PC constantly crashing after the patch

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Hello guys, I played the game in epic graphic preset quite smoothly these last days until the patch landed, where I don't get past the building shaders stage, PC crashes and reboots, sometimes it is a bluescreen

RTX 3080 OC

Ryzen 9 5900X

Temps around 75-80

I don't have a clue about what to do, tried to reinstall, clear local data, execute it in admin mode...

Nothing seems to work, it is right after the patch that it happens, every other game runs perfectly so.... Anyone else? Any recommendations?

UPDATE - PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE RELATED WITH PATCH 1.04

After undoing all my overclockings, I was able to play the game again for some time, so I decided to experiment with FSR + Frame generation (previously I was using DLSS quality), I could play like this for 10 mins or so, got a massive FPS gain and stability, quite enjoyable tbh, then it crashed, back to desktop and back again to the original problem

I decided to try to run the game in the previous version, so without 1.04 patch, 0 problems again, so it must be something with the patch itself

[Illusion of Progress]

The patch added a shader compilation step before runtime.

If it's reliably crashing during that, you may have an unstable system/CPU. You could also have a corrupted game install (so try reinstalling the game)

This is a common condition that causes unstable and/or degraded Raptor Lake (Intel 13th/14th generation) CPUs to crash, since it's hard on the CPU. While you don't have such a CPU, other CPUs aren't immune to crashing during CPU heavy processes if they are unstable, so it's worth verifying this.

First recommendation when trying to rule out an unstable system is to set everything to stock/default, if it's not already. If any custom voltages, clocks speeds, RAM profile speeds, graphics card overclocks, etc. are at play, undo them and see if anything changes.

It might be worth updating your BIOS/drivers if any are available.

Might be worth stress testing the CPU with something like Prime95.

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Originally posted by Illusion of Progress:

The patch added a shader compilation step before runtime.

If it's reliably crashing during that, you may have an unstable system/CPU. You could also have a corrupted game install (so try reinstalling the game)

This is a common condition that causes unstable and/or degraded Raptor Lake (Intel 13th/14th generation) CPUs to crash, since it's hard on the CPU. While you don't have such a CPU, other CPUs aren't immune to crashing during CPU heavy processes if they are unstable, so it's worth verifying this.

First recommendation when trying to rule out an unstable system is to set everything to stock/default, if it's not already. If any custom voltages, clocks speeds, RAM profile speeds, graphics card overclocks, etc. are at play, undo them and see if anything changes.

It might be worth updating your BIOS/drivers if any are available.

Might be worth stress testing the CPU with something like Prime95.

thanks a lot, I took your recommendation and checked basically everything that was tuned up, I was setting configs back to stock one by one till I realized that the problem causer was the slight overclock I had in the RAM , it works pretty fine now and as consequence, temps dropped in 5-7 degrees...

what's interesting is that it only happened with this game, and I played other high demanding games with no problem, anyways, thanks again!