PC Drivers & Software

[WilliamKread]

When I first purchased my pc, I was solely a console player but decided I wanted to venture into pc gaming because of the games that I obviously couldn't play on consoles. Since having my pc I've encountered so many issues with multiple games crashing, and only really being able to play wow, but I know this is also due to my lack of knowledge about computer hardware, so a lot of the blame is on me, and yes I purchased a prebuilt pc. 

My PC specs are as follows: 

Operating System Windows 11 Pro 

Processor AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor 3.40 GHz 

Installed RAM 32.0 GB 

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor 

AMD GPU : 7900 XTX 

SSD: Sabrent Rocket Q 

Motherboard ROG Strix X570 E Gaming WIFI II 

PSU 100-240v 50/60hz on the side by the powercord but I bought this pc prebuilt and it came with an 850w evga gq power supply. 

Optix G32 Series curved monitor 

I'm not sure what other information to include so I'd have to go and find it, upon a more experienced computer person than me asking for it. 

As for the why am I posting this. Well I'm posting looking for answers, to fill in the knowledge gaps, to help me learn more. I've tried playing Star Citizen, Dauntless , New World(which works for longer periods of time after I set the fps limit to 30 and the graphics to medium, FiveM(GTA V) , and most recently I tried to play the open beat for Diablo IV. These games all crash sooner or later, after about 10 minutes of game time. No man's sky works and is an awesome game, I can play World Of Warcraft also with no problems, but so far these are the only two games I have been able to enjoy, from the games I'm trying to play. My intent was the become a streamer and now I see I was naive to think my limited knowledge could help me do these things, so if anyone can tell me how to fix or go about fixing my crashing issues, that would be amazing. 

At this point I'm kinda of not sure what games I can even play, thank you in advanced for any advice and help offered.

[cpurpe91]

How many individual cables are plugged into your GPU? Not the daisy chained plugs, but individual cables. Using the multiple connectors and trying to use only one cable can cause serious issues with modern GPUs.

[WilliamKread]

I've looked it over and see two 8 pins connected in the front of the gpu.

[cpurpe91]

Are they from one cable or two separate cables? Most cables have more than one connector. This makes people think they can use both connectors and be fine. On older hardware this was fine but since the release of the RTX 30 series and the RX 6000 series this is no longer the case.

[WilliamKread]

They look to be connected by one cable and then feed into the power supply

[cpurpe91]

If you have another cable try running it from the psu and using two separate cables.

[WilliamKread]

sorry for the very late reply, had some stuff come up in my day to day. I've just put two separate cables into the gpu like you suggested and am testing it now, will be back promptly with how it goes, thanks again.

[cpurpe91]

Good luck let us know how it goes.

[frenzy44]

The cables are likely not causing your problem, IMO. However, they should still be fixed per the other advice.

7900XTX is awful on ANY new driver, revert back to 23.1.1 until AMD wakes up. DirectX12 games in particular have crashing, massive fps drop (to less than 1fps), invisible frame caps as it is fighting with freesync (notable if your display is above 144hz). Audio continues, have to hard reboot. Others have noticed issues with AMD overlay, or Re-Live, which may contribute to the crashing. If this describes your crashes, just revert.

[Anonymous]

that is advice to fix basic mistake even if that is not solution it is still good to use one cable from psu per connector on gpu and even in manual you can see that.

[frenzy44]

I agree with that, edited my initial comment.

[AMD_cire]

Maybe between power not enough or GPU too hot.

You can check via AMD overlay when playing games.

If your monitor is only 1080p, then your GPU can handle it easily even you max out everything with 120fps.

But if your monitor is 2K or 4K, then your GPU will draw more power and PSU cannot provide it and crash.

Or GPU junction too high and crash because your room too hot or something like that.