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@BlinkRape @susie oh it's the pso2 tweaker, trust me it is literally the best way to play the game and has been for years.
@BlinkRape @susie okay so ghostrunner crashed in about a minute of gameplay and was a total stuttery mess.
it did give me more info though when it crashed, said "DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED"
i was playing system shock for like 3 hours just yesterday so idk wtf happened in between now and then.
I would try without any OC or undervolt (run GPU with default settings). It could be the settings aren't stable anymore and need to be toned down some.
If the GPU keeps crashing when stressing the PC it could also be power unit related. That's how I found out my last PSU was going bad. I would suspect RAM last to be honest. Usually if those fail they fail noticeably and BIOS should shut them off before booting (modern motherboards have pretty good tests on boot for RAM sticks).
Just read you fixed it with some registry magic, but posting this anyway just in case.
@susie @BlinkRape this gpu was heavily overclocked in the past but is a 3 fan card. i got it from my buddy who said it was heating up and he couldn't underclock it enough to make it work again. turns out one of the fans was just off kilter so i fixed that and it's been totally fine up until now, something like a year later, maybe a bit more. haven't changed anything but the fan curve to make the fans ramp up faster just in case, but the clocks and voltage and everything is all totally normal.
the regedit fix, to my knowledge, basically disables a windows safety feature that will temporarily crash your graphics driver instead of giving you a BSOD. the threads i have found that aren't solved this way have been solved with changing out RAM sticks though, not GPUs, so i'd be more inclined to think it is actually my RAM (in which case, guess it is as good a time as any to upgrade to 32gb).
@susie @BlinkRape i think i'm also going to try unplugging and replugging in all of my cables because the last time i was having weird fucking display issues that fixed it lmao.
The shroud on my GPU was installed using 4 small screws that were pretty easy to reach and didn't have to mess with the heat sink at all. I'd recommend trying something similar if you are still struggling with cooling.
But yeah, go ahead and test stuff out! I am just an "enthusiast" not an electrician lol So I have no idea what I'm talking about in terms of actual "science".
@susie @BlinkRape I could realistically run the gpu without the fan curve but I've always been averse to even overclocking so I'm erring on the safe side with it haha. I got it for free so I'm trying to keep it alive as long as possible without doing too much to it xD
@susie @BlinkRape luckily i have both backup RAM sticks and a backup GPU to test with, although they are certainly downgrades so i'd want to get something better ASAP if one of those is really the faulty part.