Game Crashes After Half an Hour

[Kachigga]

I recently bought a new graphics card (Rx 590) to replace my old 1050ti. I did a fresh install of windows when I bought the card just to make sure. 7 days to die never crashed on the 1050ti but constantly crashes every half an hour or so with the Rx 590. I have tried using the force direct x 10 command on startup, the d3d no thread command and disabling the anti cheat on the game launcher. None of these options fixed anything. I am playing on A18.3 and host a game with one other friend on a randomly generated 8K world. I would appreciate any help towards fixing my issue. I am also on the latest drivers for the gpu.

PC specs

CPU - i5 7500

RAM- 16GB 2400 MHz

GPU - RX 590 8GB

PSU - 650W

Mobo - ASU’s H110-R

 

[Fox]

First off, the game is DirectX 11, not 10. 2nd, RX 590 is not a big upgrade (mainly cuz it's an AMD GPU which has less driver and game support, which in my opinion, makes it not really worth it). For a game to crash every half hour though, the first thing I thought of was ram errors. Could be GPU vram errors or more commonly, could be your ram sticks having a bit of dirt between the contacts. Try memtest86 to see if your ram comes up with errors (https://www.memtest86.com/). It's also possible that, since you did a fresh install of Windows, that you didn't install drivers in the correct order or Windows 10 installed their junk drivers over top of yours.

If you could provide us a crash log of the game, that might help to understand the exact cause of the crashes. Link here for details on how to do that: https://forums.7daystodie.com/forum/...ng-new-threads

 

[SylenThunder]

Custom page file that's not big enough can do it. (Should be system managed on Win 10). Could be a heat issue too.

Logs are definitely required.

 

[Beelzybub]

A 1050 ti maxes out at about 75 Watts,

An RX 590 maxes out about 300 Watts. (and oddly it's not 4x better)

So power supply or heat could definitely be an issue.

HWinfo can tell you system and component temperatures and power consumption..

And;

check your swap file.

Uninstall your drivers with DDU,

when you reboot and windows asks to install a driver say NO.

Install latest AMD driver.

 

[Kachigga]

First off, the game is DirectX 11, not 10. 2nd, RX 590 is not a big upgrade (mainly cuz it's an AMD GPU which has less driver and game support, which in my opinion, makes it not really worth it). For a game to crash every half hour though, the first thing I thought of was ram errors. Could be GPU vram errors or more commonly, could be your ram sticks having a bit of dirt between the contacts. Try memtest86 to see if your ram comes up with errors (https://www.memtest86.com/). It's also possible that, since you did a fresh install of Windows, that you didn't install drivers in the correct order or Windows 10 installed their junk drivers over top of yours.
If you could provide us a crash log of the game, that might help to understand the exact cause of the crashes. Link here for details on how to do that: https://forums.7daystodie.com/forum/...ng-new-threads

I was having a few problems with my other games aswell and I was getting fed up of it and I found a reddit post that talked about a bug with some Amd rx series cards, the fix was turning up a power limit in AMD software. This seemed to have fixed my problems for all my games including 7 days to die. I’m sorry if I wasted your time.

 

[Beelzybub]

the fix was turning up a power limit in AMD software. This seemed to have fixed my problems for all my games including 7 days to die. I’m sorry if I wasted your time.

Thanks for posting the solution, you didn't waste anyone's time, you added to the knowledge base about AMD cards. Good job.