Game causes my PC to crash

[Punnilingus]

So, I'm sure this is some incompatibility with my system but I can play any game on Steam at darn-near max settings w/o issue. I've never had this problem.

This game has done it to me twice.

The first time was right after I started the game. I was switching from fullscreen to windowed, which it did before I ever hit apply. I had everything on 'high', etc. Then I hit apply just to be sure, and my PC shut down. Like, immediate. No freezing up, nada.

I was like "oh God."

I started it up again, tentatively, and got a couple of hours out of it. I started entering a planet to do a mission and click - PC shut down. No warning, no freezing nada.

I've never had this happen ever.

Any idea what might be happening in the game and on my end to cause that?

OS Name	Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version	10.0.19045 Build 19045
Other OS Description 	Not Available
OS Manufacturer	Microsoft Corporation
System Name	DESKTOP-GNNPSPM
System Manufacturer	Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
System Model	MS-7D09
System Type	x64-based PC
System SKU	Default string
Processor	11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz, 3504 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date	American Megatrends International, LLC. 1.40, 1/7/2022
SMBIOS Version	3.3
Embedded Controller Version	255.255
BIOS Mode	UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer	Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
BaseBoard Product	Z590-A PRO (MS-7D09)
BaseBoard Version	1.0
Platform Role	Desktop
Secure Boot State	Off
PCR7 Configuration	Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory	C:\WINDOWS
System Directory	C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device	\Device\HarddiskVolume4
Locale	United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer	Version = "10.0.19041.2251"
User Name	[redacted]
Time Zone	Central Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM)	32.0 GB
Total Physical Memory	31.9 GB
Available Physical Memory	18.0 GB
Total Virtual Memory	37.6 GB
Available Virtual Memory	20.4 GB
Page File Space	5.75 GB
Page File	C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection	Off
Virtualization-based security	Not enabled
Device Encryption Support	Elevation Required to View
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions	Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions	Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware	Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection	Yes

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
PNP Device ID	PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_2206&SUBSYS_38813842&REV_A1\4&2130FF93&0&0008
Adapter Type	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
Adapter RAM	(1,048,576) bytes
Installed Drivers	[redacted]
Driver Version	31.0.15.1694
INF File	oem50.inf (Section071 section)
Color Planes	Not Available
Color Table Entries	4294967296
Resolution	1920 x 1080 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel	32
Memory Address	0x80000000-0x80FFFFFF
Memory Address	0x0000-0x1FFFFFF
I/O Port	0x00003000-0x0000307F
IRQ Channel	IRQ 4294967276
Driver	C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERSTORE\FILEREPOSITORY\NV_DISPIG.INF_AMD64_EE20464BB4AC57F4\NVLDDMKM.SYS (31.0.15.1694, 41.72 MB (43,743,736 bytes), 11/16/2022 11:31 PM)

Also, both times, the PC restarted and was re-booted in about 5 seconds. MAYBE 10.

Thoughts?

[mhent]

most common causes for a shutdown are

- high temperatures
- driver errors

[0d1]

Unfortunately, this game in its current state has extremely high GPU utilization, and it has a memory leak that causes problems too. No matter how much system RAM you have, this game will consume it all after a few warp jumps and/or planetary transitions.

Even with every setting on low/off/minimal, it still uses 40-50%, minimum, of a GTX3xxx series card, and that's just not reasonable, given No Man's Sky uses 1-4%, max.

It's not your PC, it's the game. The game is causing these problems, not your PC. Don't try to fix this problem unless you are the developer, because it's just going to be endless frustration to no purpose.

[mhent]

Originally posted by 0d1:

...and it has a memory leak that causes problems too. No matter how much system RAM you have, this game will consume it all after a few warp jumps and/or planetary transitions.

cannot confirm this. runs for hours with constant memroy usage here.

correction: it uses slightly more memory after some hours, but not nearly consuming all memory.

given No Man's Sky uses 1-4%, max.

no way.

It's not your PC, it's the game.

this is wrong. NO software running in user context can crash an entire PC.

[Gabeux]

Thanks for the report. Many people mentioned those crashes, that's the number 1 priority to-fix for the dev at the moment, as far as I know. However, there is no certain way to reproduce it and everyone has it differently. In my case, as of the latest version I cannot crash the game even if I try, so it makes it hard to get a good save/report for a quick fix.
Each report gets us closer to a fix tho.

[The Lysdexic Gentleman]

Was there no blue screen?
Otherwise, test each of the RAM Sticks individually. If you are still having this issue, did you buy all the pieces of your computer together or did you upgrade parts (like the 3080). If you upgraded, did you make sure that your power supply could handle the upgrades?

After that, you may need to reinstall updates of drivers.

[Punnilingus]

Originally posted by mhent:

this is wrong. NO software running in user context can crash an entire PC.

That is 100% BS. A game, software, driver, program, etc. can cause fatal errors (typically as it relates to memory allocation or improper allocation) that can result in a computer hard restarting.

So, what you say after that is going to be taken with a very tiny grain of salt.

[Punnilingus]

Originally posted by The Lysdexic Gentleman:

Was there no blue screen?
Otherwise, test each of the RAM Sticks individually. If you are still having this issue, did you buy all the pieces of your computer together or did you upgrade parts (like the 3080). If you upgraded, did you make sure that your power supply could handle the upgrades?

I've had this computer for a year and it has never once crashed. Never. And I game every day. Literally every day.

Power supply is more than sufficient.

[Punnilingus]

Originally posted by 0d1:

Unfortunately, this game in its current state has extremely high GPU utilization, and it has a memory leak that causes problems too. No matter how much system RAM you have, this game will consume it all after a few warp jumps and/or planetary transitions.

Even with every setting on low/off/minimal, it still uses 40-50%, minimum, of a GTX3xxx series card, and that's just not reasonable, given No Man's Sky uses 1-4%, max.

It's not your PC, it's the game. The game is causing these problems, not your PC. Don't try to fix this problem unless you are the developer, because it's just going to be endless frustration to no purpose.

This is along the lines of what I would suspect as well, though it is very unique for a game to hard restart a game.

There may be some configuration that I have that the game itself doesn't like. Most likely having to do with the memory.

But, the first time it crashed, it was literally minutes into starting the game. I first started it and went immediately to the settings menu to switch to windowed mode (I play all my games windowed).

So, there wasn't enough time that passed by to have been memory loss, running out of memory. I also feel like if that was the case, I would get a blue screen with a memory error code that I could at least look up.

It is very strange indeed.

[mhent]

Originally posted by Punnilingus:

That is 100% BS. A game, software, driver, program, etc. can cause fatal errors (typically as it relates to memory allocation or improper allocation) that can result in a computer hard restarting.

if u are still running windows 95, sure.

[Punnilingus]

Originally posted by mhent:

Originally posted by Punnilingus:

That is 100% BS. A game, software, driver, program, etc. can cause fatal errors (typically as it relates to memory allocation or improper allocation) that can result in a computer hard restarting.

if u are still running windows 95, sure.

And I repeat myself