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My system is running better with the GeForce RTX 2060 Super but is unfortunately still crashing. Instead of getting a black screen and a PC shutdown/restart, it now "only" crashes to desktop. I've been testing with other games and it seems that none of them are immune to this issue. I have however gotten some new information from the event viewer. Apparently it's caused by something called a "TDR" (timeout detection and recovery) which normally happens when the workload sent to the graphics card is greater than what the graphics card can process in the normal allotted time of two seconds. Recently this happened in Doom and has also happened multiple times in Slime Rancher. Both games are are well below 50 % GPU utilization at all times so I find it hard to believe that my graphics card doesn't have enough GPU power to handle the workload, so I think it's pretty safe to assume by now that there is some defect on my B450 Tomahawk MAX motherboard. Especially since I've been able to reproduce this error with 3 different grahics cards... Will return it on monday and get an Asus rog strix b450-f gaming motherboard instead. Hopefully there won't be any more problems after that. Doom-OpenGL-Error.evtx

Thank you again jrsall92. No option to switch between opengl or vulkan I'm afraid. And yes, according to AMD those temperatures are perfectly normal. The posts on the AMD forum was an interesting read and I tried everything suggested there but my PC is still crashing. Most of the time the games will crash within the first 20 minutes but I've had a few occasions where they ran for hours without a crash. Seems like there really is no logic to it... I've decided to return my graphics card and get a GeForce RTX 2060 Super instead. Hopefully my system will run better with Nvidia drivers. If not, then I'll also have to return the motherboard I guess.

Hmm just noticed that both Rust and Slime Rancher are Unity games (they just happened to be among the first 3 games I tried) - so maybe my problem is just specific to games built on Unity. Will have to do some more testing ?

Oops seems I celebrated too soon... ? Was able to play Rust for a whole 12 minutes before PC froze and then restarted. Hope you can see voltages on this image here

Sorry for not replying sooner but I was testing stability after making changes. I am very happy to say that the system now seems stable. Been running Slime Rancher for almost 5 hours with no crash so I'd say that's a huge success compared to the barely 30 minutes I could run it before! First I tried reinstalling DirectX, which is actually a bit tricky to do, but it didn't seem to make any difference. Then I went to AMD.com and downloaded their B450 chipset drivers which I then installed. Then after a quick restart I launched Slime Rancher and it's been running flawlessly since! I will of course do more testing but so far it's looking really good. Must admit though; I didn't think chipset drivers were that important. Just figured Windows 10 came with the drivers I needed. But I am also very surprised that the drivers from MSI didn't work since that's one of the very first things I tried... But it all seems to work now so I am not going to think about it too much anymore - just very relieved that I don't need to return any of my new hardware ? Thank you so much for taking the time to help me jrsall92 and Mark Kaine. Really appreciate it ?

So turns out I can actually play ARK: Survival Evolved on highest settings with no issues it seems. Had it running for 4½ hours with the GPU being utilized 90-100 % constantly. But when trying to play Rust it will still crash very quickly. Also tried a game called Slime Rancher on steam and it crashes even quicker than Rust does, which is very odd since it only uses very little CPU and GPU power. There doesn't really seem to be any logic to it as far as I can tell... Still the exact same error as before with dxgkrnl.sys and ntoskrnl.exe (DirectX Graphics Kernel) Anyone have an idea what could be causing this? If it's faulty hardware wouldn't it be crashing on all games and not just some?

Thank you for the help jrsall92. What benchmark should I try? No, this is a brand new Kingston SSD with clean Windows 10 install - nothing has ever been installed on it before. What do you mean when you say DDU my gpu drivers? Yes the RAM were bought together and they are 1066 MHz but I haven't done any other testing than Windows Memory Diagnostics which came up with no problems. And yes I have all windows updates but how do I know if I have the CPU and chipset drivers? Would that be included in the bios update from MSI? I will try removing AUEPMaster as you suggested and see if that makes any difference. Do you have any experience looking at dump files because I honestly don't know what to do with them. It says the crash was caused by driver: dxgkrnl.sys, caused by adress: dxgkrnl.sys+2409da and crash address: ntoskrnl.exe+1c14e0 (DirectX Graphics Kernel) dump1.txt

Just built a new PC and it crashes after 5 - 30 minutes when I play demanding games like ARK or Rust but seems to run just fine when playing older games like Portal 2. I don't get a BSOD - instead the screen just freezes or goes black and then PC restarts. It does generate dump files though which I have attached here. Really hoping it isn't a hardware issue but I suspect it might be the motherboard since I have ruled out almost everything else using known good hardware components from other PC. My specs: Windows 10 Pro 64 bit - version 10.0.18362 Build 18362 Corsair CX750 - 750W PSU (Bronze certified) - Also tested with Corsair RM850 (Gold)MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX - Used factory bios initially but later upgraded to most recent from MSIAMD Ryzen 5 2600X - 6 cores @ 3.6 GHZCorsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 RAM - 2 x 8 GBGigabyte AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming OC 8GB - Also tested with Radeon RX 580 Nothing is overclocked, everything is factory standard and I am using most recent drivers. dumpfiles.rar DxDiag.txt screenshots.rar