Crashing When Gpu Is Overclocked

[Trentan]

Started playing again after a while and i was getting random crashes all the time every 5-20 minutes tbh well i found the problem you cant play the game while your overclocked i have a gtx 1660 super and put a slight overclock to boost fps over 100 constant well i had to remove it and the game stopped crashing its only on COTW aswell i play cod and EFT and it works smoothly so i dont know if its a bug or not but they'res nothing on the internet about this and i wanted to get this out there so if anyones having this problem they can try this as a fix

[Pinger]

Then don't overclock you gpu if you don't Know what you are doing. What you have typed tells me you don't. Overclocking means heat which means you Need better cooling or your gpu will crash and burn out eventually

[PicSoul]

Yep, the game doesn't play nice when overclocking, even factory overclocks in some cases.

It's been said once or twice here on the forums. https://steamcommunity.com/app/518790/discussions/search/?q=overclocking&gidforum=133256959379897016&include_deleted=true

[astreamuser]

Rule: Don't overclock if it's not necessary. 40 fps is adequate for this game.

[Trentan]

i get 90-110 fps for this game i was just pushing more if i could and i know what im doing my stuff never overheats and is stable ive had it on for almost a year now only this game has a problem with it

[Goltzhar]

@YaBoiTrentan

Have to give BIG credit to you! Because you did what 90% (that overclock that is) don't do, You removed overclock....

It's the first thing an overclocker should do who experiences errors/crashes with ANY game. Remove all overclocking, that means: CPU, GPU and memory (XMP and such) then verify game files, before concluding that it is the game's fault. Then it is legit to start investigate what is wrong.

It should be a pinned subject at the start in my opinion. "Tree rules of COTW troubleshooting"

1. Remove ALL overclocking if there are any: Cpu Gpu and memory overclock. (XMP for example)
2. Verify game files.
3. Try start the game again.

:)

[yogisgoat]

I can verify that this game did not like it when I overclocked my 1080. Removed the overclock and everything was fine.

[Captain Canada]

hello,i have asus strix rtx 3090 which is overclocked by default and my game crashes at startup is there startup command that would fix it like windowed mode or something?The developer needs to add support for new gpu's which are overclocked by default

[astreamuser]

Originally posted by Captain Canada:

hello,i have asus strix rtx 3090 which is overclocked by default and my game crashes at startup is there startup command that would fix it like windowed mode or something?The developer needs to add support for new gpu's which are overclocked by default

It should be possible using asus gpu tweak to reduce the clock speed, right?

[Goltzhar]

Originally posted by Captain Canada:

hello,i have asus strix rtx 3090 which is overclocked by default and my game crashes at startup is there startup command that would fix it like windowed mode or something?The developer needs to add support for new gpu's which are overclocked by default

First of all, try using that little thing behind your first word (hello) in your post more often. (had to read it 3 times).

On to it.. I would not be concerned about stock factory overclocked graphics cards because the card is certified from the producer of the card.
That means it will behave just like a non overclocked but with a little more performance boost. The term "Overclocked" is pretty much a word to sell the product..

The industry makes GPU chips, and tests every singe one. Some of them are bad and meets the trash bin, but some of them are "good" and some are "great".

Therefore it is not uncommon for them to sell the "good" chips as standard and those who performed better, they call "Overclocked".... to up the price and make up for the ones that was discarded.

I don't think for a minute that factory overclocked graphics cards is making COTW crash.
It is when you change the standard setup of the graphics card that you could be in trouble.

I think that there is more likely of compatibility issues with other components than the actual graphics card. And they could overclock something else but not the graphics card and make it crash.
So there is so many other things that I would look into before concluding that it is the graphics card.

HOWEVER... COTW is a very sensitive game comparing to other games and that is not totally the devs fault, They had probably different "things" to work with, 2015 or when they started developing the game... probably way before that.

I am however concerned about how the newer generations of graphics card works (or dont work) with older games. Seeing alot of 30xx series having problems with other games than COTW... Im lucky to have my trusted SLI - GTX970 OC...
And I have everything overclocked to the max. Very little problems with COTW