Overclocking GPU will crash the game. Note for MSI afterburner users.

[stalkman]

The game crashes repeatedly if you apply overclocking to your gpu. I uninstalled MSI afterburner and the game is simple fixed. This is ridiculous considering NVIDIA worked on this game.
Im running latest drivers btw

[bigbenisdaman]

It's not the overclock causing crash at launch, it's the OSD. Unless you have an unstable OC. My 1070 runs 2012mhz most the time with a +55 OC. I get crashes, but I also get crashes with it not running.

[Gonaghan]

I had a stable +150MHz core, +800MHz mems overclock on my RTX 2070 Super on every game. Instant crash on Exodus. I lowered it to +105MHz core, +300MHz mems and it worked flawlessly... I'm gessing Metro's engine is less stable than other games' perhaps?! I didn't try the Rivatuner thing... I'm gonna check that out again

[trek554]

good grief did we need a necro? and a game does not give a damn or even know if your card is overclocked. if the overclock caused a crash then it was NOT stable for this game and the fact that it was stable in other game does not mean a thing. I have played and tested this game on multiple oced cards and never once had an issue.

[Bass Junkie]

DayZ standalone is the same metro .
Where your 2000 MHz stable load up DayZ and you need to go down to 1975 or raise voltage .

Metro likes it of you start the game with MSI ab off exited out . Start the game then alt tab and start MSI ab.

[(TTV)OnBrandRP]

引用自 stalkman：

The game crashes repeatedly if you apply overclocking to your gpu. I uninstalled MSI afterburner and the game is simple fixed. This is ridiculous considering NVIDIA worked on this game.
Im running latest drivers btw

Simple, you lost the silicon lottery.

[Gonaghan]

引用自 trek554：

good grief did we need a necro? and a game does not give a damn or even know if your card is overclocked. if the overclock caused a crash then it was NOT stable for this game and the fact that it was stable in other game does not mean a thing. I have played and tested this game on multiple oced cards and never once had an issue.

You're totally right, the game "doesn't know" when you're oced or not. What it does know, however, is its tolerance to instruction timings, frame buffers, frame times, etc.; parameters that curiously are changed depending on your clock, voltages and other computer componets.

I only brought this over-one-yeah-old thread back çause I find fascinating how this game in particular behaves diferently from loads of other games. I wondered if there was some other issue I wasn't seeing.

[Gonaghan]

引用自 Bass Junkie：

DayZ standalone is the same metro .
Where your 2000 MHz stable load up DayZ and you need to go down to 1975 or raise voltage .

Metro likes it of you start the game with MSI ab off exited out . Start the game then alt tab and start MSI ab.

It's seems you're right. By closing Afterburner and Rivatuner before starting the game and starting them after, I managed to up my OC a bit, but not as much as other games. The core stays around 2055MHz at 62C (I could get it better, but the fans become annoying... Brazil is hot, gotta live with it...=/ )

[Bass Junkie]

ohnestly if 2055 mhz is just barley stable try 2000 mhz and like + 250 to memory and call it a day that way you dont ever have to go back or change msi ab profiles ?

[trek554]

引用自 Gonaghan：

引用自 Bass Junkie：

DayZ standalone is the same metro .
Where your 2000 MHz stable load up DayZ and you need to go down to 1975 or raise voltage .

Metro likes it of you start the game with MSI ab off exited out . Start the game then alt tab and start MSI ab.

It's seems you're right. By closing Afterburner and Rivatuner before starting the game and starting them after, I managed to up my OC a bit, but not as much as other games. The core stays around 2055MHz at 62C (I could get it better, but the fans become annoying... Brazil is hot, gotta live with it...=/ )

having afterburner running when launching a game can certainly cause issues. I have seen hitching and reduced performance in some games over the years when doing that. I always keep it off now and then toggle it on once I have loaded into the actual game and start playing.

[Bass Junkie]

引用自 trek554：

引用自 Gonaghan：

It's seems you're right. By closing Afterburner and Rivatuner before starting the game and starting them after, I managed to up my OC a bit, but not as much as other games. The core stays around 2055MHz at 62C (I could get it better, but the fans become annoying... Brazil is hot, gotta live with it...=/ )

having afterburner running when launching a game can certainly cause issues. I have seen hitching and reduced performance in some games over the years when doing that. I always keep it off now and then toggle it on once I have loaded into the actual game and start playing.

have msi ab closed out completley then start your game alt tab start up msi /ab ?

[trek554]

引用自 Bass Junkie：

引用自 trek554：

having afterburner running when launching a game can certainly cause issues. I have seen hitching and reduced performance in some games over the years when doing that. I always keep it off now and then toggle it on once I have loaded into the actual game and start playing.

have msi ab closed out completley then start your game alt tab start up msi /ab ?

no, I just toggle it on in the game.

[PaleHorse.Rider]

引用自 Gonaghan：

I had a stable +150MHz core, +800MHz mems overclock on my RTX 2070 Super on every game. Instant crash on Exodus. I lowered it to +105MHz core, +300MHz mems and it worked flawlessly... I'm gessing Metro's engine is less stable than other games' perhaps?! I didn't try the Rivatuner thing... I'm gonna check that out again

Hey man, that actually helped a lot!
I'm using a 2070 super laptop and I usually keep it at +160/+1000 OC, which is fine for all games but Metro Exodus kept crashing.
Tried to set it at +105/+300 and I haven't had a single crash since then!

[trek554]

The Outer Worlds is the most sensitive game to overclocking that I've encountered. I could run Control, Metro Exodus, Red Dead Redemption 2, Star Wars Fallen Order, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and any of the other well-known demanding games just fine but The Outer Worlds would crash within minutes at the same clocks. I had to lower my oc by around 40 mhz and then no more crashing in that game.

[DonMcK]

The problem with overclocking and NVidia is GPU boost, you never know what it will actually run at until you play the game.

[trek554]

引用自 DonMcK：

The problem with overclocking and NVidia is GPU boost, you never know what it will actually run at until you play the game.

Also the problem is when you first start up a game the boost is extremely high and can be right at the point of being unstable if overclocking.