Game crashing after 5-10 minutes... Make sure you try doing this...

[Vazul Macgyver -KBM-LLT-HWDBGR]

Make sure Ubisoft Connect and Steam are open side by side and INSTEAD of launching from steam click play in Ubisoft Connect. Ran for hours with no problem -even with GPU limited to 45% below.

****ANTIQUATED INFORMATION BUT STILL MAY BE USEFUL FOR SOME****Using MSI Afterburner or like programs to reduce the power limit of the GPU below 65%.
My ZOTAC 3070 TI AMP EXTREME! Would crash if at or below 65% above runs fine.*

[Vazul Macgyver -KBM-LLT-HWDBGR]

Originally posted by RMJ:

I never suggest Afterburner or any apps running in the back ground = too many issues.
Steam is even getting bad with all the crap they keep adding, So glad I have my FAV games on better services.

Sorry if it offends but I must monitor my CPU and GPU. I had a GPU back in 2013 or so I believe that died after the Fans on it died. The GPU was a 760TI and it ran at 81*C for an hour or so in a heavy load game -with NO fans -at 90* F outside and the AC on the fritz.

After the PC was reboot it would only show bios and lockup on the screen -vis a vis frozen on the bios screen and go no farther. Thought maybe it was the motherboard or PSU at first but I saw the fans were not spinning so I looked on the back of the circuit board and saw the searing marks. I could have tried the oven method but insurance would not cover that. After that I was always cautious of CPU and GPU temps. I now don't let my CPU and GPU go above 60*C. Some may call me paranoid but it has actually paid off.

Back in 2018 or so I had a GTX 970 that was working just fine but sensors apparently didn't work anymore. I went into a game -think it was Star Control Origins game or something -and began to notice the GPU temperature just kept rising: 61, 67, 72, ect... and when it hit 78*C I shut things down.

Took the GPU out of the system. Check the fans and they were dead. I removed the shroud and its fans and then did this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1UJTkgnMJQ

I though used 2 120mm Noctua A12X25 fans to the GPU and connected their power via the motherboard instead of to the GPU and put the 970 back into the system and the GPU ran so good it never even went near 60*c -till early this year. Thought the same thing again when temps started to rise but fans were still spinning but it was beginning to show signs of failure: stuttering while underclocked. So I at least got another 5 to six years out of my GPU.

[Vazul Macgyver -KBM-LLT-HWDBGR]

Originally posted by RMJ:

This is exactly why I use custom air cooling with huge custom radiators,my GPU rarely goes over 120 f - 48 c. You can touch the back of the card-gpu chip and not get burned. I keep the stock coolers in the boxes= faster resell -value, when I upgrade the GPU. I also connect the fans directly to the power supply With an attenuation"POT" so I can set the speed I want- 600 cpm keeps the noise down, I just use a volume control out of dead audio gear- works well , dead silent PC! I have never cooked hardware. To careful, Normaly when something over heats PC we go into "SAFETY" mode and shut down. Sad yours did not. I would have noticed the burn smell , I have cooked output resisters in amps "CHIRO power amps" will never forget those "POS's" , Know that smell well, but that sucks. I replace my GPU about every 5 years, Buy the 2nd to their best. Saves alot $ , great performance. And has good resale value. I never skimp when buying fans I only use 3 - 120 mm's ,2 on the huge custom GPU radiator and one on the huge custom CPU radiator. I never use case fans , I never put the cover on the case- You cannot heat an oven with the door open. Case fans are completely not needed this way.And less crap to clean when needed. I have had these 3 fans for years , they were even transferred from my Old retired rigs. The first where I used them was a 2 core system with the first 2 hyperthreads. I am a firm believer in "IF IT IS NOT BROKE,DO NOT FIX IT" I am looking at the AMD 6800 -7800 for my next build , it is close to that time. My 3rd gen i5 - RX580 are showing their age. On my 4th 4k monitor =so spoiled to 4k! I buy gear to make over or under clocking redundant.Been doing PC's a very long time , My first was in 1978 when we had a whole 64 MB/s. GEZZ I AM OLD!

Though I am younger than 1978 by nearly a decade there is nothing wrong with age in my opinion. Just gained more wisdom to add to the database of the human mind that can be applied to the world in a better way.

That said the system that housed the 970 -which is a FX 8370 and a ASUS M5A97 LE 2.0 still runs and it did for a while have an open side panel but I also laid on its side -like the old compaq desktops where you could set the monitor on top of the case from the 90's. Though mine has the hard drives sitting in a separate housing rack to the right. I called it the "Octopus" computer -since there were eight hard drives and the long cables made it look even more like such.

I had about 14 fans on it when I built it. Not really a fan of liquid cooling: too many P.O.F. -I know ironic considering the number of fans -LOL. Had about 5 to 7 Noctua but they were expensive even back then so had supplemented with other generic fans. It didn't take long to see dust start to show so I put screen door mesh in the side panels' place and it worked well -except in the hot summers.

The 760TI system was far older and was built pretty much like a normal tower so its death could have been prevented if I had been aware of how to really apply the law of fluid dynamics then.

As to the CPU I usually do dual twin towers like the Noctua D14 or D15 with a quad fan layout... The standard from front: Pull Push Push but I also put a fan horizontal on top of the two towers blowing down on them the setup -gives an almost insane cool down rate of about 5 to 10 seconds back to idle temperatures versus not having the forth but alas it could just be set up... though with my current rig this process seems to be confirmed.

Once the GPU fans died on the 970 I orchestrated a GPU "wind tunnel" fan layout by placing the 2 120's and putting 2 fans above and cut out the bottom of the case and place two fans there and put another 120 in a 90*angle at the back of the GPU to the rest pushing air out the back of the system. So the air flow was going down, forward and past the GPU -so a bit over kill but yes definately a self made wind tunnel of sorts. In the end though once the 970 had outlived its usefulness -I put a 1050ti in it and gifted it to my younger brother.

I had by this time got the parts to build my current system. It took years to acquire all the parts.... one a month or save a few months and get another. Pretty much like Johnny Cash's song: One Piece At A Time put it but with computer components. I still maintain the laying down case approach and also there is no way I am going to make that Rosewill Thor V2 stand on its feet -too much inside plus its far easier to lift horizontally and move if necessary.

[Vazul Macgyver -KBM-LLT-HWDBGR]

UPDATED with better fix for people as weird as it is....
UbiWeird strikes again.