So many game I play crash.

[fatlinesofchang]

I'm at a loss if I'm being honest with you peeps.

Got a new PC a few months ago after gaming on a laptop for over a year. I had very limited issues when using my laptop aside from me getting games that were obviously needing better hardware. After saving up for a better part of a year I got a custom built PC from PC specialists, getting what I feel like is more than decent hardware.

Intel i7 12700K
32GB RAM
RTX 4090
2TB SSD
(Running Windows 11 unfortunately & using a 2K monitor if that means anything)

Since getting my new PC a fair few of my games have issues with crashing, issues that I didn't have whilst playing these games on my laptop.

Overwatch 2
ESO
Ready or Not
Mount & Blade: Bannerlord
Guild Wars 2
Halo Infinite
Squad
Battlefield 2042

And others have all been giving me issues since getting the PC. I've made sure to check my drivers for all my hardware and as far as I can tell everything is up to date. Alongside that I've checked using software: my RAM, CPU, GPU and SSD/Storage devices are running properly and it seems all OK on that end. I use MSI but purely for the monitoring of ♥♥♥♥, not overclocking. Motherboard is fine, unsure if that is important idk I'm tired.

One thing I've seen online and in crash reports is that one cause might be a too weak of a power supply, but when looking online a 1000W seems to be alright for what I'm running sooo?

Sorry if I'm being dumb but I'm just sick of all the crashes I'm experiencing.

At the end of the day my warranty is valid for another year or two so can just go that route.

Safe <3

[Set-115689]

Unplug any game controllers etc... and see if that helps.

Try without using msi afterburner.

Look in Event Viewer > Windows Logs > Application for app crashes.

[fatlinesofchang]

Finally found the issue!

Using Event Viewer I was able to pin-point the error that would occur during the crash. Which was:

Event ID 0 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found etc.
\Device\Video3
Error occurred on GPUID:100

Looking on the NVIDIA forums other people have had the same issue, with the main solutions being to either turn off Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling and putting all power plans to prefer maximum performance. Or to RMA the card.

So far the first has worked for me but if it persists I'll do the latter.

Link to forum:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-graphics-cards/5/502996/rtx-4090-driver-crashing-constantly-without-any-lo/