world shadows going on and off all the time. I did no long time test yet, but it seems like the crashes are gone.

hast du mal die temp files und den shader cache gelöscht ?
Grafikprobleme dieser Art sind meist dort zu suchen.

Was sagt eigentlich deine Windows Ereignisanzeige was den BOSD verursacht hat ?

Die Temp Files und den Shader Cache habe ich jetzt mal gelöscht, hat leider auch nichts gebracht.

Beim Bluescreen erschien immer eine Fehlermeldung in Zusammenhang mit der "nvlddmkm.sys"-Datei. Nachdem ich die Treiber komplett neu installiert habe scheint der Bluescreen nicht mehr zu kommen. Die Crashes kommen immer noch. Da mir gerade auch Three Kingdoms abgestürzt ist könnte es doch an der GPU liegen :(

[dark-breed]

schau mal in die Ereignisanzeige ( eventvwr in der Suchzeile eingeben und ausführen bringt dich direkt dort hin) , dort steht mehr über den BOSD und die Crashes, derzeit kann beides der Fall sein, defekte GPU oder defektes Netzteil.

ggf. kannst du auch mal das Netzteil aufschrauben und nach gewölbten Elektrolyt
Kondensatoren schaun (was ein hinweis auf ein sterbendes Netzteil sein könnte).

https://samelectrik.ru/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/proverka_kondensatora-2.jpg

sieht da einer so aus solltest du dir ein neues holen bevor deine GPU durch einen Netzteiloverload stirbt.

[Bóbr]

Update: I tried multiple things like checking my hardware, reinstalling drivers and updating my bios. I also reinstalled the game just to be sure. I tried different approaches from different sites, but the flickering lights and shadows are still there. As far as I can tell the crashes are gone and I hope they stay that way.

The more important thing: I just played different games the last days. Red Dead Redemption 2, Three Kingdoms, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint just to name a few. In none of these games I got any crashes or weird flickering. They work like they should work, so it seems like the game just doesn't like my system. I also played a bit of Sekiro to see if it is a problem with the engine Fromsoftware is using. It worked without any problems.

I made a video to show what I mean with flickering "world shadows":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-OTlsDgDcE

This happens on all locations and on all graphical options. It seems to be better in closed buildings and worse in landscape, but it also happens in dungeons/buildings.

[Bóbr]

The newest driver update seemed to fix all the problems mentioned above. I hope it stays like that, but the last two days the game worked fine.