constant BSOD

[Toasterovnn]

since downloading the game last thursday it has been completely unplayable for me. when I first started it up I cleared the tutorial mission and after starting the main campaign the trouble started.
I keep getting a "critical process died" error code with no crash dumps. and I don't know what to do to make it stop.

Steps so far:
1. installed on SSD
2. reinstalling the game
3. removing easy anticheat and reinstalling
4. updating my geforce drivers (clean install)
5. updating my BIOS
6. updating my chipset drivers
7. running steam in admin
8. disabling my intel integrated graphics (this stopped the crashes but the game ran at 5 fps despite having an rtx 3070)
9. reinstalling intel graphics

I also ran an occt test to check individual parts and I saw that stressing the CPU and GPU in a combined test would cause instant BSODs. running the power test also caused an instant BSOD.

usual tricks like /sfcscannow keep telling me there's nothing wrong so I think it's likely a hardware issue but I don't have the money to throw at something that might not even fix my problem. Is there anything I can do to play or has the Emperor forsaken me?

Specs:
CPU: intel i5 12600k
mobo: ASUS Z690-P WIFI
ram: 2x 16gb DDR5-6000
GPU: NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3070
Integrated graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 770
SSD: Seagate Firecuda 530 2tb
HDD: Seagate Barracuda Compute 8tb
PSU: Thermaltake Toughtpower gx2 700w (80+ Gold)
OS: Windows 11 Home
Mouse: havic programmable mouse
Keyboard: Razer Blackwidow v4 Pro
Mic: Razer Sieren X

[Moonwitch]

Have you overclocked any thing?

[Toasterovnn]

Originally posted by Moonwitch:

Have you overclocked any thing?

not to my knowledge but my system does have the intel tuner and arc graphics installed

[Dilbert]

Cap your FPS as a temp solution. What's your PSU? Might be the culprit.

[Nick]

Bsod is almost always a hardware issue.
Sometimes you can be lucky that its a bad driver but it looks like you already checked that box

No info in computer management for system errors?

[Moonwitch]

Originally posted by Toasterovnn:

Originally posted by Moonwitch:

Have you overclocked any thing?

not to my knowledge but my system does have the intel tuner and arc graphics installed

Alright nothing to do with overclocking then. Is Space Marine 2 the only game that gives you BSOD?

[Toasterovnn]

Originally posted by Dilbert:

Cap your FPS as a temp solution. What's your PSU? Might be the culprit.

Thermaltake Toughtpower gx2 700w (80+ Gold) sorry about missing this. I added to the main post. I didn't think my psu would be the issue bc I haven't had consistent crashing on other games. I mostly play older/low intensity games so maybe I just haven't been causing enough stress to cause problems?

[Criptik]

Go look at your temps my system BSOD'd one time and I was trying to figure out what caused it... guaranteed your temps are probably spiking like crazy...

Capping your frames will bring it down some but there will still be massive spikes... Another side note is the game uses literally every core on your CPU to its max clock not sure why... I ended up taking the L and disabling EAC so that I could set the game to only run on P-cores... I am about to have it run on only logical cores to see if there are any performance dips in doing so... my guess is no...

[Dilbert]

Originally posted by Toasterovnn:

Originally posted by Dilbert:

Cap your FPS as a temp solution. What's your PSU? Might be the culprit.

Thermaltake Toughtpower gx2 700w (80+ Gold) sorry about missing this. I added to the main post. I didn't think my psu would be the issue bc I haven't had consistent crashing on other games. I mostly play older/low intensity games so maybe I just haven't been causing enough stress to cause problems?

Yeah, looks like you might've never caught the instability before with less demanding games. The OCCT stress test causes a BSOD correct?

I would stresstest the GPU with Furmark and the CPU with Prime95 separately (OCCT might have an option to do them individually as well) and see if they cause a BSOD by themselves.

Also use a tool like Hwinfo/Afterburner to monitor your temps, something be overheating.

Once you narrow it down it should be easier to troubleshoot. Good luck!