Hello everyone. (First Lemmy post!)
I'm having a terrible time with my build crashing games and I know there are WAY tech savvier that might give me a few ideas. The games that crash/wont even load are: cyberpunk, Dead Space, Last Epoch, the Division 2 to name a few.
I built my computer 2 years ago and upgraded a year ago to:
ASUS AM4 TUF Gaming X570-Plus
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
CORSAIR Vengeance RGB PRO SL DDR4 RAM 32GB
CORSAIR RM1000x PSU
The issue very much seems to be my GPU as when I run Cinebench GPU test, after a while will close itself. It does not overheat just closes. I have tried doing a clean windows install, using DDU to wipe and then install most up to date drivers, and even attempting to reseat the GPU. I've tried drastically lowering the game settings but the result is the same.
So, first question: am I in fact stupid? second question: what on earth is wrong with this thing?
It's fully possible your GPU is broken. If what you say about temperatures is correct, it's not the fans or the pads. Overheating GPU will usually just throttle until it's cooler again.
If you tried reseating and it's not a dust issue, nor did you reseat it incorrectly again and it's not a driver issue, you should try to find out if your GPU is the component at fault here. Try removing your GPU and run a benchmark on the iGPU if available, otherwise you might need a different GPU for testing. If that all goes fine, you know your GPU is at fault.
Other things that can be broken:
Assuming you're on Windows you can also check the Event Viewer logs to find out why stuff crashes.
Thank you. I'll try running iGPU. I could swap my GPU with my son's and see what happens. This is horrible news. I appreciate your input though.
Also make sure all the power cables are properly seated on both ends, PSU, motherboard and GPU. And make sure you are using the correct power cable for the GPU and the correct number of them.