@BlinkRape @susie looks like it is likely either a gpu issue or a RAM issue... what a doozy. guess i'll have to pull out my backup 1070 and give it a shot after work tomorrow and if that doesn't work i suppose it is probably my ram for some reason.

@beardalaxy @BlinkRape That error message basically means the GPU driver crashed gracefully (instead of locking up the PC the game quit). I rarely get this with Vulkan in games that give both DX11 and Vulkan options (so I just go with DX11 and deem it as a game bug). Never on DX11 games though.

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 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.

@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.

@beardalaxy @BlinkRape A bit unrelated tangent, but I recently removed the plastic GPU shroud and fan from my 1660ti. I then ziptied a basic 120mm case fan to the heat sink. That improved the cooling performance a ton and I can run it 20%-40% speed which is pretty silent, because it is a "big" case fan and not a shrill GPU fan.

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 @beardalaxy @BlinkRape i think vulkan is going to be prone to a lot more deep crashes. it pushes a lot of things that DirectX and OpenGL handled for you in to something you have to do yourself. which means people will be prone to screwing it up, esp. in the less popular game engines where they can't inherit fixes from upstream.