@susie@beardalaxy@BlinkRape i think vulkan is going to be prone to a lot more deep crashes. it pushes a lot of things that DirectX and OpenGL handled for you in to something you have to do yourself. which means people will be prone to screwing it up, esp. in the less popular game engines where they can't inherit fixes from upstream.
@beardalaxy@BlinkRape That error message basically means the GPU driver crashed gracefully (instead of locking up the PC the game quit). I rarely get this with Vulkan in games that give both DX11 and Vulkan options (so I just go with DX11 and deem it as a game bug). Never on DX11 games though.
I would try without any OC or undervolt (run GPU with default settings). It could be the settings aren't stable anymore and need to be toned down some.
If the GPU keeps crashing when stressing the PC it could also be power unit related. That's how I found out my last PSU was going bad. I would suspect RAM last to be honest. Usually if those fail they fail noticeably and BIOS should shut them off before booting (modern motherboards have pretty good tests on boot for RAM sticks).
Just read you fixed it with some registry magic, but posting this anyway just in case.
@beardalaxy@susie what is the name of the third party app. I usually avoid those "fix your problems" programs because they are crap just designed to sell useless solutions to non-existent problems
@susie@BlinkRape oh, this is interesting. searching up the error code on twitter shows the last two posts being an issue with pso2 within the week or so. in fact, most of the recent ones seem to be issues with either palworld, apex, or pso2.
i managed to get windows update installed, gonna reboot pc again and then test out some other dx11 games to see if it really is something weird going on there or if it is just the game doing some weird shit.
i have verified the files and everything, even going through a 3rd party app that does a way better job of it than even steam does funny enough. all the typical fixes didn't work :P although, i haven't tested it with reshade UNINSTALLED yet, just with it updated, so maybe that has something to do with it...?
@beardalaxy Check crystaldisk or similar SMART reading software. If they say the SSD is fine, it probably is.
Have you verified game files/re-downloaded it? Could have been just some random file corruption or other bug.
If you can stress test the PC without issues (Unigine Heaven or Superposition) then it has to be game specific instead of hardware or drivers. @BlinkRape
@BlinkRape yeah i always have it locked to 90 fps because i always watch stuff while i play.
monitoring the gpu while playing, doesn't look like anything out of the ordinary happened. the game just crashes with an error code that is normally solved by updating gpu drivers apparently. temp sitting cozy at 60c, nothing crazy.
i'm trying to update windows atm and i'm getting an error there too actually. maybe it's time for a new windows install? maybe it's an issue with my ssd? both pso2 and windows are on the same ssd so it certainly could be that if it's starting to crap out i guess.
i'm actually really upset man my whole night was just ruined. not only did i lose an hour to stupid daylight savings bullshit now i can't play my favorite game ;_;
wtf even happened? seriously it was working just fine yesterday but now all the sudden it won't even play for 10 minutes? there wasn't a game update, i can play other games just fine, nothing about my hardware or even software changed at all...
uh oh bros my gpu might finally be kicking the bucket. this guy has gone through the fuckin ringer. i'm getting hard crashes in pso2 related to gpu utilization and it just started happening out of the blue.