RanceJustice
Supreme [H]ardness
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Has anyone else had crashing issues with FC5? Overall my performance, when the game is working properly, is great. My 5960X @ 4.5 + GTX1070 (factory OC) seems to place the game plenty playable at 1440P on Ultra; not sure of exact FPS but I don't notice any drops or stutters. However, I've been running into hard crashes after playing for awhile and I'm trying to figure out if its my hardware, my OC, or the game itself.
The first thing I noted that was a bit odd was the amount of fan noise - most games, even recent ones don't seem to push sustained fan noise (unsure yet if it is CPU, GPU or both) the way FC5 does. While playing I hear the fan noise spin up, but there is no stuttering or slowdown in game even during this. However, after playing for awhile I'll get a BSOD w/ CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT error (I think its "timeout", but its definitely "clock watchdog"). At this point fan noise is roaring while Windows appears to try to grab whatever info it needs, but only gets to 15% before it seems to lock (with sustained fan noise), until I hit the power button.
I'm going to reinstall some of my temp/OC monitoring stuff on this SSD just in case; I'm sure something is causing things to heat up. I find it difficult to consider my OC as unstable at this point, given eveerything else I've been playing for a year or more, including demanding titles like Wolfenstein The New Colossus and even Star Citizen (which is way more graphically demanding and at least theoretically less optimized) . Reading over a few things, I see people discussing the fact that there may be something in FC5 in particular (and possibly in some Ubi games at release) that makes things more unstable. To this point I've been playing without a framerate lock and some suggest this could be an issue - I'll set it to 60 which is in line with my monitor. Still others suggest that some Ubi games at launch lack optimization, have driver issues, or other problems (some discussion that the game may be setting itself to High or Highest Priority on every core; I'll check the system to see). I suppose its possible that there's just something about this game that makes it overheat/stress/mess with my OC more than any other title, but it would seem odd indeed compared to other titles and when there seems to be a history of this sort of thing with some Ubi titles until game or driver updates fix things.
Anything I should try/look at in particular? Thanks
The first thing I noted that was a bit odd was the amount of fan noise - most games, even recent ones don't seem to push sustained fan noise (unsure yet if it is CPU, GPU or both) the way FC5 does. While playing I hear the fan noise spin up, but there is no stuttering or slowdown in game even during this. However, after playing for awhile I'll get a BSOD w/ CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT error (I think its "timeout", but its definitely "clock watchdog"). At this point fan noise is roaring while Windows appears to try to grab whatever info it needs, but only gets to 15% before it seems to lock (with sustained fan noise), until I hit the power button.
I'm going to reinstall some of my temp/OC monitoring stuff on this SSD just in case; I'm sure something is causing things to heat up. I find it difficult to consider my OC as unstable at this point, given eveerything else I've been playing for a year or more, including demanding titles like Wolfenstein The New Colossus and even Star Citizen (which is way more graphically demanding and at least theoretically less optimized) . Reading over a few things, I see people discussing the fact that there may be something in FC5 in particular (and possibly in some Ubi games at release) that makes things more unstable. To this point I've been playing without a framerate lock and some suggest this could be an issue - I'll set it to 60 which is in line with my monitor. Still others suggest that some Ubi games at launch lack optimization, have driver issues, or other problems (some discussion that the game may be setting itself to High or Highest Priority on every core; I'll check the system to see). I suppose its possible that there's just something about this game that makes it overheat/stress/mess with my OC more than any other title, but it would seem odd indeed compared to other titles and when there seems to be a history of this sort of thing with some Ubi titles until game or driver updates fix things.
Anything I should try/look at in particular? Thanks