Another update,
I was able to run Quake RTX from 9:30am until 1:55am the next day when I got back from work, approx 16 hours and it didn't crash. Tried WoW directly afterwards and about 40min in it turned off Ray tracing again.
Will try other games again at some point, currently Cold War hasn't crashed with Ray Tracing in a long while, Control and Fortnite both still have crashed, except Control seems to last a good while longer.
If anyone is wondering this is what it looks like after it happens. Bear in mind it ran with it enabled without issues prior to the game stuttering and then automatically disabling it. It worked fine for a while in a Battleground and then when left standing in Oribos it just does this. That said its happened in other locations too, sometimes straight away other times it takes a while.
Edit: Hopefully this works, but I checked event viewer and it actually has an event log for whenever WoW soft crashes and disables ray tracing. Link . It appears to be a D3DDRED2 error and searching it has it come up as a hardware error.
Before I get in trouble for replying to my own thread so much but another update. Speak of the devil or so they say. Having to stay up to go to the shop when it opens and thought I'd leave Control running after yesterdays long run of Quake RTX. Opened it twice and had it crash on me almost instantly both times after loading into a level and running forwards.
I've updated the previous link(if it actually works) with the crash logs for it, both times its showing the D3DDRED2 error. Also of note is that when this game crashes it give the error of 'due to removed device'. At this point it seems almost random to me as to if it will crash. I was able to play Control the other day for hours before having a crash, same with other games, sometimes they will crash straight away and other times they will seem fine only to crash(or disable RT) at a later date.
Also of note, I have yet to experience a single crash to desktop or error of any kind when RT is disabled. Black Ops Cold War still seems to work even with Ray Tracing turned on but with my luck so far it might end up crashing again too.
As I said xlox, all of this testing and crashing I'm talking about has been on default settings using the rage mode or balanced preset, which according to AMD are pre-sets of the card and are not overclocking, with the default setting actually being the balanced preset.
My point was that if it were clock speed related like I first thought then leaving voltage at stock and reducing the clockspeed would make it more stable and 'fix' the crashes, yet as it turns out that's not the case as it appears to be more random rather than being related to any hardware changes or settings.
Sorry if this comes across as annoyed, I've just spend two pages explaining that I've been running it at stock for all my testing, and only mentioned overclocking or undervolting outside of that and as additional testing to see if running at lower clockspeeds with a higher voltage would improve stability. (which at first I thought was helping but ended up being the same)
I appreciate you trying to help me though, and it is good to cover all the basics.
Heck, at this stage I'm running my CPU underclocked and overvolted and with my ram running at almost a 1000mhz below stock to remove any possible issue in that area(and yes all this is after having tested for hours and hours and hours with those at stock settings, this is just going above and beyond to be 200% sure that it's not those components causing a fault) (despite my system being P95 Small FFT and Blend + Memtest tested at much higher speeds + working fine on the RTX card at said settings ).
As you can imagine its quite annoying when you're going through all this. It's bad enough to spend a grand on one of these cards, its even worse to then spend almost 3 weeks of your spare time troubleshooting it when its supposed to be the opposite.
At this point I'm 90% certain there is either a hardware fault, or a large amount or driver issues to do with ray tracing on AMD's side that just aren't being detected, as playing for an hour really says nothing about it, I've played games for an hour and thought it was fine, only for it to crash at 1 hour and 15min or longer.
That said, with Quake RTX seemingly now working as well as Port Royal it would make me think its driver issues with games, or rather incompatibility with DXR games. ( Or that I was standing still in Quake with the crash perhaps being caused by effects or something else outside of the scene I left it on )
Regarding temps all I can say is that yes it does use slightly more power with RT turned on especially in WoW, its actually very hard to max out the card without RT in WoW. But then it also ran Quake RTX for 16 hours like that and didn't crash so I can't see it being power related.
Quake RTX at around the 15 hour mark was running at -
Control stats when it crashed the other day but still had the overlay frozen with it for a few moments -
Control running today without RT turned on(not quite warmed up to normal temps but close) -
WoW without RT (temps low as I'd not long opened it up from standby) -
I don't think its due to high temps as I've had it crash straight away when going into a game in the morning where temps were in the 30's for current and the 40's for junction temp. As I've said I don't see how it can be power related, this is literally a brand new PSU that I bought solely for this graphics card when I first encountered issues, and I bought it over an EVGA Platinium one because there were one or two reddit posts with people having issues with them and this card, where as this Corsair one was mentioned in a post with a 6800XT build where it was apparently working well. I just can't see it being that, truth be told I will have a massive bias considering I literally spent that money to troubleshoot this GPU(along with over £100 on a second NVME drive so I could do a clean install as I couldn't just backup all my old data, and yes the old drive is out of the PC)
I have to go to sleep now because I start work in 6 hours and haven't slept yet as I've been troubleshooting all night again ( really enjoying this £1000 purchase ).
I do appreciate the help and am willing to try things if anything else comes up! ( I'll download Watchdogs and see what results I get in that on the weekend )
Edit: Out of curiosity I thought Id choose the silent mode preset in case it was power related before going to bed only to have it crash within 30 seconds in control with RT turned on. So much for that idea.
