Understanding Post-Upgrade Gaming Challenges: Troubleshooting Crashes with NVIDIA RTX 5090 FE
Recent advancements in gaming hardware promise impressive performance boosts, but sometimes, new upgrades can introduce unforeseen issues. This article examines a case where a user recently upgraded to a high-end gaming PC and experienced specific game crashes post-upgrade, offering insights into common troubleshooting steps and potential solutions.
System Overview
The upgraded gaming setup includes:
– Operating System: Windows 11, Version 24H2, Build 26100.46
– Motherboard: MSI Pro X870-P
– Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 9800X3D
– Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
– Memory: 64GB DDR5 RAM (2 x 32GB, installed in slots 2 and 4)
– Power Supply: Edge 1300 ATX 3.1 PSU
Post-Upgrade Experience
The system boots smoothly, and initially, the user reports satisfactory performance with several games:
– Helldivers 2 runs flawlessly across settings.
– Heavily modded Morrowind performs well.
– Destiny 2 also runs excellently.
However, issues arise with other titles:
– Halo Infinite: Launches to menus but crashes immediately upon entering actual gameplay, regardless of game mode.
– Oblivion Remastered: Almost instant crash, often presenting kernel32 errors.
– Dead Space Remake: Crashes on launch, with DirectX errors suggesting GPU responsiveness issues.
– Mass Effect Legendary Edition: Starts to crash during gameplay after successful launch.
Troubleshooting Attempts
The user has undertaken extensive steps without resolving the issues:
– Tried multiple Game Ready drivers, utilizing Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) for cleanup.
– Reinstalled affected games.
– Updated BIOS and all motherboard drivers.
– Ran system integrity scans in various modes.
– Disabled integrated graphics.
– Conducted RAM diagnostics with Memtest and MS Memory Diagnostic.
– Overclocked and undervolted RAM and GPU.
– Reset TPM, and configured PCIe to Gen4.
– Adjusted power management settings for PCIe.
– Ran GPU stress tests with OCCT, confirming thermal stability and stability over an hour.
– Used Nvidia’s debug mode and limited GPU clock speeds.
– Disabled known overlays.
Analysis & Insights
The disparity in game stability suggests specific compatibility or driver issues rather than a fundamental hardware fault. The fact that older titles like Halo MCC and heavily
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